Mario Strikers Charged

Today Nintendo revealed the next four classic Wii titles to earn the "Nintendo Selects" treatment - Super Paper Mario, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!! and Super Mario Galaxy, one of this generation's best games period. As of August 28, each will be marked at $19.99 and semi-ruined with gawdy red packaging. Serious (i.e. anal retentive) collectors should hit stores ASAP to scoop up the remaining white-boxed copies marked down to $20 before the Selects versions are all that's left!

Nintendo confirmed via email that they have stopped producing and shipping Mario Strikers Charged, Battalion Wars 2, and Wario Land: Shake It! Why would Nintendo stop producing and shipping these games now?

Doctor Octoroc gives us 8-bit renditions of our favorite christmas themes... with a video game twist!

Nike and Honda aren't the only people doing hybrids now. Dave Bondi's AKASHI figure is a great smash-up of two of the worlds most noticeable characters, Mickey and Mario. The physical features of both melt together seamlessly as each lend a hand into creating something new. AKASHI stands a proud 9? tall and is limited to only 200 pieces.

To celebrate the launch of Mario Super Sluggers, Charles Martinet, the voice actor for Mario, Luigi, Wario, and more will be in attendance at the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan on August 24th, signing autographs and giving out a mysterious special gift from Nintendo to those who purchase the new Mario sports title.

Core Gaming Group, Nintendo's representative company in South Africa, launched two popular Wii titles at a press event held this past Friday in Johannesburg. In addition, after roughly a year of the world's best selling handheld console being absent from the South African market, Core Group relaunched the Nintendo DS Lite. The media briefing was presented by RJ van Spaandonk, the executive director of Core Group. RJ outlined the upcoming Wii releases, detailed the Nintendo DS Lite relaunch information and discussed the success that the Nintendo Wii has enjoyed in South Africa since its launch here in October 2007. The Nintendo DS Lite was relaunched in South Africa and will soon be available in stores. It will retail at R1 799 and is available in four colours: black, white, silver and pink.

Wii Wii Sports - 17,850,000 Wii Play - 9,230,000 Super Mario Galaxy - 5,190,000 Mario Party 8 - 4,350,000 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 4,300,000 Super Paper Mario - 2,160,000 Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - 2,000,000 Mario Strikers Charged - 1,650,000 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 1,140,000 Link's Crossbow Training - 1,070,000 Wii Fit - 1,050,000 Nintendo DS Nintendogs - 17,790,000 Pokemon Diamond & Pearl - 14,170,000 New Super Mario Bros. - 13,140,000 Brain Age - 11,710,000 Brain Age 2 - 9,840,000 Mario Kart DS - 9,670,000 Animal Crossing Wild World - 9,200,000 Super Mario 64 DS - 5,780,000 Big Brain Academy - 4,610,000 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 3,820,000 Pokemon Ranger - 2,610,000 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness - 1,540,000

9th Dec, 2008 Just what in the hell is going on with Mario and Peach? It was so simple back in the old NES days of Super Mario Bros. She got herself kidnapped, he went after her with the help of Luigi, and all ended happily ever after. Or so we thought. The thing is that it didn't really. It's become ever more apparent that since that first rescue things have only ever got messier, dirtier and more manipulative in their relationship. Far from the innocent damsel and hero set-up that appeared

20th Dec, 2007 Gaming is an up and down experience. Some years cram top quality titles into our every orifice until were bursting with videogame joy and have excess polygons dripping messily out of our ears, while some other years… Well, some other years are 1983. In 2007 though, weve had a very good year indeed. A scarily good year in fact. One which has provided us so much brilliance on every format that its a genuine worry that the laws of karmic balance will soon bring us a plague

Nintendo revealed six first party-published Wii games that have sold over a million copies worldwide on October 26. IGN reports five out of the six: 1. Wii Sports: 11.1 million 2. Wii Play: 6.3 million 3. Mario Party 8: 2.9 million 4. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree: 1.8 million 5. Mario Strikers Charged: 1.3 million IGN has apparently made an error and omitted the sixth title. According to user comments at IGN and Wikipedia, the missing title could be either The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (3.61 million), Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (1.82 million), or Super Paper Mario (1.74 million).