MTV’s Multiplayer blog sheds some light on the mysterious Wii exclusive Spore title.

In a recent interview with MTV’s Stephen Totillo, Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of The Sims and Spore series confirmed the existence of Spore Hero, a brand new game in the Spore series built specifically from the ground up for Wii.

The creature creator found in the PC version of Spore will... Read more...

High Voltage Software explains why they dropped Wii MotionPlus support.

When The Conduit was announced, High Voltage Software indicated plans to incorporate Wii MotionPlus and WiiSpeak support into the upcoming first-person shooter title. However, several months passed by with no further mention of it, and news eventually made the rounds that Wii MotionPlus support had... Read more...

Gradius is reborn on WiiWare alongside a Master System classic.

This week's Virtual Console and WiiWare features just two titles, one for each service.

Gradius ReBirth, this week's WiiWare release, puts players back in the Gradius universe. Like Mega Man 9, the title will feature retro graphics and play style. In order to succeed in their mission against... Read more...

Arkedo is looking to start a party on the Wii with a Big Bang.

After two successful releases on the Nintendo DS, Arkedo is setting their eyes on the Wii with a console sequel to Big Bang Mini. Talking to N-Sider, Arkedo President Camille Guermonprez said that his company was "learning the Wii right now" and was hoping for a follow-up to their unique DS shooter... Read more...

Why waste hours searching for the Regi Trio and flying to Snow Point City when you can get him in thirty seconds?

Next week, Pokémon fans will be able to run down to their local Toys R Us and download the gigantic Regigas Pokémon to their Nintendo DS.

Players must bring their DS equipped with an English copy of Pokémon Diamond or Pokémon Pearl to the DS Download Station usually located in the game section... Read more...

NWR turns 10 today! To kick off the celebration, here's a few words from the Godfather himself, Billy Berghammer.

March 7th 1999. My girlfriend was out of town, and I was kind of bored. The N64HQ had closed down months before, and rumors began swirling about the successor to the N64. One of my close friends in Milwaukee was part owner of an ISP called NConnect Internet and gave me some free space to create one... Read more...

The latest music game from Harmonix will feature a diverse selection of tunes from The Beatles back catalogue and will launch simultaneously in Europe, North America, New Zealand, and Australia.

MTV Games and Harmonix have revealed that The Beatles: Rock Band will be available for Wii on September 9 2009 in Europe, North America, New Zealand, and Australia. Players will be able to perform music from throughout The Beatles career using guitar, microphone, and drum peripherals.

Harmonix,... Read more...

This week's releases are saturated with baseball and ice sports, while the Wii Rock Band 2 downloadable content is now up to speed with the other versions, and Guitar Hero: World Tour gets a handful of tunes as well.

This week's Wii releases have a running theme: sequels. Sega's Sonic and the Black Knight is the sequel to 2007's Sonic and the Secret Rings, while 2K Games' Major League Baseball 2K9 and Namco Bandai's We Ski and Snowboard are sequels to 2008's MLB 2K8 and We Ski.

The DS is led by PopCap Games'... Read more...

Harvest Moon sees some big changes in its WiiWare debut.

The latest issue of Famitsu Weekly reveals a new WiiWare Harvest Moon title by the name of “Bokujou Monogatari Series: Makiba no Omise”, which roughly translates to Harvest Moon Series: Ranch Store.

As the name suggests, instead of managing a farm players will now manage a store instead.... Read more...

Nintendo Power details the various control options in Grand Slam Tennis.

Nintendo Power recently shed some light on EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. The game sports a unique art style that’s not quite the usual realistic style that people usually expect from an EA Sports title. It is also playable with or without Wii MotionPlus; without Wii MotionPlus the game is very responsive,... Read more...

Players must defeat Don Onion as the hungry Munchables in this brand new title.

Today Namco Bandai unveiled a new game for the Wii called The Munchables. The game is about a band of evil food-based space pirates, led by the vile Don Onion, invading the home planet of The Munchables, with the only hope for The Munchables being to eat the vile space pirates to conquer hunger and restore peace to their planet.

In addition to a motion-based control scheme, Nintendo's upcoming title will also have classic Punch-Out!! controls using the Wii Remote NES style

Nintendo of America revealed that Punch-Out!! will feature two different control schemes. One scheme will feature motion control and use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, with the former being used for right punches and the latter being used for left punches. The other method, similar to previous Punch-Out!! games, has the Wii Remote on its side, and will use the 1 and 2 buttons for punching.

The classic NES title is being reimagined for Wii by WayForward Technologies.

Amongst the pages of April's Nintendo Power are details on a new title in the A Boy and His Blob series. Developer WayFoward Technologies, who got their feet wet on Wii development while making the recently released WiiWare title LIT, are creating the new A Boy and His Blob, which will be a full-featured Wii retail release this fall.

It looks like the newest version of the Classic Controller is Japan-only, at least for now.

Last week Nintendo unveiled the Classic Controller Pro, an “upgraded” version of the existing Classic Controller for the Nintendo Wii. However, Nintendo representatives said nothing regarding its availability outside of Japan, where it has been slated for a summer release. Today, Gamespot received... Read more...

Say goodbye to trucks and hello to mechanical animal and insect vehicles in the Wi-Fi-enabled sequel to Excite Truck.

No one can say that Nintendo isn't good at keeping secrets. For the last two years Minnesota-based developer Monster Games has been slaving away at the development of Excitebots: Trick Racing without a single person outside the company and Nintendo knowing of its existence until last week. According... Read more...

The previously ESRB-rated Ogre Battle makes its way to the Virtual Console alongside a family friendly virtual board game for WiiWare.

The week's Virtual Console and WiiWare update brings players a single title for WiiWare and the Virtual Console.

The much anticipated and previously ESRB-rated Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen from Enix makes its Virtual Console debut. Players must lead their band of rebels to defeat... Read more...

It looks like EA's next entry in the Dead Space franchise won't use Wii MotionPlus after all. UPDATED!

UPDATE

News outlet IGN confirmed today that the apparent revelation of Dead Space Extraction using Wii MotionPlus was a misunderstanding. While COO John Pleasants mentioned Dead Space: Extraction while discussing the use of WiiMotion Plus, it will not use the new technology. It is still confirmed as a major gameplay element in the upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis, however. (JL)

Did you know that the DSi was originally supposed to have two DS game card slots?

Iwata Asks is back for another edition, and this time the Nintendo CEO interviewed the DSi development team about their thoughts, opinions, and the development of the latest DS redesign.

The DSi story begins with Masato Kuwahara, from Nintendo's Development Engineering Department. At the end... Read more...

According to CEO Brian Farrell, THQ wants "the people who buy Nintendo games…to buy things like de Blob," which has sold over 700,000 units so far.

THQ is very happy with de Blob's success on the Wii, but they aren't content with resting on their laurels. "The competition on the Wii right now is from Nintendo," said THQ CEO Brian Farrell at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. "That's what we've got to attack."

Nintendo's import-friendly Starfy series will make its North American debut, and a new addition to the Excite series will be coming to Wii very soon.

This morning, Nintendo revealed their upcoming release schedule for both their Wii and DS systems. Included in the schedule were the announcements of two new titles, one for either of their systems.

The Legendary Starfy, a localization of the fifth title in the Starfy series, puts players in... Read more...