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Kotaku has received an earlier email today from an anonymous sender containing info on a supposed new Revolution game. Rather than plot descriptions or vague screenshots, the email for “Sunder: Land of Divide” had the logo shown above and some thorough desciptions of the game’s weapons, with pictures. It looks to be a shooter of some kind; the weapons shown have an abstract desig...

The Sundance Film Festival is the latest venue for Nintendo to showcase its hard and software to the public. This venture furthers the notion that Sundance has strayed from its once indie roots and become a corporate marketing event in the modern day film industry. In between films, attendees can go over to the Nintendo lounge and play some DS, GBA, and GameCube goodness, including Mario Kart DS o...

Shortages are still hampering the DS’ true sales potential. Help out your Japanese neighbors and ship them some DSs. Whether or not you wanna inflate the price is entirely up to you… Software:01. NDS Brain Training 2 – Nintendo – 141,307 (845,885)02. NDS Animal Crossing DS – Nintendo – 50,032 (1,565,251)03. NDS Brain Training – Nintendo – 49,774 (1,3...

The DS has pulled ahead in the UK. Back when the PSP dropped over there, it broke the DS’ newly set launch sell through record by more than double. PSP used to be the talk of the town for them. Up until recently, the UK’s handheld situtation was 800,000/798,000 DS/PSP. Now, DS has broken away and reached its 1st million. Bravo Nintendo. The question now is: What region will reach 1 Mil...

From the article: “One year and more than 13 million units later, Nintendo remains the king of the hand-held gaming market with its acclaimed Nintendo DS device, ahead of Sony’s PlayStation Portable at just over 10 million units sold. While the $129 Nintendo DS doesn’t support digital music, movies and photos as with the pricier PSP, it succeeds in its innovative video games that...

Sweet pic of the most ergonomic controller in production. And be sure to check out the Nintendo Gamecube Wavebird Wireless disassembly. Slick. [Source: Flickr]

Why wait for a cooking sim on the Revolution when you can get your fix now with the DS. Taito released these screenshots for their upcoming DS title, Cooking Mama. I find the idea for this game both bizarre and intriguing. Also, I wonder if there will be a real world tie-in. Maybe once you cook something on your DS, you get a real world recipe. All this is just speculation, but I’m psyched. ...

Firing Squad has an interesting editorial declaring that Nintendo is in a good position to come out #1 for the next gen. With reasons from the price of gas to the sequel-mania problem, the article says that Nintendo has the right strategy to win including an innovative controller, a low price point, and a hip image. In the words of the author, “The kiddie-friendly persona lures in parents, b...

..In Japan? The current issue of Famitsu asked readers “Why Did the Nintendo DS Sell So Well?” They’ve listed the following 5 reasons: 1.Great Promotions– A recent commercial for More Brain Training featured a famous Japanese actress playing the game for her very first time. She genuinely enjoyed herself while interacting with the software, showing how compelling, effective...

This one goes out to all you business chums. The market likes that Nintendo’s upcoming revolution console will be priced under $300. Bloomberg writes: “Shares of Nintendo Co., the world’s biggest maker of handheld video game players, had their biggest gain since July 2003 on a report its Revolution console will sell for less than $300, undercutting Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 36...

Maybe one of these will come free with the New Super Mario Bros. on the DS… [Source: Flickr]

Majority wins. Mario Kart takes the best wi-fi cake. Thanks for all the votes and sorry for the delay. Here at Infendo, the reader is #1. Be sure to cast your vote on this week’s poll for game of the year 2005 edition. Our apologies in advance if your favorite game got lumped into the “other” category, but there were just too many good DS games to put them all down. Have at it! [...