Project "PQRS" said to be like Jenga block-building with the charm of a Saturday-morning cartoon.

N'Gai Croal of Newsweek is reporting the first details on legendary film director Steven Spielberg's first foray into video games, including his first Wii title.

The Wii game, currently code-named "PQRS," is an action puzzle hybrid that "blends the creativity of the building-blocks game Jenga... Read more...

Some interesting stuff came out this week.

The official Smash Bros. blog released a few interesting pieces of information this week, most of which we reported on the day of. We were also given a brand new stage to drool over today from one of the most memorable moments of Twilight Princess.

New Item: Assist TrophyAs reported earlier,... Read more...

Hudson to publish the game in the US, with Konami handling distribution and sales.

HUDSON ENTERTAINMENT AND KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE FISHING MASTER FOR WII

Fishing Comes Home to the Wii

REDWOOD CITY, CA - July 5, 2007 - Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm for Hudson Soft, and Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced Fishing Master... Read more...

Sega announces it will be bringing the Wii and online-enabled DS fighters to English speakers early next year.

SEGA® SET TO RELEASE BLEACH™ ON THE Wii™ AND NINTENDO DS™

Fast Paced TV Series Set To Deliver Intense Swordfights in Video Game Debut

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (July 6th, 2007) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced that Bleach™: Shattered Blade will be... Read more...

Key translators and code monkeys from Starmen.net and Mother3.org will join forces to make the game available in English, one way or another.

Nintendo has seemingly abandoned the Game Boy Advance, which means that many good games released in Japan will likely never be released in other territories. One of those games is Mother 3, the prize eyed by many an Earthbound fan. (Mother 2 was released as Earthbound for the SNES in America.) ... Read more...

Smash attacks won't require gestural control.

Today's update to the official Smash Bros. Dojo blog gives an elementary explanation of the normal and smash attacks which have been around since the original Super Smash Bros. on N64. The interesting part is that the blog includes diagrams to show how these moves are performed on all four control schemes (Nunchuk, GameCube, Classic, Remote-Only).

We hit 10,000 registered forum members this week!

Last week, we asked if the ESRB was effective at rating games and informing people of game content. People seemed to have skipped voting in the poll this week (about 60-40 yes/no) in favor of long-winded answers and back and forth discussion. That's hardly a bad thing, is it? Feel free to peruse the sexier posts down at the bottom of this news post!

An unused portion of the NOA campus will soon be a car park for its next-door competition.

Reports are coming in from Seattle that Microsoft has struck a deal with Nintendo of America to purchase a vacant 28-acre site that lies just across the street to the north of NOA's existing headquarters. The price of the sale will not be known until the deal closes and the records of the transaction... Read more...

Polish developer NoWay Studio is still looking for a publisher.

NoWay Studio announces C.O.R.E.

WARSAW, POLAND – June 27th, 2007 – NoWay Studio – a division of QubicGames dedicated to development of games for Nintendo DS today announced its debut title C.O.R.E., which advences players to the year 2050 onto the battleground set in the underground laboratory complex.

Show them your Yu-Gi-Oh!-face.

Konami Hosts U.S. Championship of the 2007 Yu-Gi-Oh! Video Game Tournament at San Diego Comic-Con on July 28

Four Winners from U.S. Championship Will Move on to Compete in the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship also at San Diego Comic Con

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Konami Digital Entertainment,... Read more...

The American developed sequel will feature music by an up and coming American composer.

On his personal blog, Jake Kaufman (better known as "virt" in some circles), has revealed that rumors concerning his involvement in Contra 4 are true. Kaufman's most notable work includes the music for Scurge: Hive (DS), Juka and the Monophonic Menace (GBA), Shantae (GBC) and The Legend of Kay (PS2).... Read more...

They're like Pokeballs, except any Nintendo character could pop out.

Besides our roundups of the Smash Bros. Dojo updates every Friday, we promised our readers that we'd write specific news articles anytime the official Smash blog announced something really big, like a new feature or a previously unknown character.

Today, the Dojo ran two updates, both about Assist... Read more...

Take a peek at what's in the VC pipes for July worldwide.

Today, Nintendo updated their Japanese Virtual Console release list with the upcoming games for July. Star Soldier, Flappy, The Super Shinobi II, and Splatterhouse arrive on July 3rd. The full list of nineteen games are listed below. In addition, the two announced MSX games have been given a price, but have also been delayed to an ambiguous summer release date. Eggy will cost 700 points and Aleste will cost 800 points.

Some more info trickled out of the blog this week.

While there were no huge announcements this week, a couple assumptions were confirmed regarding a new character and player profiles.

New Character: ZeldaZelda was officially announced as playable, making her the first character that wasn't previously revealed in a trailer to be announced on the... Read more...

Cruis'n sequel for Wii, Ultimate Mortal Kombat for DS on their way.

Midway Announces Five Exclusive Titles for

Nintendo Systems

Custom Designed Games Include Cruis’n™ and Game Party for Wii™ and Ultimate Mortal Kombat® and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends for Nintendo DS™

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading... Read more...

Play as weirdly named creatures such as Gumpers, Dinko, and Swanky on 14th September.

RESCUE TOMMY IN THE CRAZIEST ALIEN ADVENTURE THIS YEAR

Pet Alien - Nick Toons' sensational CGI animated comedy lands on Nintendo DS from 14th September

Chertsey, United Kingdom – June 28 2007: Prepare yourselves for an alien invasion! The Game Factory today announce that Pet Alien - exclusive to Nintendo DS - will be taking over shelves across the UK from 14th September 2007.

Tomorrow, Nintendo will reveal its plans for original downloadable games ... that won't be available until next year.

N'Gai Croal and his Level Up news blog has got the scoop on Nintendo's new downloadable gaming service. As of right now, WiiWare only has non-game software available, but soon it will be the launchpad for the original games Nintendo has promised are coming. Nintendo will announce its future WiiWare gaming plans to the general public tomorrow (or today, if you're reading this on Wednesday).

Allow yourself to be whisked off to the magical world of England by a teenage boy with a heart of gold.

EA and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Videogame Ships Today!

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced that the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™... Read more...

King of the forum, king of the forum!

Last week, the Hot Topic was about Wii's 3rd party support. The poll results were split evenly between it being good and bad, but really, it's a lot more complicated than that. Our forum users lay it out; head on down the page to check out what they have to say, and maybe you'll want to throw in your two cents in the forum, too. Or maybe you'd rather hear about this week's hot topic!

Thanks to the Wii and DS, the total value of Nintendo stock is now higher than that of its Japanese rival.

Word from Japan is that Nintendo's total market value has surpassed that of Sony. (Market value refers to the number of total company shares held by all investors times the value of each share, or simply, the sum of all the money invested in a company.) According to a Bloomberg report, Nintendo's value is 6.57 trillion yen ($53.2 billion), while Sony has a value of 6.48 trillion yen ($52.5 billion).