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29 Dec 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Champagne, pointy hats and Auld Lang Syne are for suckers. You want to kick off the new year in style, you do it by buying a brand new game for the NES. This is Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril, by Sivak Games. It’s a real, proper game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. [...]
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22 Dec 2009Grandia and Lunar developer Game Arts delivers its first original title in over a decade to WiiWare next week, with The Magic Obelisk, an action-adventure game about the deep bonds formed between tree spirit and light spirit. Lukas is a tree spirit who wants to use his power to transform into a tree to help [...]
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1 Aug 2009Actually, for the bowling-obsessed Wii gamer, this isn’t as ridiculous as it looks. CTA Digital’s put together a bowling peripheral to provide extra realism for the seven bowling titles. No, it’s not supposed to roll. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; But it’s a lead pipe lock somewhere, someone is going to throw this thing through mama’s flat [...]
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6 Jul 2009Remember those “HD” Wii videos? This is just like them! Only, it’s Mario Galaxy, not Smash Bros. And they’re lovely big screenshots, not blurry little internet videos.
To refresh, these games are displaying in what is essentially high definition, as they’re being run through a Wii emulator on a PC. So if the Wii could manage high definition (which it can’t), this is probably what Mario would look like. Nice, no?
[Wii emulator can do 720p @ NeoGAF, via VG247]








In: Gaming News|Nintendo
25 Jun 2009Why settle for cheap plastic imitation when you can have the cheap plastic real thing this fall, with the release of the official Star Wars Lightsaber and Clone Trooper Blaster accessories for the Nintendo Wii. Manufactured and distributed by Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, Inc., licensed by LucasArts and Nintendo, and marketed under BDA’s Power A [...]
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4 Jun 2009At a developer’s roundtable the other day, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto showed a select group of people some concept art for the new Zelda game. That select group isn’t so secret anymore. I don’t know about you, but that’s no Princess Zelda. Could it be, as so many are speculating, the living incarnation of the Master [...]
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3 Jun 2009Back when the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006, the company showed possible console colors: White, red, silver, lime green and black. White was the launch color, and that’s all customers have had. Until now. Today, Nintendo announced that it will be launching a black-colored Wii in Japan on August 1 for ¥25,000 (US$260). Besides the [...]
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3 Jun 2009Mario is back and ready to circle around planets in spaaaaaaaaaace. As we posted previously, Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all [...]
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2 Jun 2009Nintendo announced today that it was adding the Wii Vitality Sensor to the list of things one can attach to the Wii Remote. Nintendo’s official announcement claims it will expand the appeal of video games. How? Well, we’re not quite sure yet, as we’ve not yet poked the Wii Vitality Sensor. But these beautifully unblemished, [...]
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2 Jun 2009Nintendo on Tuesday announced a new, multiplayer Super Mario Bros. game for its Wii console at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Dubbed New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the co-op game is a side-scrolling adventure starring Mario, Luigi, Blue Toad and Yellow Toad. Up to four players can play together; the game also features [...]