For more than 20 years, Mario has been the undisputed icon of Nintendo - and dare we say it, the icon of the entire gaming industry. So it should come as no surprise that the highest-selling DS game to date is a Mario game.
Nintendo hasn't announced a release date, price, or launch game lineup for its upcoming 3D handheld system, but one retailer already wants to start making money on it.
For anyone who thinks video games rot your brain, think again. Jo Collinge, a 48-year-old British woman, recently reported that playing motion-bases titles on the Nintendo Wii helped reverse some of the symptoms of her Parkinson’s disease.
Nintendo's performance in this console life cycle can be summed up pretty adequately with these two words: roller coaster. Everyone's curious about where the company will go next, and at least one analyst thinks it won't go above and beyond.
Japan is full of awesome and zany stuff, and on Christmas Day we will all be reminded of that as a local TV station there will be reuniting the cast of a long-running variety show that was focused on video games and Nintendo.
After it pretty much stopped being used by anyone, Nintendo has said it will extremely scale back availability of the Wii Speak peripheral and is instead encouraging gamers to use third-party products.
Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie believes the best way to liberate Iran from its current regime is to bomb the country with Nintendo game consoles and Big Macs.
For 16 years, Nintendo has been one of the most notably absent companies at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's biggest trade show that houses the latest and greatest in consumer technology.
Get your game face on, because Black Friday is almost here. And to celebrate, Nintendo is bringing new hardware to the market the re-ignite sales of its increasingly sluggish-selling DS system.
Finally meeting up with a system that the PS3 and Xbox 360 digital download systems have had from day one, Nintendo will soon begin offering playable demos for its downloadable WiiWare games.
It's not often that a company would specifically deter other companies from using its products, but that's exactly what happened between Nintendo and a developer of an upcoming online Wii game.
The answer is one that won't surprise most people. Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who will always go down in history books as the creator of Mario, says his favorite game to feature the action hero plumber is Super Mario World.
Sony is so desperate to make gamers interested in 3D that it is actually going out on a limb and saying flattering things about Nintendo's own 3D handheld gaming system.
Nintendo is finally admitting that the iPhone is taking a big bite away from its dominance in the market of handheld gaming. But it's not quite as worried about Microsoft's upcoming game-centric mobile platform.
