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Nintendo has dated the next games in its New Play Control! series for Wii. Strategy action title, Pikmin 2 is set to crawl onto retail shelves on April 24th, while Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat is scheduled to arrive at an unspecified point in the summer. The New Play Control! series …
Read More »Nintendo denies DS Lite solus phase out
Leading platform holder Nintendo has told MCV that it is not planning to phase out solus DS Lite packs from retail, though it has said that it is upping the supply of DS Lite hardware bundles. Sources this morning claimed that solus packs were to vanish from UK retail in …
Read More »DS on track for 100m sales this month
Nintendo’s DS handheld is on course to break the 100m global unit sales barrier this month according to Japanese economic newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Click here to read the full story over on CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »DS Lite trade price safe for now
Following the news that Nintendo is to up the trade price retailers pay for the Wii – leading to fears that the machine’s price on the High Street could increase – Nintendo has told MCV that it has no immediate plans to up the trade price of the DS Lite. …
Read More »Call of Duty 4 leads BAFTA winners
Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare captured three awards at last night’s GAME British academy video game awards. The Infinity Ward-developed shooter secured the Gameplay, Story and Character and the GAME Award, which is voted for by the public. Other big winners included Nintendo, which won the Best Game …
Read More »Nintendo discusses DS Lite phase-out
Nintendo has told MCV that it will "let the market decide" whether or not to phase out the DS Lite following DSi’s launch. In an exclusive guide to the new system, we asked Nintendo’s UK general manager David Yarnton if the company was looking to end DS Lite’s presence in …
Read More »DSi region locking a response to age ratings
DSi software will be region locked because of the growing number of different age ratings and restrictions seen in the world’s varying games markets, Nintendo has stated. Speaking to The Times, UK boss David Yarnton explained: There are many different age requirements with games around the world. I’ve been involved …
Read More »US: Punch Out entering ring on May 18th
Nintendo of America has dated a number of its upcoming big releases for the next quarter, and it’s Punch Out’s arrival on May 18th that leads the way. The Punch Out brand is one of Nintendo’s most fondly remembered but least exploited, and seems ideally suited to the motion sending …
Read More »New Wii controller unearthed
Nintendo has quietly announced a new controller for the Wii on its Japanese site called the Classic Controller Pro. On the face of it the device appears to be a standard Classic Controller with some sort of additional housing on the back, but the shift of the secondary shoulder button …
Read More »Ico creator and DSi hardware lead speaking at GDC09
Fumito Ueda and Masato Kuwahara to chair pair of new sessions
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