Arc Rise Fantasia, Virtual Console, Super Mario Galaxy, and more.

Posted: March 30th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

Nintendo’s First Wii Game Powered By Google [Nintendo] on Kotaku
# nintendo The Wii is getting a new family-friendly party game—at least in Japan—dubbed And Kensaku that features an unusual partner: Google. Nintendo and developer Shift will be releasing…

The Last Story Has Ships That Travel By Water, Not By Air [Wii] on Kotaku
# wii Nintendo recently revealed The Last Story, the first Wii game from role-playing game specialists Mistwalker, but instead of showing actual screens, it’s focusing its energy on highlighting…

New Metroid: Other M Wii Trailer on Cubed3.com News
Nintendo has released a new trailer for Metroid: Other M.

The Grinder Wii Still a First Person Shooter on Cubed3.com News
High Voltage has confirmed that its horror shooter [i]The Grinder[/i] is still very much a shooter for Wii.

New Arc Rise Fantasia Information on Cubed3.com News
L’Arc Rise Fantasia is set to sail to Wii in an all new adventure.

220 million consoles & handhelds in US – GameStop on Gamespot Recent Updates [News]
Citing NPD figures, megaretailer gives estimate of domestic installed base; 112 million current-generation devices owned; DS & Wii top platforms.

IGN Updates on GoNintendo
Videos Monster Hunter Tri Volcano Zone Video Metroid Other M Trailer Infinite Space videos News Travel the Seas in The Last Story Grinder Stays FPS on Wii Trauma Team Price Goes Under the Knife …

GameTrailers updates on GoNintendo
Puzzle Quest 2 – PAX East 10: Verloren Walkthrough (Cam) Metal Gear 2 – Japanese Virtual Console Infiltration Gameplay Metal Gear 2 – Japanese Virtual Console Title Cinematic

Monster Hunter 3 – Volcano trailer on GoNintendo
Monster Hunter Tri Nintendo Wii Trailer – Volcano Video Direct link here

Miyamoto – this year is great for hardcore Nintendo fans, details some more hobbies! on GoNintendo
A portion of a CVG interview with Miyamoto… CVG : What message would you give to hardcore Nintendo fans who feel a bit let down by the last couple of years on Wii? SM : This year’s going to be really great for the hardcore Nintendo…

RUMOR – Twinkle Queen coming to Wii from Milestone on GoNintendo
A retailer listing in Japan has shown a game called Twinkle Queen coming to the Wii, developed by Milestone. The listing has since been pulled, but we still have the details for you. – fighting game – features bishojo characters from 4 PC game…


Wii Remote, WiiWare, Arc Rise Fantasia, and more.

Posted: March 29th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

Official PR – Hudson Spices Up WiiWare with Diner Dash on GoNintendo
San Mateo, Calif. – March 29, 2010 – The beloved Diner Dash is now available for the first time on WiiWare™ for 800 Wii Points™. Hudson Entertainment, the North and South American subsidiary of HUDSON SOFT, partners with PlayFirst, creators…

EA – it’s tough integrating motion controls into FIFA on GoNintendo
“As you can see from our Wii version, the game is a lot arcadeier, with the big gestures and actions. I think there is a different experience there waiting to be uncovered, perhaps, but personally I think it is hard to integrate that into our…

Walmart.com – Wiimote/Motion Plus savings, Wii bundles galore on GoNintendo
Check out all the deals Walmart.com is offering here (thanks NintendoWiiboy!)

Retro Affect hoping to bring Snapshot to at least one console on GoNintendo
Snapshot looks like one hell of an awesome game. Basically, you take pictures of things in-game, and then use them to solve puzzles or access new areas later on the game. For example, you can take a picture of a falling rock, and then use that rock…

Ignition Entertainment Reveals Story Details and All-New Screens for Arc Rise Fantasia on GoNintendo
Check out more in our Flickr set The days are getting longer. The cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom. With these first days of spring, Ignition Entertainment turns the attention of the Arc Rise Fantasia dojo to a specific facet of this…


Call of Duty: World at War, Pikmin, Arc Rise Fantasia, and more.

Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

The Ghostbusters Peripheral We Should Have Had [Wii]Kotaku on “cool” via Recommendations in Google Reader
When your officially licensed movie tie-in game is a bit of a disappointment, who ya gonna call? Nobody. It’s too late to fix that. But oh, how things could have been different if this Wii Proton Pack had been sold. It’s the work of modder Jack…

Rock Band Weekly Gets Disturbed, Adds Silversun Pickups & More [Rock Band] on Kotaku
Next week’s batch of Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and LEGO Rock Band downloadable tracks leads with mood rockers Disturbed, who bring more of The Sickness to Harmonix and MTV Games’ music game. A three pack of Disturbed tracks will come to various Rock…

Review Round Up: Micro Zombie Invasion [List] on Kotaku
It was a week infested with zombies, Nazi zombies and micro-reviews, the smaller format reserved for Kotaku reviews of downloadable video games and downloadable game add-ons. It was also the week that featured our first massive-review. That would…

PlayStation Wins, Places In Japan’s Weekly Hardware Race [Console Taisen] on Kotaku
The PlayStation family bookends this week’s Media Create hardware sales chart thanks to strong sales of Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition and God Eater , as well as dwindling sales of the PlayStation 2 and PSPgo. Sony’s PSP and PlayStation 3 secure…

Transformers: War For Cyberton Preview: A World Without Michael Bay’s Robots [Impressions] on Kotaku
No humans. No Michael Bay. Two campaigns. Three-player online (only) drop-in/drop-out co-op Transformers with a link to the past and a Gears of War amount of gunfire. Happier? Last week, the developers of Transformers: War For Cyberton began the…

Arc Rise Fantasia Is As Pretty As Eight New Pictures [Screens] on Kotaku
Ignition Entertainment is gearing up to release “the definitive JRPG for the Wii” this summer, and eight new screenshots show us how much that looks like a Namco Bandai Tales of Something title. That’s not a bad thing, of course. In truth, Luminous…

FlingSmash: It’s All In the Elbow [Impressions] on Kotaku
The Nintendo representative demoing upcoming Wii title FlingSmash, kept describing the game as an “active sidescroller.” While I wasn’t exactly sure what to make of that genre tag, I did find myself recalling Super Breakout and Boom Blox while…

Disney’s Guilty Party: Family-Friendly and Fun…Really. [Impressions] on Kotaku
Wii owners who have suffered through countless me-too mini-game collections and lame party games often consider the term “family-friendly” the kiss of death. But Wideload Games (Stubbs the Zombie), the studio recently acquired by Disney…


Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda, Wii Speak, and more.

Posted: February 17th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

IGN Updates – Wednesday – 2/17/10 on GoNintendo
New DS Hits the Rumor Mill Capcom-Unity Blog: Keep It Casual Big John Games Announces Mouse House for Nintendo WiiWare Special Sakura Wars Bonus Available Jimi Hendrix To Appear In ‘New Edition’ Of Rock Band Xenoblade Detailed 2K Sports…

Nintendo Wii Review: Cook Wars on GoNintendo
A portion of the Blog Critics’ Review: Cook Wars has decent value and high cooking task variety, but a low recipe cache and diminished realism for authentic minded gamers. Movement physics focus on mechanics and timing rather than more natural…

The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces Review on GoNintendo
A portion of the GDN Review: Ultimately, The Sky Crawlers is a competent mission-driven flight game and does the core of the experience well. It retails for around $30, significantly less than most Wii retail titles, but this is partially because The…

Minna no NC Updates – February 17 on GoNintendo
Murumasa: The Demon Blade – ERS Trailer Shiren 4 – Commercial, Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light – Multiplayer Trailer, One Piece Unlimited Cruise Episode 1 – ERS Trailer, Arc Rise Fantasia – ERS Trailer, Muramasa: The Demon Blade – ERS Trailer,…

