Nintendo's most famous employee answers all in a new interview.

N'Gai Croal of Level Up recently sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto to discuss his and Nintendo's showing at last month's Game Developers Conference. When asked why he chose to talk about the past instead of revealing his next big game, Miyamoto responded that he wanted to share what he'd learned from the Wii and DS with his fellow designers.

Promising real online modes, Mario Strikers is set to launch on 25th May in Europe.

Get Ready For Kick Off!

Wii shoots and scores with Mario Strikers: Charged Football

3rd April, 2007- Now’s your chance to bend it like Beckham, score like Shevchenko and hit it like Henry or, failing that, floor the opposition with a well aimed Blue Shell! What’s more, with Mario Strikers:... Read more...

A Portuguese magazine confirms the long-standing rumor -- Sega's NiGHTS is back, and it's exclusive to Wii. Updated with the official title and tentative Japanese release date. Updated AGAIN with the offical NA/European press release.

Update (5:06pm, 4/2/2007)

Here is the official press release from Sega of America and Sega Europe. In it a Fall '07 release date is revealed.

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (April 2, 2007) – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams™, the long... Read more...

Hudson's Virtual Console site reveals five upcoming games.

VC-PCE.com, Hudson's official Virtual Console website, has listed five upcoming games to be released in April. The first, Dragon's Curse, is a platformer to be released on April 2nd in North and Latin America and should be available today, March 30, in Europe. It will be followed by Bravoman, a quirky action game by Namco.

Nineteen games are slated for release next month.

Nintendo has posted the Virtual Console Japanese release list for April. This month's games are fairly region-specific; for example, none of the Genesis games were ever released outside of Japan, so it is likely that many of these games will not be made available to the rest of the world.

The... Read more...

Watch the official storyline trailer as well as more footage from GDC 2007.

Ratings boards hint at big titles in the pipeline.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification is the Australian version of the ESRB. Like the ESRB, rated games often appear on their site before they are officially announced.

Currently unreleased games already rated on their site include a number of hits. For the NES, Adventures of Lolo,... Read more...

Team Ninja is making a DS game with a clever DS subtitle.

Chris Kohler over at Wired's Game|Life blog recently posted a rough translation of a poor scan from the latest Famitsu magazine. In it, a brand new DS game from Team Ninja called Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is revealed.

Chris goes on to translate the parts that he could make out. Apparently the... Read more...

The Wii version is ready for consumption on May 11th.

MAMA MIA! CULINARY CUTIE COOKING MAMA RETURNS ON Wii

Milton Keynes, UK – March 29th: Publisher 505 Games is today delighted to announce that the highly-anticipated Wii version of Cooking Mama has risen perfectly in the oven and is cooling on the cake stand ready for its final decoration! Players will be able to take a bite, exclusively on Wii, on May 11th.

Video Games Live isn't the only video game symphony touring the country.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 28, 2007 - Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. has announced that the next confirmed stop on the world tour of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony will be presented in association with Fanime at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 8 pm. PLAY! is a new concert concept that draws its scores from a catalogue of blockbuster video games.

Name the tunes and win a DVD box set of classic Nintendo cartoons courtesy of Shout! Factory.

You could pout about how GeneralTraag has claimed Captain N as his prize, but shouldn't you be polishing up on your trivia skills so you have a chance of winning one of the three remaining box sets next time?

Remember wishing you could actually be in the game like Captain N? And who could... Read more...

Sonic, Mario, Tails, Knuckles, Luigi... all together in the same game for the first time ever. Weird tie-in, though.

SEGA AND NINTENDO JOIN FORCES FOR MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Legendary Icons Appear Together for the First Time in Video Game History

TOKYO (March 28, 2007) - SEGA Corporation and Nintendo Co. Ltd. today made a historical announcement that two of the biggest icons in the entertainment... Read more...

Video Game Pianist vs. Century-Old Pipe Organ

VIDEO GAMES LIVE PERFORMING AT YALE UNIVERSITY WITH SPECIAL GAME INDUSTRY GUESTS, PANELS, PERFORMANCES AND PRE-SHOW FESTIVAL

Esteemed Ivy League University to Host Historic First Collegiate Concert and Open-Public Educational Industry Panel

Special Performances to Include Video Game Pianist Martin Leung Performing an Exclusive Castlevania Arrangement on 104 Year Old Yale Pipe Organ

The final version of Opera's browsers will hit Wiis next month. Updated with more details from Nintendo.

Opera's browser was scheduled for release in March...but not any more. Today Opera released the following statement:

Opera and Nintendo today confirmed that the Opera-powered Internet Channel for Wii will be available in April 2007, rather than in late March as previously announced. The final release date in April remains to be determined.

The studio behind SSX Blur is working on an exclusive rhythm game for Wii.

EA Announces Boogie, a New Music-Based Videogame Exclusively for the Wii

EA Montreal Delivers the Complete Videogame Entertainment Package to Gamers of All Ages Adding Another Title to Their Roster of New EA Intellectual Property

MONTREAL-- Electronic Arts announced today that Boogie™... Read more...

Composed by the same duo that worked on Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

Ubisoft's TMNTTM Video Game Features Original Soundtrack Composed By Cris Velasco & Sascha DikiCiyan

Acclaimed Video Game Composers Provide Cowabunga! Action Music Score for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles®

Los Angeles, March 21, 2007 – Renowned video game composer duo Cris Velasco... Read more...

Now you can purchase products online.

Newly Expanded Commercial Website Offers Direct Consumer Access to Innovative Product-Line

LOS ANGELES - March 21, 2007 - Nyko Technologies, a premier peripherals manufacturer, today announced the launch of their new Ecommerce site, www.nyko.com/store , providing gamers and consumers a new way... Read more...

Practice your Ninja moves on Wii, DS, GBA, or even GameCube.

Ubisoft’s TMNT(TM) Video Games Leap Onto Retail Store Shelves

New Video Games Based on First CGI TMNT Movie Feature Classic Turtle Humor and Over-the-Top Ninja Action

SAN FRANCISCO--Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game developers and publishers announced that its... Read more...

The publisher hopes to release retail and downloadable games for Wii.

In February, we reported that Telltale Games was looking for programmers to work on Wii software. The job listing referenced adapting existing PC assets to the platform, raising hopes that the Sam & Max adventure games might be making their way to Nintendo's console.

Yesterday, in an interview with Shacknews, Telltale CEO Dan Connors confirmed that Wii titles are in the works:

Pirates of the Caribbean games announced for Wii and DS.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Video Games to Set Sail on Consoles and Handheld Systems This Summer

Disney Interactive Studios’ Games to Enable Fans to Experience the Worlds of the Second and Third Films … and Beyond

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Familiar pirates... Read more...