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When people are excited, stock goes up. GameDaily writes: “Nintendo shares rose to their highest level in 4 years thanks to the debut of the new motion sensing console [at this year’s E3]. We won’t know if [the company’s] attempt to capture new gamers and the mass market will truly be successful until the Wii console has been on the market for some time, but if early impres...

Portable console mod-god Ben Heckendorn does it again with his creation of the nPod, a slim, hand built, stunning portable NES. The system has a 3.5″ led screen, can play NES game, and runs off of only four aa batteries. Ben has already sold the current model but will make you another one for a mere $350 dollars.

Wiishful Thinking has put together a nice list of confirmed, dated launch titles for Wii. From the article: “I?ve been busy gathering what I feel is the most comprehensive and up to launch guide for the Nintendo Wii, complete with screens, basic info, and links to related hands on previews. Each of these games have been confirmed for launch date, without any of that recent ‘launch wind...

Even during the hustle and bustle of E3, this lady found the time to play a little Brain Age on the DS. Nice shot!

The Japanese version of the previously mentioned Official Smash Brothers site has posted a section where users can submit an idea or suggestion for characters and music that they’d like added to the game, as well as a general contribution letter. There is also a section to view other people’s input in which it seems that game director Masashiro Sakurai actually responds to about one in...

61% believe the Wii name means nothing without the playable games (out of 867 votes). As last week’s E3 showed us, playing really is believing, it’s just up to Nintendo and third-party developers to deliver the goods in high numbers come this Q4 and beyond. Thanks for all that voted. This week’s poll: Grade Nintendo’s E3 presence A B C D F

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New Super Mario Bros. is getting some mad love from reviewers. At the time of writing, the game had an average score of 95%. From a sample review: “As pure a game as you could ever wish to play. Adrenaline, frustration, addiction and the largest hunk of retro gaming pleasure that you could purchase. If you own a DS, and you don’t even give this a chance, you might as well get your cons...

French Blog Mc Chicken has a blog post with a hopefully photoshoped image of a horrifying looking Mario without a moustache. What’s scary is that while the picture actually makes Mario look a little bit more like a real person, the lack of a his moustache is so jarring, it’s almost hard to look at for more than a minute or so.

Finding out that Nintendo had a new website just for Japanese cellphones made me pretty excited as I turned on my cellphone’s camera to photograph the barcode on Nintendo Mobile’s information site. As I snapped the barcode my cellphone was taken to this rather boring web page where I could download Kirby, Zelda, and Animal Crossing wallpaper and ringtones, and read some information abo...

Official Smash Brothers site “Smash Bros. Dojo!! (SmaburaKen in Japanese)” goes live as a billingual web page run by the series’ director Masahiro Sakurai, along the lines of the last SmaburaKen website that Sakurai created leading up to the release of Smash Bros. Melee, which could only be in Japanese at the time. So far the website doesn’t have much that hasn’t alre...

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