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Nintendo has this week announced that a limited edition bundle for Hironobu Sakaguchi’s The Last Story RPG will be available exclusively on Wii across Europe from February 24, for the princely sum of £86.93. The limited edition bundle is currently available to pre-order while stocks last, and...

Fantastic news, Mario fans, as Nintendo has today announced that Mario Party 9 will be launching in Europe for Wii on March 2 and in the US on March 11. This latest installment introduces all-new game modes, boss battles and playable characters from the Mushroom Kingdom. Of course Bowser and his...

According to a report on AOL today, over-50s who are thinking of joining a gym in order to get fit would actually do better by using a Wii Balance Board or similar exercise game in their own home. The new study, which was conducted by researchers at Union College in the US and published in The...

Finally, here it is! Proof positive from Nintendo that Xenoblade Chronicles will be coming to the Wii in the US. After it was released first in Japan and then in Europe, there were those who thought the critically acclaimed RPG would never make it to the US, but now Nintendo has released the...

Nintendo has been giving some lucky journalists attending CES in Las Vegas hands-on time with the Wii U, as well as answering some questions about the forthcoming console. According to The Associated Press, although the tablet controller is a big part of the Wii U experience, you will also be...

Nintendo has proudly announced today that the Wii Balance Board has just been awarded a new Guinness World Record for being “The best-selling personal weighing device.” In order to achieve this accolade, 32,114,428 Wii Balance Boards were sold worldwide between launch and November 2010. The...

Industry Gamers reports that Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has told them that Nintendo’s Wii U console will most likely have “limited” third-party support at launch. According to Pachter, Nintendo is “living in the past”, and because of their past successes with their own...

Eurogamer reports today on a new interview with Nintendo’s legendary Shigeru Miyamoto on website Zoom.in, during which he confirms that he is working on a new “original” game for Wii U, as well as other fan favourites such as Pikmin 3. During the interview, Miyamoto also denied recent a...

The Daily reports today that according to its sources who are familiar with the matter, Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii U console will have its very own Apple-style app store, with capabilities far beyond those of the current DSi and Wii Shops. According to The Daily, this new, and so far unnamed app...

Nintendo has spent this week announcing lots of new and exciting Wii bundles across a variety of territories, just in time for the holiday season, of course. First up we have, in the US, a new Mario Wii bundle, which will hit stores on October 23, and will include New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a...

Activision clearly realizes that it’s onto a great thing with its Cabela’s hunting-themed franchise, and judging by today’s announcement of a brand new game in the series – Cabela’s Adventure Camp – Activision fully intends to keep on expanding and growing the incredibly popular series...

Exciting times today for all Legend of Zelda fans eagerly awaiting the release of Skyward Sword on the Wii, as Nintendo has revealed brand new details about the introductory storyline and game play that fans can expect when the game is released exclusively for the Wii on November 20. For...

The 25-year-old Dragon Quest series is justifiably said by RPG fans to be one of the greatest RPG series ever made, so this week’s announcement from Square Enix that Dragon Quest X will be coming to both Wii and Wii U, in Japan at first, and then presumably throughout the rest of the world, will...

Industry Gamers is reporting that Nintendo has come up against some problems with the manufacturing of the forthcoming Wii U, which may even mean that the projected release period of June 2012 has now slipped back to possibly September or even December 2012. According to a story on French...

I've been thinking for quite some time and maybe Nintendo won't succeed with selling their new platform, or the Golden week. Hopefully, they'll recover from their stock market drop. As for now, they're not, and the haters are enjoying it. They only have one year to improve themselves and by god...

Destructoid reports that Xenoblade Chronicles is apparently selling well in Europe, entering the British Wii Charts at Number 2, and entering the Multiplatform charts at a very respectable Number 7. And Destructoid says that this success is particularly significant following on from recent...

Telltale Games has announced that it has signed a deal with Nintendo to bring its extremely successful adventure games to the Wii. The first game to be released for Wii as part of this new deal will be the best-selling Back to the Future: The Game, which has had more than one million downloaded...

Following on from the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles in Europe (unfortunately still not in the US) for the Wii, Nintendo is releasing two more YouTube videos in its Xenoblade Chronicles “Let’s Play” series, the first of which, Episode 5, launches today (see below), and the second of which...

Nintendo announced today that Kirby’s Adventure will be coming to the Wii this December. In the side-scrolling adventure, Kirby and his pals Meta Knight, King Dedede and Waddle Dee set out to help an alien who’s spaceship crash-landed on Popstar Land, by finding the missing parts of his ship so...

Nintendo announced today that its going to be offering a new value Wii bundle in October, which will include a re-modelled, more streamlined Wii console, as well as Wii Sports and Wii Party. The new streamlined console is designed to sit horizontally, as opposed to vertically. That’s pretty much...