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The DS, recently having earned the title of “fast selling system…ever” in Japan, is now officially sold out. In a message on Nintendo’s Japanese Webpage, (maybe our Japanese educated readers may be able to tell us exactly what is said) the company apologizes for the lack of systems, and hopes to have supplies fully replenished in Japan by the end of the month. It’s am...

Nintendo partners with Visteon to deliver a portable GBA integrated into a car entertainment package dubbed Dockable Entertainment. From the article: “If portable isn’t good enough for you, this new product from Visteon in partnership with Nintendo (being announced at CES today) may help with your in-car entertainment needs. Boasting a fold-down DVD player that can be used on your lap ...

French gaming site, Jeux-France, has posted screens of the upcoming Age of Empires DS. The DS version will be turn-based strategy rather than the real-time strategy of previous iterations of the game. It will offer four-player multiplayer gameplay, but I would really like to see online play. Still, in its present form, the game is looking great. Read the Age of Empires DS Press Release for more de...

CES is in full swing right now, and apparently what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. Word ’round the campfire is that Nintendo has “shown interest” in eMagin, a third-party headset maker at the CES show. Supposedly, Nintendo bought several visor units directly from them. eMagin is currently showing off their Z800 3D visor (pictured) at the show. It already supports P...

The train that is the Nintendo DS keeps rolling. From the article: “Nintendo Co. said Tuesday that it has sold about 10 million of its Nintendo DS handheld game systems worldwide, including about 4 million in North America and more than 5 million in Japan. Perrin Kaplan, vice president for marketing at Nintendo’s U.S. headquarters in Redmond, said the company sold about 3 million of th...

The world’s largest video game publisher likes the Revolution’s free style controller. From the article: “[EA Canada] told the BBC: ‘We’ve got hands on with the Revolution and, sure enough, the controller is revolutionary. It is a control device unlike anything else we have played before.'” Regardless whether you like EA or not, here’s hoping the publisher...

Upcoming DS game, Contact, will support the Nintendo WiFi Connection. Contact is an RPG that follows the adventures of a boy named Cherry while he helps a nutty professor find the lost components of his spaceship. It’s not completely clear how online Contact gameplay will work, but details should be forthcoming. The Nintendo WiFi Connection logo now appears on the Japanese Contact website. [...

The most current game on Nintendo’s Japanese Game Cube release list? It’s “Densetsu No Kuizu Ou Ketteisen: The Legend of the Quiz Tournament of Champions,” a quiz game that lets you use the microphone peripheral to answer questions in game show fashion. Apparently the game boasts over eight-thousand questions in eleven different topics that range from food, sports, and hist...

A youngling plays his Nintendo DS on a train. What better way to usher in 2006 than with a DS and a smile (or at least an concentrated gaming face)?[Source: Flickr]

Surprise, Surprise, the Japanese like the DS and the GameCube sells six times what the 360 did for the same period. Granted, few expected Microsoft’s newest console to perform well there, but that is very alarming giving the GCN recent poor sales. Via Nintendojo. Japanese Hardware Sales DS – 597,628 PSP – 161,332 PS2 – 97,475 GCN – 36,646 GBASP – 35,764 GBM R...

From time to time, an amazing game is released that gets overlooked. Gunstar Super Heroes is. Without question, one of those games. A sequel to the classic Gunstar Heroes for the Sega Genesis, Gunstar Super Heroes lives up to its old school roots, combining side scrolling gameplay with non-stop action. Though there is a storyline, it’?s not strong enough to base an entire game off of. Instea...

From the article: “Despite hard times on the console front, Nintendo is doing quite well on the strength of its portable game systems. The most impressive of these is the dual-screen Nintendo DS ($129), which has been wowing gamers of all ages following its launch in late 2004.” The author also credits lack of internet connectivity as the reason for the GameCube’s smaller markets...