The fifth generation of Pokemon is a big success in Japan, and it hasn't even been released yet.

According to Japanese gaming site Online Player EX, Pokemon Black and White has broken records for the fastest selling Pokemon title in Japan. While the games are yet to be released, pre-orders have already surpassed the 1,000,000 mark.Pokemon Black and White will be released in Japan on September 19.

In addition, Team Ninja confirms that the game lacks Samus's Gravity Suit.

In a segment of Iwata Asks, members of Team Ninja stated that Metroid: Other M will come on a dual-layer DVD disc in order to hold the game's cutscenes and additional content. At times the cutscenes were shaved off in length by seconds to fit them all on the disc.

The development team also confirmed... Read more...

DSiWare dominates this week's update, which also features a Virtual Console game.

This week sees six new titles added to Nintendo's downloadable game services. WiiWare's lone title is Broken Rules' And Yet it Moves, which is also available on PC. The title is a physics-based platformer in which players must rotate the game's world in order to access new levels and entrances previously... Read more...

The popular tower defense title will get a DS port in 2011.

According to a Twitter post by PopCap's PR representative, Laurie Thorton, the company is working on a DS port of Plants vs. Zombies, a critically-acclaimed tower defense game in which players must strategically place several plants in order to fight off an army of zombies. The original title was released on the PC on May 5, 2009 via Steam and has since been brought to other platforms.

The Nintendo president discusses the challenges developing the latest game in the Wii series.

In the latest edition of "Iwata Asks", Nintendo President Satoru Iwata talked to the development team of Wii Party, the latest game in Nintendo's Wii series. The team is composed of Hiroshi Satou and Miyuki Hirose, both part of the Development Planning Division, Shuuichirou Nishitani, Nd Cube Engineering Development Division Manager, and Jun Ikeda, CEO of Nd Cube.

Make some popcorn; we've got a flood of Other M in-game footage for you.

On second thought, nix the popcorn and start watching these gameplay clips. While they reveal what are mostly familiar environments for the Metroid franchise, it is exciting to see them played out with Other M's flair.

Look forward to more videos and coverage as we approach the game's August 31 release date, and be sure to check out the newly-redesigned official website!

GameStop customers will enjoy a nice extra with their Other M.

Those who pre-order Metroid: Other M from GameStop will receive an exclusive 16 card art folio. This bonus will be available to both online and in-store purchasers.

As is to be expected, we have only a partial view of what one of these cards will look like. The image provided does not include a reference for how large the cards will be either, so whether these are the size of a postcard or a postage stamp is unknown.

Commercials show off both action and drama sides of Samus' latest adventure. UPDATED.

Two commercials for Metroid: Other M have been posted to the official Japanese Metroid website.  The first features several cutscenes relating to Samus' past, including scenes not shown until now.  Our Japan Correspondent, Matt Walker, has translated the first trailer, which you can watch below.

It was a holiday week in Japan, and that lifts Wii Party back to the top.

The Japanese holiday known as Obon has helped lift the country from its rather dry spell of software releases. In fact, quite a few titles for Nintendo’s systems saw noticeable increases last week.

Recapturing the top spot after a short hiatus is Nintendo’s Wii Party, seeing a massive 51% increase... Read more...

Swing with the Scarlet Spider in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Activision released a new trailer for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions that shows off the Scarlet Spider alternate costume, which appears to be usable in the Amazing Spider-Man segment of the game.

In the comics, Scarlet Spider was a clone of Peter Parker named Ben Reilly, a by-product of the infamous Clone Saga.

Nintendo doesn't know when the new Golden Sun game is coming out on "the Nintendo DS family of systems."

Nintendo's release date-filled press release yesterday was missing a rather important DS title: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. According to a Nintendo representative, The company has "not yet determined a specific launch date for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the Nintendo DS family of systems."

It is very likely... Read more...

The next Bit.Trip game has a name and we know a few other bits of info.

Tucked away in Nintendo's recent release date press release was the official name for Gaijin Games' next Bit.Trip game, which is Bit.Trip Fate.

The development team recently teased the name of the title on their Facebook page, revealing that it was Bit.Trip F_ _ _.

Gaijin's Alex Neuse also gave... Read more...

Your favorite games from E3 just got dated for this fall.

Nintendo revealed the release dates for many of their most anticipated 2010 releases, including Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn. Donkey Kong Country Returns, from Retro Studios, will be released just in time for the holiday shopping season on November 21, 2010. Kirby's Epic Yarn will see store shelves the previous month on October 17, 2010.   Other revealed Wii and Nintendo DS release dates are as follows:

THQ's uDraw GameTablet announced for Wii.

THQ are releasing the uDraw GameTablet this holiday season, bundled with uDraw Studio for a suggested retail price of $69.99. Europe and other territories will see a release in early 2011.

The drawing tablet is powered by the Wii Remote, and has a 4" x 6" drawing space and an included pressure sensitive... Read more...

The director of Ghost Trick explains some of the fundamental concepts.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Director, Shu Takumi, recently answered a few questions from Siliconera, making comparisons to the Ace Attorney series and explaining some of the decisions behind the story of Ghost Trick.

The lead character Sissel is a ghost who has lost his memory and through the... Read more...

Beams and boss battles in this brief gameplay trailer. UPDATED with two more trailers.

The latest Metroid: Other M trailer shows more gameplay elements, with action from corridors and boss areas. Samus is shown using the wave beam to shoot enemies in all directions as well as bosses at close range. The grapple beam is demonstrated in first and third person modes as Samus navigates a boss area. The morph bomb is shown for opening new areas, and finally the speed boost function shows her dashing down a corridor through ice sheets.

The title will be a "turn-based tactical RPG" that might be the 3DS version of Ghost Recon.

Julian Gollop, the co-creator of the original X-Com, is working on a "turn-based tactical RPG" for the Nintendo 3DS launch, according to a comment made on a recent Gamasutra article.

Tiny Cartridge uncovered the story, and also discovered that Gollop has been working with Ubisoft Bulgaria/Sofia... Read more...

A dual-screen platformers, a strategy game, and a DS karaoke title lead the way in this light week.

The first title on WiiWare is Space Trek from CALARIS. It features six big levels of ship-base combat as you control the witty Captain Jay in his fight against the villainous Knagar. Your ship can use one of six weapons that wield such names as the Quark Dispeller or the Anti-Matter Thrower. It is a single-player affair that is available for 700 Wii Points ($7).

The Konami-published game formerly known as Reflection is coming to DSiWare on Monday.

Intrinsic Games' Twitter and later their official site revealed that their DSiWare debut, Divergent Shift, is coming to the downloadable service on August 16.

The game, which started as a student project at USC until it was picked up by Konami, was originally slated for a Q4 2009 release under the... Read more...

The two developers will now use the name of their parent company.

The names Artoon and Feel Plus will no longer be used for the two development companies as they will now be known by the name of AQ Interactive, their parent company.Artoon most recently worked on FlingSmash, which is due out for release this holiday season. They also developed Yoshi's Island DS,... Read more...