After a rather lengthy delay, Nintendo finally released the Wii MotionPlus accessory last week in Japan. Along with the Wii Sports Resort bundle, the Wii Remote upgrade for the Nintendo Wii is already making quite a splash in the land of the rising sun.

"Looking at the release list for this year, you can see a trend on trying to squeeze as much out of an IP as developers/publishers can get out of it. While we do get games that some gamers might not want a sequel to (the outcry of Bioshock fans comes to mind) there are many games we would like to see the story continue for but still haven’t gotten. some of The staff collaborated and came up with their top three games they would like to see sequels made for."

"This week, it’s Bear Hugger’s encore at Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii. If you recall, your first encounter with Bear Hugger wasn’t overly difficult. But beware! This pugilist’s new attacks in title defense are designed to grind Little Mac into a bruised and flattened stump in no time. We’ll teach you how to level Bear Hugger."

Capcom has released a new promotional video for their upcoming Wii title Monster Hunter 3 tri~:



Monster Hunter 3 tri~ releases in Japan on August 1st. It can be bought as a standalone copy, bundled with the new Classic Controller PRO, or bundled with the new Wii kuro. The game's official site can be found here.

XSEED does what Namcan't.

The celebrated niche-game publisher has announced that they have acquired the localization rights to Namco Bandai's Wii airplane dogfighting sim, The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, based on the novel series The Sky Crawlers by Hiroshi Mori. Boasting excellent gameplay, The Sky Crawlers was developed by Namco Bandai's Project Aces, their Ace Combat team. XSEED has stated that they will try to stay true to the Japanese original.

The expected release date is later...

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Gunstar Heroes came out on the Playstation Store of the Playstation 3 on June 11th. Although the port of the Sega Genesis classic game included online cooperative play, that feature was broken. Unfortunately, Sega may not release a patch to fix the problem.

"Also just launched on www.MarvelUltimateAlliance.com is a casual online web game that puts players in the heart of the Marvel Civil War. Fans get to choose their side among Pro-Registration and Anti-Registration forces and face off in real-time battles to help their side emerge victorious. Fans can join the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Civil War online game and be eligible for weekly giveaways and prizes, including Xbox 360 Elite consoles, signed memorabilia from Stan Lee, a grand prize of a 4..."

Remember your first encounter with a Licker? Remember being relentlessly chased by William Birkin? Remember Mr X trailing you through the icky wet sewers? Well now you can see it all again in updated graphics. It's not quite a Resident Evil 2 remake, but it will do...



Discuss in the Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles forum

GameStop is known for selling video game systems via bundles. Their latest offerings for the popular Nintendo Wii may be the strangest yet from the retailer. Hint: they won’t be adding any games or accessories along with the purchase of the Nintendo Wii.

"There were rumors recently that Microsoft would be releasing a new Xbox bundled with Natal as their new controller. These rumors were quickly quashed, but I think that is rather unfortunate as I believe Natal is unlikely to succeed otherwise. In fact, I am pessimistic about all three of the new motion peripherals."

"To celebrate Independence Day here in the US (aka July 4th) we have decided to run Double-XP next weekend. It will begin July 3rd @ 10:00AM PST, and end July 6th @ 10:00AM PST. This will be for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PC and of course this Double-XP is available worldwide!

Also taking place July 3rd at 10:00AM PST will be a playlist update, where we will be incorporating the Map Pack 2 maps into the main Core and Hardcore rotations; don’t worry, the Map Pack playlist will remain ope..."

"DJ ready? Dance floor ready? Everybody ready? Let’s go! Musical legend Grandmaster Flash, the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument, is coming to DJ Hero, joining the epic list of DJs who will appear as in-game characters and who have created mixes exclusively for the award-winning game."

Is your wallet getting fat? Have you recently come into the possession of some more money? Or do you simply want a new WiiWare title? If you answered yes to any of these questions you might want to check out IGN's list of games on WiiWare that you should download. The list features titles such as World of Goo, Lost Winds, Megaman 9, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and others and gives a brief explanation of why they warrant your purchase.

