Madworld’s sales do not change the outlook for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.

The news of Madworld’s disappointing first month sales made many fans and analysts question the viability of mature titles on the Wii. Capcom’s Masachika Kawata, producer of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, does not see a bleak fate for the latest installment in the series.

"I personally... Read more...

Wolverine, robots, horses, and aquariums populate the game releases while Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, and Megadeth are among the bands with new songs for Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2.

With a few more releases than last week, this week has little more going for it than a pair of Wolverine titles and a Monolith Soft game.

On the downloadable side, World Tour gets three more Nirvana tracks while Rock Band 2 gets a Jane's Addiction album, a Megadeth album, and more.

Wii Games

The DS will see the scribbling adventure thanks to Warner Bros. Interactive.

Warner Bros. Interactive, known for distributing games under Warner Brothers’ film licenses, have acquired the publishing rights for 5th Cell’s DS title.

Touted as a groundbreaking new IP, Scribblenauts is a platforming adventure title in which players solve puzzles by writing down the name... Read more...

Everything from races to unlockables is offered in the upcoming puzzle adventure game from Spidermonk Entertainment.

Roogoo started its life as a downloadable game on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade. It gained enough critical acclaim to merit a port to both the Wii and DS with Roogoo: Twisted Towers and Roogoo: Attack respectively.

Both games feature the same puzzle adventure gameplay that made it a charmer... Read more...

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata details the recently released service while confirming its release in other regions.

On May 1 Nintendo made the new Wii no Ma channel available for Japanese fans. As we detailed a few days ago, Wii no Ma is a new video download service featuring video and services from various Japanese companies, as well as a DSi option that lets gamers download videos off the Wii channel and play them on their DSi.

Citing NPD data, THQ has claimed the first All Star Cheer Squad as "the best selling cheerleading video game."

Hot on the heels of Namco Bandai's announcement of We Cheer 2, THQ has announced a second title in their own cheerleading Wii franchise, All Star Cheer Squad. However, in a game of PR one-upmanship, THQ has cited NPD US sales data in claiming their first All Star Cheer Squad title as "the best selling cheerleading video game."

The new website reveals the existence of multiplayer modes.

Earlier this week, the website for Square Enix's WiiWare follow-up to Final Fantasy IV, titled Final Fantasy IV: The After Years was launched. The site lists the number of players as "1 - 4," belaying the existence of hereto unknown multiplayer content.

Final Fantasy IV was originally released... Read more...

EA reveals a mid-May release for the game and launches its website.

EA announced that the highly-anticipated sequel to Boom Blox will appear in stores on May 19.

In addition to revealing the release date, EA also unveiled the games website. Visitors to the site can watch short videos displaying some of the different modes, and read descriptions of some of the... Read more...

Eidos' brand will be left intact despite the recent acquisition.

Every time news of a company buying/merging with another company emerges fans begin to doubt and wonder if the quality and brand of each company will change or be affected by the events. In the case of Eidos and Square Enix, many wondered if Miss Lara Croft from Tomb Raider would be venturing into the realms of Final Fantasy. This, according to Square Enix, will not happen.

Strong sales from Rayman and Shaun White helped Ubisoft increase their bottom line.

Ubisoft has been a strong supporter of the Wii since its launch. Evidently, this support paid off this past fiscal year when robust sales of the company's Wii titles helped to boost full-year profits by 14 percent to 1.06 billion euros ($1.5 billion dollars).

While earnings were down a little... Read more...

Players will be able to use the Wii Balance Board to train with and race against the renowned Jamaican Bobsled team.

Did you know that there is a Jamaican Bobsled team? Perhaps best popularized by the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings, the team is now featured in SouthPeak Games' recently announced Sled Shred for the Wii.

Sled Shred doesn't only promise bobsleds (both the two and four-person variety) though;... Read more...

The game will boast 10 events in a wacky world tour. Updated with announcement trailer.

With Wii Sports Resort promising 1:1 controls thanks to MotionPlus, Mario and Sonic returning for round two at the Olympic Winter Games, and Hudson's Deca Sports 2 offering online play, Sega is making their own sports compilation called Wacky World of Sports.

Exclusively for the Wii, the title's... Read more...

You've always known it's true, but now it's truly true. UPDATED with press release and lone piece of art!

The cover of the June issue of Nintendo Power finally confirms what has been an open secret for a while now: Red Steel 2 is coming to Wii. The teaser text on the cover ("Finally, wielding a sword in a Wii game feels as real as you'd always dreamed!") also seems to confirm the July 2008 report that... Read more...

For its part, Nintendo is promising their "full support."

Last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) looks like it will be the last year to experiment with a small format. Right after the 2008 show ended officials decided to go back to the previous and more grand E3 style, last experienced in 2006. With this change E3 2009 has gained a lot of support... Read more...

Ignition Entertainment gains the publishing rights of the Tecmo airship RPG.

Just a few days after they announced that they will be publishing Muramasa: The Demon Blade in North America, Ignition Entertainment recently confirmed that they picked up the publishing rights to Tecmo's DS RPG Winds of Nostalgia.

Winds of Nostalgia is a classic RPG with 3D graphics set in a... Read more...

EA Sports is currently "evaluating [their] approach to the Madden NFL franchise on the DS," which will result in the series skipping the system this year.

Last week when the Madden NFL 10 cover athletes were revealed, there was no comment on the status of the DS game, which was conspicuously omitted from the press release.

When reached for comment, EA Sports' Senior PR Manager Rob Semsey released the following statement:

"We set extremely... Read more...

The Phoenix Wright spin-off starring series mainstay Miles Edgeworth begins its investigations in North America in winter 2009. UPDATE: First English trailer released.

Capcom's recent Captivate 2009 event confirmed that Ace Attorney Investigations, the first spin-off title from Capcom's Phoenix Wright series starring Phoenix's rival Miles Edgeworth, will be released in Japan on May 28 and in North America and Europe in winter 2009. It was first revealed last year.

This week brings about two new DSiWare games, a Cocoto WiiWare game, and a Super Nintendo game for the Virtual Console.

This week in Nintendo Downloads, Nintendo again releases two new titles for DSiWare, while Neko Entertainment brings us Cocoto Platform Jumper to WiiWare, and the SNES game Nobunaga's Ambition finds its way onto the Virtual Console.

Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics is a compilation of familiar... Read more...

After nearly a year of silence, first details on the Sims-inspired DS game surfaces.

Last year, Nintendo unveiled a DS game called Friend Connection at their Fall Media Conference. No gameplay details were shown, except for a short video of a Satoru Iwata Mii delivering a speech and a Shigeru Miyamoto Mii singing karaoke.

The game has been set for a Japanese release on June 18,... Read more...

Famicom Wars also included in May’s Virtual Console updates.

Nintendo’s Game Developer’s Conference revealed that the original Final Fantasy, released on the Japanese Famicom in 1987, would be hitting the Virtual Console service soon. Nintendo recently released details on its Virtual Console lineup for May, and Final Fantasy is confirmed to be included in one of the weekly updates.