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Nintendo DS web browser arrives June 4th for North America

Opera Software has announced June 4th of this year to be the release date for their Nintendo DS web browser in North America. No pricing information as of yet, but with the October ’06 European release of this software retailing for €40 Euros, it’s safe to assume that the American release will retail for $30-35 USD. Now if some benevolent organization could just whip up an American G...

Wii Friends List to be game-specific

All signs are pointing toward Nintendo doing the inconceivable and rolling out an online strategy for the Wii that is identical to the one they had for the DS. Blogger “Falafelkid” posted the results of a series of e-mails between himself and a PR representative from Edelman speaking on behalf of GameSpy: Falafelkid: Just one last question to make absolutely sure I have got this right,...

Nintendo’s Wii to Leverage Multiplayer Technology from GameSpy

Finally, some concrete online Wii details by way of its new middleware partner GameSpy. From the release: “GameSpy, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, announced today that it will provide multiplayer technology to game publishers developing titles for Nintendo’s Wii video game system. As part of an ongoing partnership with Nintendo, GameSpy has developed middleware technology to enable W...