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Sonic Changing Colors, Powering Up for Latest Adventure

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | May 27, 2010 9:43 AM | Comment

Fresh off of a stellar Winter Olympics performance, Sega's iconic blue hedgehog is racing back to the Nintendo Wii and DS handheld this holiday season in Sonic Colors. Race to the jump for details. Read More »

Sega Announces Sonic Colors for the Nintendo Wii, DS

Nintendo DS Getting a More Traditional Final Fantasy Adventure

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | May 27, 2010 9:06 AM | Comment

The 13th installment disappointed some fans of the franchise, but Square Enix has some good news for gamers looking for a more traditional Final Fantasy experience: Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is set to launch for the Nintendo DS this fall. Read More »

Square Enix Announces Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light for DS

Already a Year-Old Blockbuster in Japan, Dragon Quest IX Finally Headed West

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | May 19, 2010 7:34 AM | Comment

Japanese gamers have made Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies a blockbuster for Square Enix, with more than 4.2 million copies sold. Now, a year after it was released in the East, Western Nintendo DS gamers will finally be able to get their hands on the epic adventure this July. Read More »

Square Enix Dates, Details Dragon Quest IX

Get Your Stylus and Your Webster's: Super Scribblenauts on the Way

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | May 17, 2010 10:57 AM | Comment

Warner Bros. confirmed today a follow-up to its imaginative word-based puzzler, Scribblenauts, is coming this fall to the Nintendo DS, and players will no longer simply create objects using words, they'll modify those creations using adjectives. Hence the name: Super Scribblenauts. Read More »

Warner Bros. Announces Super Scribblenauts

Brush Up on Your Simlish, The Sims 3 Coming to Consoles

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Apr 27, 2010 8:05 AM | Comment

The best-selling PC gaming franchise in history is making its way to consoles. EA Play announced today life simulation game The Sims 3 is being ported to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and the Nintendo DS handheld. Hit the jump for details. Read More »

EA Bringing The Sims 3 to Consoles

Nintendo DS, the New Best Friend of Parents with Diabetic Children

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Apr 26, 2010 12:49 PM | Comment

Test, play, win. That's the simple slogan behind Bayer Diabetes Care's clever new blood glucose monitoring system, Didget. Didget connects directly to Nintendo DS and DS Lite handhelds, helping kids manage their disease by awarding consistent testing with points that can be used to unlock in-game items. Hit the jump for details. Read More »

New Blood Glucose Monitoring System Works with Nintendo DS

How's it Work? Putting the 3D in the 3DS

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 23, 2010 1:00 PM | Comment

Japanese newspapers Nikkei and Asahi were all over today's 3DS announcement from Nintendo, providing details about the device Nintendo failed to offer in its somewhat curt press release. Most notably, Asahi says the portable's 3D output is possible without glasses thanks to a technology some gamers might already be familiar with: Sharp's parallax barrier LCD. Read More »

Report: Sharp's Parallax Barrier LCD Tech Makes the DS a 3DS

Nintendo Stuns Industry, Announces the 3DS

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 23, 2010 4:57 AM | Comment

The DSi XL has yet to launch in the U.S., but that didn't stop Nintendo from announcing its successor today. The 3DS, a portable gaming device that features 3D effects without the need for special glasses, is scheduled to ship sometime before March 2011. Read More »

Nintendo Announces the 3DS

Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2 Award Shelf Buckles, Injures Janitor

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 12, 2010 2:04 PM | Comment

500 leading game creators from all over the world and all parts of the industry have spoken: Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the Game of the Year. Uncharted 2 took home the big prize, as well as four other trophies, at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, held last night as part of GDC 2010. Hit the jump for the full list of winners. Read More »

GDC Awards: Leading Game Creators Name 2009's Best Games

Wiipocalypse Triggered After 360 Outsells Wii in February

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 12, 2010 11:31 AM | Comment

Big Daddy did the heavy lifting, but it wasn't enough to pull the industry out of its ongoing slump. Videogame software sales dropped 15% and hardware sales fell 20% in February, according to the latest report from market research firm NPD Group. Hit the jump for February's top sellers. Read More »

Report: Videogame Sales Down 15% in February

Scribblenauts 2 Promises Bigger, Badder Dictionary

By Bryn Williams | Nintendo DS News | Mar 8, 2010 4:32 AM | Comment

Warner Bros. Interactive and 5th Cell are making another Scribblenauts game. You remember Scribblenauts, right? It won our E3 Best in Show last year. So it's with some excitement that Maxwell and his word-based antics are coming back to the DS later this fall. The game will feature a whole host of new features including the use of adjectives to solve puzzles, reach goals, and snag those all-important Starites. Read More »

Scribblenauts Sequel Announced

Hollywood Seeking Low-res, Pixelated Actors

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 3, 2010 12:18 PM | Comment

Quick, name an Atari 2600 game. Got it? There's a good chance you just identified a title Hollywood wants to adapt into a film. According to the LA Times, movie studios are on an '80s videogame kick, and now they're looking to score with Space Invaders. Hit the jump to avoid alien fire. Read More »

Hollywood Eyes Space Invaders

Study: Gamers Spend Eight Hours Per Week Teabagging, Getting Banned

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 2, 2010 1:50 PM | Comment

Gamers are spending more time playing online, and the PC remains the platform of choice for online games according to the latest report on videogames from the NPD Group. More than half of all gamers say they play games online, and those that do so log-on an average of eight hours per week. Read More »

Report: 54% of Gamers Play Online

eBay Offers Financial Incentive to Never Play Videogames

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 1, 2010 2:40 PM | Comment

Reminiscent of the baseball card rush of the 1980s, classic videogames are fast becoming highly valued collectibles. In early February, North Carolina eBay seller lace_thongs35 made headlines when her(?) copy of NES game Stadium Events sold for more than $13,000. Turns out that was just the tip of the pixelated iceberg. Last week, a Kansas man who read of the high-priced sale sold his own copy of Stadium Events for more than $41,000. Read More »

Man Sells Unopened NES Game for $41K

Book Publisher Totally Has a Great Idea for a Game

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 1, 2010 1:02 PM | Comment

Publishing houses have long been interested in books based on videogames, evidenced most recently by Penguin's novel "Assassin's Creed Renaissance." Now it appears publishers want to flip the script and get involved with the creative side of videogame development. Read More »

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