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I’m sure you all will be very happy to hear the news, and I’m certainly happy to be the one reporting it. Ubisoft’s Imagine series has passed 1 million in sales. The popular series of titles, targeted at young girls, is most well-known for its DS titles, but it also appears on the Wii and [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Nintendo to Build a New R&D Building
According to Japanese financial news service Nikkei Net, and translated by Gamespot, Nintendo has plans to build a ¥12.8 billion ($141.9 million) Research and Development facility on a 40,000 square meter location near its Kyoto, Japan headquarters. The facility will consolidate the current R&D departments, which have been operating in separate locations, to create better [...]
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky Release Date
Sorry for my lack of blogging, school is hard this year! Anyway, the newest CoroCoro scans have an interesting tidbit of news in them. The picture shows the boxart for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky, and it tells that the game releases in Japan on April 18th, 2009. There’s no info on the [...]
Lego Indiana Jones DS – Quick Review
Can you hear it? The sound of the whip…that famous music…and…Marion yelling “Indi!!” Oh, such great memories! I loved the movies, so I had high hopes for this game. I also had a great time playing through LEGO Star Wars on the PS2 and GameCube. Was I satisfied or did my dreams crash on the [...]
Giratina Origin Forme figure to those who pre-order Pokemon Platinum
We now have the official press release. Read all about it below. NINTENDO OFFERS PLATINUM TO CONSUMERS – RESERVE YOUR PRECIOUS COPY NOW Limited Giratina Origin Forme Figure Available to Fans who Pre-Order Pokémon Platinum Version REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 11, 2009 – Pokémon® games have always required players to have a sense of timing and [...]
Nintendo Mensa – February 11th, 2009
Mario and Luigi are coming up with ideas for their new restaurant. Rearrange the first word to discover the topic they are talking about, and then rearrange each of the six words below it to create an item related to that topic. Topic: LAITY EVINCE TRIBE PALS BARIUM RIVET SPEARMAN [spoiler name="View Answer Here"] Topic: [...]
Nintendo World In-Store Tournaments
Nintendo World, located at Rockefeller Center in New York City, is hosting a “Blast to the Past” tournament series featuring “different Virtual Console and WiiWare games each week,” according to an email newsletter the company recently emailed out. The tournaments are taking place every Saturday through the end of February from 1 p.m. to 4 [...]
Rant: Never listen to GameStop Employees
Okay, before anyone gets the wrong idea from the topic title, know this: I know not to trust GameStop employees. In fact, in the story I’m about to tell you, I did what I did on purpose just so I could see how unknowledgeable some of them are. I’m not talking about every single GameStop [...]
More Pokemon details from CoroCoro Magazine
Earlier, I posted a news story showing the leak from CoroCoro magazine in which Arceus was officially revealed. Now we have a few more bits of news from CoroCoro. As expected, the title of the 12th Pokemon movie has been updated with the reveal of Arceus and the new title is Arceus – Towards the [...]
Onyx DS Lite discontinued in preparation for DSi?
A memo was recently sent to Gamestop locations telling employees that the Onyx DS Lite has been discontinued. The memo says… “DS Lite Onyx hardware systems have been discontinued and stores will no longer be replenished on this product. Once your store sells through its current stock of this item, please remove any empty DS [...]
Nintendo officially reveals the Pokemon Arceus
Any Pokemon fan would have known of the existance of the Pokemon Arceus (#493) for a long time now, but Nintendo never officially announced it. Well, the latest CoroCoro magazine has begun to leak and it seems that Nintendo has now confirmed its existance (though nobody doubted it), as you can see above. Arceus is [...]
Mario & Sonic Winter Olympics confirmed
It looks like the rumors were true: Mario & Sonic will return this year to face off in skiing, ice hockey and lots more for a game based on the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Sega has yet to officially confirm the title exists but that hasn’t stopped 2010′s director of licensing, Dennis Kim. He said [...]
Kensax – Nintendo’s latest Wii experiment
Kensax is a mini-game collection with games that you play using the number of results that appear when you enter search terms into a search engine. This number is referred to as a “hit count.” A total of 11 mini-games are included, ranging from puzzle games to shooting games. Famitsu details three: Battle! Search Panel [...]
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