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No Sales Projections From Nintendo Hint At The DS Going Into Sunset

The long-lived and long-loved Nintendo DS, the thing that’s sold more than 150 million devices (in four formats) and damn near a billion games, received no projected sales in financial statements the company filed today. Is this the end of the world’s most successful gaming handheld?


No, The DS Is Still Alive In Japan

Nintendo’s DS. With over 152 million units sold worldwide, the dual-screen portable console is without a doubt Nintendo’s biggest seller ever. But now, eight years after its initial release, currently being outsold by its successor, the 3DS, it seems the DS is almost completely ready to quietly disappear into the night from the Japanese market. Almost.


Sequels To Zelda And Pushmo Now Available To Download On 3DS

The sequel to Pushmo, my favourite 3DS game, is out today. The new one is called Crashmo. In the old game you pulled and moved blocks in order to climb to your destination.. In the new one, you do the same… but now the blocks can fall!


Nintendo Shows Off Its Latest Club Nintendo Goodies For Japan

Today, Nintendo unveiled its latest collection of Club Nintendo goodies for Platinum Members in The Land of the Rising Sun. There’s a Pikmin bag, “Premium Mario Playing Cards”, a calendar and a DSi game called Nintendoji. A Club Nintendo Exclusive, this downloadable game is a dungeon-based role-playing game with card elements.


Nintendo Counterfeiter Gets Almost Three Years In The Slammer

A counterfeiter who made about £600,000 ($917,000) selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games will do at least a year of hard time in the UK after being sentenced last Friday.


This Nintendo Bootlegger’s Middle Name Is Success. Really.

Justin Success Brooks — yes, success is his middle name — made about £600,000 selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games from 2009 to 2011. He’s now headed for the slammer, or whatever they call it in the UK, following a guilty plea last week.


Eight Wild Reviews Appear To Rate Pokemon Black And White 2

Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 make a neatly matched set of entries into one of the most venerable (and most predictable) of game franchises. The pair are direct sequels to the Black and White of 2011. That’s a good amount of time to make tweaks to a tried-and-true formula. But are the updates super effective?


Pokemon Black And White 2: The Kotaku Review

It’s four o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting outside my apartment chain-smoking cigarettes, mildly buzzed on cough syrup and decidedly not getting the rest I was supposed to be getting in order to alleviate the need for prescription medication in the first place. Instead I am grinding levels on my water and fighting-type Pokémon so I can get past the rock gym leader in Pokémon Black 2.


Nintendo’s Portable Lineup Dates Paper Mario, Moves Luigi To 2013

With the release of the new 3DS XL just a week away, Nintendo releases its massive list of 3DS, DSi and eShop game releases, solidifying a November release for the next instalment of Paper Mario, giving Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon a 2013 move-in date, and dropping a few surprises for Nintendo’s portable power players.


DSi Coming In Two New, Rather Fetching Colour Schemes

While the 3DS is the flagship handheld at the moment, Nintendo hasn’t forgotten about the DSi, with plans to release two new colours for the device “as early as this week”.


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