The action-adventure title based on the popular Japanese manga will feature an original story line and new characters.

The most recent issue of Famitsu Weekly revealed that the popular Japanese manga, Soul Eater, will be receiving the video game treatment in the form of Soul Eater Monotone Princess for Wii.

For those unfamiliar, the Soul Eater Manga revolves around the story of 6 students at a shinigami school.... Read more...

The makers of Gunstar Heroes and Sin & Punishment are currently creating two 3-D Wii games.

In an interview with CNET Japan, Treasure president Masato Maegawa revealed that since finishing Ikaruga for the Xbox 360 and Bangai-O Spirits for the DS they have set their sights on Wii. Currently two games are in the works, both featuring a three-dimensional presentation as opposed to Treasure's more traditional two-dimensional offerings. Maegawa also noted that both titles would take special use of the Wii remote.

Novel game promotion lets UK sushi diners play DS during their meal.

Popular UK restaurant chain Yo! Sushi will now feature preloaded DS systems on their world famous conveyor belt of sushi. Customers will be able to make virtual sushi and other dishes on Cooking Mama 2 while they wait for their food to arrive or challenge each other to cooking competitions wirelessly on the restaurant floor. Diners also have the chance to win free DS systems and copies of Cooking Mama 2 as part of the campaign.

The Gameboy Color classic from Two Tribes gets a remake for the launch of WiiWare.

Toki Tori was a well received, but fairly unknown, Gameboy Color game from 2001. Developer Two Tribes is taking advantage of Nintendo’s WiiWare service to revive this sleeper hit.

The title will feature new content along with a new look and a brand new control scheme, leveraging the features of the Wii Remote. Players will be able to take use of ten tools and weapons across sixty levels to find lost eggs in this puzzle-platformer.

The Nintendo Spring Media Summit is underway in San Francisco, and we're there. Check out what Nintendo went over this morning and get a glimpse of what to expect from us next week.

Select members of the media were invited to Nintendo's semiannual media summit in San Francisco, and we were there to check out what Nintendo has coming up for the Wii and Nintendo DS in the coming months. Although not much has emerged from the summit in terms of big news thus far, Nintendo let us in on a few details on some of its games.

RPG fans will be rejoicing when Final Fantasy IV DS is released this July.

The DS remake of the seminal Square-Enix game, Final Fantasy IV, is officially coming to America. Already out in Japan, the RPG will hit U.S. shores on July 22nd.

Originally released in the U.S. in 1991 as Final Fantasy II, the game originated the series’ Active Time Battle system that was... Read more...

New Mario baseball game hits Japan in June and everywhere else later this year.

During today’s media summit in San Francisco, Nintendo revealed Mario Super Sluggers, a new Mario sports title. The game will expand on the Wii Remote controls used in Wii Sports version of baseball.

It is scheduled for release in Japan this June and will hit other regions at some point this year. Check back with us later this evening for preview coverage of Sluggers.

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People to hit WiiWare in June.

A few weeks ago, Telltale Games announced that they were working on a new episodic point-and-click adventure series for WiiWare that wasn’t Sam & Max, for which the developer is best known for. (A Wii version of Sam & Max was recently announced for Wii). Today, that series was officially announced to be Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, or SBCG4AP.

Controller to release sometime this month.

According to Nintendo’s Japanese website, a White Gamecube Controller is due out this month in Japan. The controller will be released at a 2,000 Yen (approximately $20) price point. The cord will now be three meters long, 50% greater than the length of the original GameCube controllers.

Currently... Read more...

Ignition Entertainment’s Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys is set to be released next week.

Due for an April 15th release in the U.S., Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys has gone gold. With gameplay reminiscent of the Lost Vikings, the game features a zany comic-book story starring three zombie protagonists as they do battle against the villainous Big Brain.

The game was already released in Europe on March 28th.

Atlus’ dungeon crawler sees release in the United States for the first time.

