Early Friday morning, Harmonix and MTV Games announced that a three pack of tracks from The White Stripes and singles from The Damned and Kasabian will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. Tracks from No Doubt and Dropkick Murphys will also be available for download next week for Rock Band Unplugged on PSP.
Shigeru Miyamoto has stated that the development team are wrapping things up on Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Nintendo and Papa John's are partnering up for a giveaway of 300 Wii systems with Wii Sports Resort. Entries are now being accepted in the Wii Sports Resort Sweepstakes, where you can win a Wii bundle, which includes:
The Resident Evil Archives series gives Wii gamers the opportunity to play classic Resident Evil games at a great value price. The first release in the Resident Evil Archives series saw the GameCube remake of the original Resident Evil available with an updated control scheme, and the next instalment will offer the same for the GameCube's other exclusive Resident Evil release, Resident Evil Zero.
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has offered a prediction about the sales of New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
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Says Miyamoto - "It was all thanks to the graphical capacity of Wii console. If two players or more are simultaneously controlling Mario and Luigi in the same screen on a platformer game, the slower player will be left behind by the faster player, beyond the game screen. This time the screen zooms in and out accordingly, thanks to the capacity of the Wii console. The camera can zoom out as far as three times wider where you can see a very small Mario running around, and zoom in to show huge Mario and Luigi. The camera will work automatically and simultaneously, according to the position of four players. That's how we realized a Mario game which can be played by up to four players at the same time."
After battling it out against hundreds of hopefuls from across the country, today 19 year old Josh Stevens from Berkshire is crowned Britain's Best Nintendo Gamer. The final of the first ever Nintendo tournament saw the Berkshire teenager outstrip the competition to take home the prestigious title of Britain's Best Nintendo Gamer, together with a trip for five to the home of Nintendo in Japan, worth £10,000.
Highlights from February include the mind-meltingly mental Half-Minute Hero on PlayStation Portable (PSP). This brilliantly original title fuses classic gaming mechanics with bite-sized thirty-second gaming to create one of the format's most audacious twists on the Role-Playing Game (RPG) genre. Animal Kororo, a ludicrously cute Puzzle game will also be published on Nintendo DS this month.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade has a cast of 10+ characters and is a highly artistic, beautifully drawn, side-scrolling action RPG that is exclusive to the Wii. VGB runs you through both the main characters and their enemies.