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21 Wild Facts About Nintendo

Everything you ever wanted to know about Nintendo but were afraid to ask:

21 amazing Nintendo facts

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Posted By: rebecca | Oct 8th

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Nintendo’s Working On A New Wii

Nintendo is working on new console hardware that is said to be worthy of the “next generation.”
The new consul, that is scheduled to hit the market by 2011, will do much more than simply refresh the current hardware. Unlike previous console transitions from Nintendo, the new system will be presented as a true successor to […]

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Posted By: veronica | Oct 1st

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Nintendo Trashing Competitors in Console Market

Nothing new here, nothing to see… keep walking:
The company credited stronger sales of the Wii and Nintendo DS, as well as changes in the expected foreign currency exchange rates.
Nintendo now expects to sell 30.5 million DS hardware units in the full fiscal year, compared to 28 million expected earlier in April. It expects to sell […]

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Posted By: froosh | Aug 29th

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Atari: The Golden Years — A History, 1978-1981

Atari was founded in 1972, but its crowning accomplishments in console gaming and computers were the Atari Video Computer System (or 2600) and the Atari 400/800 line of personal computers.
This four-year period — from 1977 to 1981 — contains some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 22nd

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Nintendo faces legal action over Wii console

Nintendo’s hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.
Hillcrest Laboratories, based in Rockville, Maryland, has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington D.C., and a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland against Nintendo Corp., the […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 21st

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Is motion sensor gaming a gimmick?

Here’s an interesting article from Don Reisinger at CNet:
As a Wii owner, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time playing my way through games that required me moving around the room, jumping up and down like a fool, and generally using my body to control the action on-screen. And while I enjoy it at times, […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jun 16th

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iPhone 3G? How about iPhone Gaming!

I think the addition of games made specifically for the iPhone should make things pretty interesting on the mobile gaming front. Here’s more on this from CNET:
One of the more intriguing outcomes from the iPhone SDK and the upcoming App Store is the notion of the iPhone as a mobile gaming platform. When the SDK […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jun 11th

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Badass Game Release Schedule

Want to know when a game is set to hit the streets? Want to peruse lists of upcoming games? This website is for you. Game-Releases.net is an extremely simple schedule of release dates for all major video game consoles. Eat it up.
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Posted By: jackhammer | Jun 4th

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Nintendo Expands Wii Download Service

From ITvibe.com:
 Tom Prata, a senior executive at Nintendo, has announced that there are 100 WiiWare titles in development for the company’s new game download service which is available through the Wii Shop Channel. The company has long been very upbeat on the potential for this download service which they expect to bring many smaller game […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jun 2nd

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Street Fighter IV heading to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC?

from BigDownload.com:
Rumor has it that Capcom’s latest entry in the Street Fighter universe will make its way to next-gen consoles and the PC this winter. According to a story from French gaming site Jeuxvideo, Capcom inadvertently announced the platforms for Street Fighter IV on a site reserved for the press.
It is well-known that PC development […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | May 27th

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