Part of this week’s Nintendo Download is Car Jack Streets. You can probably guess from the title what PS1 classic inspires this 800-point DSiWare title… but I thought I should verify your hypothesis.
It’s Grand Theft …

Am I alone in suspecting that this week’s Nintendo Download contains some contextual language aimed at tomorrow’s God of War III release? “A fantasy-based fighting game,” Rage of the Gladiator (WiiWare, 1000 points) features “insane …

Last night I chatted about the Nintendo Media Summit a bit with Lloyd Hanesson, host of the DSLife, WiiSpot, and Touch of Gaming podcasts. You can catch my guest appearance on this special podcast, where …

There’s like a billion retro titles still available for a potential Virtual Console release, and nobody could find one to fill the open slot in this week’s Nintendo Download update? I’d rather have something …

Although far from a bad game, Sonic & Knuckles represents the franchise’s turning point to me. Everything from S&K on has been friend-centric and incrementally worse from what came before. Sure, you may have liked …

You’d think a game as classically ridic as Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom would be more of an internet meme by now. People would be putting game quotes on kitten photos, knitting Princess Tomato …

The name brand release this week is Tales of Monkey Island 5, wrapping up the episodic WiiWare adventure. 1000 points.
Could be some interesting tech on DSiWare with Move your Brain Rollway Puzzle (500 points). The …

We’ve got several noteworthy additions to WiiWare and DSiWare this week. The protein shake-fueled Muscle March is the unavoidable massive elephant in the room. We first heard about this one waaaay back in May ‘09, …

Phoenix Wright, new to WiiWare this week, wants to object to Nintendo’s press release from last week. Last week the game Trajectile showed up on DSiWare, and the PR completely neglected to mention that the …

SouthPeak Games and Renegade Kid have released a fan-effing-tastic website to accompany the upcoming release of Dementium II.
Masquerading as information about Bright Dawn Treatment Center, a seemingly unremarkable psychiatric hospital in North America, the site …

After a full month of huge Download weeks, Nintendo has settled down for 2010 with seven new releases across WiiWare, DSiWare and Virtual Console.
On the VC, it’s Final Fight 3 (SNES, 800 points), which amounts …

It’s hard to complain. No, no it isn’t. Nintendo themselves set a release date of Q3 2009 for this game, and that was less than two weeks before the end of Q3 2009. Now, it’s …

Somebody at Nintendo must have been doing some math this weekend, as the company is proudly trumpeting the count of 500 downloadable games across both WiiWare and Virtual Console. They’re not including DSiWare on that …

Nintendo released a tentive list of major (and not-so-major) releases for 2010, covering all corners of the empire. Wii, WiiWare, DS and DSiWare. You can browse the full press release at your leisure after the …

The marquee release on the Nintendo Download list this week is Earthworm Jim 2 (Genesis Virtual Console, 800 points). Also new to the VC today is Blaster Master (NES, 500 points).
WiiWare gets Stunt Cars for …

The DSi takes lead this week as the original Rayman platformer arrives in a DSiWare version for 800 points. It’s times like this that I really wish Nintendo’s press releases contained genuine info and screens, …