This week: Gaming is an expensive hobby.

Last week Steven Rodriguez, Nintendo World Report's director, wrote an editorial titled "Price Break: The Future of Game Prices." His basic premise was that publishers need to lower the price of the games they release on the Wii, or they will always lose out to whatever Nintendo releases. Nintendo titles are acceptable at a price of $50 because they are known quality titles, and provide great value for the cost.

Get scared with a Wii remote and nunchuk.

Heart-Stopping Action Of 'Alone In The Dark' Comes To Wii And PlayStation 2

Atari's Apocalyptic Action Blockbuster Coming to Five Platforms, Gameplay Uniquely Adapted to Wii Control System

LYON, FRANCE – 13 November 2007 – Atari today announced that its forthcoming apocalyptic action... Read more...

Partnership with id Software brings mobile phone game to the DS.

EA and id Software Announce Orcs & Elves Ships Today for the Nintendo DS

Fantasy Role Playing Game Is One of the First Titles to Cross Over to the Nintendo DS From Mobile Phones

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It’s time to answer the call of the Hero! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS)... Read more...

Most retailers will have it on Tuesday.

SUPER MARIO GALAXY FOR WII SHOWCASES MARIO'S STAR POWER

It's the Hottest Game on the Hottest System for the Holidays

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 12, 2007 - The amazing new Super Mario Galaxy™ game launches for Wii™ in T-minus 3 … 2 … 1. The hottest game for the hottest system fills players... Read more...

Where's Ridley?

This week was filled with seven minor updates. While there was nothing spectacular, we did get an assist trophy from outside the Nintendo universe! It's been a few months since the daily updates started, and the Dojo is still going strong.

New Music: Fire Emblem ThemeThe Fire Emblem theme was... Read more...

Are you a numismatist?

When the Super Mario Galaxy pre-order bonus was announced, it was met with mixed reactions. Nintendo World Report recently got our hands on the coin and one thing is for certain, Nintendo didn't skimp on the packaging. Check out some shots of it below. If you haven't pre-ordered yet, hopefully... Read more...

French publisher striving for "Nintendo-like quality" in future releases.

At the BMO Capital Markets' Annual Interactive Entertainment Conference in New York City on Tuesday, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot delivered a presentation that was not short on praise for Nintendo. He was particularly enamored with Nintendo's success in both the handheld and console markets, as well as their strategy of attracting casual gamers outside of the usual hardcore gaming market.

Comparing Mario to food, gardens, and tea tables!

On the eve of its Japanese release, Satoru Iwata sat down with former Nintendo Dream writer Akinori Sao to talk about Super Mario Galaxy (for the entire interview, click the Related Link above). Here are the juiciest tidbits:

• The concept for Super Mario Galaxy was born from the famous... Read more...

My Word Coach, My Spanish Coach, and My French Coach hit store shelves.

Ubisoft Announces That Three "My Coach" Games Have Shipped To Store Shelves

My Word Coach, My Spanish Coach and My French Coach Teach Players Vocabulary and New Language Skills

SAN FRANCISCO — November 6, 2007 — Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced... Read more...

Creature-raising mode to use Weather Channel for real-time weather, and allow two-player online racing and battling.

SEGA REVEALS NEXT-GEN FEATURES FOR NiGHTS: JOURNEY OF DREAMS

SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced that NiGHTS™: Journey of Dreams

for the Wii™ video game console will come complete with a variety of

next-gen features that tap into the system’s hardware including “Weather

Channel" support, a Wii-first! This feature enables the game’s “My

Music, Ontamaestro.

ONTAMARAMA™ NOW SHIPPING TO STORES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA!

Tap into the fun!

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 6th, 2007 - Atlus U.S.A., Inc., a leading publisher of interactive entertainment, today announced that the Nintendo DS™ music rhythm game Ontamarama™ is now shipping to retailers!... Read more...

This week: We try and stop shovelware. Have a chance at winning a prize, just for participating!

When asked if competition from Nintendo's first party efforts scared off major third party titles Shigeru Miyamoto replied, "I think that when it comes to the question of trying to compete with our software, I would really like to see the parties try to do that with their number one teams rather than with the third- or fourth-string teams."

Two weeks of announcements are in this edition of the Dojo Update.

A couple of big announcements came out over the last two weeks that we brought you on the day of. Besides those, several other interesting bits of information were revealed, including one of the most interesting stages yet shown. Check out our summaries below and hit up the Dojo to read the original posts.

This week Nintendo took the time to remind us of their philosophy, and introduce some new executives as well.

Nintendo made its partial move to the Bay Area official on Thursday, with NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime holding a kickoff reception at the firm's new office in Redwood Shores, California. CEOs from Sega, Hudson, Namco Bandai, and Natsume were in attendance, gathering to hear Fils-Aime expound on Nintendo's philosophy of delivering a gaming experience that appeals to people of all ages.

Nintendo's console lead in Japan isn't growing as fast as it used to. But it's still growing.

The Wii is still dominating the Japanese hardware sales charts, but not with the ferocity that it was at its launch a year ago.

Enterbrain, publisher of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu Weekly and independent tracker of game sales data, said that the Wii sold 110,415 units in the month of October.... Read more...

TV Program Schedule Channel unearthed, Wii capable of television and movie content delivery, the deal with unplayable Wii demo stations, and more is revealed in a Q&A with Iwata.

As a part of Nintendo's financial briefing in Japan last week, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and other key Nintendo figureheads sat down to participate in a Q&A session with investors. Below is a summary of the more interesting and informative points of the Q&A. If you'd like to view the whole shebang, you can do so here.

Zelda, Nintendogs bundles set to arrive after Thanksgiving.

Nintendo is preparing two new DS Lite bundles for the holiday shopping rush. According to a Sears "Black Friday" advertisement obtained by DSFanboy, Nintendo will roll out a metallic pink DS Lite with a copy of Nintendogs: Best Friends Edition for $149.99. Additionally, a Zelda-themed gold DS Lite... Read more...

Finally, an event Pokémon!

It has been revealed that for the first time in a very long time, Australians can now receive an event Pokémon, Manaphy, when they visit JB HiFi between the 7th and 13th of November using the Mystery Gift function.

The Aussie Manaphy has a Red Scarf, and Cherish Ball and its moves are Heart... Read more...

EA's CEO doesn't think the $60 game is going to fly with consumers much longer.

John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, thinks that the video game industry will be damaged if leading companies don't change with the times.

Talking with Fortune Magazine, Riccitiello believes that paying a premium price for games is a business model that won't be around next decade. Because of the advent of online game distribution, he said EA will be experimenting with new pricing models.

Want to do the foxtrot with Emmitt Smith? Neither do I, but here's the game to do it in anyway.

DON'T FAINT. "DANCING WITH THE STARS" SHIPS FOR WII AND PS2

Cha-Cha, Tango, Mambo and more with Emmitt Smith, Mario Lopez and Stacey Keibler and others to Claim the Title of America's Favorite Celebrity Dancer

Minneapolis, MN - October 31, 2007 - Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), in

conjunction with Disney-ABC Television Group's ABC Entertainment and BBC