Nintendo gets touchy feely
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Nintendo wants you to know that its new handheld is not just another blob of circuitry encased in cold silver plastic. To make this point, my review copy of the Nintendo DS came in unusual packaging.
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"Feeding frenzy." That's how one report described the latest battle in the gaming wars, in which shoppers braved day-long lines or camped out in cold weather for new consoles from Nintendo and Sony. Their mood, often within minutes, went from anticipation to excitation to flat-out desperation, as many were turned away empty-handed.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  has  some cautionary advice for players of its Wii video game  console: when waving the controller, use the wrist strap, keep  your palms dry and, whatever you do, don't let go.
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Nintendo did particularly well in a recent poll ran by &quot;Walk of Game&quot;. With Shigeru Miyamoto winning a lifeti. Walk of Game, the first physical landmark honouring the icons and pioneers of the videogame industry
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Site dedicated to Nintendo's new console is reportedly the first in a series of brand-oriented moves for the web giant. In Monkey Bites.
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Shortages of Nintendo Wii consoles leave some gamers who pre-ordered the new machine frustrated.
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For the last several years, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have fought over an audience for console video games that is growing older and more mainstream.
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While Nintendo Wii gamers are having a smashing good time with one of this holiday season's hottest-selling game consoles, Nintendo is being hit with a lawsuit over the Wii's uniquely designed controllers.
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While the first of the new-generation handheld gaming systems hits Canadian stores Sunday, consumers will have to wait a while before they see all of the Nintendo DS&#39;s bells and whistles.
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Nintendo has played down the threat from Sony, saying that Nintendo&#39;s strength lies in software and the ability to make games that are easy and fun.
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Japanese game maker Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) is sexing up its U.S. advertising to launch the DS handheld device, promising mature players that the gadget is not their little brother's Game Boy.
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Nintendo's game console Wii goes on sale but some gamers are disappointed pre-orders were not fufilled.
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Nintendo believes that when it comes to video games, your fingers want to touch as much as twitch and that two really is better than one.
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The latest massively multiplayer game is aiming to provide a softer, gentler experience for those intimidated by the original EverQuest. For the most part, it succeeds. Review by Daniel Terdiman.
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Tycho:  Rhythm games aren't my forte, but I have a lot of inbuilt experience with meter which helps me fake it until I can build genuine skill.  And, as rhythm elements have crept into the entire medium, Tycho stock has been in a boom phase.  It's understandable, then, that while I soar and illuminate - and Gabriel sputters, bound to earth - tensions related to my prowess have begun to burn red-hot.  That is, until they cool again.  These things have a way of working themselves out in the fullness of time.          There's an incredible article over at Wired this month (and possibly also in the magazine?) about the Bungie's psychological approach to game design.  What a tremendous challenge it must be to retain authorial control in such a case!  As someone whose output is rarely screened by any agency, the whole thing gave me chills.  The right to fail nobly in a creative endeavor (as we sometimes do) is such a powerful luxury.  No such luxury may be extended to them, upon whose toil an entire platform rests.  God keep me from such a fate.          I keep hearing that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn't being promoted very well, but the person saying this always seems to know about it, and then when people share this complaint in the thread those people also seem to be "in the know."  It ships on the twenty-seventh of August, if you weren't aware - but since you almost certainly are, we needn't dwell on it.  What we should be dwelling on are the series of teaser vids that Retro has been trickling out.  Metroid's largely mysterious heroine has always been a huge draw for me, and going into deep detail about the character would actually damage the mystique.  But the universe she operates in need not be vague, which is why these clips are such a rich meal:  there's the Aurora Unit trailer that modernizes ancient Metroid canon in a classy way, and there's a treat at the end of the Valhalla trailer that ties it all together.  They both cover a setting that has gotten darker and more sophisticated, tones we don't typically associate with Nintendo.       We like to get kicks in on the post-Harmonix Guitar Hero, partly based on their "wacky" multiplayer concept - which ordinary gamers will probably love - but also out of a sort of tribal loyalty.  This having been established, they've built an authentically heroic tracklist that really has a lot of beef.  Going from the most recent Rock Band announcement out of Leipzig, both versions appear to have Radiohead's "Creep" and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," which is something of a comfort.  After seeing different songs on each game from Metallica and The Rolling Stones, I wasn't sure if they were already traveling down the catalogues securing exclusive weaponry.  I hope that the labels in this case see the old wisdom of arming both sides.
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A Pac-Man-like game that delivers electric shocks to gamers reveals the brain's reaction to danger.
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Console's bits in their mitts Market watcher Semiconductor Insights has taken Nintendo's Wii to bits - a little more carefully, we presume, than the sledgehammer-wielding Canadians - to expose the next-generation console's internal workings. Handily, it filmed the process.â¦