Monolith Software = Nintendo Joint

Nintendo is now 80% share owners of Monolith Software. Monolith is the Japanese game developer behind the Xenosaga series on PS2. The studio is currently in development of a Wii game titled - Disaster: Day of Crisis.
D:DoC is essentially a survival game wherein the main character is put in all sorts of apocalyptic […]

New VC Titles for 4/30/2007

It looks like another good day for VC releases. These guys have been on a serious roll lately as far as I’m concerned and today looks like no exception.
First on the list is the classic NES incarnation of Castlevania. For those of you who, like me, spent many many hours in vampire […]

Win a Wii

If you are still languishing in wretched Wii-lessness - I bring you hope. The folks at Teen.AOL are giving away a Wii - and provided you meet their conditions (listed below). You could be a winner (-of a Wii… ). Here’s what you gotta be to get in:
(a) legal residents of the […]

Cool Mii Editor

Since uploading images of your Mii directly from your Wii isn’t an option yet (that I know of), we’ve been pretty much limited to using photos of our TV screens if we wanted to show off our Mii creations online. Now there is a better way. There is now a free Mii Editor […]

Wii production to Increase

Good news for everyone who still hasn’t managed to get their hands on the still-elusive Wii console:
“Nintendo’s president acknowledged Friday that the shortage of the hit Wii game machine was “abnormal,” and promised production was being boosted to increase deliveries by next month.” - YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer

According to the article, Nintendo is projecting […]

Shigeru Miyamoto Makes Time’s List

Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s legendary game designer is currently ranked number 2 in Time’s list of the 100 most influential people of the year. At the time of this post, Miaymoto is currently running in second place behind Stephen Colbert, which might strike some people as odd… but then you have to keep in […]

Nintendo Playhouse

Engadget has a cool picture of a Nintendo themed playhouse posted. (There is a whole series of Photos of the thing here on Flickr.)
According to a note on the Engadget page this was a part of the spring carnival at Carnegie Mellon constructed by Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Nintendo Earnings up 77%

I read another financial report from Nintendo this morning. Nintendo is not only getting by or keeping up with their larger rivals… they are posting some extremely impressive numbers. Nintendo earnings thru March are actually up 77% over last year. Just as a basis for comparison, Google recently announced their profits […]

Wii Winning the Title Race Also

It’s no secret that the real money in the console game business is not in the consoles - it’s in the games. It’s an established fact that Microsoft and Sony both sell their consoles at a loss in hopes of just getting them into people’s living rooms so they can start making money on […]

Business 2.0’s Wii-Love

Business 2.0 published a pretty resounding applause for Nintendo and the Wil yesterday.
“Today, as anybody within shouting distance of a teenager knows, Nintendo is the comeback kid of
the gaming world. Instead of joining Sony and Microsoft in the arms race to pack their consoles with ever-higher-performance graphics chips (to better attract sophisticated gamers), Nintendo […]