Portable Gaming Revolution

Grab your grappling hook folks, it’s time for CONTRA! In a direct sequel to Konami’s 1990’s SNES title Contra III The Alien Wars Contra 4 (Working title) will slap you in the space boots of four characters. They’ll be taking on the “Black Viper” in this new sidescroller that boasts new mechanics, and thankfully, multiplayer.
Everything [...]

The folks over at Go Nintendo have been kind enough to put up fact sheets on a couple of games that I thought might interest our readers as well. The following information comes direct from the Nintendo Press Room:
Wario: Master of Disguise
Format: Nintendo DS
Launch Date: 03/07/07
ESRB: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and [...]

It sure does, as long as you are one of the lucky 50 frequent fliers who belong to Southwest Airlines’ Rapid Rewards Program! The airline has partnered up with Nintendo to provide the shwag, consisting of a DS Lite system along with Brain Age to say “Thank You” to their customers. This is [...]

You can look forward to the following games being released this week for our two little handheld systems:

For the DS:

Diddy Kong Racing DS
Lunar Knights
Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007

And for the PSP:

Capcom Puzzle World
Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007

Kotaku, is reporting that EA has confirmed that Spore will be coming to the Nintendo DS, and it should be in our WiFi loving hands some where around this time next year. Hopefully next week at DICE, Will Wright will let slip some juicy details about this super cool franchise coming to the Nintendo [...]

Given all the rumors that have been wildly circulating around the whole Guitar Hero franchise in the past couple of weeks (i.e. the ’80’s edition Guitar Hero in the works, that Harmonix wouldn’t be working on the eventual Guitar Hero III and that the names Guitar Villain and Drum Villain had been trademarked as possible [...]

Go Nintendo received a press release from Nintendo, outlining their upcoming DS games for the next three months… and what a list it is, coming in at 20 games for the first quarter! Of course, Nintendo couldn’t issue a press release without touting the awesome success of their handheld system:
More than 5 million people [...]

After an amazing drought in game releases for both the DS and PSP, we’ve finally got a little something worth mentioning!

The following games are scheduled to be released this week for the DS:
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel

You can also check out store shelves for these PSP games this week:
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There has been a lot hype circulating around recently of how well Nintendo is doing (and they really are doing quite well, but that’s not the point) and that Sony is slowly sliding behind in popularity. I mean, a couple of weeks ago I wrote an article, comparing the stocks of Nintendo and Sony [...]

Once again, Next-Gen has put together their list of the Top 50 Games of 2006, spanning all consoles. As you can see from the list below, both the PSP and the DS came out fairly respectably, pulling in a combined eight of the honours.

8. New Super Mario Bros. - DS
23. LocoRoco - [...]

Nintendo’s DS Project Manager, James Honeywell, has gone on record to say that they are definitely working on software to get the DS and the Wii talking to each other. So far, the only game to do this is Pokemon Battle Revolution, but there are definitely more games in the works.
He also [...]

Wow! You know, having played the game to some extent myself… I’m having these wicked visions of all sorts of nasty videos being sent in for this contest!! It could still be pretty funny though, and the prizes are actually quite decent!
Here are the details, buzznet.com is hosting an Elite Beat Agents Video [...]