An interview with Opera's Scott Hedrick clears up some of the mystery behind the DS's web capabilities.

With recent news that Opera is developing a DS-based web browser, many have been wondering the specifics of the deal, specifically how advanced it was going to be. Luckily, Armchair Empire recently interviewed Scott Hedrick and found out a few new details.

When asked about the browser's safety,... Read more...

This Valentine's Day, feel the LOVE! At least, feel the Nintendo DS love.

One day after Valentine’s Day here in Japan, Nintendo held the Nintendo DS Conference 2006 in Tokyo. The conference started with Nintendo reiterating their focus, “Expand the game population", regardless of age, sex, or the type of game experience you would like to enjoy.

For the last 20... Read more...

Those kids just can't get enough handheld Yu-Gi-Oh action, so Konami continues to deliver new versions of the popular trading card game.

KONAMI ANNOUNCES YU-GI-OH! ULTIMATE MASTERS – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT 2006

Official Game of the 2006 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Tournament to Feature

New Modes And Enhanced Gameplay Mechanics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – February 14, 2006 – Konami Digital Entertainment,... Read more...

The unofficial PSP add-on comes to Nintendo DS, bringing 4GB of media playing capacity

Recently, Datel released a 4GB hard drive for the PlayStation Portable. Now, a version for Nintendo DS is in the pipeline. The MAX Media Player uses a DS card to load the player software and an oversized GBA cart, which wraps around the back of the DS and contains a microdrive, to store media. Like the PSP version, the microdrive is 4GB in size.

New snowboarding games due in 2007.

UBISOFT AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SHAUN WHITE TAKE SNOWBOARDING VIDEO GAMES INTO THE NEXT GENERATION

Top-Ranked Action Sports Phenomenon and Six-Time X Games Gold Medalist Inspires Ubisoft Game

SAN FRANCISCO FEBRUARY 13, 2006 Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers,... Read more...

Specific game details will be announced "soon".

First title signed for Nintendo's forthcoming innovative console

13th February 2006. Leamington Spa, Warks. Blitz Games, one of the UK's leading independent game development studios today announced the signing of its first title for Nintendo's next generation Revolution console. Details of the game itself will be announced shortly by a major publisher.

Of course, they'll still work with GameCube games and possibly other Virtual Console games.

Speaking to Game Informer at this week's D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, Nintendo exec Reggie Fils-Aime clarified a minor point about Revolution controller compatibility, which still the most significant new information about the system in months.

Reggie told Game Informer that the shell (which... Read more...

Read about all the new features that will make your browsing experience so much better…and the staff's lives so much easier!

Over the past few months, Michael "TYP" Cole has been slaving away at this fabulous new database for Planet GameCube, and now you are viewing the result. Looks much the same as before, doesn't it? But it's not. We'll be remaking the site's cosmetics later this year; this update is all about the... Read more...

Reggie divulges juicy new details about some upcoming DS features.

THE LEGEND BUILDS: NINTENDO DS OFFERS BOLD NEW FEATURES

DS Gets Free Retail Game Downloads, Voice Chat and a New Look

REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 9, 2006 – The video games industry's "story of the year" for 2005 is growing even more compelling early in 2006, as Nintendo today announced major new initiatives for its hot-selling Nintendo DS™ portable game system.

Documents and photos filed with the U.S. government answer many detailed questions about the Nintendo DS Lite.

Since the DS Lite was announced in January, Nintendo has been typically quiet about any details of the system, and no actual photos have been released (the announcement was accompanied only by rendered artwork). All that has changed in the past couple of days, since Nintendo's filing with the Federal... Read more...

You can still find it on PC, though.

Peter Molyneux's Hollywood simulator, The Movies, was originally announced as a multiplatform release even though it was clearly designed as a PC game. Since Activision was publishing it, "multiplatform" included GameCube, although it would be missing the extensive online features of other versions.

Supplies limited. Act now... or wait until April.

Production of Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix was temporarily discontinued ahead of last year's holiday season. Throughout the last few months, shoppers have found it nearly impossible to find this game in stores. Depending on whom you asked, length of the discontinuation ranged from "some time next year" to "indefinitely."

Thumper gets his mac on.

SEGA’S QUIRKY LOVE COMEDY 'THE RUB RABBITS!' SPRINGS INTO STORES

SAN FRANCISCO (February 7, 2006) – SEGA® of America, Inc. today

announced the release of The Rub Rabbits!™ exclusively for the

Nintendo DS™ system. The Rub Rabbits! delivers an all new “rub comedy”

adventure that leverages the unique touch-screen and voice recognition

Just one game, but it should be ready within the first months of the system's existence.

Activision released its quarterly fiscal results earlier today, announcing that they were the #2 independent publisher for the past three months, thanks to games like Gun and Call of Duty 2.

During the accompanying conference call, CEO Robert Kotick talked about the company's plans for the next-gen.... Read more...

Ubisoft will bring Taito's DS RTS/RPG game to western markets this Spring, complete with Nintendo Wi-Fi support.

UBISOFT TO BRING LOSTMAGIC™ TO THE NINTENDO DS™ SYSTEM THIS SPRING

Innovative RPG/ACTION Game Takes Advantage of the Stylus and Wi-Fi

Capabilities of the Nintendo DS System

SAN FRANCISCO – FEBRUARY 2, 2006 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading

video game publishers announced that it will publish and distribute

Nintendo's Takao Ohara and Katsuya Eguchi will discuss development decisions, challenges and lessons learned about their recent Nintendo DS projects in two newly-announced presentations.

Nintendo is waking up to Game Developers Conference. In 2004 Eiji Aonuma discussed some of the design philosophy behind The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Last year the company's president, Satoru Iwata, conducted a keynote presentation (and press conference) at the show. For the first time, the company also displayed its products on the showroom floor.

Laruent Fischer will be filling in the role formerly held by Jim Merrick.

When Jim Merrick announced that he'd be coming back to Nintendo of America from its European counterpart (before leaving the company altogether), Nintendo didn't say who'd be taking over for the marketing maestro. According to 1Up, Laurent Fischer is up for the job.

Formerly the marketing director for France, he had this to say:

The oddly titled Dreamworks CG film is, of course, being adapted into a video game.

DreamWorks Animation SKG & D3Publisher of America Sign Worldwide Publishing

Agreement for Flushed Away

First Games Based on the Animated Feature Film Scheduled for Q4 2006

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA), a

publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today

Cute little pets make their way to game stores.

TAMAGOTCHI(R) CONNECTION(TM): CORNER SHOP(TM) CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING IN RETAIL STORES

Popular Tamagotchi(R) Characters Now Available on Nintendo DS(TM

SANTA CLARA, Calif., (January 31, 2006) – Leading video games publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. announced today... Read more...

Hands-on with Naruto: Clash of Ninja and Naruto: Ninja Council!

Naruto: Clash of Ninja and Naruto: Ninja Council are being co-published by Tomy and D3Publisher, who were nice enough to invite us out to Naruto Community Day! This includes hands-on with the first English releases of Naruto games, interviews and Q&A, and delicious ramen.

Naruto: Clash of... Read more...