The two models of the DSi are set to take a price plunge in just a few weeks.

Nintendo has announced plans to drop the prices of the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL systems on September 12. The DSi will fall from $169.99 to $149.99, and the DSi XL will fall from $189.99 to $169.99. The DS Lite will remain at an MSRP of $129.99.

This drop comes as Nintendo plans to unveil... Read more...

The $70 package includes the game, a figurine, a behind-the-scenes DVD, and more.

Disney Epic Mickey is getting the collector's edition treatment according to a recent listing by Toys R Us.

The package, retailing for $70, includes a copy of Disney Epic Mickey for Wii, a 5-inch Mickey figure, a DVD with behind-the-scenes footage and more, a stylized Wii Remote faceplate, and a pair of Wii console skins.

The watery puzzle game will be revealed at PAX next week.

Nintendo's official website has been updated with a game page for Fluidity, a "water action" title for WiiWare.

The description says the game combines a realistic water physics engine with puzzle gameplay. Liquid water, ice, and clouds will be used for solving puzzles within chapters of an illustrated... Read more...

Rising Star Games has announced a contest where they will give away copies of their upcoming Nintendo DS title.

European publisher Rising Star Games is giving away a copy each week, for the next five weeks, of PANG: Magical Michael for the Nintendo DS. To enter, all you need to do is watch the gameplay trailer on Rising Star Games' YouTube channel and send an email to comp@risingstargames.com identifying... Read more...

Art Academy has gone beyond and above Nintendo's expectations.

Nintendo’s Art Academy has turned out to be quite a hit in Europe, with the game topping the DS charts for two consecutive weeks thus far. The game also sits at number six in the All Formats Top 40 in the UK, despite it seeing supply constraints.

Retailers such as Amazon Marketplace have raised... Read more...

Sales plummet as Obon comes to an end.

Last week saw many games with large sales increases due to the mid-summer Obon holiday, but this week was quite the opposite. All of the games in this week’s top 20 had decreased sales, whether by a few hundred units or a couple of thousand. 

After ruling the roost last week due to an enormous... Read more...

Get ready to rock.

After teasing gamers for months, MTV and Harmonix have finally unveiled the complete song list for their upcoming Rock Band 3.  There will be 83 songs in total, featuring acts such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, Def Leppard, and INXS.

Rock Band 3 adds several innovations to the series, including... Read more...

The fifth generation of Pokemon is a big success in Japan, and it hasn't even been released yet.

According to Japanese gaming site Online Player EX, Pokemon Black and White has broken records for the fastest selling Pokemon title in Japan. While the games are yet to be released, pre-orders have already surpassed the 1,000,000 mark.Pokemon Black and White will be released in Japan on September 19.

In addition, Team Ninja confirms that the game lacks Samus's Gravity Suit.

In a segment of Iwata Asks, members of Team Ninja stated that Metroid: Other M will come on a dual-layer DVD disc in order to hold the game's cutscenes and additional content. At times the cutscenes were shaved off in length by seconds to fit them all on the disc.

The development team also confirmed... Read more...

DSiWare dominates this week's update, which also features a Virtual Console game.

This week sees six new titles added to Nintendo's downloadable game services. WiiWare's lone title is Broken Rules' And Yet it Moves, which is also available on PC. The title is a physics-based platformer in which players must rotate the game's world in order to access new levels and entrances previously... Read more...

The popular tower defense title will get a DS port in 2011.

According to a Twitter post by PopCap's PR representative, Laurie Thorton, the company is working on a DS port of Plants vs. Zombies, a critically-acclaimed tower defense game in which players must strategically place several plants in order to fight off an army of zombies. The original title was released on the PC on May 5, 2009 via Steam and has since been brought to other platforms.

The Nintendo president discusses the challenges developing the latest game in the Wii series.

In the latest edition of "Iwata Asks", Nintendo President Satoru Iwata talked to the development team of Wii Party, the latest game in Nintendo's Wii series. The team is composed of Hiroshi Satou and Miyuki Hirose, both part of the Development Planning Division, Shuuichirou Nishitani, Nd Cube Engineering Development Division Manager, and Jun Ikeda, CEO of Nd Cube.

Make some popcorn; we've got a flood of Other M in-game footage for you.

On second thought, nix the popcorn and start watching these gameplay clips. While they reveal what are mostly familiar environments for the Metroid franchise, it is exciting to see them played out with Other M's flair.

Look forward to more videos and coverage as we approach the game's August 31 release date, and be sure to check out the newly-redesigned official website!

GameStop customers will enjoy a nice extra with their Other M.

Those who pre-order Metroid: Other M from GameStop will receive an exclusive 16 card art folio. This bonus will be available to both online and in-store purchasers.

As is to be expected, we have only a partial view of what one of these cards will look like. The image provided does not include a reference for how large the cards will be either, so whether these are the size of a postcard or a postage stamp is unknown.

Commercials show off both action and drama sides of Samus' latest adventure. UPDATED.

Two commercials for Metroid: Other M have been posted to the official Japanese Metroid website.  The first features several cutscenes relating to Samus' past, including scenes not shown until now.  Our Japan Correspondent, Matt Walker, has translated the first trailer, which you can watch below.

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: