UbiSoft will be publishing a series of games based on the popular Top Trumps card game in Europe. One version is slated for the DS this March.

Ubisoft Signs European Publishing Deal With Ironstone Partners To Publish Upcoming Top Trumps® Games

London, UK –31st January 2007

Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced a publishing deal with Ironstone Partners to bring the highly successful Top Trumps® brand to the video gaming market in March 2007.

Top Trumps, from Winning Moves, is a card-based game which gained popularity in the 1970's and 80's and combines luck, strategy and subject knowledge in a game-concept that has hooked children for several generations. Packs start from £2.49 retail and sales in the UK hit £18 Million last year. The brand has enjoyed many years of success with a strong licensing programme which includes brands such as Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter and recently, Doctor Who and is featured in over 10,000 retail outlets in the UK.

Mario Kart 64 and Contra III may be a sign that the worst of the Virtual Console is behind us.

After last Monday's one-hit wonder, Nintendo comes out swinging again with a wonderful racing game from the N64 era. With promises of more Nintendo hits coming soon (Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country), have we seen the last of the cruddy release weeks?

Nintendo isn't the only company to bring their games to Virtual Console, of course. Today, Konami hits us with one of the games in the Contra series, and Sega makes up for last week's no-show by releasing two of the three games that were supposed to show up then.

Find out what we have planned for our seven-day celebration of the GameCube.

With the Wii currently experiencing a slight dip in new releases, it's the perfect time for us to set the record straight for a little game console that goes by the name of Nintendo GameCube. Its five year history had many ups, downs, twists and turns; so many, in fact, that it's going to take us a whole week to pay our respects to our fallen brother.

Since the GameCube was always all about the games, it should follow that this week be all about them, too. So, all week long we'll be taking a look back at the best GameCube games ever created with a feature appropriately entitled Nintendo World Report's Greatest GameCube Games. Every day this week at 12:00 Noon PT, we'll unveil a group of games that we consider to be the must-owns of the GameCube generation, along with some other stuff thrown in there for good measure. By this Friday, you'll know which GC games you absolutely, positively need to play. (If you haven't played them yet, shame on you. If you have, pull out your Wii and play them again!)

Orb Networks has made turning your Wii into a home media center easy, and free.

Orb Networks Unveils New TV Interface, Creating the Ultimate in Personal Broadcasting of Digital Media for Gamers

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — January 29, 2007 — Four weeks after Nintendo® opened up the Internet browser on its WiiTM console, more than 50,000 gamers have discovered Orb Network's MyCastingTM service, which is a simple way to enjoy all of the digital entertainment on the home PC directly on the living room TV screen using Orb's software as the bridge. Responding to the fast-growing user base, Orb created a new TV interface for gaming enthusiasts developed from feedback by gamers in Orb's Wii support forums and Wii blogs.

Several anticipated games have shown up on the ESRB ratings website.

Games often show up on the ESRB website before they are officially announced. With Virtual Console titles being rated, we can get a glimpse at upcoming titles. Not all games rated by the ESRB see releases, however. For example, the Bit Generations games were rated but never materialized in the US. Additionally, many Virtual Console titles have popped up on the site only to be removed later.

One upcoming Genesis game, Comix Zone, is listed with an E rating and was recently revealed by Nintendo Power. One NES game, Mighty Bomb Jack by Tecmo also has an E rating and is scheduled for release in Japan.

Nintendo has updated their VC list with games coming to Japan in February giving a hint of what might be upcoming for the rest of the world.

Sixteen games have been announced for the month of February in Japan. Most of the games have US counterparts and thus are likely to arrive stateside sometime in the future.

Three Famicom (NES) games are set to release in February. First up is Mighty Bomb Jack by Tecmo, which an arcade-style game. Second is the classic Bandai Namco arcade shoot-em-up Galaga. Last but not least is Nintendo's Hoshi no Kirby Yume no Izumi no Monogatari (Kirby's Adventure), the first console Kirby platformer. Each game will cost 500 Wii points.

Hot off the presses! Read all about it!

As of 8:30am eastern time today, the Wii News Channel is available. You can grab it by turning on your Wii and running the system update from the Wii Settings menu, or you can just read the message Nintendo left on your Wii Message Board and update from there.

Big news is Nintendo made 4 million Wii but failed to ship 810k of them out to retailers.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. today announced that strong sales of Nintendo DS hardware and software and the successful launch of Wii have led to record consolidated sales and operational profit for the nine-month period ending Dec. 31, 2006. Recurring and net profits also set record highs. Nintendo maintains projections for record financial results through its fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2007.

Thanks to extremely strong Nintendo DS sales and the successful launch of Wii, Nintendo's consolidated net sales were up 72.8 percent over the same nine-month period last year, and operating income was up 102.5 percent.

Help junior Planetary Patrol officers Rallen and Jeena save the Galaxy.

Code Input Cards, Wireless Gameplay and Downloadable Content To Revolutionize Experience on Nintendo DS(TM)

BURBANK, Calif. – (January 25, 2007) – "Spectrobes," Disney’s eagerly awaited video game for the Nintendo DS, will not only take players on a captivating action-filled intergalactic journey, but will also introduce innovative new gameplay features designed specifically for the platform. Disney today announced that "Spectrobes" will include a unique code input card system, local wireless gameplay, Nintendo Wi-Fi downloadable content and a compatible online community.

Mario's last hurrah on GameCube is now coming out in April -- for Wii.

Fans have been rabid for Super Paper Mario ever since it sneaked into Nintendo's press materials at E3 2006. The game is a new Mario platformer with 2.5D gameplay using the same flat paper style as the Paper Mario RPGs.

Though originally planned for GameCube, the title disappeared from release lists toward the end of 2006, and all signs pointed to it being ported over to Wii. Now, the April issue of Nintendo's official magazine, Nintendo Power, says the game will indeed debut on Wii in April 2007.