Tag archive: Mario

Nintendo’s mea culpa to the people that bought the Nintendo 3DS at the original asking price continues. The maker of the Nintendo DS—the best-selling handheld video game system of all-time—were surprised when they discovered that its new system was doing poorly. Even though it had 3D! The lack of solid games was the most oft cited reason, and the dominant position of the DS made it tough to get people excited about the new 3DS. It also didn’t… Read More

After Nintendo dropped the price of the 3DS by over 30% earlier this week, the company announced a program to reward consumers that purchase the 3D device before the price drop on August 12. If a consumer connects to the Nintendo eShop before 11:59pm Eastern time on August 11, they will automatically be qualified for the Ambassador program. This initiative rewards Nintendo 3DS owners with ten free NES Virtual Console games as well as ten… Read More

Nintendo of America has announced that, effective June 5, the suggested retail price for the Nintendo DS List handheld gaming system will drop to $99. Although the DS Lite has been long-since been eclipsed on the tech front (frist by the Nintendo DSi and most recently by the Nintendo 3DS, the handheld remains the best-selling video game system ever, with about 49 million sold. “From the moment it launched, Nintendo DS Lite hit a sweet… Read More

The 1980s are fertile ground for cultural nostalgia: The Breakfast Club, boom boxes, and of course the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES.) It was on October 18, 1985 that the first NES console was sold in North America at the famed toy store, FAO Schwartz, in New York City. The initial sales were part of a concentrated test market campaign launched by Nintendo to measure the console’s  viability in the West. According to 1UP, the first NES sold… Read More

We just emerged from a colorful light storm at the cavernous Club Nokia, where Nintendo has lifted the veil on not just new games, but new hardware as well. Here’s a rundown of what the company revealed: While Microsoft hopes to eventually steamroll the Wii remote with Project Natal, Nintendo doesn’t plan to go quietly. The company revealed more details on its Wii MotionPlus controllers, which originally debuted at last… Read More

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is set to kick off at the beginning of June in Los Angeles, and this is supposed to be the year the show puts itself back on the map after a couple years of less-than-successful scaled-back efforts. Game publishers are already looking to jump on the E3 hype machine, and Sega is out the door early, announcing a slate of titles it plans to showcase at the show…and, of course, the company plans to… Read More

Feel like swinging your Wii remote madly around in the air while trying to defeat a yellow, spike-wearing snaggle-toothed monster? Then Nintendo really wants you to know that Mario Super Sluggers is now available for the Nintendo Wii. The game, rated E for “Everyone,” enables players to swing the Wii remote like a bat or use it to make pitches in a Mario baseball game that sees Mario, Luigi, Daisy, and other Mario characters take… Read More

Business consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is making some forecasts about the future of the video game industry—and the picture is a rosy one. According to the company's upcoming report “Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2008–2012,” video games are poised to jump from a $41.9 billion global industry to a $68.3 billion industry by the year 2012. And here's an interesting tidbit: neither PC-based… Read More

It seems as if everywhere you look on games shelves, there’s something to do with The Sims. It’s been incredibly successful – but just howsuccessful has been revealed by game maker EA, who revealed that the game has sold 100 million units.   That’s not as much as all the Mario games puttogether (that totals over 200 million), but still a very respectable figure. Then again, The Sims are available in 22 different… Read More

Greenpeace, as everyone knows, wants to preserve the planet – this planet. But that hasn’t stopped them going into cyberspace fortheir quest. They’ve created a new site, Clash of the Consoles, where gamers can compare the e-waste of different consoles in terms of toxic chemicals, energy efficiency and recycling, andpersuade the big three – Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft – do to more.  "Game console… Read More

The National Institute on Media and the Family has issued its 2007 report card on the video game industry, and has reached some rather unsurprising conclusions: despite a few retailers' steps to curtail childrens' access to violent video games and new software and parental controls, these efforts have not kept pace with game publishers, and violence in video games continues to increase. Furthermore, the group warns the video… Read More

Nintendo has let loose another sports-based title for its popular Wii gaming console, this time in the form of Mario Strikers Charged. This soccer-based title features Mario, Luigi, and other well-known Nintendo characters in a super-charged game which utilizes the unique capabilities of the Wii Remote and Nunchuck controllers—plus, Mario Strikers Charged offers online gaming which lets players take on opponents from around the… Read More

Have you ever wondered what’s the best video game ever made? Now you can find out, and the surprise it’s not one of the new generation of graphic-rich games. According to a poll ofexperts and readers in Edge magazine, it’s…The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The game appeared a decade ago specifically for the NintendoN64 (remember that?). Even then, it was a hit among experts, being one of one five games ever to… Read More

Nintendo has announced it will be adding Zelda III—The Adventure of Link to its Wii Shop Channel on June 4, marking the 100th “classic” game the company has made available to Wii owners since the console's launch in November, 2006. Owners of Nintendo's hot-selling Wii game console can access the Wii Shop channel and spend Wii Points to download video games originally developed for the NES, SuperNES, Nintendo 64,… Read More

Halo was the game that made the original Xbox; it was the one thing the PlayStation 3 still lacks – the game that defines the playing experience.  While there are a lot of good games out for the Xbox 360, including Halo 2, it will be Halo 3 that will possibly go the farthest to define the power of that platform. Halo 3 is one of two games enabling Microsoft to push the limits; the other is Shadowrun, which will directly connect PC… Read More