Players all over the world fell in love with many memorable, adventure-filled moments in the well-received Donkey Kong Country Returns game for Wii: jumping around the game’s lush and colourful side-scrolling levels; clinging to the side of a swinging platform; riding on a speeding mine cart; and leaping from barrel to barrel between foreground and [...]

The next title in SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog franchise will be exclusive to Nintendo’s Wii U home console and Nintendo 3DS portable system. Nintendo Global President Satoru Iwata announced the details of a new partnership with SEGA during a new Nintendo Direct video announcement today. Sonic Lost World is a new action platforming game, and [...]

The LEGO game franchise from Traveler’s Tales has seen many a movie or comic license adaptation, usually consisting of linear platforming games that mostly play the same, albeit with a different skin tacked on to it. This game’s big brother for the Wii U however, decided to a different route and make its own original [...]

While Nintendo’s penchant for going back to the well of tried and true franchises has worn thin for many a gamer, it’s hard to fault their decision in bringing Luigi back to the forefront – to the point of declaring it the “Year of Luigi” even. In this case, we revisit the neglected green plumber’s [...]

Disney Interactive today announced that “Disney’s Planes,” a flying adventure video game inspired by the upcoming Disney animated comedy adventure film, will be available exclusively for Nintendo platforms including the Wii and Wii U systems as well as the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS handheld devices on August 6th, just a few days prior to [...]

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the next installments of the blockbuster Batman: Arkham videogame franchise. Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 system, the Wii U system, and Windows PC. Batman: [...]

The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games are relatively new entries in the long running Mystery Dungeon series, having many themed versions of the game, with mostly the same mechanics. The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series in particular has tended to be on the easier, and on the more accessible side. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity seems [...]

Fire Emblem is widely known in North America to be one of Nintendo’s marquee franchises for it’s handheld systems. Originally it wasn’t even a portable game, having only home console versions from the franchise’s creation in 1990 all the way up to 2002 when the first Gameboy Advance entry, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu arrived [...]

After decades of playing second fiddle to the No. 1 video game hero, Luigi is getting some love from Nintendo. Nintendo has named 2013 the “Year of Luigi,” thanks to the numerous appearances that Mario’s timid, green-clad twin brother will be making in games this year. In a Nintendo Direct video, Nintendo provided details about [...]

Nintendo of America has sent word that tomorrow Thursday February 14th at 9AM Eastern will be a Nintendo Direct event again! They say there will be Wii U and 3DS annoucements, so tune in tomorow here: http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/