As Harmonix's rhythm game sequel hits stores this week, the Boston-based company has also confirmed that it will have downloadable content and compatibility with all Wii instruments.

With nary a peep from Harmonix, MTV Games, or EA over the past few months about the Wii release of Rock Band 2, the silence has been broken as the Wii iteration of the game is scheduled to ship to stores on December 18. After criticism from Chris Kohler at Wired Game|Life, Harmonix responded, confirming... Read more...

GameCube remakes and highly anticipated third party titles headline comprehensive Wii and DS launch lists for the first quarter of next year.

Nintendo of Europe has disclosed the early 2009 release schedules for Wii and Nintendo DS, including third party-published games in addition to Nintendo's own titles.

The comprehensive Wii software line-up reveals the launch dates for the first two in a range of GameCube games to be re-purposed... Read more...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata wants to 'to increase the number of people worldwide that understand the appeal of Dragon Quest.'

Hot on the heels of Square Enix's announcement of Dragon Quest X for Wii, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made a statement to the press that revealed that Nintendo might be aiding Square Enix in promoting the hotly anticipated RPG. Iwata said he wants to "build a thriving Japanese game market together... Read more...

Explore Liberty City on the go in the first DS iteration of Grand Theft Auto.

Rockstar Games recently announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS will hit stores shelves on March 17th in North America and then appear a few days later at European retailers on March 20th.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a collaboration between Rockstar North, creators of... Read more...

Strong Bad's season finale is featured alongside one other WiiWare entry and a Master System Virtual Console title.

The week's Virtual Console and WiiWare brings us the finale of the five episode Strong Bad series along with a WiiWare party game and a Master System racing game.

The final episode of Strong Bad, 8-Bit is Enough, features, naturally, the titular Strong Bad and the beefy-armed dragon, Trogdor.... Read more...

New class action lawsuit claims Nintendo covered up evidence, will include documented customer service cases.

The Wii Remote wrist strap dilemma is one not unfamiliar to most Wii owners. In late 2006 a class action lawsuit was filed against Nintendo stating the wrist strap of their Wii remote was defective and thus responsible for the damage it caused. Nintendo denounced the lawsuit as "completely without... Read more...

New all-time US records for units sold in a non-December month.

This holiday season has proved fruitful for Nintendo as their products peak on the sales charts. According to the independent game sales tracking NPD group, Nintendo set new hardware sales records for the month of November, by moving the most units ever in a single non-December month. The Wii now holds the all-time record for selling more than two million units in the month, with the DS taking the second seat for selling 1.56 million units.

Nintendo is allowing users to choose the next DLC pack contents for the Japan-only title.

Nintendo opened a new page via the Band Brothers DX official website today, allowing Club Nintendo members to request songs to be included in the next downloadable content selection. Users can request up to three songs and although there are no limitations on the type of musical requests, Nintendo cannot promise they will be able to acquire the rights to every song.

The legendary time-travelling Square Enix RPG is finally on course for its first PAL release.

Square Enix has announced the date when Chrono Trigger will make its way to Europe for the first time ever, as the much-lauded Nintendo DS version of the time-travelling RPG opus is set to launch across PAL territories on February 6 of next year.

Widely remembered as one of the high points of... Read more...

Nintendo hardware sales are almost obscene, five Wii titles make the top ten, and Guitar Hero: World Tour manages to chart the month after it launched.

Are you holding your breath to find out how the game industry did in the all-important November sales month leading up to Christmas? Exhale. The latest numbers suggest that games are doing just fine. And so far, Nintendo's optimism in the face of an economic recession seems more than justified.

Nintendo is shipping Wii systems in Australia with a revised DVD drive that makes them incompatible with all modchips.

Nintendo has thrown a wrench into the modchip industry's plans by releasing an updated revision of their Wii console. Discovered in Australia, the new Wii systems do not support modchips due to changes made to the DVD drive. Specifically, Nintendo has made soldering a modchip into the Wii pointless by altering the controller chip on the optical drive.

The heroes in a half shell return in a fighting game designed by former members of Team Ninja and Sakurai's Super Smash Bros. Brawl team.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power has revealed that Ubisoft is publishing a brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting game for the Wii. According to the magazine, the fighter is being developed by ex-Team Ninja employees and former staff members of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl development team.

The quintessential RPG for the Japanese market is coming to the Wii.

If there was any lingering doubt that the Wii would be the home console of choice in Japan, this pretty much ends it. It's just been broken through Famitsu and other Japanese language outlets covering Square Enix's Dragon Quest press event that Dragon Quest X is in development and will land on the Nintendo Wii (Reuters confirms the news in English).

Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS will utilize Nintendo Wi-Fi and include authors like Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and The Bard himself, Shakespeare.

Still without an official announcement, the lineup of titles included in Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection was recently revealed not through Nintendo or partner Harper Collins, but an entry on Amazon UK.

In addition to the list of 100 classic works of Western literature, the Amazon site... Read more...

The Wii remake was scheduled for release this week, but was delayed until February despite the fact that review copies had already been sent out.

In the past it has been difficult to pin down Rygar: The Battle of Argus to a specific release date. The Tecmo Wii remake of the 2002 PlayStation 2 game was originally slated for a December 2007 release, but it's been slowly delayed over the past year. Tecmo has just announced that the game will now release on February 3, 2009, which will hopefully be the last delay for the title.

Nintendo hounded the Mario clone off store shelves in the '80s, making the platformer's June 2009 resurrection even more surprising.

The Great Giana Sisters, meant for home computers where Mario didn't tread, brought down the wrath of Nintendo's legal arm in the late 1980s due to copycat game mechanics, sprite resemblances, and similar level design. Though the game has been ported to several consoles as homebrew over the years, it's the Nintendo DS that is allowing the game to make an official return.

According to Satoru Iwata, Nintendo sold around 800,000 Wii systems in the United States during the week of Thanksgiving.

In a recent interview with Reuters, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed that Americans had purchased about 800,000 Wii systems in just the last week of November. During that same time frame in 2007, Nintendo sold 350,000 Wii systems. Furthermore, Iwata stated that sales of the Nintendo DS had increased by close to 20 percent over the sales made during the previous Thanksgiving holiday.

Unique cross-platform online multiplayer will allow play between "almost any combination of the DS and Wii versions" of the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles title.

In an email newsletter to its European fans, Square-Enix has stated that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is set to launch across the region for both Wii and Nintendo DS in the Spring of 2009.

Echoes of Time will reprise both the local co-operative multiplayer modes and handheld-to-console... Read more...

The National Resource Defense Council has found that the Wii actually consumes "one-fifth to one-ninth" the energy of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but lacks an auto power-down feature.

Games are big, no doubt about it. But with game consoles nationwide consuming an estimated 16 billion kilowatt hours per year the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is hoping for some management of their burgeoning electrical appetites. The environmental organization recently published a report on home console energy consumption and outlined trends in power usage and possible avenues to reduce waste.

A deal with HarperCollins will bring scores of classic works of literature to the dual screens of Nintendo's boundary-breaking portable platform.

According to The Times newspaper, Nintendo UK is set to announce a partnership with publishing giant HarperCollins that will allow a wide range of literary classics to be read using a Nintendo DS. The 100 Classic Book Collection will launch for the hugely popular portable platform on December 26 at... Read more...