Get your Wii Remotes and Nintendo DS stylus' ready and join Britain's Best Nintendo Gamer tournament where, to celebrate the launch of New Super Mario Bros Wii, Nintendo is challenging the nation to fight it out for the prestigious title and the chance to win a trip for five to the home of Nintendo in Japan, worth £10,000.
Ghost Trick, the DS adventure game that Capcom announced earlier this month, will make its way to North America as well. Trick is the latest game from Shu Takumi, director of the Ace Attorney series.
Gamer Limit writes "In such an open-play game, it was only a matter of time until something game breaking was discovered… Sadly, it was within the first fortnight of release.
JPS Reports: "Ubisoft announced today the release of Assassin's Creed 2: Discovery for the Nintendo DS this November 17 in all retailers across North America..."
G4TV writes: "Microsoft hasn't revealed much more about Project Natal since its grand unveiling at E3, but its been well established that many developers have kits from Microsoft that have allowed them to start playing around with ideas for the device. Elite Beat Agents and Lips creator Keiichi Yano, co-founder of music games-driven Japanese developer iNiS, is very excited about Natal. Yano told Billy Berghammer in an interview this week that motion controls have a very important place in the future of music games and it sounds like he's going to be at the forefront of this."
The irrepressible UK publisher Rising Star Games have revealed the release dates of the remaining titles on their 2010, including fantastically original games for both Nintendo DS and Wii. Including a number of titles from Rising Star Games' "The Home of Japanese Games" range, Rising Star Games are set to prove that, once again, they are one of the leading third-party publishers for traditional gaming on Nintendo consoles.
Gaming Union writes: "Scribblenauts is 5th Cell's newest game, which has received numerous awards and praise from the gaming press. Today, the company added a cryptic post to the game's official Facebook page..."
BeefJack writes: "It's been four days since Scribblenauts hit the DS and since then many people have been finding out what happens when God faces off against a tiger and discovering new ways to retrieve a starite from a tree.
DefaultPrime.com: "The Japanese release of Sands of Destruction was met with good reviews scores, but it was far from great. Ryoei Mikage told Nintendo Power that the game would be improved over the Japanese release, a few examples he gave included a lower random encounter rate, a smoother difficulty curve, and character primary attacks are being rebalanced."
Square Enix has made an announcement for Dragon Quest Wars, noting that the game will be out next month in Europe/PAL territories.