More party, less Mario.

At Nintendo's recent financial briefing, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed a new title, Wii Party. According to Iwata, Nintendo is developing Wii Party "with the aim to make it a marquee party game for Wii".

The development goal of Wii Party was to create a party title that Iwata... Read more...

Along with this reached milestone, Nintendo's Wii now has 79 million-seller games.

Regardless of the sales drop that occurred for both the Wii and DS this year, Nintendo's Wii console now has 79 million sellers on the platform. Including third party titles, the sales figure grew from the last fiscal year (which was 54 million sellers).

Wii Sports Resort was the year's biggest... Read more...

The next installment in the Harvest Moon series makes it way to DS, featuring a new town and a new cast of characters.

Natsume announced a new DS entry in the Harvest Moon series called Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar.

The game will feature new characters and there is no confirmation about any old characters making a return. This game takes place in Zephyr Town, which used to have a bustling bazaar but is now a ghost town. Players will work toward reviving the bazaar back to its worldly grandeur and prosperity.

The green-suited plumber is returning for the second round.

Luigi will be returning as a playable character in Super Mario Galaxy 2, according to Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2 YouTube Transmissions.

The past transmissions have showed off different aspects of gameplay, but the eighth entry reveals Luigi as another playable character.

It is unknown whether or not he will assume his role as the reward for collecting all the stars, or if players will be able to choose him from the start.

Virtual Console sees no releases today, while DSiWare gets the most releases with five titles.

This week sees an oddball selection of titles for Nintendo's downloadable services. The Virtual Console didn't receive a title this week. WiiWare, however, did receive two titles. The first of these is Zombie Panic in Wonderland by Akaoni Studio, an action shooting game taking place in a fairy tale... Read more...

PROPE's quirky platformer will be released in North America courtesy of XSEED.

XSEED Games has announced that they have secured the North American publishing rights for PROPE's Wii and DS title "Ivy the Kiwi?".

The title is a 2D platformer in which players take on the role of a baby kiwi named Ivy. Ivy will search for his mother in fairytale book inspired worlds. Using... Read more...

Due to the platform's size limitations, Team Meat was forced to cut content from the game.

In the official development blog for Super Meat Boy, developer Edmund McMillen confirmed that the WiiWare version of the game will have content cut due to the service's limitations.

McMillen explained to a reader that "We are running into file size issues on the Wii (meaning we will have to cut... Read more...

Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus are now bundled with every Wii, in the color of your choice.

Today Nintendo Announced that the Black Wii will be launching on May 9, complete with Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus. The same bundle will be available with the classic white Wii system as well. Both colors will cost $199.99.

This black Wii bundle has been available in Europe and Japan previously, but this is the first time any new color scheme for the Wii console has been made available in North America.

Another relatively slow week in Japan as New Super Mario Bros. Wii is bumped into the runner-up spot.

Nintendo has been dominating the Japanese sales charts of late, and while that may still be true for the week ending April 25, this week they were prevented from claiming the top spot again. If it had not been for Square Enix, New Super Mario Bros. Wii would have made a third straight week atop the charts.