The Wii Holiday Gift Guide [2008 Kotaku Holiday Gift Guide]
There's no lack of Wii games to choose from this Holiday season, but picking out the signal from the noise can be difficult when the release list is so damn loud. With a massive line up of Wii games, some retail, some Virtual Console, some WiiWare, it's often difficult to know where to drop the dollars and the Wii Points. Our gift guide will hopefully help new Wii ...
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The researchers at Electronic Entertainment Design and...Research have been looking at console game sales patterns. Looking at how long it takes a game to enter "price protection", which is a term used for when a publisher - having noticed a game isn't selling very well - lowers the wholesale cost of a game so that retailers can keep it on the shelves at full price, even when the public are ...
Don't forget! Time is ticking away. So if you want to enter our DSi contest, you better do it sooner rather than later. This DSi right here is up for grabs.
One of Nintendo's most beloved franchises, Animal Crossing has seen millions of players around the world creating and maintaining their own tiny, cartoon animal inhabited towns since the original game's release seven years ago. Promising the same relaxed social simulation gameplay as the first two titles along with a city to explore and the introduction of Wii voice chat using a special microphone peripheral, Animal Crossing: City Folk ...
When Yuke's Company of America releases screenshots, they release a hell of a lot of screenshots. They've unleashed so many screens for their upcoming top-down space adventure game Evasive Space for WiiWare that we've had to split them into two different galleries, one containing shots from Act 1 of the game, and another containing shots from Act 2. Enough screenshots that you could probably just print them ...
The big Black Friday holiday shopping day is coming up quickly, and with so many stores offering deals and bundle packages on video games, you'll probably have to crack some kneecaps and do a little pushing and shoving to buy something on sale at an actual retail location before those limited quantities sell out. If your Mortal Kombat skills are confined to the digital domain, however, you may want ...
What is this? A mass act of adoration on the part of Nike's design team? Or some strange, off-key marketing exercise on the part of Nintendo? It's difficult to tell, but what is clear is that Nike are loving their Nintendo at the moment. First it was
Can you believe it's already been two whole years since Nintendo launched the Wii in North America? What heady times! We were still reeling from the PlayStation 3 launch two days prior, still making off-color Wii puns, confident that we'd be able to stroll into a Best Buy, Target or GameCube Hut and walk away with one of the many Wiis that would be available at retailers nationwide ...