LukPlus looking for Coropata publisher at GDC

LukPlus looking for Coropata publisher at GDC

If you are reading this and you are in charge of business development for a game publisher, and if you are at GDC — as unlikely as all that is — please go speak to LukPlus. According to Siliconera, the publisher has a meeting room at the convention, and is ...

Ubisoft prepping short film, a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier prequel

Ubisoft prepping short film, a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier prequel

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ubisoft will release a short film ahead of the release of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The film will be helmed by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, the duo that just won an Academy Award for their short film Logorama. We’re assuming the Ghost Recon ...

Analysts predict hardware, software drops in February NPD

Analysts predict hardware, software drops in February NPD

In advance of NPD sales results for February 2010, analysts are predicting year-over-year declines for pretty much everything. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, according to Gamasutra, is predicting that hardware and software sales will decline 10 percent, with Wii hardware sales hit particularly hard (around 40 percent) due to shortages. ...

This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Pokemon TV spots

This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Pokemon TV spots

This week’s Nintendo Channel update is about as light as it gets. Sure, there is a new DS demo to check out and a pair of TV spots for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver — but that is about it.
Oh, you do not believe us? Well, that hurts our feelings, ...

VC in Brief: Final Fantasy II (SNES)

VC in Brief: Final Fantasy II (SNES)

Final Fantasy II (actually Final Fantasy IV) is one of the most important role-playing games of all time. Not only was it the first to introduce the ATB system (Active Time Battle), but it also had an incredibly ambitious plot and, frankly, a downright great opening sequence. It would help ...

Nintendo Power: Scribblenauts sequel coming this Fall

Nintendo Power: Scribblenauts sequel coming this Fall

[GoNintendo]As evidenced by the image above, the latest issue of Nintendo Power reveals a sequel to 5th Cell’s Scribblenauts for the Nintendo DS. According to a report from GoNintendo, the magazine feature additionally details the game’s release window (“fall”), that it will receive “10,000 more words” and “120 new and ...

Walmart-exclusive Wii bundle includes Wii Sports Resort

Walmart-exclusive Wii bundle includes Wii Sports Resort

Walmart just announced an exclusive Wii bundle, containing both Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort, as well as the necessary MotionPlus attachment. It’ll be available in stores today, and on Walmart.com this Sunday. There’s no reason not to pick this one up instead of the normal Wii package: this ...

Diner Dash dashing to WiiWare March 29

Diner Dash dashing to WiiWare March 29

Attention would-be restaurateurs: Hudson has announced that Diner Dash will arrive on WiiWare March 29. This will mark the first time that the game has been available on WiiWare outside of Japan, where it was released last month. For those unfamiliar with the title, Diner Dash tasks players with running ...

MadWorld for an insanely low $10

MadWorld for an insanely low $10

Look, we do not like giving out ultimatums here; people are free to do what they want and we would not dare dream of interfering. But we feel like we just cannot go on if you do not own a copy of Platinum Games’ MadWorld — or have at least ...

Nintendo’s Dunaway states DS has ‘room to grow’ in US market

Nintendo’s Dunaway states DS has ‘room to grow’ in US market

[Business Wire]Nintendo of America VP Cammie Dunaway thinks the Nintendo DS is going to keep on getting larger in America. (And no, not just literally.) Speaking with VentureBeat, the executive highlighted the tremendous success of the Nintendo handheld. “We had our ideal year ever, selling 11.2 million units. That has ...

Run with Busy Scissors on DS and Wii

Run with Busy Scissors on DS and Wii

If you want to pretend to cut hair in a Wii and DS game — and why not? Bonsai Barber was well-received after all — Little Orbit is preparing Busy Scissors just for you. Not only will you get to simulate “35+ real hairstyles with 7 slicing techniques” with the ...

NHL 2K11 skips Xbox 360 and PS3, only coming to Wii [update]

NHL 2K11 skips Xbox 360 and PS3, only coming to Wii [update]

Update: We reached out to Take-Two for a more comprehensive explanation of the choice to ditch PS3 and Xbox 360 this year. Here’s what the spoksperson said: “We have decided to reevaluate our NHL strategy and will only be releasing NHL 2K11 for the Wii in fiscal year 2010. We ...

Send humans to investigate this Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey trailer

Send humans to investigate this Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey trailer

For some of us, Final Fantasy XIII over on those huge systems will be tiny but a distraction — because real role-playing games take place in dungeons. Or, for others, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey will be the perfect game to play during cutscenes. In any case, Atlus is dropping ...

Ride dev Robomodo sucked into parallel dimension, increases staff

Ride dev Robomodo sucked into parallel dimension, increases staff

Tragic news this day as we report that, due to the detonation of a hydrogen bomb on a weird island in 1977, Tony Hawk Ride developer Robomodo has shifted sideways into a reality running parallel to our own. We may not have all the details, but we have got all ...

Mega64 explains the appeal and letdown of Sonic … the restaurant

Mega64 explains the appeal and letdown of Sonic … the restaurant

If you were to ask us what to anticipate from most fast food joints, we had probably tell you to look inside your garbage can and basically anticipate that — but, y’know, inside of your stomach. We do not know; it’s all the same pre-processed, assembly line garbage to us ...

VC in Brief: Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo)

VC in Brief: Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo)

The Virtual Console is back off its one week long hiatus. Even though things are kinda overshadowed by a certain other release today, we have still got a new game to play. The latest episode of VC in Brief above checks out Fatal Fury Special, an improved version of Fatal ...

Nintendo Media Summit 2010: The Recap Post

Nintendo Media Summit 2010: The Recap Post

The 2010 Nintendo Media Summit has come and gone, and sent a wave of large Nintendo news through the industry. We had hands-on time with some of the Wii’s biggest upcoming titles, screenshots for nearly everything on Nintendo’s 2010 calendar and a huge ol’ sack full of new videos. In ...