100 Virtual Console games, re-emergence of several franchises, and many other exciting developments.

Planet GameCube sat down with Hudson Entertainment, the US branch of Hudson Soft, to discuss future directions within the company. Despite a long history as a video game company, Hudson has not attended E3 in many years, so their appearance is quite notable.

The biggest news is that Hudson is... Read more...

Customizable vehicles and maps, WiFi, microphone and touch screen all promised.

RareWare's official website (http://www.rareware.com) is reporting that DKR is being developed internally, and will have a host of new features.

E3 '06 is also the debut stage for our latest collaboration with Nintendo: we've possibly hinted at it in the past, but then again we've also hinted... Read more...

You say you want Sonic in Smash Bros? Let the man behind it know!

Along with the annoucement of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the game's creator, Masahiro Sakurai, has set up a website where fans can make comments and suggestions about the game. However, the site is only available in Japanese. With no American version of the suggestion site in view, the guys over at... Read more...

The little buggers are back!

Nintendo has finally pulled the lid off of the newest games in their amazingly popular Pokémon series of games. The two new games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, have been revealed, as always, in the latest issue of CoroCoro Comics. The game looks like a traditional Pokémon game. The overworld, though... Read more...

Nintendo has opened its new Smash Bros. website, where you can find the movie shown last night among other things.

The newly opened Smash Bros. Dojo features some useful info as you can see from the links on the left. I highly recommend watching the movie, and the "How this game came to be made" section is very interesting. It features an English translation of a monologue by the director explaining some of the decisions that resulted from Nintendo announcing the game.

Nintendo just showed a video behind closed doors of the forth coming Smash Bros. game for Wii. New Character details inside.

You read correctly. Those dastardly devils at Nintendo saved a bit of knock-your-socks-off info for the first night of E3. To cut straight to the chase, the name of the title is Super Smash Bros. Brawl and new playable characters include Solid Snake, Wario, Meta Knight (of Kirby fame), Pit (of Kid Icarus fame) and Zero-Suit Samus (of Metroid: Zero Mission fame).

This is how you'll be playing your Virtual Console. Update: We got a photo of the back as well as comments from a Nintendo reprentative.

While Nintendo didn't talk much about the Wii's "Virtual Console" at this year's E3 press conference, they did provide an image of the system's "Classic" controller. Here it is below.

The pad looks similar to an SNES controller in its general shape, but has a few more features. It sports... Read more...

A transcript of Iwata's speech at yesterday's media briefing.

Media Briefing Speech

Thank you, and good morning.

When I became Nintendo president, we decided on a new goal for our company expanding the total number of people who play games.

In order to do this, we needed to target not only current gamers but two different types of consumers those who once played, but who had lost interest.

A firsthand account of what went down and whose names were taken.

At 9:34, only four minutes behind schedule, the lights in the renowned Kodak Theatre went down in a hushed silence. Shigeru Miyamoto, gaming's Mega Man, walked out wearing a tuxedo with a Wii remote in his hand (the remote was attached to Miyamoto by a wrist strap, likely a packed in attachment).... Read more...

Hold on to your pants ... Resident Evil, Harvest Moon, Call of Duty 3, Metal Slug and more!

A Partial List of Some Upcoming Wii™ Games

Note that game titles are subject to change. Launch dates are TBD.

Activision - Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam™, Marvel™ - Ultimate Alliance, Call of Duty® 3

AQ Interactive - Boxing Action

Atari - Dragon Ball Z Budokai: Tenkaichi 2

Atlus - Trauma Center: Second Opinion

Nintendo isn't ready to let the world now precisely when they'll be able to obtain a Wii or for how much money.

After Sony revealed the rather large price of the Playstation 3 yesterday (599 for the real deal and 499 for butchered version with a number of tasty features missing), many people expected that Nintendo would reveal the Wii's price today.

Instead, Nintendo kept their conference focused on... Read more...

Nintendo reveals that the GameCube and Wii versions of Twilight Princess will now be sold separately. Control details inside.

Nintendo announced that the GameCube/Wii version of Zelda: TP is no more. It will be replaced by two separate retail packages, one for GameCube and one for Wii. This shouldn't cause much problem for most as both games will be launching alongside Wii.

The game was also demonstrated extensively... Read more...

Nintendo reveals and partially demonstrates the self descriptive Wii Sports.

Nintendo announced the winner of an AOL contest and invited the lucky guy on stage to play a tennis match with Reggie, Miyamoto and Iwata. The game went as you might expect with familiar tennis ball "pop" sounds emitting from the controller's newly revealed speaker each time a player hits the ball.

During Nintendo's ongoing media briefing, a number of upcoming DS games were just shown including a few pleasant surprises.

Here's the list in the order they appeared.

New Super Mario Bros.

Pokemon Blue Mystery Dungeon DS (September 18, 2006)

Pokemon Red Mystery Dungeon GBA (September 18, 2006)

Final Fantasy 3 (fully 3D)

Starfox DS

Diddy Kong Racing (appears to be a straight port, though Wifi enabled)

Yoshi's Island 2 (baby Mario is back!)

Nintendo shows footage of a new Mario platformer for Wii.

The name is Super Mario Galaxy. The footage was brief, but Mario was doing some typical looking platform things to the tune of a Wii controller. It has not yet been announced that the game would be a launch title. Only Zelda has been confirmed as a launch title so far.

Other games shown briefly... Read more...

If there's one cat that needs dual screens, it's this one.

GARFIELD PURRS BACK TO THE BOX OFFICE

THE GAME FACTORY ANNOUNCES THREE MULTI-PLATFORM VIDEO GAMES BASED ON GARFIELD'S 2nd FEATURE FILM

New titles offer gaming for PlayStation®2™, Nintendo DS™ and PC platforms

Brabrand, Denmark — (May 9th. 2006) — THE GAME FACTORY today... Read more...

I wonder if John Madden himself still has the physical dexterity to even play this game?

Madden NFL 07 Gets Physical on Nintendo Wii; EA Set to Deliver Industry's Top Franchises to Nintendo's Groundbreaking Next Generation Console

E3Expo 2006

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2006--Huddle up sports fans, Madden NFL 07 is coming to Wii! Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq:ERTS)... Read more...

Oh no they just didn't!

Sony just announced that the standard PS3 controller will include a 3 axis tilt sensor capable of detecting motion with "6 degrees of freedom". The announcement was followed by a quick video, which, to the trained eye, demonstrated the limitations of their thinly veiled attempt to copy Nintendo's... Read more...

Two for Wii, none for you!

We just got back from the Square-Enix conference, and there is tons of news to report. In addition to the already annouced games, Square blew the lid off some secret titles in development for various Nintendo consoles.

First off, Dragon Quest will be making it's way to the Nintendo Wii with the... Read more...

Sonic’s creator founds his own development studio, Prope, with Sega’s backing.

SEGA PARTNERS WITH PROPE, LTD. TO CREATE ORIGINAL CONTENT FOR NEXT GENERATION CONSOLES

Yuji Naka and SEGA Partner to Create New Intellectual Properties

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (May 8, 2006) - SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe, Ltd. today announced a new partnership with PROPE, Ltd., a new video game development studio based in Tokyo, Japan. PROPE, Ltd. will develop original content for the next generation consoles.