Zangeki no Reginleiv (Wii) – More Gameplay Footage on GoNintendo
Direct Link Here

The Wiire: 160th Podcast on GoNintendo
Here’s a rundown of the topics hit in the Wiire’s latest podcast: * (0:01:42) Currently Playing * (0:10:05) Nintendo President On Wii HD: “It Needs Something New” * (0:12:11) Nintendo: Metroid Prime Trilogy Still…


Super Mario Galaxy, Red Steel, Red Steel 2, and more.

Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

Wii Games pre-order: Super Mario Galaxy 2 $43, Legend Of Zelda $42, Metroid: Other M $42, Arc Rise Fantasia $42, Red Steel 2 with Wii Motion Plus Bundle $51, Monster Hunter Tri Bundle $47 on SlickDeals.net


Arc Rise Fantasia, Red Steel, Red Steel 2, and more.

Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

Wii Games pre-order: Legend Of Zelda $42, Metroid: Other M $42, Arc Rise Fantasia $42, Red Steel 2 with Wii Motion Plus Bundle $51 on SlickDeals.net


Resident Evil, Samurai Warriors 3, WiiWare, and more.

Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

Japan – Wii games eligible for budget lineup on GoNintendo
Now remember, we don’t know if Nintendo is going to release another round of budget gmaes in Japan. If they do, these are the games that are eligible, according to the budget lineup guidelines. Gold Tales of Graces New Super Mario Bros Wii Wii…

Will more of history’s best-selling books be turned into games? on GoNintendo
Dante’s Inferno isn’t coming to the Wii, but it does happen to be in the top 100 best-selling books list. It makes you wonder if more people would enjoy seeing literary classics get shifted into the video game realm. There are plenty of…

Dev says download services are becoming too shuttered on GoNintendo
A portion of a Eurogamer interview with PomPom Games’ Michael Michael… Eurogamer: So in terms of all these different platforms – PC, the iPhone, the console downloadable services including things like WiiWare – which is the most promising…

Nintendo Channel – this week’s demos/videos on GoNintendo
DS Demos * Disney the Princess and the Frog (distribution ends 1/10/2010) * James Cameron’s AVATAR: The Game (distribution ends 1/10/2010) * Bakugan Battle Brawlers (distribution ends 1/10/2010) * Cooking Mama 3: Shop and Chop…

NEWS: Classic Controller Pro Announced for North America on Nintendo World Report Headlines
The modified controller will be bundled with Monster Hunter Tri.


Arc Rise Fantasia, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and more.

Posted: January 21st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

NEWS: Nintendo Starts Wii Greatest Hits Line in Japan on Nintendo World Report Headlines
Seven games, including Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia, will kick it off in late February.

NEWS: EA Sports Keeping the Tiger Woods License on Nintendo World Report Headlines
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 will hit stores this summer for Wii and other systems.

REVIEWS: Kamen Rider Dragon Knight on Nintendo World Report Headlines
Colorful super hero action lands on the Wii in a manner most pleasant.


WiiWare, Arc Rise Fantasia, and more.

Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

IGN Updates on GoNintendo
Videos Arc Rise Fantasia Trailer Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest Trailer Foto Showdown Trailer Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest Trailer News The Year in Violence 2009 Top Selling Games of 2009 Through November Revealed The…


Arc Rise Fantasia and more.

Posted: October 24th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: | No Comments »

Wii news from around the web:

Arc Rise Fantasia to support progressive scan, 16:9 on GoNintendo
Check out the latest list of details taken straight from GameStop’s website… * From the developers who created the highly lauded Luminous Arc, comes their next epic role-playing game exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. * Combines high…

DJ Hero – more Wii footage on GoNintendo
Direct link and more videos here (thanks disneyknight!)