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1. Nintendo claims credit for Apple DS simulator ban

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Nintendo has claimed credit for Apple's removal of a DS simulator from its iPhone app store. The company also warned potential offenders that it would 'vigorously' protect itself against all forms of ...

2. Spielberg's Boom Blox provides fun but not innovation

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... category will play out quite as momentously. Boom Blox, Spielberg's first video game, for the Nintendo Wii, sounds like a pretty empty shell of a game.  Much of it revolves around swinging around ...

3. Wii's "Nintendo Channel" open for business

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Nintendo today released a firmware update for its Wii video game console, adding a new feature to the main menu that allows gamers to access game trailers and demos.  After downloading the update, ...

4. Nintendo DS downloads coming to Wii

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Nintendo has announced that it will offer a new Wii Channel in May that will offer users the ability to download game demos directly to their DS, along with other features.  Planned for launch alongside ...

5. Sony shows off "sketch and scan" technology with PS3

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... or textures. At the risk of making a reference that's too obscure, it reminded me a lot of the Nintendo DS's Pac-n-Roll, a game that required users to physically draw Pac-Man and use stylus gestures to ...

6. Virtual Console games to appear in Wii Super Smash Bros

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   More than a half dozen classic Nintendo games will be playable in the highly anticipated upcoming Super Smash Bros Brawl. Redmond (WA) - More than a half dozen classic Nintendo games will be playable ...

7. Super Mario Galaxy is truly amazing

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... that Super Mario Galaxy is the first "spiritual sequel" to Super Mario 64, originally released in 1996.  That's quite a promise.  After all, the Nintendo 64 title wrote the book on 3D platforming.  ...

8. Opinion - Playstation 3 worries about innovation to sacrifice quality

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... with a wider scope than Nintendo’s Wii.  With the $20 Tekken: Dark Resurrection, and even a day-and-date release of Warhawk digitally and on Blu-ray, Sony has smashed through the capacity barrier ...

9. Super Mario Galaxy shows promise

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Opinion - Nintendo let me take a spin through another round of Super Mario Galaxy today and I'm now beginning to really appreciate what this holiday title can bring to the Wii. New York (NY) - Opinion ...

10. E3 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... in the now, Nintendo already in the future Our take from the keynotes of teh three companies: Nintendo found the key to open the door to the future, Microsoft needs focus and ...

11. E3: Sony, Microsoft stuck in the now, Nintendo already in the future

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... work in reality, I am fairly sure that Sony will soon be in big trouble in a market that is rapidly changing. Microsoft is caught in a trap of compromises and Nintendo will define our future of video gaming. ...

12. Next-gen digital downloads: Wii sets the standard

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ...   Nintendo overview of features... See the Sony Playstation 3 in detail...     In terms of sheer volume of content, the Xbox 360 is the unquestioned winner. This should not come as ...

13. N64 makes first post-launch Wii presence with Mario Kart

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Mario Kart 64 is among the list of additions to the Wii Virtual Console for today's new releases, marking the first Nintendo 64 game available for the online store since the console's debut more ...

14. E3 2006: Nintendo blows a big chance as Sony proves PS3 games do exist

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ...  Los Angeles (CA) - The buzz going into this morning - the first official day of exhibits at the E3 Expo - was that Nintendo pulled off a victory, with an impressive demonstration of a truly innovative ...

15. Roundup: The three different strategies of the console makers

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    ... to be renamed "Live" with the new Microsoft branding strategy) and the before mentioned games strategy. Nintendo is, at first sight, doing its usual thing: It is off in the distance, innovating, and attracting ...

16. E3 Keynote impressions: Nintendo outshines Sony with Wii presentation

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    It wasn't the Academy Awards but Nintendo was hardly short on star power and excitement at its media briefing for E3 2006. Inside a crowded, glitzy Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Nintendo once again displayed ...

17. Nintendo shows off more controller action with Red Steel from Ubisoft

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    One of the several games which Nintendo showed off at its press conference earlier was Red Steel from Ubisoft, a first person game which contains both shooting and sword fighting. Yes, yes that is just ...

18. Hello Los Angeles! Pictures from the frontline, plus a timetable of the week ahead

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    ... Will they once again an apology for a high price, or will Sony be coming out with guns blazing towards Microsoft and Nintendo? And what's up with Blu-ray? Bald is beautiful in Midway's upcoming upgrade ...

19. EA to show successor of FarCry at E3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... of consoles (the Microsoft Xbox 360, the Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii), the PC portable gaming systems form Sony and Nintendo as well as mobile phones. Some technology previews and "never-before-seen ...

20. GDC 2006: Day One fires up gaming fans, price tags, and physics

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Developers Conference 2006 In our preview article, we outlined the major technologies to keep an eye for at GDC. In addition we predicted that both the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo keynotes would give ...

21. Nintendo announces download service, voice chat feature for DS

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Roughly four million US owners of a Nintendo DS portable gaming system will soon be able to use their device for wireless game downloads and voice chats, Nintendo announced at the Academy of Interactive ...

22. Nintendo demos Game Boy Advance

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Nintendo Co. Two MIT programmers have produced a DVD decryption program using only seven lines of Perl code. Their "qrpff" program does the same thing that the DeCSS utility does. Eight movie ...