SEGA revealed today that its Wii maraca-shaking music game Samba De Amigo will hit North American retailers on September 23 as the first retail-based Wii title to offer downloadable content. Scheduled for a release on the same day, the initial content pack will offer three songs by artists Lou Bega, Bow Wow Wow, and Jet. Deets regarding pricing have yet […]

The NPD Group today announced that it has formed an alliance with sales-tracking services around the world, including Gfk Chart-Track of Europe and Japan-based Enterbrain. The partnership allows NPD to release a global sales chart each month, providing the industry with a comparative view of the top five video game software titles by the top three markets – North America, […]

Is this the “world premier” reveal SEGA was prepping for Leipzig? Yup, looks like it. The company announced today that The House of the Dead: Overkill is heading exclusively to Wii next year. An all-new entry in SEGA’s gore-filled pulp horror series, Overkill is staying true to the over-the-top gameplay found in previous entries. Players can use the Wii Remote […]

The NPD Group has released its hardware and software sales figures for the month of July. In the hardware sector, overall sales were down compared to June, but up from the previous year. Nintendo emerged as the clear victor, pushing 555,000 Wii and 608,400 DS units. Sony’s PS3 shifted 224,900 units, a sharp decline from the previous month’s figure of […]

SEGA today announced its lineup for Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig. Making their first playable and public debut during the event will be Samba De Amigo for Wii and BioWare’s dual-screen RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Potentially even more alluring, though, is a “world premier” from Headstrong Games that will be announced at the start of SEGA’s showing. In […]

Are you a Wii owner not feeling the love from Capcom? Responding to a user post on the company’s official forums, corporate officer Christian Svensson revealed that Capcom is considering to bring “one or two” of its Western IPs to the Wii, namely Age of Booty, Dark Void, Flock and Street Fighter IV. We are contemplating versions of one or […]

SEGA’s bloody monochromatic third-person action title MadWorld isn’t slated to hit store shelves until 2009, but UK media types are already criticizing it for excessive violence. According to Mediawatch-UK, home of Britain’s longest-running and most influential anti-violence group, the game will “spoil” the Wii, tarnishing its image as a family friendly console: This game sounds very unsavoury. I hope the […]

After the disappointing Mega Man-less Wii Shop Channel update last Monday, this week fares better, delivering the promised first episode in Telltale Games’ point-and-click adventure title Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People on WiiWare. Stuck with an unwanted houseguest, players take control of the humorous Strong Bad who is on a mission to get his life back to normal […]

InvenSense’s MotionPlus technology is not exclusive to Nintendo, company exec Joe Virginia revealed in a recent interview with Eurogamer. As you’d expect, other parties are taking interest in licensing the tech, but Joe of course isn’t saying who: I can’t get into details about other folks that are interested in this technology, but as you might imagine of course there […]

Capcom is determined to deliver an authentic retro experience with Mega Man 9. Maybe even overly so. Speaking in a recent interview, series producer Hironobu Takeshita shed light on the challenges of creating an 8-bit title in a world where full HD visuals are all the rage, revealing that MM9 will in fact include many of the same “bugs” all […]

Following yesterday’s revelation that Xbox 360 title Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad was slated for a stateside release, publisher D3 of America has sent over a selection of new screenshots from the game, along with images from the Wii sequel, Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers. Although an exact release date went unspecified, D3 confirmed that both titles will hit in early 2009. […]

Bwah? Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed was in development for PSP? Never received the memo. At any rate, it’s been officially canned. Publisher THQ revealed today that it decided to pull the plug on the PSP version specifically due to “control issues,” according to a company rep. Big Willy Unleashed was designed by [a] Wii developer specifically for the […]

Insert unhappy emoticon here. This week’s Wii Shop Channel update kicks off with the release of Genesis oldie Splatterhouse 2 (800 Wii Points) and the Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog (500 Wii Points), which features new stages, bosses, and zones not found in the original Genesis release. Sadly, the original Mega Man is nowhere to be seen, despite […]

Pew! Pew! Old-school fans of the Blue Bomber are in for a special treat come next week, as Capcom associate producer David Crislip today announced that Mega Man will hit the Wii Virtual Console on August 4. Yes, the 1987 original that started it all. Additionally, Crislip confirmed that the retro-styled Mega Man 9 will debut in September, along with […]

Nintendo today released its financial data and sales figures for the first quarter of fiscal 2009. In short, the company sold a record-shattering number of Wii and DS hardware units, while pushing software like no tomorrow. Overall, though, sales in Japan took a considerable dive compared to other developed countries. One has to wonder: has Nintendo reached a saturation point? […]

The follow-up to Ubisoft’s sword-slashing shooter hybrid Red Steel will utilize Nintendo’s recently announced Wii MotionPlus peripheral, according to Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre. Red Steel 2 has been in development for many months now, and this new device will help us be even more precise in what we do with the product.

Owners of a non-modified Wii will soon have the ability to read DVD-R content on their console, as Marcan of Team Twiizers has announced that a DVD access library is in development. Slated for a public release later this week, the library will not be delivered through a custom IOS file, allowing users to playback not only video DVDs using […]

Publisher Atlus has sent over a selection of all-new screenshots from upcoming Wii and PS2 title Dokapon Kingdom. A board-game RPG hybrid developed by Sting, the game is slated for a North American release on October 14. Dokapon Kingdom Screenshots

There isn’t a whole lot to say about Nintendo’s E3 conference this year. It mainly focused on the casual market and aside from a quick mention of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, nothing else with the “core” gamer in mind was announced (no, we’re not counting Animal Crossing, Reggie). Speaking to Forbes, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the company is […]

In case you had any inkling of doubt, SEGA’s upcoming Wii exclusive title Sonic and the Black Knight is indeed real. Yes, the title that features a sword wielding blue hedgehog. Initially revealed during the weekend on the front page of Nintendo Power, the game is the second entry into what SEGA calls the “Storybook Series,” which began with Sonic […]