Karthik Bala talks about starting a video game business and mentions some things about Wii Ware, Guitar Hero Wii, and Wii Fit.

Vicarious Visions CEO Karthik Bala spoke in one of the final sessions of the 2007 RIT Entrepreneurs Conference in Rochester, NY. His session, titled Creating a Video Game Company: The Vicarious Visions Story, focused on what it takes to make a successful business in the industry. It's no secret... Read more...

Three books from the best selling series will make the transition to video games.

Codemasters and Templar Publishing to bring 14 million-selling 'Ology book series to Wii and Nintendo DS

Three book deal will see Dragonology, Wizardology, and Pirateology come to life as video games for the Wii and Nintendo DS.

Codemasters, a leading creator and publisher of critically... Read more...

The site includes a gameplay video from the beginning of the game, so those wary of spoilers will want to avoid this!

The official Japanese site for Super Mario Galaxy launched this week. It includes a brand new trailer, as well as several other pieces of info and the promise of releasing more details over time.

The trailer can be seen by picking the second yellow button in the menu at the bottom. It shows... Read more...

In a related story, pigs have been seen flying all over California.

Haters be damned! IGN's Matt Cassmassina has, for some time, claimed that a DS version of Halo was in development at one point. Unfortunately, concrete evidence has eluded the general public. Until now, that is. On Cassamassina's blog, there are three videos, showing off the game's dual-wielding, multiplayer matches, and more.

World restrains itself from making your mom jokes until November 13th.

Majesco Announces November Release Date for ‘Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends’

Sequel to the Award-Winning Cooking Game for the Nintendo DS™ on Sale November 13th

EDISON, N.J. - Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market,... Read more...

The Lost Levels are now lost to Europe. But what about North America?

When Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels was announced for a European release a few weeks ago, it came with a caveat: It would only be available to download until the end of September. It's now October, meaning that if you didn't jump on your window of opportunity—or you just couldn't get a Wii in time—you can't get it anymore.

Nintendo still not bringing Mother 3 to America

Super Smash Bros. Brawl will feature another psychic character, this one named Lucas, from the Japan-only Game Boy Advance game Mother 3. The new character was announced by Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai; the included screens show Lucas using psychic powers similar to Ness, who appeared in Super Smash Bros. on the N64 and in Super Smash Bros. Melee on the GameCube.

Need a better grip on your Wii remote? Nintendo has you covered.

A few months after Wii launched, Nintendo of America replaced their wrist strap with a more durable model less prone to snapping under excessive stress, and offered replacement straps for already-purchased Wii remotes at no cost.

Now Nintendo is similarly starting to include Wii remote jackets—rubbery... Read more...

The famed creator of the Ultima series will become the first gaming celebrity in orbit.

Although perhaps not as well known among Nintendo fans, Richard Garriott is one of the original gaming auteurs, creating the Ultima series over twenty years ago. A few of the Ultima games were eventually ported to NES and Super NES, although the series was always at home on the PC. It even spawned... Read more...

Things came in pairs this week at the dojo.

The announcements over at the Dojo this week have been a bit strange. Two game modes were described in some detail, two final smashes were revealed, and an Animal Crossing themed assist trophy was revealed to round out the week.

New Game Mode: TrophiesWe already know that we'll be collecting... Read more...

The same actor responsible for Snake's lines in the MGS games will be reprising his role in Nintendo's all-star brawler.

David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake and Big Boss from the Metal Gear Solid series, will be lending his voice to Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

This revelation did not come to us via the Smash Bros. Dojo, but instead was confirmed through David Hayter's personal website. The actor and writer lists SSBB as one of the games he has worked on as the voice of Snake in the "Metal Gear/Solid Snake" section of his site.

Square Enix are looking to expand their global sales and increase overseas revenue from the current 50% of the total to 75% within the next three to five years.

A Financial Times article from last week announced Square Enix's intention to find US and European partner publishers in order to boost overseas sales. Within this, was a statement that their current overseas revenue was around 10 to 20 percent of the company total and they were looking to increase... Read more...

The wait for Sin and Punishment is finally over.

Hanabi Festival Finishes Off With A Big Bang!

28th September, 2007- As the “Hanabi Festival" on the Virtual Console draws to a close, Nintendo is having a blast releasing a pair of action packed games which have previously never been released in Europe: Sin And Punishment and Gradius™ III.

Move along, this isn’t a hint about the 2D Metroid you’ve been looking for.

Metroid fans everywhere have been abuzz for the last several weeks with the tantalizing tease of the fabled Metroid Dread game found tucked away in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Meticulous players quickly found an out-of-the way computer panel in the second half of Prime 3 that offered the following... Read more...

The ambitious studio will now be known as Platinum Games.

Earlier this year, the dream team developers from Capcom’s shuttered Clover Studios joined forces to create SEEDS, an ambitiously independent development studio. Atsushi Inaba (Viewtiful Joe), Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil), and Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry) formed the 51-person company with a mandate... Read more...

Nintendo’s Senior PR Director won’t be making the move to San Francisco this fall.

Beth Llewelyn, Nintendo’s Senior Director of Public Relations, confirmed today that she will be leaving the company at the end of this week. In an e-mail to Gamespot, Llewelyn wrote, “after nearly 12 years with Nintendo, I will be leaving the company at the end of this week." She further elaborated... Read more...

EA gives you musical racing fuel.

EA Goes Full-Throttle with Need for Speed ProStreet Soundtrack

New Installment of Top-Selling Race Game Fueled by Explosive International Styles Plus Original Score by Junkie XL

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today the complete soundtrack... Read more...

Gamers will perform the actions in each Olympic event by making appropriate movements with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

SEGA UNVEILS DETAILS FOR MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES

SAN FRANCISCO (September. 26, 2007) – SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd, today revealed details of the exciting holiday blockbuster title Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Published by SEGA across Europe and... Read more...

Tecmo brings their photophile horror series, Fatal Frame, to the Wii

Tecmo announced at this year's Tokyo Game Show that the fourth entry in their Fatal Frame series will appear on the Nintendo Wii. The game will be developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, who is currently busy with No More Heroes. The Wii's motion controls should work in the context of the Fatal Frame... Read more...

NCL is now only behind Toyota in overall Japanese market value.

The Wii-sponsored car finishing in second was an appropriate event given this new information out of Japan: Nintendo is now the second largest company in all of Japan.

Due to a 2.6% increase in Nintendo's stock prices at the close of Tuesday's trading on the Osaka Stock Exchange, the company... Read more...