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.
DefaultPrime.com: "Gaijin Games have just announced the release date for the third installment in the Bit.Trip franchise, BIT.TRIP VOID. This game (coming to WiiWare), will be hitting the Wii Shop Channel just in time for the holidays on November 23rd, for a mere 600 Wii Points. At least you'll have something to do once you're done stuffing your face full of turkey and mashed potatoes."
LiveWii writes : " It is in any case clear that the commercial ambitions for Red Steel 2 are high from Ubisoft, Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot relying on no fewer than 1.5 million copies of the game are expected to be sold worldwide."
Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that Academy of Champions: Soccer for the Nintendo Wii has shipped to retailers nationwide.
Digital Spy writes: "It's not often you come away from a game grinning like a Cheshire cat, but you simply can't help it with Super Mario Bros Wii. It's certainly Mario as you've always known it, retaining its timeless side-scrolling gameplay and that charismatic and irresistible charm that we would expect from any of his adventures. At the same time though, it's Mario like you've never seen it before, with up to four players scarpering around the stage and battling for each prized power-up - and it's with others where the game shines."
IndustryGamers writes: "Although there's been a lot of talk about Wii weakness lately, both from analysts and Nintendo President Satoru Iwata himself, the leading video game retailer GameStop is confident that Nintendo's console will do well this holiday season. Speaking to IndustryGamers, Tony Bartel, Executive VP of Merchandising and Marketing for GameStop, said that the new $199 price will be the key for Nintendo."
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Icrontic takes a look at the new game releases for the week and highlights Lego Rock Band, Battle of Giants: Dragons, Band Hero, and Dragon Age: Origins.