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Miyamoto thinks his college degree wouldn't get him a job at Nintendo today
In the upcoming issue of Edge Magazine, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto discusses a variety of topics with the UK gaming magazine. Develop Online got their hands on a copy of the magazine already, revealing a rather ... revealing quote from the father of Donkey Kong. "Nintendo has become one of those companies that graduates from colleges and good universities really want to work for ... I ...read more
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BBFC: Sega compiling Sonic games for DS
The BBFC classification site lists a "Sonic Classic Collection" coming to DS soon. Normally, with these ratings, we'd be left to speculate as to the identity of the games on the collection -- however, the BBFC helpfully provided a list of games on the cart! According to the rating, it'll feature Sonic 1-3, plus Sonic and Knuckles -- with the ability to virtually ...read more
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Nintendo DSi LL gets DS-ected
The Nintendo DSi LL (DSi XL here in the West) may be big, but it's still susceptible to being dissected by anyone with the proper screwdriver and no qualms about potentially ruining a 200-plus-dollar piece of electronics. In this case, it's the daredevils at PC Watch who had the guts (and spare yen) to pop open the Big N's newest handheld offering. The site has posted step-by-step photos ...read more
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Japanese Nintendo downloads: MSX games, Eco Shooter, and 16 more
There's an incredibly diverse selection of games on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops today -- 12 different games on Wii, and 6 on DSi. Think of this as Nintendo's online version of the holiday rush. Most interesting among the multifarious offerings: a few forgotten Konami MSX games on VC, and 530 Eco Shooter on WiiWare. That's ... an Intelligent Systems-developed shooting game about shooting ...read more
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Hackers create dueling New Super Mario Bros. Wii level editors
Well, that didn't take long. On the very day that New Super Mario Bros. Wii was released in North America, hackers Virus and Vash released Tanooki, a program that allows users to design their own levels in place of the game's existing locales. Coder Treeki also announced Reggie!, yet another level editor for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Whichever wins, everybody wins. Of course, these ...read more
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Nintendo: The Best Company In The World?
According to a leading business publication, Nintendo is the best company in the world. BusinessWeek contracted consulting firm A.T. Kearney to survey over 2,500 firms with sales greater than $10 billion to determine each company's median value growth rate and sales growth. After crunching the numbers, Nintendo is victorious. Google and Apple took the silver and bronze metal, and, in a ...read more
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Impressive: Soda Box Mario At Gas Station
This is an incredibly impressive Mario themed soda display at an unknown gas station in Mysteryville, USA. Sure there are clues in the picture as to where it was actually taken, but do I look like Sherlock Holmes.Anyway, kudos to whoever spent the time and energy to make such a wicked display [via geekologie].
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Chinatown Wars below expectations for DS?
Last year, when Rockstar announced that they were bringing the popular Grand Theft Auto franchise to Nintendo's portable platform; many wondered how well an M rated title would do. Almost two months since it's release, the answers are starting to come in. In it's debut in March, the game only sold only around 89000 copies, far below the expected 250000 - 400000 range. When questioned earlier ...read more
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Nintendo sets date for DSi Europe release
If you are looking to purchase the DSi and your from Europe then this will be useful news to you, yesterday Nintendo released the launch date in Europe for the hand held console. The great news for Europe is they will get a chance to buy the handheld device before America as the date is 3rd April which is 2 days ahead of the US release which is the 5th. Currently the price has not been revealed ...read more
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Nintendo announces 2009 launch schedule
Nintendo has released its planned 2009 launch schedule for Europe and the United States. The United States Nintendo DS Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (16/02/2009) Pokemon Platinum version (22/03/2009) Personal Trainer: Walking (2009) Rhythm Heaven (2009) Mario and Luigi RPG 3 (Temp.) (2009) Nintendo DSi (hardware) (Spring-Summer 2009) Nintendo Wii Mario Power Tennis (??/03/2009) Pikmin ...read more
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