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Heart Gold and Soul Silver preorder offer, Pokewalk revealed

Retro

June 7, 2009

Heart Gold and Soul Silver preorder offer, Pokewalk revealed

The Pokemon Gold and silver remakes will let you continue training your Pokemon even when youre not playing the game. People who preorder will also get a bonus. Pokémon remakes Heart Gold and Soul Silver are said to include a free Pokémo...

New Super Mario Bros. Wii to lend players a helping hand

Retro

June 7, 2009

New Super Mario Bros. Wii to lend players a helping hand

New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been revealed to include an optional mode which will allow the player to let the CPU take over until the player is ready to continue. Shigeru Miyamoto said "In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, if a player is experiencing a...

Retro

June 7, 2009

Ubisoft seeks help from Retro Studio on Red Steel 2

Red Steel was known for its contemptible controls, for Red Steel 2 Ubisoft went looking for help from Retro Studios. After heavy criticism of Red Steel’s controls, Ubisoft decided to get help fixing the problem in Red Steel 2 from Retro Studios...

Retro

May 8, 2009

New Contra game headed to WiiWare

The classic Contra franchise is being brought out of the cupboard for another whirl. A new installment in the Contra series has been announced for WiiWare, and is slated for release in Japan on May 12th. Titled Contra Rebirth, it will play much like m...

Virtual Console

January 23, 2009

Nintendo 64 returns to the Virtual Console

The VC update for today brings us Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64, and Wonder Boy in Monsterland for the SEGA Master System. Mario Golf is just as the name implies, golf with various Mario characters (Including new characters Plum, Sonny, Harry, Maple,...

Nintendo goes Pokemon trademark crazy, has to catch them all

Retro

January 20, 2009

Nintendo goes Pokemon trademark crazy, has to catch them all

Nintendo has registered a bunch of new trademarks, 12 of which could be future Pokemon titles. Some of these include Pokemon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, familiar? Some stranger ones you won't recognise are Black, Brown, White, Gray, Scarlet, Purple a...

Rumour: Dreamcast classic Seaman heading to DS?

Retro

January 18, 2009

Rumour: Dreamcast classic Seaman heading to DS?

Seaman, a Dreamcast game that saw some popularity in Japan was later ported to the Playstation 2, and now possibly the Nintendo DS as well. A translation of Yoot Saito's blog (Seaman's creator) has revealed that Seaman DS may be in development, though...

Retro

January 15, 2009

Motion Sensing DS Card on the Way?

Nintendo has recently trademarked the 'DS Houi Sensor Card', 'Houi' being the Japanese word for 'Direction'. A likely guess for what this means could be motion-sensing DS cards, similar to the Gameboy Advance games 'Yoshi's Universal Gravitation' and ...

Final Fantasy Legend II remake headed for DS

Retro

January 15, 2009

Final Fantasy Legend II remake headed for DS

Square Enix are at it again, reviving another Final Fantasy game for the DS. This time the 1990 Gameboy title Final Fantasy Legend II is getting new lease on life and will be released at some point in 2009. The game is the second game in the long runn...

Gameloft to bring UNO to WiiWare and DSi Ware

Retro

January 12, 2009

Gameloft to bring UNO to WiiWare and DSi Ware

UNO, the coloured card game is to be released on WiiWare and DSi Ware. It will be developed by Gameloft who have partnered with Mattel in order to bring the game to DSi and Wii, and have previously developed the an iPhone and iPod Touch version. Vice ...

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