Atlus announced that their new Wii game, Baroque, is now in stores. The game, a remake of a Japanese Sega Saturn game, is a dungeon crawling RPG. It touts an innovative feature where the story is actually furthered when your character dies in game. It also features the use of the Wii’s motion controls and promises to offer a grand challenge.

Capcom have confirmed Turnabout Prosecutor, a spin-off from the Phoenix Wright series on Nintendo DS. The lead characters will be Miles Edgeworth and Dick Gumshoe, both from the original series.

A project dubbed “New Turnabout Not Courtroom” was announced by Capcom to be revealed this month. The Ace Attorney series is known as “Turnabout Courtroom” in Japan so for a while, many people expected news of a continuing concert series. Few expected an Ace Attorney game with a viewpoint from the opposite side of the courtroom, as revealed in the most recent edition of the Japanese magazine, Famitsu.

Coming this June to Japan, Band Bros. DX for Nintendo DS will feature fifty instruments and over one hundred downloadable tracks.

Famitsu Weekly has just revealed that Nintendo has been working on yet another Band Bros. title for Japan. Band Bros. DX is set to be released June 26 for the Nintendo DS.

According to Famitsu, Band Brothers DX will feature more than 30 classical and J-Pop tracks, with an additional 100 tracks... Read more...

British Wii owners will be able to access the BBC's iPlayer catch-up service via the Internet Channel.

The BBC has announced that it is teaming up with Nintendo UK to make its iPlayer service available for use with the Wii Internet Channel for UK residents. This will allow British Wii owners to stream the same BBC programming that is currently offered online to PC users for viewing on their television sets instead.

Coming July 1, this direct sequel will put you back in the role of Derek Stiles to deal with the after effects of GUILT.

Derek Stiles is back for a direct sequel to the popular DS operation sim Trauma Center: Under the Knife. Players will once again assume the role of the master surgeon, this time dealing with the after effects of the eradication of the GUILT virus.

Featuring an improved tool utility, a new easy-play mode, and clearer directions, Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 will be available in the US July 1, 2008.

Eidos’ reinvention of the classic game has online and voice chat.

Eidos announced today that they are working on bringing the classic series Gauntlet, to DS. The game will be an update from the original and will contain many new additions. The most prominent new addition is the inclusion of online play. Using local wireless play or the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection,... Read more...

Two NES games this Monday. Yoshi's Cookie and Bases Loaded provide delicious puzzles and dual viewpoint baseball.

This week on Virtual Console we see two games that allow for 1-2 players. Yoshi's Cookie is a puzzle game of the matching multiple items type. Fill a row or column with the same type of cookie by shifting them around the screen and that line will disappear. There are around 100 stages to beat, or you can compete against a friend in two-player mode to see who can match the most cookies.

With the help of Nintendo’s Wii, Hudson expects to see a fourfold growth.

Hudson Soft revealed to Bloomberg Japan today that it is targeting a growth in profits of ¥7.5 Billion ($73.5 million) over the next 3 years, by leveraging the large, growing install base of the Nintendo Wii.

Currently, for 2008, Hudson already has a total of eight titles planned for release... Read more...

Climb into the shoes of Rubb e Rang and help rid the trees of Dubberia of parasites and creepy crawlers.

Lexicon Entertainment announced today that Dubbers Adventure is making its way to both Wii and DS later this year.

In Dubbers Adventure, the player assumes the role of Rubb e Rang, an expert climber, to rid the forest of parasites that infest the trees of the forest of Dubberia, the home world of the Rubber-Dubber tribe. Rubb’s adventure consists of 90 levels and features over fifteen enemies and bosses.

Developers responsible for the port of Bully to the Wii and Xbox 360 will be renamed Rockstar New England.

Rockstar Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, announced they have acquired the development house Mad Doc Software. The Massachusetts developer will be renamed Rockstar New England.

The two companies have history. Mad Doc Software managed the port of Rockstar Vancouver's PS2 title, Bully, to the Xbox 360 and Wii. The enhanced port, for both systems, saw release this year under the title "Bully: Scholarship Edition."