Level-5 announces a new entry in the highly popular Inazuma Eleven brand.

Inazuma Eleven 2 was only released in Japan last October, but that hasn’t stopped Level-5 from announcing a sequel to its latest million-selling title.

Entitled Inazuma Eleven 3: Challenge the World, the game is expected to expand on its predecessor. It is currently pencilled in for an early summer release. The anime series has also been extended for another season, which will keep it going until March 2011.

The identities of two recent Pokemon silhouettes have been revealed.

With the next era of Pokemon games being released in Japan later this year, it shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise that new Pokemon are starting to be revealed. Pokemon Sunday revealed a silhouette of the first fifth-generation Pokemon over the weekend, saying that its identity would be announced on February 21st.

A pre-release leak of New Super Mario Bros Wii will cost a gaming pirate 1.5 million dollars.

A Queensland, Australia man who leaked New Super Mario Bros Wii on the internet a week before the game launched will pay Nintendo 1.5 million dollars in damages. The man, James Burt, 24, was traced by what Nintendo referred to as "sophisticated technological forensics" and was ordered to allow Nintendo access to his email accounts, websites, and web accounts. Burt will also be required to pay Nintendo's legal bill of $100,000.

"Visibility in society" is a major factor in software success, according to the Nintendo CEO.

In a recent investor Q&A, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata discussed the strategy behind certain European releases.

When faced with reduced software sales in Europe, Nintendo's response was to try to introduce games that would take on the role of a social phenomenon that held relevance outside of... Read more...

Tecmo Producer Koichi Yagamuchi speaks out on the way that the game will cater to the DS hardware.

In an interview with SiliconEra, Tecmo Producer Koichi Yagamuchi recently elaborated on how Monster Rancher DS would utilize the DS hardware in the upcoming title.

When asked how monsters were created using the stylus, he replied, " An advanced algorithm is used to recognize the drawn figures.... Read more...

A whopping ten titles are available for download this week, including a funky rhythm title and the return of an NES classic for WiiWare.

This week's update is the biggest yet thanks to the release of 10 new titles. The most notable titles of the week are for WiiWare.

The first is Blaster Master: Overdrive from Sunsoft. The original game was recently released on Virtual Console, and this re-imagined sequel, tells the story of Alex,... Read more...

Sunsoft is bringing Blaster Master: Overdrive to WiiWare next Monday.

The game, a sequel to Blaster Master, which was released on Virtual Console last year, is an action-shooting game that takes place after Earth has been infected by a virus. Players jump into the shoes of the biologist Alex and travel around the planet in S.O.P.H.I.A., a powerful four-wheel vehicle, in hopes of ridding the land of the animals that have been consumed by the virus.

Follow-up to Ace Attorney re-release coming earlier than expected.

While originally scheduled for a March 2010 release, Capcom has announced that the WiiWare follow-up to the original Phoenix Wright has been moved up to a February 15, 2010 release in North America.

Priced at 1,000 Wii Points, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice For All is a remake of the original... Read more...

Use Percy Jackson's powers to save the world in this new DS title based on the book and upcoming film.

Activision has released a new trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The title, which will be released on the DS, is an adventure game featuring the storyline and characters of the novel and feature film.

Attacks are performed by drawing symbols on the DS's touch screen.

Monkeys and the Balance Board do make things better, and these videos prove it.

Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll will be released soon, and many of us are looking forward to it.

To celebrate, we will showcase all of the trailers Sega has released since they announced it last year.

The first trailer featured no gameplay footage, but the adorable CG footage confirmed that Step and Roll would feature Balance Board control:

The MotionPlus action title faced its share of challenges, and then some.

In a recent Iwata Asks interview, producer Hitoshi Yamagami revealed that upcoming Wii action title Zangeki no Reginleiv started development in 2006, before the Wii had even been released.

The game is set to release on February 11 in Japan, giving the title a development life of more than three years. The game is developer Sandlot's first effort on the Wii.

iPhone development is on the rise as Nintendo fights for developer attention.

In the past year, only 30 percent of console developers have been actively working on Wii games, down from 42 percent in 2008, according to a recent survey conducted by Game Developer Research.

The survey consisted of 55 questions, and was submitted to 814 developers via Game Developer Magazine,... Read more...

High Voltage Software reveals that the once Wii-exclusive shooter will be available on other platforms.

In an interview with IGN, High Voltage Software CEO Kerry Ganofsky and chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger have confirmed that The Grinder, a first-person horror shooter first announced last year, will no longer be a Wii exclusive. The title, which HVS hopes to finish by Halloween 2011, will now be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC as well.

5th Cell's DS platformer manages to sell over a million copies around the world.

Warner Bros. Interactive has announced that the 5th Cell developed DS title Scribblenauts has sold over a million copies worldwide since its release in September 2009. The title has received critical praise for its innovative gameplay, in which players summon different objects by writing the names of it in order to solve puzzles and complete the stages.

The Wii proves to be a successful platform for Namco Bandai, despite the company's major losses.

In the third quarter earnings report in which they announced massive losses despite strong software sales, Namco Bandai has confirmed that Wii games proved to be successful for them. The company sold 3,765,000 units across nine Wii software releases for the first nine months of 2009.

According... Read more...

Save the lives of many turtles in this DSiWare puzzler.

Sabarasa, a game development studio located in Argentina, recently announced their first DSiWare title called Save the Turtles.

It is a puzzle game in which players must protect baby sea turtles as they journey back to the sea. Players must first get the turtles out of their eggs by poking them... Read more...

The Silent Hill luminary will be working with Suda51 at Grasshopper Manufacture.

Akira Yamaoka, composer and producer of Konami's Silent Hill series, announced that he has joined Goichi "Suda51" Suda's development house Grasshopper Manufacture.

After Suda51 heard that Yamaoka would be leaving Konami after more than a decade , he approached him to join his studio, which is known for Killer 7 and No More Heroes.

Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto will talk at GDC about his experiences with Metroid, WarioWare and Tomodachi Collection.

Game Developer Conference organizers have revealed a surprise lecture from Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto entitled "From Metroid to Tomodachi Collection to Wario Ware: Different Approaches to Different Audiences." This will be the first time Sakamoto addresses a North American audience.

The... Read more...

Sonic the Hedgehog will return to his 2D roots this summer.

In an interview with Gamespot, Sega associate brand manager Ken Balough has revealed that Project Needlemouse, a title first teased during the Dreamcast's 10th anniversary last September, will be a direct sequel to the Sega Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog titles. Named Sonic the Hedgehog 4, the title brings... Read more...

Strong sales of Tekken 6 could not keep the company's profits in the black.

Namco Bandai released an extremely dismal third quarter financial report that reveals huge losses for the company during the past year. On a whole, the company that created Pac-Man posted a loss of $129 million (¥11.7 billion) during the last nine months of 2009.

During Namco Bandai's third... Read more...