PRESS RELEASE:  Nintendo to Showcase Anticipated Summer Games at Comic-Con

PRESS RELEASE: Nintendo to Showcase Anticipated Summer Games at Comic-Con

July 19, 2010 Attendees at the upcoming Comic-Con International 2010 will have an opportunity to experience two of the summer’s most anticipated video game releases. For the first time since 2006, Nintendo of America will be a featured exhibitor at the annual Comic-Con expo, scheduled to take place July 22-25 ...

Dive: The Medes Island Secret Release Date Teased

Dive: The Medes Island Secret Release Date Teased

An announcement confirming the game’s release date and pricing will happen tomorrow. Dive: The Medes Island Secret, from Cosmonaut Games, might be launching on WiiWare on July 26, according to Nintendo’s website. When contacted, the game’s representatives stated that there will be an official announcement about the game’s release date ...

Looking Back at Red Steel 2, MadWorld, and Punch-Out!!

Looking Back at Red Steel 2, MadWorld, and Punch-Out!!

I scored all three of these games highly. How do I feel about them now? A friend of mine reminded me of Red Steel 2 today, and it got me thinking about my glowing review of Ubisoft’s MotionPlus first-person brawler. I spoke quite hyperbolically, and even when I wrote the ...

REVIEW: SteamWorld Tower Defense Review

REVIEW: SteamWorld Tower Defense Review

One of DSiWare’s better tower defense games. While there is no shortage of tower defense games on DSiWare, with games such as Fieldrunners and Starship Defense already released this year, SteamWorld: Tower Defense is arguably one of the better of the bunch.  SteamWorld: Tower Defense plays like a typical tower ...

RADIO FREE NINTENDO: Episode 202: Cruelcumber Sandwich

RADIO FREE NINTENDO: Episode 202: Cruelcumber Sandwich

Neal drops in to tell us all about Minstrels and Meowgicians in DQIX. Download in AAC Format Subscribe to AAC Feed Download in MP3 Format Subscribe to MP3 Feed Subscribe via iTunes (Please rate and review, too!) With Jonny being mobbed by hordes of jubilant Spaniards, the RFN crew called ...

Ignition Rebrands, Focuses on Digital Distribution

Ignition Rebrands, Focuses on Digital Distribution

Muramasa publisher undergoes a ‘major strategical evolution’. Ignition Entertainment, publisher of Muramasa: The Demon Blade for Wii, has announced that it is rebranding and shifting its focus to digital distribution platforms. The company’s new name is UTV Ignition Entertainment, assuming the brand of Ignition’s parent company UTV Group. In what ...

Ubisoft Planning Six to Eight 3DS Launch Games

Ubisoft Planning Six to Eight 3DS Launch Games

The publisher is shooting for 30 percent of the market share. Ubisoft is hoping to be in on the ground floor of the Nintendo 3DS launch with six to eight titles that they hope will make up 25 to 30 percent of the market, according to their UK sales director ...

Sunsoft Announces Three for Virtual Console

Sunsoft Announces Three for Virtual Console

A pair of Aero the Acro-Bat games and Ufouria are coming soon. Today Sunsoft announced that they are bringing three new titles to Virtual Console in North America: Aero the Acro-Bat 1 and 2 (SNES), and Ufouria: The Saga (NES). 1993′s Aero the Acro-Bat is the first game in a ...

Hideki Konno Discusses the Nintendo 3DS

Hideki Konno Discusses the Nintendo 3DS

Wired’s interview gives some of the history behind the 3DS. During E3, Wired’s Game|Life blog interviewed Hideki Konno, Head of Nintendo’s Entertainment Analysis & Development, Software Development Group 1. Konno has worked on Nintendo games since Super Mario Bros., and more recently was the producer of Nintendogs and Mario Kart ...

REVIEW: Puzzle Quest 2 Review

REVIEW: Puzzle Quest 2 Review

Although many gamers fell in love with its brilliant marriage of RPG and match-3 gameplay, the original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords for DS was severely flawed, a buggy mess that at times felt half-finished.  Three years have passed, and now D3 Publisher has released Puzzle Quest 2, which ...

PRESS RELEASE: Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth Special Appearance on July 19 in Los Angeles!

PRESS RELEASE: Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth Special Appearance on July 19 in Los Angeles!

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYTWO NIGHTS, TWO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS!July 15th and 16th, 2010 8:00 PMDavies Hall, San Francisco, CANobuo Uematsu confirmed to attend!Guest Artist: Susan CallowayThurs July 15th: MARIA and DRACO and more!Fri July 16th: DANCING MAD and more!Full set lists at www.ffdistantworlds.com/sanfrancisco SAN DIEGO SYMPHONYJuly 22nd, 2010 8:00 PMEmbarcadero Marina Park ...

Pokemon Black and White to Feature Video Chat

Pokemon Black and White to Feature Video Chat

DSi and 3DS users will be able to video chat with users locally and via Wi-Fi. In a recent issue of CoroCoro magazine, a new feature for Pokemon Black and White called “Live Caster” has been revealed. When Pokemon Black and White is played on a DSi or 3DS, players ...

Genre Bending in Tetris Party

Genre Bending in Tetris Party

Did you think racing, platforming, and sport play was ever going to find its way into Tetris? Tetris Party Deluxe came out recently for Wii and DS, and while it is effectively the exact same game as Tetris Party on WiiWare, which is cheaper, it still has the interesting modes ...

Kid Icarus Uprising Could Feature Online Play

Kid Icarus Uprising Could Feature Online Play

Masahiro Sakurai hints at potential a versus mode, as well as the use of 3DS features that extend the features of the original DS. In an interview with the UK magazine GamesMaster, Project Sora director Masahiro Sakurai indicated that his latest project, Kid Icarus Uprising, might feature on-line play. Revealed during ...

REVIEW: Pearl Harbor – 1941: Red Sun Rising Review

REVIEW: Pearl Harbor – 1941: Red Sun Rising Review

Take to the skies in this ace WiiWare title. Pearl Harbor Trilogy – 1941: Red Sun Rising follows the events of the Pearl Harbor bombing and grants players to play on both the sides of the war. The Americans, based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii were defending their Pacific fleet from ...

RADIO FREE NINTENDO: Episode 201: Refractory Period

RADIO FREE NINTENDO: Episode 201: Refractory Period

We take it a tiny easier this week and read some of your favorite DS memories. Download in AAC Format Subscribe to AAC Feed Download in MP3 Format Subscribe to MP3 Feed Subscribe via iTunes (Please rate and review, too!) It’s a three-man show this week, as Jon got held ...

Etrian Odyssey III Pre-Order Bonus Revealed

Etrian Odyssey III Pre-Order Bonus Revealed

Atlus will include duplicates of “Forests of Eternity” with their upcoming DS RPG. The pre-order gift for reservations of Etrian Odyssey III will be a copy of “Forests of Eternity,” the 60-page artbook that includes designs and sketches from each entry in the Etrian Odyssey series. Atlus has posted an ...