The sharks behind the Madden series will try their luck at making a golf game.

Electronic Arts has revealed that Florida-based EA Tiburon, better known as the guys behind the Madden football series, has taken over development duties of the Tiger Woods golf series from EA's offices in Northern California.

Speaking to the Orlando Sentinel, EA Tiburon general manager Steven... Read more...

The Nintendo World Store will be throwing a party for the pocket-sized monster of a DS game.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl will be unleashed in a few weeks' time, and to celebrate Nintendo will hold a special launch event in the Big Apple.

About 5,000 people are expected to attend the festivities at the Nintendo World Store, which will be transformed into a Poké-nerd's dream. There will... Read more...

Still can't find a Wii? You may be looking for a while longer.

Talking on the Game Theory Podcast, Nintendo of America's VP of marketing and corporate affairs let it be known that because of how wildly successful the Wii console has been lately, those that are still looking to find one may need to keep looking a while longer. Referring to the Wii, Kaplan said, "the product is so very popular that we may see a supply-demand situation last for some time."

The accessory house and the Association will keep providing game accessories for the Wii, DS and the others.

Mad Catz Renews NBA License to Produce New Line of Controllers and Related Accessories

Customized NBA Team Controllers and Accessories for Current Generation Consoles to Complement Existing Product Offering

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSE: MCZ), a leading... Read more...

The publisher of the GTA series says, among other things, that “working with Nintendo is a priority."

Game publisher Take-Two has been going through troubled times lately. In the past week, the company has appointed a new chairman, Strauss Zelnick; a new interim CEO, Ben Feder; is looking for a new CFO, after Karl Winters left T2 on Monday; and has been relisted on the NASDAQ earlier today as the publisher continues to stabilize its legal situation.

RedOctane's official website confirms the game's existence, target platforms, and a release window.

RedOctane, the original publisher of Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2 (and now a subsidiary of Activision), has confirmed on its official website that the next game in the series is planned for a wide multiplatform release, including a Wii version. The game is scheduled to ship later this year. Here's the exact quote:

Dust off your Wii -- Super Paper Mario shipped today in North America.

NINTENDO'S FIRST MARIO GAME FOR WII LEAVES A PAPER TRAIL OF EXCITEMENT

Super Paper Mario Flips between 2-D and 3-D Perspectives

REDMOND, Wash., April 9, 2007 - Today's launch of Super Paper Mario™ for Nintendo's red-hot Wii™ system transports players into another dimension. Like a story... Read more...

A retail listing confirms budget pricing, release date, true wide screen support, and more.

A full listing for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition at the EB Games online store provides quite a bit of information on this newly announced game. Most importantly, the North American release date is June 25, 2007 with a retail price of only $29.95. This pricing marks a significant break from Capcom's previous policy on Resident Evil ports.

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Thanks (again) to DS hardware and software, Nintendo is expecting to beat its already lofty yearly sales target of 900 billion Yen ($7.58 billion), raising its consolidated net sales estimate for its 2007 fiscal year to 966 billion Yen ($8.14 billion). That's a 7.3% difference. The Wii wasn't mentioned in the note announcing this forecast adjustment, so it seems the DS is kicking ass and taking names all by itself.

World War II action is headed to Nintendo.

Ubisoft And gearbox Software Deploy Brothers in Arms ® For Nintendo DS TM and Wii TM

SAN FRANCISCO – April 4, 2007 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, and Gearbox Software, one of the world’s leading independent video game developers, announced that the... Read more...

Nintendo is outselling the PlayStation 3 at a ratio of 2-to-1 over there.

The latest sales figures from Japan are showing that Nintendo has sold 1.95 million Wii consoles from its December 2 launch to a period ending on March 25. Assuming Nintendo has been getting decent shipments out to its home country in the week since then, it's not too far-fetched to believe that the Wii has already broken the two million systems sold mark, just four months after it launched in the region.

Famitsu confirms Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and gives new details about Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.

The community over at the NeoGAF forums put together an interesting thread about the new gaming news revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu. There was a pretty big spread about the Biohazard (Resident Evil) series that included the first information about a Resident Evil 4 remake for Wii.

The next game from the developers of Guitar Hero may not be snubbing the Wii after all.

When Electronic Arts recently announced the next game released from Harmonix, Rock Band, the Wii was oddly absent from the list of platforms. Luckily, IGN acquired a statement from Harmonix, saying that EA will be publishing the game on "all important platforms" and that, "the Wiimote is something that holds enormous promise."

No, the game isn't coming to America (yet), but you can download the music on the cheap.

Those of you who long to see new Game Boy Advance games will be disappointed to hear that Nintendo still isn't translating Mother 3 into English. Just as we were beginning to forget about the game, someone over at Nintendo Japan and HAL Labratory decided to O.K. the release of the two Mother 3 soundtracks onto Apple's iTunes music service. Nintendo, why must you tease us so?

Nintendo's most famous employee answers all in a new interview.

N'Gai Croal of Level Up recently sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto to discuss his and Nintendo's showing at last month's Game Developers Conference. When asked why he chose to talk about the past instead of revealing his next big game, Miyamoto responded that he wanted to share what he'd learned from the Wii and DS with his fellow designers.

Promising real online modes, Mario Strikers is set to launch on 25th May in Europe.

Get Ready For Kick Off!

Wii shoots and scores with Mario Strikers: Charged Football

3rd April, 2007- Now’s your chance to bend it like Beckham, score like Shevchenko and hit it like Henry or, failing that, floor the opposition with a well aimed Blue Shell! What’s more, with Mario Strikers:... Read more...

A Portuguese magazine confirms the long-standing rumor -- Sega's NiGHTS is back, and it's exclusive to Wii. Updated with the official title and tentative Japanese release date. Updated AGAIN with the offical NA/European press release.

Update (5:06pm, 4/2/2007)

Here is the official press release from Sega of America and Sega Europe. In it a Fall '07 release date is revealed.

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (April 2, 2007) – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams™, the long... Read more...

Hudson's Virtual Console site reveals five upcoming games.

VC-PCE.com, Hudson's official Virtual Console website, has listed five upcoming games to be released in April. The first, Dragon's Curse, is a platformer to be released on April 2nd in North and Latin America and should be available today, March 30, in Europe. It will be followed by Bravoman, a quirky action game by Namco.

Nineteen games are slated for release next month.

Nintendo has posted the Virtual Console Japanese release list for April. This month's games are fairly region-specific; for example, none of the Genesis games were ever released outside of Japan, so it is likely that many of these games will not be made available to the rest of the world.

The... Read more...

Watch the official storyline trailer as well as more footage from GDC 2007.