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Nintendo said Wednesday it expects to double its profits this year to $1.6 billion due to the steady success of the DS and Wii’s strong start. They pretty much raised every financial expectation they could as Reuters reports: “Japan’s Nintendo Co. expects annual profit to more than double this year to above market forecasts on strong sales of its DS handheld console and game soft...

There’s a wireless, AAA-battery powered wireless sensor bar (range 25 feet) as well, with pics and info over at IGN. No price or availability given for either.

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No, not boobs. Bloob. As in Double Bloob, the latest title from Nibris (of Sadness vaporware fame). This one has a bit more meat to it than Sadness or Raid Over the River however, as the folks over at Cubed have an in-depth look at what this puzzle title will offer. The Snoods are positively raging with jealousy tonight.

I’m officially in the wrong business. Long ago, when my DS collection grew past a few games, I started putting the cartridges into the spaces beside the game holder in a few of my DS cases. I told no one of this, and now I realize how foolish that was. I could have sold my spare cases for $3, even $4. Siloconera: “I’m not sure whether I should call this brilliant or useless, but ...

Oh Sony. Sony Sony Sony. Just when the well appears dry, you fill it back up again with more of your wonderfully two-left-footed PR dance moves. Oh, and Nintendo won an Emmy too, for the same thing Sony won one for this week. Which was not the SIXAXIS controller. The Emmy Award for Peripheral Development and Technological Impact of Video Game Controllers * Nintendo * Sony Computer Entertainment Am...

During his keynote speech at MacWorld today, Steve Jobs showed off the multi-touch capabilities of the new iPhone. That means you can use more than one finger at a time on the touch screen to manipulate the interface. The Apple site claims that it’s “an entirely new interface”, but couldn’t you do practically the same thing in StarFox Command for the DS? UPDATE: Apparently ...

From an article in the New York Times: Daniel A. DeMatteo, vice chairman and chief operating officer at GameStop, said Thursday that for the first time last week there were PlayStation 3 consoles in stock at hundreds of the company’s 3,700 outlets. Not so for the Wii, which costs $249 and is still flying off shelves. “We got some in yesterday in really limited supply, and they virtuall...

Next-Gen profiles notable Wii games for 2007. Here are a few we like too: Wario Ware: Smooth Moves Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Sonic and the Secret Rings Super Mario Galaxy The Sadness Super Smash Bros. Brawl Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Mario Party 8 Hopefully some sleepers will find a home in the first half of the year as well. And objectively speaking, is there...

Just when Nintendo appeared to be the fuzzy, warm and loving corporation everyone says I think they are, a dark spot can be found on their shiny white veneer. This time, it involves the Opera Browser for Wii. At CES, Game|Life talked with Opera about what we can expect in the final build for Wii’s browser (it’s in Beta, remember). What followed was an answer you would never expect R...

LAS VEGAS — The Wiimote, a wireless motion sensing controller for Nintendo’s new Wii gaming console, has won an Emmy for innovation from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the use of an “A” button. Chairman Dick Askin heaped praise upon Nintendo’s revolutionary new controller in a press release, saying the “A” button is an addition ...

Elebits will be known as Eledees when it’s released in Europe this Spring. What do you guys think of the new name?