The DS sequel is coming to a handheld near you in March 2011.

Capcom announced a March 15, 2011 release date for Okamiden today.

The sequel to Okami, the critically acclaimed PlayStation 2 and Wii game, Okamiden takes place months after the original, putting players in control of Chibiterasu, the son of the original game's protagonist.

GameStop will have an exclusive pre-order bonus, including a paint brush stylus and a screen cleaner featuring art from the game.

You take the realistic Fender Squier home next year for under $300.

Fender announced that the Fender Squier Pro Guitar for Rock Band 3 will be available on March 1, 2011 for a price of $279.

Pre-orders for the instrument will start on January 1, 2011. The Squier has real strings on it, and can be used as a real instrument and a video game controller.

The Fender... Read more...

Four demos available as the service launches for the European Wii Shop Channel.

Starting November 5, the European Wii Shop Channel will feature ongoing downloadable WiiWare game demos. The demos will be free of charge and available to download for limited periods of time as the selection is updated.

Demos for Furry Legends, Jett Rocket, Zombie Panic in Wonderland, and Nintendo's... Read more...

Crytek UK, formerly Free Radical Design, is trying to get new TimeSplitters off the ground.

The TimeSplitters series, which last saw an entry in 2005, is being shopped around by developer Crytek UK, according to Eurogamer.

The company, formerly Free Radical Design, is talking to publishers about bringing a new entry in the multiplayer-centric first-person shooter to consoles. They are also pitching an original first-person shooter, too.

Nintendo's flagship store in New York City gets a new coat of paint and then some.

The Nintendo World Store, Nintendo's flagship retail center in New York City's Rockefeller Center, recently underwent renovations. With a November 7 party in the works to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., the store is looking better than ever.

The location has become more of a Nintendo shrine than ever before, thanks to an expansion given to the museum area. The store also added new Nintendo DSi demo stations.

Reports indicate that Nintendo is bringing demos back its online service.

Website NintendoLife is claiming that Nintendo's abandonment of WiiWare game demos earlier this year was not permanent.  WiiWare demos will apparently return to the service in "the near future" for at least a limited run.According to "several WiiWare developers", Nintendo has again begun accepting... Read more...

Science and basketball rules this week's selection of games.

This week's update sees a total of six games, two for WiiWare, three for DSiWare, and one for the Virtal Console. The lone Virtual Console title of the week is Street Slam for the Neo Geo. Street Slam is an arcade 3-on-3 basketball title for up to two players. It can be downloaded for 900 Wii Points ($9.00).

The two-man development team is having trouble compressing the game under the WiiWare limit.

Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat announced via Twitter that their game isn't coming to WiiWare in November like originally planned due to the fact that it is currently too big for Nintendo's download service.

The tweet read: "attention internets, the wii version is NOT coming out in Nov its impossible. we havent even gotten the size down under 50mb yet (goal=39mb)"

Pokemon takes a back seat while Mario celebrates with 300,000 copies of the Super Mario Collection sold.

After leading the Media Create sales charts for five consecutive weeks, Pokemon Black and Pokemon White’s reign atop the summit has come to an end as they step aside for Mario and his latest Wii offering.

Super Mario Collection: Special Pack began its life in Japan in the top spot with sales... Read more...

Mario Party 2 and Super Bonk highlight the month's lineup of releases.

Nintendo has announced their November lineup of classic games for the Japanese Virtual Console. The first of these is the Nintendo 64 title, Mario Party 2. Released December 17, 1999 in Japan and January 24, 2000 in North America, Mario Party 2 includes six themed boards, the ability to practice a mini-game, and new spaces on the board. Mario Party 2 is set to be released on November 2, priced at 1,000 Wii Points.

Some video showing the Shop Channel equivalent for 3DS.

Part of the presentation at today's Nintendo Operational Briefing showed a video example of the Shop Channel for Nintendo 3DS.

Mario, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, and utilities such as the Mario Clock are shown in the clean new interface. The video also shows a Super Mario Land video loaded and played from the service.

Four games expected around launch, more to follow.

Following Nintendo's Financial Results meeting today, where figures for all of Nintendo's sales and profits for hardware and software were released to investors, a supplementary information document gave a launch schedule for October 2010 onwards, including a preliminary list of Nintendo published games for Nintendo 3DS.

Mega Man character designer to leave Capcom and subsidiary Daletto at the end of the month.

Keiji Inafune announced today that he will be leaving his position as head of research and development, and management groups at Capcom, and CEO of Daletto, an online games business subsidiary of Capcom effective from the end of October. Inafune has been with Capcom for 23 years.

Inafune believes... Read more...

Rock Band adds 12 songs from The Doors, and Guitar Hero does the time warp again.

This week, the two prominent instrument-based rhythm games add a variety of songs from classic rock bands and popular cult musicals.

Rock Band, which will only feature downloadable content for Rock Band 3 from here on out, released a 12-pack of The Doors songs. Three of those songs ("Light My Fire,"... Read more...

The creative WiiWare title is now available on the European game service.

tons of bits's first WiiWare title, Chick Chick Boom, has been released for WiiWare in Europe and Australia. The title, priced at 800 Wii Points ($8), has players battling enemies by drawing weapons. This is achieved by connecting the dots, then launching it to the enemy's arena.

No American release date has been announced, though the title has been rated by the ESRB, receiving an E+10 rating.

Check out our exclusive direct feed footage.

Aside from some great hands-on time, we were able to record footage from the first six worlds (Jungle, Beach, Ruins, Cave, Forest, and Cliff). Watch Donkey Kong and Diddy ride mine carts, rockets, rhinos, and more mine carts, as well as taking on some bosses in an effort to recover DK's banana stash from the Tiki tribe.

The numbers are painted red for Nintendo for the first time in seven years.

Nintendo posted a loss of 2.01 billion yen (approximately $2,470,000) for the April through September 2010 period, citing the strength of the yen as the primary factor.

Nintendo relies on foreign sales for more than 80 percent of its business, and thus as the value of the yen rises, the value of... Read more...

Get ready for Sissel's adventures on 01.11.11.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is coming to the US on January 11, 2011.

After being delayed from a holiday release this year, Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi's latest creation will be available for Western gamers early next year. The game was released in Japan in June of this year. 

Capcom also released the official box art for the game today, which we have updated in our game profile.

The anniversary pack is finally announced for North America, coming this December.

The special anniversary edition Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition has finally been announced for the US and will be available on December 12 for $29.99. The contents are the same as the Japanese and European versions. 

The game contains the SNES release of Super Mario All-Stars playable... Read more...

The latest Bit.Trip headlines this week's slate of six games.

This week sees the release of six games, with two on WiiWare and four on DSiWare. Virtual Console has no new releases.

Bit.Trip Fate, the penultimate entry in Gaijin Games' series, is an on-rails rhythm-based shooter. You control Commander Video through different stages using power-ups to defeat the evil Mingrawn Timbletot. Compatible with the Wii Zapper, Bit.Trip Fate is 800 Wii Points ($8).