Mario Sports Mix, an arcade-style medley of sports games starring Mario and his friends, will be coming to the Wii in 2011. A trailer shown at Nintendo’s E3 press conference showed Mario, Donkey Kong and others playing hockey, volleyball, dodgeball and basketball in a lively, cartoonish style.  Read More →

Already pencilled in for Japan, Wii Party is coming to North America. The game features a slew of social, party-type games — 13 different party modes in all. There is a game board island and a balance boat game, among many others. It will be out this holiday season in North America.  Read More →

At E3, Nintendo announced the return of The Legend of Zelda for the Wii with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto demonstrated the game, showing a control scheme using the Wiimote and Nunchuk as Link’s sword and shield. The game takes advantage of Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus Wii Remote add-on. Players use the A and B buttons on the Wii Remote, and the C and... 

The news today that a new version of Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007 was met with cheers at today’s Nintendo E3 press conference. I played the game. It’s good but it’s not the remake you may have thought it was. The James Bond game is being developed by Eurocom and Activision, not Rare and Nintendo, the companies that made the original Nintendo 64 GoldenEye. That’s not a... 

Earlier today, IGN posted a trailer for the oft-rumored remake of the classic Nintendo 64 shooter, GoldenEye. (You’ve probably heard of it. You very probably spent many of your youthful nights playing it until you fell asleep.) The game is being ported exclusively to the Wii, and has received a fairly noticeable facelift during its transformation. That is to say, a figurative facelift (it’s... 

The black Wii console, which we already knew was coming, has today been officially revealed by Nintendo of America. It’ll still be $200, and include not one game, but two. Along with the Wii console, controller and nunchuk, the new Wii pack will include a Wii MotionPlus accessory and a copy both of Wii Sports and its sequel, Wii Sports Resort. We knew this too, but still, official details are... 

Been lusting after all of the content on offer from Netflix, but only have a Wii to grab those digital delectations off the superhighway of information? Well, those magical little discs are now shipping to everyone, allowing the millions of Wii users in the U.S. who have the appropriate Netflix subscription and broadband internet to enjoy full instant-streaming functionality on their little white... 

Speaking with a handful of indie WiiWare game devs, GamesIndustry.biz (warning: login required) uncovered the not-so-startling truth behind Nintendo’s support for third party devs on its digital distribution platform: there is none. “We feel that Nintendo is not doing enough to promote the service at all,” said JV Games VP Jag Jaeger of the publisher’s support. Jaeger added... 

Let’s get this straight: There are rumors about video games, and then there are crazy internet rumors about video games that are so intriguing you can’t help but get excited about them, even though you don’t believe they’re anything more than products of an overactive fan imagination. This post is about the second kind. Information has bubbled up from the Japanese 2chan message... 

New Super Mario Bros. Wii maintained its launch momentum in Japan, going on to become a phenomenal hit and selling over 3 million copies in seven weeks. Famitsu reports that Mario’s latest adventure is the third Wii title to sell over three million units. Ironically, the club of top-selling Wii games has Mario’s tubby physique in the company of Wii Sports and Wii Fit. Mario isn’t...