It was a holiday week in Japan, and that lifts Wii Party back to the top.

The Japanese holiday known as Obon has helped lift the country from its rather dry spell of software releases. In fact, quite a few titles for Nintendo’s systems saw noticeable increases last week.

Recapturing the top spot after a short hiatus is Nintendo’s Wii Party, seeing a massive 51% increase... Read more...

Swing with the Scarlet Spider in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Activision released a new trailer for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions that shows off the Scarlet Spider alternate costume, which appears to be usable in the Amazing Spider-Man segment of the game.

In the comics, Scarlet Spider was a clone of Peter Parker named Ben Reilly, a by-product of the infamous Clone Saga.

Nintendo doesn't know when the new Golden Sun game is coming out on "the Nintendo DS family of systems."

Nintendo's release date-filled press release yesterday was missing a rather important DS title: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. According to a Nintendo representative, The company has "not yet determined a specific launch date for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the Nintendo DS family of systems."

It is very likely... Read more...

The next Bit.Trip game has a name and we know a few other bits of info.

Tucked away in Nintendo's recent release date press release was the official name for Gaijin Games' next Bit.Trip game, which is Bit.Trip Fate.

The development team recently teased the name of the title on their Facebook page, revealing that it was Bit.Trip F_ _ _.

Gaijin's Alex Neuse also gave... Read more...

Your favorite games from E3 just got dated for this fall.

Nintendo revealed the release dates for many of their most anticipated 2010 releases, including Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn. Donkey Kong Country Returns, from Retro Studios, will be released just in time for the holiday shopping season on November 21, 2010. Kirby's Epic Yarn will see store shelves the previous month on October 17, 2010.   Other revealed Wii and Nintendo DS release dates are as follows:

THQ's uDraw GameTablet announced for Wii.

THQ are releasing the uDraw GameTablet this holiday season, bundled with uDraw Studio for a suggested retail price of $69.99. Europe and other territories will see a release in early 2011.

The drawing tablet is powered by the Wii Remote, and has a 4" x 6" drawing space and an included pressure sensitive... Read more...

The director of Ghost Trick explains some of the fundamental concepts.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Director, Shu Takumi, recently answered a few questions from Siliconera, making comparisons to the Ace Attorney series and explaining some of the decisions behind the story of Ghost Trick.

The lead character Sissel is a ghost who has lost his memory and through the... Read more...

Beams and boss battles in this brief gameplay trailer. UPDATED with two more trailers.

The latest Metroid: Other M trailer shows more gameplay elements, with action from corridors and boss areas. Samus is shown using the wave beam to shoot enemies in all directions as well as bosses at close range. The grapple beam is demonstrated in first and third person modes as Samus navigates a boss area. The morph bomb is shown for opening new areas, and finally the speed boost function shows her dashing down a corridor through ice sheets.

The title will be a "turn-based tactical RPG" that might be the 3DS version of Ghost Recon.

Julian Gollop, the co-creator of the original X-Com, is working on a "turn-based tactical RPG" for the Nintendo 3DS launch, according to a comment made on a recent Gamasutra article.

Tiny Cartridge uncovered the story, and also discovered that Gollop has been working with Ubisoft Bulgaria/Sofia... Read more...

A dual-screen platformers, a strategy game, and a DS karaoke title lead the way in this light week.

The first title on WiiWare is Space Trek from CALARIS. It features six big levels of ship-base combat as you control the witty Captain Jay in his fight against the villainous Knagar. Your ship can use one of six weapons that wield such names as the Quark Dispeller or the Anti-Matter Thrower. It is a single-player affair that is available for 700 Wii Points ($7).

The Konami-published game formerly known as Reflection is coming to DSiWare on Monday.

Intrinsic Games' Twitter and later their official site revealed that their DSiWare debut, Divergent Shift, is coming to the downloadable service on August 16.

The game, which started as a student project at USC until it was picked up by Konami, was originally slated for a Q4 2009 release under the... Read more...

The two developers will now use the name of their parent company.

The names Artoon and Feel Plus will no longer be used for the two development companies as they will now be known by the name of AQ Interactive, their parent company.Artoon most recently worked on FlingSmash, which is due out for release this holiday season. They also developed Yoshi's Island DS,... Read more...

Creative Director Trey Smith dishes on the upcoming arcade baller.

Recently, NBA Jam Creative Director Trey Smith talked to Nintendo-Okie and revealed several key details on the development of the game.

When asked why the team decided not to include support for the GameCube controller, Smith stated that they felt they picked the four most popular control methods... Read more...

Super Mario Galaxy 2, LEGO Harry Potter, Dragon Quest IX, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii all make appearances in the top 10 for the July NPDs.

The July 2010 NPDs are in, and the biggest shock is that the Xbox 360 was the highest-selling system, besting the second-ranked Nintendo DS by nearly 50,000 units.

The Wii was actually closer to the PlayStation 3's sales, coming in third roughly 40,000 units ahead of Sony's system. However, the... Read more...

Disney Channel's Sprouse brothers will soon star in a new commercial for Pokémon HeartGold and Pokémon SoulSilver.

Five months after Pokémon HeartGold and Pokémon SoulSilver hit store shelves, Nintendo is preparing a brand new commercial to reignite interest. The upcoming television ad will feature Dylan and Cole Sprouse, the stars of Disney’s The Suite Life on Deck.

The Sprouse brothers are longtime fans... Read more...

Just a little longer wait than for US Layton fans.

Newly re-named Professor Layton and the Lost Future will be released across Europe on 22 October 2010, following the US release on 12 September of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

In the final game of the first Layton trilogy, Layton and Luke explore London under mysterious circumstances,... Read more...

Games on display to the public at the German trade fair next week revealed.

Gamescom, taking place in Cologne, Germany will be held from 18 - 22 August. Nintendo are making no new announcements, and the games that will be playable at Nintendo's booth are a subset of those that were displayed at E3. This time the event is open to the public, and it will be the first time many of these games have been playable outside of press events.

The Wii bundle includes an exclusive golden controller. UPDATE: US Pricing Announced

Activision has annouced the GoldenEye 007 Classic Edition bundle for Wii, including an exclusive gold Classic Controller Pro packed with the game. Inspired by the 1974 Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun", the bundle will be available at the game's launch this autumn for $69.99.

GoldenEye 007... Read more...

It's a week of unique titles, with options ranging from massages to learning to count.

In what might be best described as an off-color week, the Nintendo Downloads are all for WiiWare and DSiWare services.  This, the second week in a row without a Virtual Console offering, provides a veritable slew of options to fulfill someone's gaming desires.

That someone is our Site Director, Jon Lindemann.

Square Enix's original DS RPG could see a sequel in the near future.

In an interview with Nintendo Power, Kingdom Hearts creator and artist Tetsuya Nomura discussed the possibilities of a sequel to The World Ends With You. "I'm really happy that the game was so well received in North America," Nomura told the magazine. "I definitely want to make a sequel. I'm very busy working on other titles right now, but when the time is right, I would love to make another installment of The World Ends with You."