LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2008 – At the E3 Media & Business Summit today, Nintendo unveiled an enhancement for its iconic Wii Remote™ controller and new games that promise to further enrich and engage players around the world. These offerings build on Nintendo’s ongoing efforts to remove the barriers between expert and novice video game [...]

Facebreaker 
- “Party version of Facebreaker,” but title is misleading (not really minigames) 
- Graphics look great - art style is impressive, moves nicely 
- Gameplay has a lot of promise also, but Matt wasn’t able to play it long 
- Shot from the sideview, still a 3D boxing game 
- Very fast, arcadey 
Skate It 
- Still not a lot of [...]

Nintendo Power has ranked what they believe to be the Top 20 games for all Nintendo consoles and handhelds.  Do you have them all? ; )
 
NES
1. The Legend of Zelda
2. Super Mario Bros. 3
3. Mega Man 2
4. Super Mario Bros.
5. Metroid
6. Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out
7. Contra
8. Super Mario Bros. 2
9. Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
10. Ninja Gaiden
11. [...]

Boom Blox: 8 hours and 25 minutes of play per person, 3.8 sessions
Wii Fit: 9 hours 14 minutes of play per person, 5.7 sessions
Wii Sports: 24,740,000 hours and 21,100,000 sessions. 33 hours of play per person, 28.3 sessions
Carnival Games: 7 hours and 44 minutes of play per person, 5.6 sessions
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: 4,113,000 hours, [...]

1. Tetris (PC)
2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
3. Doom (PC)
4. Super Mario World (SNES)
5. Guitar Hero (PS2)
6. Street Fighter II (SNES)
7. Super Mario Kart (SNES)
8. GoldenEye 007 (N64)
9. Grand Theft Auto IV (X360/PS3)
10. Metal Gear Solid (PS)
11. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
12. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
13. Final Fantasy VII (PS)
14. Resident Evil 4 [...]

Here are just “Some” of the stats you can find with the new feture of the Nintendo Channel:
Super Mario Galaxy - played 5 million times at 25 hours per person.
Lostwinds - played 48,689 times at 3.4 hours per person.
Wii Sports - played 24 million hours at 33 hours per person. 21 million times played with [...]

1 Call of Duty 4 (Multiformat)
2 Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)
3 Final Fantasy VII (PSone)
4 Grand Theft Auto IV (Multiformat)
5 Super Mario 64 (N64)
6 007 Goldeneye (N64)
7 Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
8 Metal Gear Solid (PSone)
9 Half Life 2 (Multiformat)

Super Metroid
The movie industry needs more kick-ass female lead characters… especially after such disasters like Ultraviolent and Bloodrayne. A great job was done with Iron Man, so a shiny suited Samus zooming around hunting down aliens would be wicked-fun to watch.
Ideal Casting: Ali Larter (Heroes) as Samus Aran. Some horrible space muties for everyone else [...]

This week’s poll is all about the Virtual Console and what Nintendo might have up their sleeves for 2008.  There are many classics from Nintendo’s back-catalog, but which ones are your most wanted for the Virtual Console?
Yes, You can select more than one! : )
Last week’s poll results:
Which franchise would the Wii’s Balance Board benefit [...]

There have been a TON of rumors about a Metroid movie and they have all been exciting, this one is no different. According to sources Micheal Bay, the guy who brought us movies like Transformers and the Island, will be the producing the Metroid Movie. With so many rumors flying around this movie. It is [...]