Nintendo is allowing users to choose the next DLC pack contents for the Japan-only title.

Nintendo opened a new page via the Band Brothers DX official website today, allowing Club Nintendo members to request songs to be included in the next downloadable content selection. Users can request up to three songs and although there are no limitations on the type of musical requests, Nintendo cannot promise they will be able to acquire the rights to every song.

The legendary time-travelling Square Enix RPG is finally on course for its first PAL release.

Square Enix has announced the date when Chrono Trigger will make its way to Europe for the first time ever, as the much-lauded Nintendo DS version of the time-travelling RPG opus is set to launch across PAL territories on February 6 of next year.

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Nintendo hardware sales are almost obscene, five Wii titles make the top ten, and Guitar Hero: World Tour manages to chart the month after it launched.

Are you holding your breath to find out how the game industry did in the all-important November sales month leading up to Christmas? Exhale. The latest numbers suggest that games are doing just fine. And so far, Nintendo's optimism in the face of an economic recession seems more than justified.

Nintendo is shipping Wii systems in Australia with a revised DVD drive that makes them incompatible with all modchips.

Nintendo has thrown a wrench into the modchip industry's plans by releasing an updated revision of their Wii console. Discovered in Australia, the new Wii systems do not support modchips due to changes made to the DVD drive. Specifically, Nintendo has made soldering a modchip into the Wii pointless by altering the controller chip on the optical drive.

The heroes in a half shell return in a fighting game designed by former members of Team Ninja and Sakurai's Super Smash Bros. Brawl team.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power has revealed that Ubisoft is publishing a brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting game for the Wii. According to the magazine, the fighter is being developed by ex-Team Ninja employees and former staff members of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl development team.

The quintessential RPG for the Japanese market is coming to the Wii.

If there was any lingering doubt that the Wii would be the home console of choice in Japan, this pretty much ends it. It's just been broken through Famitsu and other Japanese language outlets covering Square Enix's Dragon Quest press event that Dragon Quest X is in development and will land on the Nintendo Wii (Reuters confirms the news in English).

Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS will utilize Nintendo Wi-Fi and include authors like Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and The Bard himself, Shakespeare.

Still without an official announcement, the lineup of titles included in Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection was recently revealed not through Nintendo or partner Harper Collins, but an entry on Amazon UK.

In addition to the list of 100 classic works of Western literature, the Amazon site... Read more...

The Wii remake was scheduled for release this week, but was delayed until February despite the fact that review copies had already been sent out.

In the past it has been difficult to pin down Rygar: The Battle of Argus to a specific release date. The Tecmo Wii remake of the 2002 PlayStation 2 game was originally slated for a December 2007 release, but it's been slowly delayed over the past year. Tecmo has just announced that the game will now release on February 3, 2009, which will hopefully be the last delay for the title.

Nintendo hounded the Mario clone off store shelves in the '80s, making the platformer's June 2009 resurrection even more surprising.

The Great Giana Sisters, meant for home computers where Mario didn't tread, brought down the wrath of Nintendo's legal arm in the late 1980s due to copycat game mechanics, sprite resemblances, and similar level design. Though the game has been ported to several consoles as homebrew over the years, it's the Nintendo DS that is allowing the game to make an official return.

According to Satoru Iwata, Nintendo sold around 800,000 Wii systems in the United States during the week of Thanksgiving.

In a recent interview with Reuters, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed that Americans had purchased about 800,000 Wii systems in just the last week of November. During that same time frame in 2007, Nintendo sold 350,000 Wii systems. Furthermore, Iwata stated that sales of the Nintendo DS had increased by close to 20 percent over the sales made during the previous Thanksgiving holiday.

Unique cross-platform online multiplayer will allow play between "almost any combination of the DS and Wii versions" of the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles title.

In an email newsletter to its European fans, Square-Enix has stated that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is set to launch across the region for both Wii and Nintendo DS in the Spring of 2009.

Echoes of Time will reprise both the local co-operative multiplayer modes and handheld-to-console... Read more...

The National Resource Defense Council has found that the Wii actually consumes "one-fifth to one-ninth" the energy of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but lacks an auto power-down feature.

Games are big, no doubt about it. But with game consoles nationwide consuming an estimated 16 billion kilowatt hours per year the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is hoping for some management of their burgeoning electrical appetites. The environmental organization recently published a report on home console energy consumption and outlined trends in power usage and possible avenues to reduce waste.

A deal with HarperCollins will bring scores of classic works of literature to the dual screens of Nintendo's boundary-breaking portable platform.

According to The Times newspaper, Nintendo UK is set to announce a partnership with publishing giant HarperCollins that will allow a wide range of literary classics to be read using a Nintendo DS. The 100 Classic Book Collection will launch for the hugely popular portable platform on December 26 at... Read more...

This week features a puzzle title from a group of ex-Naughty Dog employees, as well as a Hockey title for WiiWare, and the second Master System Sonic.

This week's Virtual Console and WiiWare update brings us three new entries, with two for WiiWare and one for the Virtual Console.

The lone Virtual Console title is a sequel to the original Master System Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The title is entirely original, not being based on the Genesis... Read more...

Games will be developed specifically with the Western gamer in mind.

Namco Bandai announced recently the creation of their newest publishing label, Surge. This new label was developed specifically for targeting the tastes of western gamers and will provide games from a wide variety of genres across multiple platforms.

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US region coding of Wild World is to blame.

Recently many Australian Wii owners have complained over an apparent glitch that prevents them from importing their Animal Crossing: Wild World character into the newly released, Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City.

The cause of the issue was discovered to be a region mismatch. Australian copies... Read more...

Creators of Drawn to Life and Lock's Quest have revealed their latest effort on the DS.

In an exclusive interview with IGN, 5th Cell has unveiled its newest DS title, Scribblenauts. The game's tagline, "anything you write, you can use," effectively sums up Scribblenauts' gameplay. The puzzle title will have players spell out the name of an object, which will in turn spawn that item within... Read more...

This fortnightly update brings another quartet of original games to download from the PAL Wii Shop Channel, including the return of Strong Bad and Art Style.

This week's update to the PAL Wii Shop Channel keeps up the pace set by the quartet of WiiWare titles that launched two weeks ago, providing another four new games to download:

ROTOHEX (600 Wii Points) is the next in the series of Nintendo's Art Style games to launch in PAL territories. Based... Read more...

Shortly after Eidos Interactive opened up for shareholder Warner Bros to buy it up, Square Enix looks to snatch up the British publisher.

After a rough year, British publisher/developer Eidos Interactive is now seeking to be bought out. While most pundits figured EA or Ubisoft would pick up the struggling company, it appears that Western publisher Warner Bros and legendary Japanese company Square Enix will engage in a bidding war for Eidos.

Professor Layton's sequel beats Animal Crossing's same-quel.

The third game in the popular Professor Layton series has yet to be released outside of Japan, but if sales here are anything to go by it should prove popular when it finally does. Selling almost 350,000 copies in one week, it beat out the annualised soccer game Wining Eleven to the top spot.

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