Innocent and unassuming, it’s normal to believe Wario Land Shake It! is forgettable. Its 2-D style is taken from gaming’s past, and its head bouncing mechanics have been done by Nintendo countless time prior. What’s not acceptable is to take this at its base level and dismiss it purely on how it looks. This is [...]

If you can escape the fact that The Price is Right is purely shovelware, there’s enough here to keep the game interesting. After all, this is a show that’s been on the air since 1972, the pricing games are iconic, and everyone knows how to play them. In a sense, it’s a perfect fit for [...]

Approaching Rock Band 2 is an interesting proposition from a review standpoint. Do you do it as an individual game or as the music platform that Harmonix has touted it to be? Regarding the former, Rock Band 2 doesn’t really push anything forward as far as innovation goes, but as for the latter it does [...]

Nintendo’s mainstream popularity with the Wii got a little more attention last night, as it was featured during a segment of last night’s Primetime Emmy Awards. For the award for Outstanding Writing For a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program, the writers for Saturday Night Live took a unique approach for their appearance, using their Miis [...]

Nintendo announced this morning that their “surprise” title of E3 2008, Wii Music, will be arriving in stores next month on October 20.
The game will let players improvise on the fly with over 60 instruments, and will come with more than 50 songs from a number of diffrent musical genres. Nintendo has also confirmed that [...]

Fans looking forward to Capcom’s retro sequel of Mega Man 9 got some more good news today, as they’ve announced that the “retail” package that was recently sent out to the press will indeed be sold to the public at their online store.
Specific details on what the package will come with aren’t clear, but if [...]

Well, everything has to start somewhere and sometime right, right? That somewhere is Japan and that time is now. The 360 has finally managed to win something in Japan, even if it was only for a week. Thanks ti the introduction of a lower price point and Square Enix RPG Infinite Undiscovery. The 360 pushed [...]

Capcom’s latest VS. brawler, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes, will indeed be getting a home console release, according to the latest issue of Famitsu magazine. In what may be a surprise to some, that console will be the Nintendo Wii.
The game, which will arrive on December 11 in Japan, will have a few [...]

All gamers know Nintendo makes a crapload of money. Between the DS and Wii, the company hauls in way more money than most people reading this will ever see in their lifetime. Still, the fact that they’re estimated to make $1.6 billion in profits this year alone is flat out ridiculous. Plus, with only around [...]

In their annual report to investors, Capcom has warned that they expect a media backlash against their upcoming games, most assuredly meaning Resident Evil 5 and Dead Rising’s port to the Wii. They must have a PR plan of attack, as they state they’re worried about the media linking their games to violent acts by [...]