As part of an extensive three-month marketing campaign to promote the upcoming Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Activision is partnering with the influential, and often reactionary, parenting website Mumsnet. More >
Nintendo Of America has released a translated version of Shigeru Miyamoto's on-stage presentation of The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword from the company's pre-Tokyo Game Show 3DS conference on September 13. More >
We remember some of the games that didn't deserve to slide into obscurity.
5The US movie rental service has renamed its mail-order offering Qwikster, and has quietly begun offering game rentals to at last give competition to GameFly, which has operated without significant opposition for the best part of a decade. "Members have been asking for videogames for many years," writes CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings in a blog post, "and now that DVD by mail has its own team, we are finally getting it done." GameFly can still boast of a competitive edge, however: its catalogue covers a far wider range of formats than Qwikster's PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.
RedLynx's racer may look friendly, but that cuddly exterior masks a sobering challenge.
The company that has quietly revolutionised handheld computing has ambitions for the future of gaming.
Is the Japanese giant's reign coming to an end as investors and customers lose confidence?
27Today’s the final day to have a chance at winning a pair of tickets to the London leg of Nintendo’s Zelda celebration concerts. We’re giving away five pairs of tickets to the event taking place at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo on October 25 – the only confirmed European date for the tour. Enter at our Facebook page (follow the source link below): hit the competitions tab in the left column, and answer the multiple choice questions. While you’re at it – give us a Like and get involved with your fellow Edge readers, eh?
Nintendo reports 185,000 units sold after August 12 price cut, an increase of 260 per cent.
ThinkOptic claims the Wii, its controller, sensor bar and even games violate patents used in its motion-controlled TV remote.
The publisher has announced Super Star Kartz, a kart racer starring characters from Dreamworks films including Shrek, Madagascar, How To Train Your Dragon and Monsters Vs Aliens. It will be released for DS, 3DS, Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 before the end of the year.
Since Square Enix's confirmation on Monday that Dragon Quest X would be an online RPG for Wii and Wii U, one question has gone unanswered. The publisher has now confirmed on its support page that the game will require a subscription fee to be playable beyond the first few hours.
2Well, we didn't see this coming: according to Japanese website Kyoko Shimbun, so strong is Square Enix's faith in Nintendo that the upcoming Dragon Quest X is not just headed to Wii U and Wii, with some unspecified form of 3DS connectivity. It is also in development for the NES. Andriasang has two screenshots which show a battle party of four characters, with an onscreen prompt telling players to connect to the internet. Intriguing.
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Online RPG, announced for Wii in 2008, now also headed to its successor with cross-platform play.
Nintendo is to publish a localised version of Ubisoft's Wii dance game, which together with its sequel has sold more than 14 million units worldwide. But this is no straight translation: instead Nintendo has licensed a host of J-pop songs ahead of its release on October 13. Follow the source link below for a list of artists and songs that have been confirmed so far.
A glowing return to form for the JRPG that boasts one of the strongest battle systems in the genre. Follow the source link below to read the full review.
A glowing return to form for the JRPG that boasts one of the strongest battle systems in the genre.
9Nintendo has just sent over its European release slate for the rest of 2011, and the big news is that Link's Wii swansong, The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword, will be released in Europe on November 18. There's much vagueness elsewhere, with Nintendo still declining to narrow down release windows for Super Mario 3D Land, which is due in November, or Mario Kart 7 in December. Next up in the 3D Classics range is Twinbee, due on September 22, and Gamecube/GBA classic The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords will be a free download from the eShop next month. Link's last Gamecube outing, Twilight Princess will, along with Super Mario Galaxy, be re-released on the Nintendo Selects budget label on September 16. For the full release schedule, follow the source link below.
1Nestled at the bottom of its press release, Nintendo confirms that, "the new configuration Wii is no longer compatible with Nintendo GameCube software or accessories." Wii's architecture is based on Gamecube hardware, so it may well be the space that the controller ports take up that led to Nintendo's decision. Either way, we'll miss the option to play Luigi's Mansion and Dobutsu Bancho, but how important is Gamecube compatibility to you?
5Our friends at ONM report that a new, streamlined Wii console will be on shelves in time for Christmas, with "a slightly altered configuration which is designed to sit horizontally rather than vertically." The console will come with Wii Sports and Wii Party, a Wii Remote Plus and nunchuck. We'll update with pictures as soon as they become available.
