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More information brought to us by our Target Tag Team, Basil & Natrino. Today we get a peak at the holiday catalog and what you can expect on launch day at your local store. With less than three weeks until launch, do you feel like you’ve saved up enough cash for your Wii shopping spree?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nxi7ib-Wew]New Wii promo, via Joystiq. The anticipation is approaching padded wall levels.

Reuters is reporting that Nintendo will officially launch in Russia later this year for growth potential some 20 years after dealing with the country to secure Tetris rights in an e. No word on exactly what hardware/software will be offered. From the article: “With the U.S., European and Japanese game markets maturing, the Japanese video gamemaker known, for game characters such as Mario and...

EDGE Magazine has a few scoops on their hands today, delivered courtesy of Cubed. Rather than muck ’em all up with commentary, here are some of the big ones: CNN has signed up with Nintendo as the provider of news content on tne News Channel in American and Japan. News will be presented by category, but another way of getting to it is by spinning the weather globe to find stories in differen...

Longtime Infendo friend and fan Frisby calmed his Twilight Princess nerves by carving out the Hyrule crest into a pumpkin. Timely. Hit the source for the twilight version.

Short and sweet this week. Infendo Radio #32 examines our scariest games, Nintendo and the competition, mixed Wii previews, Nintendo branding on 2 Cents in 60 Seconds, where Nintendo would be without Tetris, and listener calls. Enjoy the show! Radio Feed iTunes Feed MP3

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63N1tzzs9wg]I found this video floating around on Kotaku of a bunch of photoshops made of imaginary Wii skins and VC controller skins. This video is pretty fun to watch, all though it’s scary to think all those sports teams and fast-food chains would have a custom Wii, but it’s interesting to see what the system would look like with different col...

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Apparently, there was another preorder window at Amazon.com for the Wii today… and then it was over again just as quickly as it was before. From Punch Jump: “Pre-orders were offered early Friday morning and quickly shot the motion-sensing console to the No. 1 selling item in the Computer & Video Games division. However not all customers were enthused about the pre-order. Many compl...

Nintendo and some game called Oblivion: Elder Scrolls cleaned house at the Golden Joysticks this year. It’s worth noting that the awards are given out by the public, which means people that don’t have crazy hair that may or may not be taking over their faces, too. “The awards were presented by comedian Justin Lee Collins, and the winners included Nintendogs, which took home both ...

Game|Life reports: “There’s an interview with Nintendo veep George Harrison in the latest issue of Red Herring in which he says that ‘every available mode of transportation will be considered’ in Nintendo’s quest to get four million Wii systems on shelves worldwide before the end of the calendar year.” With expected numbers like that, surely we won’t be se...

The above is a 2004 BBC documentary on Tetris and the struggles by several to distribute the game. Long but very well done. Via Kottke: “Alexey Pazhitnov, a computer programmer from Moscow, created Tetris in 1985 but as the Soviet Union was Communist and all, the state owned the game and any rights to it. Who procured the rights from whom on the other side of the Iron Curtain became the basi...