The Lost Levels are now lost to Europe. But what about North America?

When Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels was announced for a European release a few weeks ago, it came with a caveat: It would only be available to download until the end of September. It's now October, meaning that if you didn't jump on your window of opportunity—or you just couldn't get a Wii in time—you can't get it anymore.

Nintendo still not bringing Mother 3 to America

Super Smash Bros. Brawl will feature another psychic character, this one named Lucas, from the Japan-only Game Boy Advance game Mother 3. The new character was announced by Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai; the included screens show Lucas using psychic powers similar to Ness, who appeared in Super Smash Bros. on the N64 and in Super Smash Bros. Melee on the GameCube.

Need a better grip on your Wii remote? Nintendo has you covered.

A few months after Wii launched, Nintendo of America replaced their wrist strap with a more durable model less prone to snapping under excessive stress, and offered replacement straps for already-purchased Wii remotes at no cost.

Now Nintendo is similarly starting to include Wii remote jackets—rubbery... Read more...

The famed creator of the Ultima series will become the first gaming celebrity in orbit.

Although perhaps not as well known among Nintendo fans, Richard Garriott is one of the original gaming auteurs, creating the Ultima series over twenty years ago. A few of the Ultima games were eventually ported to NES and Super NES, although the series was always at home on the PC. It even spawned... Read more...

Things came in pairs this week at the dojo.

The announcements over at the Dojo this week have been a bit strange. Two game modes were described in some detail, two final smashes were revealed, and an Animal Crossing themed assist trophy was revealed to round out the week.

New Game Mode: TrophiesWe already know that we'll be collecting... Read more...

The same actor responsible for Snake's lines in the MGS games will be reprising his role in Nintendo's all-star brawler.

David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake and Big Boss from the Metal Gear Solid series, will be lending his voice to Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

This revelation did not come to us via the Smash Bros. Dojo, but instead was confirmed through David Hayter's personal website. The actor and writer lists SSBB as one of the games he has worked on as the voice of Snake in the "Metal Gear/Solid Snake" section of his site.

Square Enix are looking to expand their global sales and increase overseas revenue from the current 50% of the total to 75% within the next three to five years.

A Financial Times article from last week announced Square Enix's intention to find US and European partner publishers in order to boost overseas sales. Within this, was a statement that their current overseas revenue was around 10 to 20 percent of the company total and they were looking to increase... Read more...

The wait for Sin and Punishment is finally over.

Hanabi Festival Finishes Off With A Big Bang!

28th September, 2007- As the “Hanabi Festival" on the Virtual Console draws to a close, Nintendo is having a blast releasing a pair of action packed games which have previously never been released in Europe: Sin And Punishment and Gradius™ III.

Move along, this isn’t a hint about the 2D Metroid you’ve been looking for.

Metroid fans everywhere have been abuzz for the last several weeks with the tantalizing tease of the fabled Metroid Dread game found tucked away in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Meticulous players quickly found an out-of-the way computer panel in the second half of Prime 3 that offered the following... Read more...

The ambitious studio will now be known as Platinum Games.

Earlier this year, the dream team developers from Capcom’s shuttered Clover Studios joined forces to create SEEDS, an ambitiously independent development studio. Atsushi Inaba (Viewtiful Joe), Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil), and Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry) formed the 51-person company with a mandate... Read more...

Nintendo’s Senior PR Director won’t be making the move to San Francisco this fall.

Beth Llewelyn, Nintendo’s Senior Director of Public Relations, confirmed today that she will be leaving the company at the end of this week. In an e-mail to Gamespot, Llewelyn wrote, “after nearly 12 years with Nintendo, I will be leaving the company at the end of this week." She further elaborated... Read more...

EA gives you musical racing fuel.

EA Goes Full-Throttle with Need for Speed ProStreet Soundtrack

New Installment of Top-Selling Race Game Fueled by Explosive International Styles Plus Original Score by Junkie XL

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today the complete soundtrack... Read more...

Gamers will perform the actions in each Olympic event by making appropriate movements with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

SEGA UNVEILS DETAILS FOR MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES

SAN FRANCISCO (September. 26, 2007) – SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd, today revealed details of the exciting holiday blockbuster title Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Published by SEGA across Europe and... Read more...

Tecmo brings their photophile horror series, Fatal Frame, to the Wii

Tecmo announced at this year's Tokyo Game Show that the fourth entry in their Fatal Frame series will appear on the Nintendo Wii. The game will be developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, who is currently busy with No More Heroes. The Wii's motion controls should work in the context of the Fatal Frame... Read more...

NCL is now only behind Toyota in overall Japanese market value.

The Wii-sponsored car finishing in second was an appropriate event given this new information out of Japan: Nintendo is now the second largest company in all of Japan.

Due to a 2.6% increase in Nintendo's stock prices at the close of Tuesday's trading on the Osaka Stock Exchange, the company... Read more...

It looks like the only place Wii takes second is on a NASCAR track.

As NASCAR fans already know, Greg Biffle and his No. 16 Wii-sponsored Ford Fusion raced to a solid second-place finish Sunday at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware.

Finishing just behind Carl Edwards, the win moved Biffle up to fifteenth place in the overall Nextel Cup standings. More importantly, he made Wii owners and Nintendo fans proud.

The special Pokemon Manaphy, not usually found in the Diamond and Pearl DS games, will be available from hotspots this Saturday.

For the first time in the US, a Pokemon download will be available from hotspots in Toys ''R'' Us stores. To get the legendary water Pokemon, Manaphy, you will need a DS with an English version of Diamond or Pearl with at least the first Pokedex obtained, meaning you can't buy a copy of the game at... Read more...

X-OOM Media Center for Wii is priced at GBP 29.99 and will be available from www.X-OOM.com and Amazon.co.uk

X-OOM Software Launches New Media Centre For Wii

NINTENDO Wii NOW A FULLY FLEDGED PERSONAL ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM USING BUILT IN WI-FI TO ACCESS DIGITAL MEDIA FILES ON PC

X-OOM Software, part of bhv Software, a leading publisher of digital media software for media devices, will be releasing... Read more...

An item, a Pokemon, and a character we already knew about were all announced this week.

This week's news was topped off by a three announcement Friday about Snake's presence in the game. Also, on top of the normal Dojo announcements, keep reading for some bonus tidbits from Konami's Metal Gear 20th anniversary presentation.

New Item: Golden HammerComing right out of Wrecking... Read more...

This and more revealed in an interesting conversation between Nintendo's president and Earthbound's developer.

Earlier this year, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata and famous Japanese essayist/game designer Shigesato Itoi sat down for dinner. Itoi recorded the conversation, and has recently posted it on his website in 11 installments. While the talk mainly centered on the philosophical, there were some topics discussed that might interest Nintendo fans. Here are some highlights: