Will Wright's Spore franchise debuts on Wii with the brand new adventure game Spore Hero. The DS will receive Spore Hero Arena, giving the custom 3D creatures a chance to duke it out.

Electronic Arts announced today that Spore Hero for Wii and Spore Hero Arena for DS will hit stores shelves this fall.

Will Wright, the creator of SimCity 2000, The Sims, and Spore, has long supported Nintendo with his games appearing on everything from the SNES to the 64DD. Since 2007, Wright... Read more...

The popular Newgrounds Flash game is coming to Nintendo's downloadable service as Super Meat Boy in 2009.

Earlier this week, Edmund McMillen, creator of the popular Newgrounds Flash game Meat Boy, opened a website announcing the enhanced remake of the game as Super Meat Boy for Nintendo's WiiWare service. The game is a platforming action game similar to the N series, which also started as a Flash game, and is now represented on the DS as N+.

After suffering a severe infection at a young age, Nicole Cahill was left with severe motor disabilities and a high probability that she might never walk again.

Implementing the use of Wii Fit has become an increasingly popular trend in the world of physical therapy. It has even been used to help people walk again, as is the case with ten-year-old Nicole Cahill from Marshaltown, Ireland.

In June 2008, Nicole Cahill traveled to Beth Israel medical center... Read more...

The Japanese developer that recently finished Blue Dragon Plus for DS would "like to try making games for the Wii" and would bring Mother 3 to DS if asked.

The President of developer Brownie Brown, Shinichi Kameoka, recently told Siliconera that, since the company is done with their latest DS game, Blue Dragon Plus, he would "like to try making games for the Wii." Brownie Brown, famous for portable games such as Sword of Mana, Magical Starsign, and Mother 3, has yet to tackle the console realm. However, Kameoka is "optimistic about [the Wii]."

Phantasy Star Universe producer's latest game will feature 8-bit platforming and a charming sense of humor.

Thanks to Famitsu, Sega's teased project has been revealed to be Pole's Big Adventure, an 8-bit platforming game for WiiWare. Produced by Phantasy Star Universe producer Takao Miyoshi, Pole's Big Adventure is a classic platformer as you travel from left to right avoiding or shooting enemies.

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The survival horror exclusive remained grounded because of publishers who "don't want to stick their necks out" and "[are] still trying to figure out the Wii" two years after the console's release.

For more than a year, IGN has been hinting at the existence of a "dark" and "mature" game for the Wii and its failure to procure a publisher to bring it to fruition. That game has finally been revealed as Winter, a survival horror project that developer n-Space has been shopping around since GDC 2007.

Nintendo World Report starts off 2009 with a change at its highest level.

The only constant in this world is change. There is no better example of this in action than the video game industry, and the fortunes of Nintendo in particular. During the GameCube years many were questioning Nintendo’s relevance in a market that was being increasingly dominated by Sony and upstart... Read more...

As expected, High Voltage's Hot Rod Show has arrived along with an air hockey simulator, and a 16-bit shooter.

This week's Virtual Console and WiiWare release brings us two new titles for WiiWare and one for the Virtual Console, each representing a different genre: shooting, racing, and table top sports.

The single Virtual Console release of the week comes to us from the 16-bit era, specifically the Sega... Read more...

New type of card could mean motion controlled DS games in the future.

Nintendo recently entered some new items into the Japanese trademark database: one of which we know about, the other a complete mystery.

The 'Wii Golden Handle' sounds peculiar at first, buts fans of Club Nintendo Japan will remember that as being the special edition of the Mario Kart Wii Wheel, available to platinum members of the online points-for-prizes service.

Rock Band 2 joins the DLC ranks while Personal Trainer: Math and Mastiff's Moon lead another quiet week of releases.

This week's releases contain one Wii game and three DS games amongst a lot of downloadable content for rhythm games. Wii's lone release this week is THQ's Neighborhood Games which features neighborhood games with Wii controls. The DS gains three games with the releases of Nintendo's non-game Personal Trainer: Math, EA's Lord of the Rings: Conquest, and Mastiff's sci-fi first-person shooter Moon.

