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... 

A gaming blog by the name of Coffee with Games recently noticed a disturbing trend on Amazon — Metroid Prime Trilogy was no longer being stocked first-hand by the online retailer. The blog contacted Nintendo to find out why the game … err, three games weren’t being sold on the site anymore, and reportedly received the following response: “Unfortunately, Metroid Prime Trilogy... 

Satoru Iwata has confirmed that the new Wii Zelda game will launch in 2010, various sources are reporting. VG247 picked up on a report run by Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun, in which Iwata talked about the release. The newspaper, however, didn’t make any mention on if this was a worldwide release or just in Japan. Back in November, NoA president Reggie Fils-Amie was non-committal on whether... 

  Last week we reported that the new Nintendo Wii firmware 4.2 was killing the ‘Homebrew Channel’ for users who were using modded systems. Today, Nintendo has told Eurogamer that they have been receiving reports in the EU and US that the firmware update has been causing crashes, sometimes even bricking the system. Anyone experiencing the problems will have their Wii repaired for free,... 

The sequel to LEGO Indiana Jones will be the first in the LEGO series to allow for level creation, and now a new report indicates that up to two players can craft block-based stages simultaneously. Level creation will be enabled on the Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and presumably the PC, though the levels will not be shareable on any platform, according to Joystiq. LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure... 

A new post over on the NeoGAF forums shows off an emulated version of Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy running at the high-definition resolution of 720p. The emulator program, which is a work-in-progress from a team called Dolphin-emu, basically gives us some idea of how a hi-def Wii might look. We think it looks pretty nice. While the area of videogame emulation remains gray, the Dolphin-emu crowd... 

Wedbush Morgan has released a new report which takes a broad look at the state of the videogame industry. VG247 has been picking apart the report and stumbled on some pretty interesting speculation. Essentially, the company reckons that if Nintendo decided to launch a new version of the Wii with HD support by the end of next year, it would seriously hamper Sony’s chances of a comeback with the... 

  Two days ago we ran a story based on an interview with “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” star Shia LaBeouf, who publicly stated that he’d “rather eat glass” than play LEGO Star Wars on the Wii. Today, his on-screen co-star Megan Fox talked with What They Play about her own gaming habits. Fox admits that she’s a big fan of the Nintendo Wii, and was first introduced...