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Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

There are games that achieve the status they deserve only years after they have been released. One such game was Okami, Capcom's classic title for the PS2 and the Wii, which had a subdued launch, matc... Read More

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Quite a few of us were pleasantly surprised when Nintendo took the wraps off the title it hopes will spearhead the 3DS launch: Kid Icarus: Uprising. Essentially, this represented the revival of a fran... Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

Series director Eiji Aonuma told the Official Nintendo Magazine that his team was aiming for an early 2011 release date with the next title in the Zelda series, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.... Read More

Kojima Wants Co-op on 3DS

Kojima Wants Co-op on 3DS

First of all, thanks a ton, CVG! Hideo Kojima has expressed his desire to see a co-op system for games on the upcoming Nintendo handheld, 3DS. Kojima's comment came as part of a round-robin reac... Read More

Wii, DS Q3 Lineup Announced

Wii, DS Q3 Lineup Announced

Nintendo has announced the lineup for the Wii and the DS for the coming part of the year. It's has been given below in its entirety. Wii August -27th - Grease (505 Games) -27th - Gunblade New York... Read More

Nintendo Doesn’t Care About Competition

Nintendo Doesn’t Care About Competition

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says he is "not conscious" of any competition, be it Apple, Microsoft, or their arch rivals, Sony. Concentrating on others would lead Nintendo into the "trap" of "shor... Read More

3DS Capable of Delivering Console Level Games, Dev Says

3DS Capable of Delivering Console Level Games, Dev Says

The 3DS will be "capable of console-level games" and the developers think it is "an opportunity to bring something special back to the gamers." This was said by JC Connors, studio head at Griptonite G... Read More

Pokemon Black and White ‘major differences’ Revealed

Pokemon Black and White ‘major differences’ Revealed

Major differences between the upcoming and the highly anticipated Pokemon Black and White have been revealed in a Japanese magazine. CoroCoro Magazine reports that Black and White will have differe... Read More

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

JRPG lovers might have been worried that the slew of exclusive tradition RPG's the Wii is getting over in Japan might not make it to the US, what with the games pandering to such a niche audience and ... Read More

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

The Nintendo DS might have experience some mind boggling software sales, but perhaps those numbers could have been better if the system wasn't probably the system most rife with piracy in history. Wit... Read More

The 3DS Can Make “console-level quality games”- JC Connors

The 3DS Can Make “console-level quality games”- JC Connors

According to JC Connors, studio head at Griptonite Games, the new 3DS is capable of bringing "console-level quality games". "I think the third-party publishers are taking this a lot more seriously,... Read More

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Cartridges have shown themselves to be surprisingly resilient, having been around since the days of Atari, and still in heavy use in mdern handhelds such as the Nintendo DS. This, despite many analyst... Read More

New Pokemon Black & White Footage

New Pokemon Black & White Footage

Here is some new game play of the new Pokemon Black and White game on this weird Japanese TV game show. The battle sequences have been improved to play more smoothly. We also get new 3D graphics inste... Read More

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

The 3DS, while possibly the most accomplished piece of 3D kits yet, has ts own challenges to surmount. Most notable, marketting a system centred around 3D gaming, when most TV screens at home are 2D, ... Read More

Square Enix: Dragon Quest IX is Not a JRPG

Square Enix: Dragon Quest IX is Not a JRPG

Looks like Square Enix is keen to avoid the stigma Dragon Quest has of being a traditional JRPG series, as their latest comments certainly seem to imply. Apparently, the latest Dragon Quest title has ... Read More

Ubisoft: There Will Be a 3DTV in Every Home in 3 Years

Ubisoft: There Will Be a 3DTV in Every Home in 3 Years

Apparently, Ubisoft is willing to share the wealth some of its exclusives have been making recently. Otherwise, I just cannot for the life of me fathom why they would make a prediction as insane as th... Read More

Metroid: Other M Gets UK Release Date

Metroid: Other M Gets UK Release Date

Metroid: Other M has got a release date for UK, and the rest of Europe nailed down. Nintendo's latest entry in the Metroid franchise, being co developed by Team Ninja, is due out on the Continent this... Read More

Studio Ghibli’s Game Is Getting A Western Release

Studio Ghibli’s Game Is Getting A Western Release

To those who were worried, Level 5's newest RPG, Ni no Kuni, developed in collaboration with animation studios Studio Ghibli for the DS and the PS3 (I know, I know. I can barely supress a snort of lau... Read More

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon Review

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon Review

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon is a role-playing game with dungeon-crawler elements, available only on the Nintendo Wii. It was developed by Tri-Crescendo and Namco Bandai; and was publish... Read More

Japanese Aren’t Interested in 3DTV’s, Says Survey

Japanese Aren’t Interested in 3DTV’s, Says Survey

Yesterday, Sony made the 3D wars official when they somehow implied that Nintendo was pitting the 3DS against Sony's push for 3D gaming against the PS3 (yeah, a handheld competing against a console. G... Read More