The DS, not the Wii, breaks the PS2's hardware sales record and a game released in 2005 returns to the top ten.

Given the astonishing 2.04 million Wiis sold in November, many sales watchers were wondering if the Wii would break the PS2's record for units sold in the month of December: 2.7 million units sold in 2002. It didn't. However, the Nintendo DS did.

December 2008 U.S. Hardware Sales

DS – 3.04m

Consumers are at risk of becoming "pissed off," Carnival Games would have it "much tougher" today, claims Cristoph Hartmann.

2K Games President Cristoph Hartmann didn't mince words when describing the difficulties of the Wii marketplace. "There are too many crappy games on Wii," he complained to MCV.

Going into detail, Hartmann talked about how game makers were mucking things up. "They're treating the Wii like the... Read more...

Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto describes his quest to create the best graphics on the Wii, a better networking system, and the possibility of an overseas release.

Monster Hunter, first released in Japan on the Playstation 2, was a widely appreciated title throughout the country. While there is a single-player mode, much of the game's allure spawned from its extensive online multiplayer mode which contained rare monsters and items only attainable through online... Read more...

Nintendo is working with MENC: The National Association of Music Education to incorporate Wii Music into music curricula.

The goal of most videogames is abundantly clear: to be fun for those playing them. But Nintendo has lately been trying to redefine what videogames can achieve. In fact, the game maker is casting its recent Wii Music, which lets players virtually jam with over 60 instruments and a selection of musical based activities, as not just a fun gaming experience, but also a valuable tool for music education.

Capcom's Japanese fighting game Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes is powered by hardware that bears a striking resemblance to the innards of the Wii.

Photos taken by The Stinger Report reveal that the motherboard inside Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom is stamped with Nintendo's name. In addition, the hardware that runs Capcom's fighter lacks an Ethernet adapter and has a WiFi device just like the Wii. It is currently unknown if any other games will use the Wii based arcade system board.

Headstrong Games cites Resident Evil 4 as a reason to be optimistic for the upcoming "Grindhouse-esque" arcade-style shooter.

With House of the Dead: Overkill's February 10 release date fast approaching, Headstrong Games' lead designer, Alastair Halsby, has good news: "We're past gold master, and the game is being manufactured right now."

In an interview with CVG, Halsby had a lot more to say besides the confirmation... Read more...

Satoru Iwata talks about selling the DS and Wii in new markets, the economic recession, and his belief that the market for the DS is not saturated.

Since replacing Hiroshi Yamauchi as president of Nintendo in 2002, Satoru Iwata has led the company to great success. The popular Japanese newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, recently had the opportunity to speak with Satoru Iwata. In the interview, Iwata discussed the DSi, the recession, and Nintendo's future.

After more than a year since the last Castlevania Virtual Console release, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse comes to the service, alongside two new WiiWare titles focused on pachinko and cards.

This week's Virtual Console and WiiWare update brings a total of three games: two for WiiWare, and one for the Virtual Console.

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, the lone Virtual Console update of the week, is the sequel to the already released Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. Even though it is... Read more...

The first week of 2009 brought about few releases, including Konami's Elebits sequel on the DS and new downloadable content from Guitar Hero: World Tour and Samba de Amigo on Wii.

Wii Games

Fishing Master World Tour – Hudson

Hudson's Fishing Master World Tour, the sequel to the original Fishing Master, features the same motion-controlled fishing as in the original. Featuring various areas based on real geographic locations, Fishing Master World Tour brings new additions... Read more...

Already released in Japan, the latest in Sega's Phantasy Star series will grace DS systems worldwide later this year.

Sega announced today that the latest in their Phantasy Star series will see a worldwide release this fall. Released in Japan just three weeks ago, Phantasy Star Zero features action RPG gameplay along with in-depth online play featuring touch screen-based visual chat through the Nintendo WiFi Connection.