According to series creator, Suda 51, the next No More Heroes game will not be on the Wii. Despite the Wii's hardware sales and customer base, Suda feels that he needs to expand his audience and reach out to other consoles in order to make his ambitions of NMH becoming into a bigger franchise come true. So even if NMH 2 sells decently, he seems to have made up his mind about not keeping the series on the Wii. Given Suda's thoughts on Natal, it seems quite obvious where the series could end up.

"Musical legend Grandmaster Flash, the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument, is coming to DJ Hero, joining the epic list of DJs who will appear as in-game characters and who have created mixes exclusively for the award-winning game."

"Said Miyamoto: I don't think it's going to be that radically different." Simple, straight to the point. Therefore, we'll be seeing more of that classic taste so familiar to our tastebuds. And fans will just probably have to wait until the next one before we see any major changes.

For a franchise that's well-known for its long-standing formula, how do you make it evolve without losing your loyal fanbase?"

Today some new Ultimate All-Stars screens have trickled in -- five included here and another on the game's profile page linked below.

As always, definitely a game to look forward to for any Wii-owning fighting fan.

"During the Street Fighter II mania of the 1990s, arcade maker SNK released a different kind of fighting game that came with unique mechanics, changing the way fighting games are played. The game was Samurai Shodown for the Neo Geo. Fifteen years and close to 20 games later, SNK Playmore released Samurai Shodown Anthology, a compilation of six Samurai Shodown games for the Nintendo Wii. Samurai Shodown Anthology features the best that the series has to offer. Is it worth your hard-earned cash?..."

"The Green Day tracks available next week are the first in an exclusive partnership between MTV Games’ Harmonix and Warner Music Group’s Green Day to bring the band’s songs to the Rock Band platform as DLC. These first songs, 21 Guns, Know Your Enemy and East Jesus Nowhere, are from the band’s latest album, 21st Century Breakdown."

Remember that Capcom teaser site that people foolishly believed it was for Onimusha when it was clearly on the Sengoku Basara portal and not the Onimusha portal?

Capcom has unveiled that title today, and lo and behold, they have announced Sengoku Basara 3 for 2010 release. The game will involve the famous Battle of Sekigahara in some form. No platform information has been released.

The game's site, with all the crossed-out year goodness, can be found here.

According to data from European sales tracker GfK Chart Track, Gamesindustry.biz is reporting the following lifetime numbers for each current hardware system in the UK:

Nintendo DS - 9.1m
Wii – 5.4m
Xbox 360 – 3.9m
PSP – 3.3m
PlayStation 3 – 2.2m
DSi – 0.3m

The total install base eclipses 24 million.

Within the last 12 months, each hardware system has sold this much:
Nintendo DS - 2.7m
Wii – 2.3m
Xbox 360 – 1.7m
PSP – 1.1m
PlayStation 3 – 900k
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You remember how Marvelous Entertainment "feels like crying" over their software sales, right? Well, in an attempt to make light of their financial situation, they've come up with a few ideas. One of the ideas they brought up at their financial presentation was to start focusing more on multiplatform games, such as the upcoming Rainy Woods for the PS3/360.

The other option they had came up with was to begin porting Wii titles to the PS3 and 360. They haven't mentioned which games would be ...

"This mid-year update allows Plastic Wax to reveal 2009 collaborations that had been kept under wraps for months: the opening cinematic and unlockable cinematic for Activision’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game, two different thirty-second television spots that mix live action and CG (which involved animating the classic Slimer character) for Atari’s Ghostbusters, and the E3 2009 CG trailer to launch the new Relic/THQ title Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Plastic Wax also has a num..."

"It has been revealed today that Nintendo have purchased Channel Five’s new primetime quiz for £2 million, with a new Advertiser-Funded Programming (AFP) arrangement. A new milestone for interactive entertainment, the show will be used to promote Nintendo DS titles."