Yet another mini-game mish-mash for the Wii, Hudson’s Deca Sports fails where most of the other slapped together compilations do. It’s simply not fun, featureless, and few of the games actually work. The 10 sports included here don’t even make sense to be on the same disc as they’re all unrelated.
There’s little question Hudson is [...]

Thanks in part to the huge success of titles like Grand Theft Auto IV and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, GameStop reported a net earnings increase of 151% for the first quarter of 2008 according to sales figures released by the company.
Total sales increased to $1,813.6 million in the first quarter, up from $1,279 in the [...]

The game that’s got mainstream media everywhere talking is getting ready to make its North American debut, as Nintendo launches Wii Fit later this week. Picking up steam ever since it was initially announced at last year’s E3, Wii Fit has already sold out of pre-orders at a few key retailers with more expected to [...]

Tam Fry, representative from the National Obesity Forum, has slammed Nintendo for the BMI Index feature of Wii Fit. After a forum post was picked up by multiple sites when a little girl was told she was overweight, Fry issued this statement:
“I’m absolutely aghast that children are being told they are fat… I would [...]

Nintendo is continuing to sell its Wii console at a record pace, according to the latest sales numbers released tonight by the NPD Group.
Despite the very public launching of Grand Theft Auto IV on April 29, the house that Mario built had an extremely good month selling 714,000 Wiis in addition to 414,800 DSs. The [...]

After an ESRB listing drew curious eyes earlier in the year, Konami made the next Castlevania DS adventure official by announcing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia last night at the company’s Gamer Day event. The latest sequel in the extensive, and consistent portable series, will also feature a female protagonist for the first time since Castlevania [...]

East Texas based Anascape Ltd. is on the receiving end of a $21 million payday, as Nintendo of America was ordered to pay the company by a federal jury today on the grounds of patent infringement.
The original lawsuit, filed in 2006, stated that Nintendo infringed on the company’s patent during the designs of the Wii [...]

2007 was a great year for the video game industry, but according to a senior executive at Ubisoft, its peak might not be arriving until next year.
Speaking to Reuters, Ubisoft North American president Laurent Detoc thinks that all three console makers (Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony) are in a position to sell more hardware than ever this [...]

For the second year in a row, Nintendo will be the lead sponsor for London’s Handheld Learning Conference. Slated to take place on October 13-15, the conference (now in its fourth year) aims to demonstrate the capabilities of handheld devices and how they affect learning for people of all ages.
“We are proud to be supporting [...]

WiiWare, Nintendo’s new online service for downloadable games, is officially up and running as of this morning. Set up in a similar way to the PlayStation Store or the Xbox Live Marketplace, WiiWare will now allow users to download and play smaller titles from indie developers and large publishers alike.
“WiiWare is to the video [...]

One of last year’s breakout new sports titles, Skate, is now making its way to the Wii and DS in the form of Skate It. Announced by EA this morning, these new versions of the game are being developed from the ground up with the systems’ strengths in mind as well, with the Wii version [...]

Pandemic Studios announced today the development of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Nintendo DS. Teaming up with New Line Cinema, the action game will be set in the LotR universe, where they’ll be taking control of Sauron’s army for the first time in a game.
“Our Pandemic [...]

Former Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi is Japan’s richest man, according to a report in the the latest edition of Forbes Magazine.
Thanks in large part to the tremendous sales of the Wii and DS over the years, Yamauchi has a net worth of $7.8 billion, which increased by $3 million in the past year moving him [...]

Wii owners can expect to wake up to a small surprise this morning with the launch of the new Nintendo Channel. Available for download immediately from the WiiShop Channel, the service is aimed as an outlet for new information from the house that Mario built. Here’s more info from Nintendo:
Nintendo Channel is an interactive guide [...]

What started on the Super Nintendo in 1992 has blossomed into a mega franchise for Nintendo. With its then startling Mode-7 scaling, the innovative Mario Kart immediately grabbed an audience and has hooked them ever since. Now on its sixth iteration, this series may have finally run into a speed bump on the Wii.
It’s not [...]

You can call Stephen Colbert many things, but a sore loser isn’t one of them. Falling to third place in Time Magazine’s Most Influential People of 2008 behind Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Korean pop star Rain, the host of Comedy’s Central The Colbert Report promptly issued a dance off challenge to the singer following the [...]