Despite the overall weak economy, video game sales have done comparatively well.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Square Enix Chief Executive Yoichi Wada spoke on the future of the video game industry. Wada began by discussing the major role Sony and Microsoft's upcoming motion control solutions are taking at the annual Tokyo Game Show this week. Complementing Microsoft's... Read more...

The first trailer of the upcoming WiiWare title features 8-player games and a wealth of options.

Medaverse Studios has released the first gameplay footage of their first WiiWare title, Gravitronix. The trailer mentions that the game uses the Wii Remote or Nunchuk to control the characters on screen, and allows up to eight players to battle each other on one Wii console. Other modes mentioned in the trailer include a 21-level campaign mode and 6 special modes.

The footage showcases first-person battles and mystical creatures.

Aspyr Media recently released new gameplay footage of their fantasy adventure DS title Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The footage shows off exploring and battles from a first-person perspective. It also shows the basics of the battle engine, including how to use weapons and items.

The DSiWare application allows you to animate photos with MySims characters.

Today Electronic Arts released MySims Camera, a Nintendo DSi application that allows users to manipulate photos taken with the DSi camera using MySims characters. Players will ultimately have 12 characters to choose from, with the ability to add these characters into photos as they see fit. They can move, crop, rotate, and scale photo elements as well.

A new batch of downloads include a puzzle title from Kenji Eno, a Tennis title for WiiWare, a sequel to a Commodore 64 classic, and two DSiWare releases.

This week in Nintendo Downloads brings a total of five new releases: two for WiiWare, one for Virtual Console, and two for DSiWare.

You, Me, and the Cubes is a physics-based puzzle game for WiiWare where the player throws creatures that resemble humans onto a series of cubes which are free... Read more...

Big John Games shows off their impressive-looking DSiWare shooter.

Thorium Wars is an upcoming vehicle shooter being released for DSiWare. This trailer features plenty of footage of the game's impressive 3D engine, showing lots of large mechanized enemies and battles on land, in the sea, and in space.

Thorium Wars is scheduled to release this month.

Some new DS and Wii gameplay footage features sledding plumbers and hedgehogs.

Sega of America has released new gameplay trailers for the DS and Wii versions of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Both trailers show off several of the games in the title, such as Ice Hockey, Bobsledding, and Figure Skating. The Wii trailer also shows how the game supports the Wii Balance Board in the Sled Racing and Bobsledding games.

The latest game in the Atelier series will soon be available on the DS.

NIS America released a new trailer for their upcoming DS game Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island. In the game, players are tasked to manage a resort development project in order to earn the privilege to marry the prince or princess of Orde. The twist is that players will have to take advantage... Read more...

The spooky DS RPG will arrive just in time for Halloween.

NIS America released a brand new trailer for A Witch's Tale for the DS. In the game you play as Liddell a trainee witch who aspires to be the best witch in the world. Throughout the game you will encounter fairy tale-like characters. Battles are shown in the first person and make extensive use of the touch screen to select skills and cast spells.

Three brand new gameplay trailers for Monster Racers released.

Koei released three different gameplay trailer for their upcoming DS game Monster Racers. Players will collect, breed, and raise monsters in order to ultimately enter them in various races.

The first trailer shows how players will pick one of the three starter monsters when obtaining their monster-racing license.

U.K. correspondent Mark Kelly covers Nintendo of Europe's presentation in London, England.

On the 31st storey of the Centre Point building in London, Nintendo of Europe held a press event showcasing the WiiWare and DSi Ware games that will be available in the run up to Christmas.

The WiiWare service appears to have evolved as a platform since it launched at the beginning of 2008. While... Read more...

The strategy RPG series finally makes its way to North America on the Wii.

NIS America recently released a new trailer for the strategy RPG Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. The trailer highlights various features in the game and details that it will ship with two discs. Both discs contain the entire game, however; one disc will feature English voice-overs, while the other will have the original Japanese voice-overs.

The game is officially coming to North America and Europe with online play for up to eight players. Check out the first gameplay footage.

As NWR recently reported, a game release date list in this week's Famitsu revealed a new DSiWare title from Hudson Soft entitled "Itsudemo Bomberman" ("Bomberman Anytime"). Today Hudson officially announced this title for North America and Europe as Bomberman Blitz.

Promising multiplayer action... Read more...

The good professor sees a healthy debut in August.

According to the NPD Group, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box has sold 67,500 copies since its August 24 debut. The puzzle-solving franchise has seen a solid reception since the first title, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, debuted last year in North America.

The first game still... Read more...

Fireworks and flowers are combined in one family-friendly title.

Australian game developer Nocturnal Entertainment has announced the impending WiiWare release of their title Flowerworks. The game stars a confused alien named Follie, who crash lands on the planet Elilia while transporting a shipment of flowerworks (flowers that shoot fireworks) for her aunty.

It's clay vs. clay in this update of a classic Super NES game.

Today Interplay announced a resurrection of the Clayfighter franchise, for release next summer via Nintendo's digital distribution platforms. The games will be developed by the original programmer of the Super NES version of Clayfighter, which was released in 1993.

The game is a 2D fighter... Read more...

Nintendo unveils their release schedule for upcoming games on all platforms.

Nintendo has released a comprehensive release date calendar that highlights all the first-party and third-party releases during and after the holiday season for Wii, WiiWare, DS, and DSiWare. While Nintendo is only releasing a handful of titles during the holiday season, the release schedule is dominated with games from many third-party publishers.

A new kind of quest will have players teaming up with each other via Wi-Fi.

SquareEnix recently announced that Dragon Quest IX will offer a new feature called "Wi-Fi Quest". Wi-Fi Quests are co-operative quests in which players join online and complete them by playing as a team. The quests are assigned by the "World Inn Cooperative" and require large amounts of players to complete.

Players will finally get to meet the Wonderful Wizard on their DS this September.

XSEED Games has announced the release date of the DS RPG The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road. The title will be released on September 29.

Based on the fantasy novels by L. Frank Baum (which also inspired the beloved feature film of the same name), Beyond the Yellow Brick Road will feature classic characters such as Dorothy Gale, The Tinman, and even the Cowardly Lion as they travel the land of Oz in an epic RPG adventure.

The little bomber is going portable.

This week's Famitsu release listing has revealed an upcoming DSiWare Bomberman title from Hudson Soft. Entitled "Itsudemo Bomberman" (roughly translated as "Bomberman Anytime"), it is apparently releasing in Japan in October for 500 DSi Points.

The last new Bomberman game to come to a Nintendo platform was Bomberman Blast, released on WiiWare in September 2008.