Another slow week results in New Super Mario Bros. Wii holding onto the top spo

Video game sales in Japan have been on a decline as of late, and Media Create sales from the week ending April 18 certainly don’t show a bright outlook for the future.

For the second week in a row, New Super Mario Bros. Wii holds the top spot despite a 14% drop in sales. In the runner-up spot... Read more...

Mature Wii Gamers, Sega just can't quit you.

In an interview with IndustryGamers, Sega West President Mike Hayes comments on previous quotes from Sega executives, saying that any quotes that said Sega was dropping mature game development on Wii were "erroneous".

Hayes commented on the mature game market on the Wii, saying "Is it going... Read more...

Some online retailers are listing revised launch dates for both titles.

NeoGAF Forums user DarthButcher has posted that, according to his retail sources, Metroid: Other M and Sin & Punishment 2 might be delayed.

Apparently, some internal retailer lists are showing Metroid as changing from a June 27 date to TBD, while Sin & Punishment 2 has moved from its original... Read more...

Now with 36% more alliteration!

When Jon Lindemann and I were discussing my return to the blue skies and calm shores of NintendoWorldReport, one of my requests (besides adding Mello Yello to the staff soda machine) was the return of one of the site's oldest (and one of my personal favorite) features: the mailbag. And wouldn't you know it, word came from on high today that we're good to go!

Even more interesting is that this date puts the 3DS directly up against Project Natal, the new motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360. Microsoft has indicated that they will essentially be "relaunching" the Xbox 360 alongside Natal this October. Both of these products will be introducing new styles of gameplay, based on familiar and successful brands.

Among others, Capcom is bringing Okamiden, Ghost Trick, and Sengoku BASARA Stateside next year.

At Capcom's recent Captivate 2010 event in Hawaii, some new details were let loose concerning their 2011 release schedule in North America. DS owners can look forward to Okamiden (the follow-up to 2007's Okami) and Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, in which you take the form of a recently-deceased man searching for clues as to how he came to die.

Hunters rejoice. It's time to gear up and get out there!

Several of us here at Nintendo World Report have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Capcom's Wii-exclusive Monster Hunter Tri. Capcom kicked off the launch hoopla with last weekend's launch event at the Nintendo World Store in New York, followed that up with yesterday's launch trailer, and today pulls off the trifecta with the official launch press release.

Here's a final trailer to whet your monster-hunting appetite before the game launches tomorrow.

In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months, Capcom's powerhouse Monster Hunter franchise arrives on Wii tomorrow in the form of Monster Hunter Tri. Capcom released a launch trailer today.

The trailer doesn't show much in the way of new footage, but it does display... Read more...

Survive high school with Mega Man and Game and Watch games in this week's set of titles.

In this week's update, DSiWare gets the most titles, while Virtual Console and WiiWare only get one game each. The Virtual Console receives Capcom's Mega Man 4, originally released for the NES in 1992. Like past Mega Man titles, Mega Man 4 offers a high degree of shooting and platforming challenge at 500 Wii Points ($5.00).

Majesco's flip-flopping 3D platformer is steering clear of Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Majesco's 3D platformer is being delayed from its previous June release to a September one, according to a representative from Majesco.

The reason for the delay is to steer clear of competing products, which one can safely assume refers to Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2, slated for a May 23 release.

Nintendo is releasing a health application called Almost Daily Health Notebook this week.

Nintendo filed a copyright for Hobo Nichi no Kenkou Techou, which roughly translates to Almost Daily Health Notebook, a new free health DSiWare application launching in Japan on April 21.

It is a conversion of the book Dear Doctors Hobo Nichi no Kenkou Techou, which is a health information book... Read more...

Hideki Kamiya desperately wants a new Star Fox title.

Hideki Kamiya, director of Okami and Bayonetta, is making quite a Twitter name for himself as he recently said he wants Nintendo to force Platinum Games to make a new Star Fox title.

"I want Nintendo's staff to come to Platinum, stick guns at us and tell us 'You guys make a new Star Fox,'" he said.

Dive: The Medes Island Secret, from Cosmonaut Games, is a side-scrolling WiiWare title focused on exploration that uses the NyxQuest engine.

While Dive: The Medes Island Secret has been known about for a while, the latest issue of Nintendo Power shed more light on the upcoming title from Spanish developer Cosmonaut Games.

Dive is a side-scrolling underwater exploration game that puts you in control of John Sanders, a researcher who... Read more...

Nintendo's plus-sized handheld puts up "solid" numbers.

Nintendo's latest handheld, the DSi XL, sold 141,000 units from its launch on March 28 to the end of the NPD reporting period on April 3, according to financial analyst Michael Pachter.

Those numbers made up about 20 percent of all DS sales, which also included the DS Lite and DSi, in March.

Ubisoft's MotionPlus-powered title is slow out of the gate after 12 days of sales.

Kotaku reports that Red Steel 2 sold about 50,000 units in the March NPDs according to financial analyst Michael Pachter.

However, those numbers are only from 12 days of sales, as Red Steel 2 came out on March 23 and the March NPDs only covered up until April 3.

"Considering that the NPD... Read more...

Former GRIN staffers form Might and Delight, a new studio focused on making retro titles.

Developer GRIN may have shut down last year, but the spirit of their 2008 downloadable game Bionic Commando: Rearmed lives on in Might and Delight, a new studio made up of members of the team behind the game.

On their official website, they say "[It's] no secret that Might and Delight loves retro.... Read more...

The official site is updated with new information, including characters bios.

The official site for Xenoblade has been updated with new details, including character biographies and new artwork.

The newly revealed characters in the game were shown in Famitsu last week, and the official site matched these biographies with artwork. The biographies were translated by Andriasang.

delivers a 1-2 punch in the latest edition of the NPD sales report.

Nintendo Wii and DS were the top two selling game systems in March, according to the latest report from the NPD Group. Wii sales reached 560,000 consoles, and combined DS system sales reached over 700,000 handhelds, setting a new record for portable system sales. In a recent press release, Nintendo notes that sales of Nintendo systems amounted to 59% of all video game hardware sold in March.

A new power up is revealed and more possibilities are promised in the cooperative mode.

An update on Nintendo's Japanese website for Super Mario Galaxy has revealed a host of screenshots and videos for new features. Exploring the microsite gives you a handful of screenshots of the new enemies, videos of the red, yellow and blue Yoshis and their various interations and some of the new gameplay.

Next week's DLC features a song from the Violent Femmes, Supergrass, and Siouxsie & the Banshees, as well as a three pack from Coheed and Cambria.

Next week's Rock Band downloadable content, due out for Wii on April 20 for 200 Wii Points a track, features Coheed and Cambria, the Violent Femmes, Supergrass, and Siouxsie & the Banshees.

The Coheed and Cambria three pack is made up of three songs from their recently released album, Year of the Black Rainbow. The songs include the first song released from the album, "The Broken," and the lead single, "Here We Are Juggernaut."