After losing $641 million over the holiday shopping season, EA's CEO discussed plans to bring Dead Space to the Wii along with 50 percent of their games "in terms of title counts."

The holiday season is usually a jolly one for video game companies, but not this year, and not for EA. The gaming giant just reported a loss of $641 million during their fiscal third quarter. Following the release of this information, EA CEO John Riccitiello stated that in order to increase profits and decrease loss the company would restructure their business plan and bring more publishing support to the Wii.

How often do two Final Fantasy games for two different Nintendo platforms get released on the same day?

As could have been expected, the DS version of FF CC: Echoes of Time outsold its Wii sister title by almost five times as much. How many of those people buying the titles bought both together for link-up play is unknown, but Square Enix are no doubt hoping each title will persuade customers to buy the other.

IGN's touted LIT makes its appearance on WiiWare alongside a single Genesis game for the Virtual Console.

This week's Virtual Console and WiiWare updates are light on both fronts, with only one game for either service.

LIT, this week's WiiWare title, is developed by WayForward Technologies and comes from an idea stemming from Matt Casamassina and Mark Bozon of IGN. Players will take control of protagonist... Read more...

In addition to the confirmation of no split-screen multiplayer, the game's release date is set, and High Voltage's Animales de la Muerte is still in the works.

Much to many people's chagrin, there won't be any local multiplayer in Sega and High Voltage Software's The Conduit when it hits stores on June 9. Eric Nofsinger, Chief Creative Officer at High Voltage Software, resolved earlier conflicting reports in speaking to Nintendo World Report at NYCC 2009.... Read more...

The Nintendo big cheese answers questions about Wii Music's "failure," DSi pricing, the upcoming storage solution, and more.

President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata recently sat down with journalists to answer questions after the company's third quarter financial briefing and turned out to be surprisingly forthright on the company's successes and failures. His answers covered a wide range of topics and provided interesting info on upcoming developments for the company.

Our own Neal Ronaghan is on the floor of the New York Comic Convention 2009, and he's updating NWR's Twitter feed with his thoughts!

NWR's Neal Ronaghan had the opportunity to attend this year's New York Comic Convention in Manhattan. In an effort to bring you every shread of news possible, he's updating NWR's Twitter feed with tidbits based on his playtime with games like...

MADWORLD

Ghostbusters

The Conduit

House of the Dead: Overkill

The downloadable game will even feature online four-player co-op.

Who knew that the company behind the classic-but-cute Bomberman had a first-person shooter in the works? Hudson recently revealed Onslaught, a futuristic first-person shooter that promises not just "a horde of enemies to blast away," but also cooperative play for up to four people. Another surprise? It's for WiiWare.

Prope's unique game will be tapping its way around America and Europe this summer.

On the heels of its December release in Japan, Sega of America and Sega of Europe have revealed that they will be releasing Let's Tap in their respective markets this summer. Let's Tap features an innovative control scheme that has users place the Wii Remote on a box or flat surface. This way, the controller can detect the minute vibrations of players tapping on that same surface.

The Nintendo platforms will get an arcade-style racing game featuring strategic shortcuts, customizable vehicles, and a unique visual style in addition to classic Need for Speed staples.

EA Montreal recently announced the latest addition to the Need for Speed series, Nitro for the Wii and DS. The Nitro title will be unique to Nintendo consoles and is designed to mimic the feel of an arcade-style racing game. A separate Need For Speed title, Shift, will appear on the other consoles.

Their first game together will be an exclusive Wii sports title, expected out sometime in 2009.

Earlier this week, French publisher Ubisoft announced the acquisition of the Vancouver-based Action Pants Inc. While Ubisoft currently has studios in many other locations around the world, the acquisition will mark their first in-house development studio on the west coast of North America.

Ubisoft... Read more...

Nintendo's third quarter financial results suggest that Wii Sports Resort and Punch-Out!! will arrive in the first half of 2009. Also, Kirby Super Star Ultra and Wii Music join the list of Nintendo million sellers.

Nintendo's financial releases often contain data that can be of interest to game industry followers. Most recently, supplemental data for Nintendo's third quarter finances included a list of recent first-party million-selling titles as well as a rough forecast for future releases.

To begin with,... Read more...

In the face of economic uncertainty, Iwata shared data to show that Nintendo's products "are not seeing any decreased momentum."

Nintendo just enjoyed a record-breaking holiday sales season, but would post-gift-season fatigue set in and dampen their new year? According to Satoru Iwata, the answer is no.

In fact, Iwata believes that, in the US and Europe, sales for Nintendo's products are actually increasing despite concerns... Read more...

Nintendo and Hudson provide this week's WiiWare titles, while Sega rounds out the week with one for the Virtual Console.

The week's Virtual Console and WiiWare update provides players with an ESRB-leaked WiiWare title, another WiiWare title, and a Master System Virtual Console game from Sega.

Sonic Chaos for the Sega Master System is this week's sole Virtual Console release. Players will take the role of either... Read more...

You can count the number of third-party Wii million sellers on six hands! For DS third-party million sellers, you'd need ten.

There's little question that Wii software sells, but does it sell when it's not made by Nintendo? Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President and CEO, recently took the time to touch on exactly that issue at Nintendo's Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing and provided some numbers to prove it.

According... Read more...

The new trailer comes with the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time disk in Japan and is the most we've seen of the long-anticipated Square-Enix Wii title.

For some time many people expected that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: the Crystal Bearers had been quietly cancelled. The single player Wii exclusive RPG had previously only been shown in tiny segments from trade show trailers.

But thanks to the recently released Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, the Wii/DS connectivity title, a new trailer was included as an added bonus on the disk.

There are three whole game releases this week and more downloadable content from Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2.

This very light week consists of only three games: The Wii and DS versions of D3Publisher's Coraline and Atari's The Chase: Felix Meets Felicity.

Guitar Hero: World Tour brings some Springsteen and Oasis to the table while Rock Band 2 brings another batch of six songs from the gigantic backlog of downloadable songs.

Known in America as Active Life: Outdoor Challenge, the family sports game crosses the million sold mark in worldwide sales.

Namco Bandai announced recently in a Japanese press release that their Family Trainer title, known in America as Active Life: Outdoor Challenge, has crossed the million sold mark worldwide. According to Namco Bandai's sales figures, the title moved 140,000 units in Japan, 540,000 units in America, and 320,000 units in Europe.

The cell phone tower defense game has just been ported, modified, and released in Japan.

Square Enix announced early last week that their cell phone tower defense game was receiving a port to the downloadable services of all of the current generation systems. The WiiWare version, which was released just two days ago in Japan for 1,000 Wii Points, is titled Crystal Defenders R1 and is a downgraded port of the Final Fantasy Tactics themed game.

A leaked online video reveals that the once rumored Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title is now coming to Wii, DS, and "PlayStation."

Late last week, a leaked video has revealed that Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings will be coming to Wii, DS, and "PlayStation." Late last August a listing appeared on the ESRB website for the game, rating the PSP and DS versions. The video revealed a release date of spring 2009.

Indiana Jones... Read more...

Satoru Iwata is returning to GDC 09 to kick-off the conference with a keynote focused on discovering new development opportunities.

Earlier this week it was revealed that Nintendo President Satoru Iwata would deliver a keynote address at this year's Game Developers Conference. 2009 marks Iwata's third appearance as a speaker at GDC. In 2005, Iwata revealed the technology behind Nintendo's codenamed "Revolution" project, now known... Read more...