Thought you could escape this year’s E3 without hearing a Mario Party announcement? Think again. Nintendo has just announced Mario Party 9 for the Wii.
After a much needed break, Mario and company are back in a pretty standard looking party game. As usual, there’ll be themed boards, a stack of mini games and annoying computer opponents who are impossible to beat.
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Good news for Wii-owning fans of everyone’s favourtie limbless hero, Rayman. Ubisoft have officially confirmed that it’s forthcoming platformer, Rayman Origins, will be coming to the Wii. Rayman Origins was originally planned to be only available via the Xbox 360 Live Arcade and the Playstation Network, but after several retailers leaked box art for the game, Ubisoft confirmed that the it was indeed headed to retail and on the Wii to boot. Continue Reading…
It has been revealed via Andriasang that a sequel to the post-humously popular NES beat-em-up River City Ransom is currently in development. This comes 22 years after the release of the original game. It has even been reported that the developers, Miracle Kidz, will have members of the original development studio on board. Unfortunately all that is known about the release of the game is that it will be available for console some time this year and for PC some time in 2012. Continue Reading…
Fans of mostly useless pink balls rejoice! Nintendo have announced a new Kirby game for Wii. So far details are thin on the ground, but it looks to be a return to the typical 2D Kirby gameplay style and traditional Kirby visuals that we all know and tolerate. It’s being developed by HAL Laboratories, which makes sense seeing as they’ve been behind most major Kirby titles.
As I’m sure you know, us Australians don’t even have Kirby’s latest Wii outing, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, which is, by most account, all kinds of awesome. We’ll be seeing that one on our shores February 24.
Nintendo Australia have announced in an email newsletter that the Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition will indeed be heading to Australia. In addition to this, there will also be new limited edition 25th Anniversary t-shirts added to the Club Nintendo website.
For those who missed our original story on the Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition, this pack will feature a Wii port of the original SNES Super Mario All Stars, Continue Reading…
Nintendo of Australia have announced that a limited edition Red Wii bundle will indeed be heading our way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Mario. Not only will the bundle contain the limited edition red Wii, but also the new Wii Remote Plus, which is essentially a Wii Remote with the Wii Motion Plus add-on already built into the controller. On top of this, the Wii will also have the 25th Anniversary Edition of Super Mario Bros pre-installed. Now this one’s quite special as Australia will be the only region outside Japan that will get this game. Continue Reading…
The latest issue of Nintendo Power has revealed some new details on Donkey Kong Country Returns. Chief among these for Donkey Kong fans is the return of Cranky Kong, the bitter old ape first introduced in the original Donkey Kong Country. It was also revealed that Cranky will be the only returning Kong, besides Donkey and Diddy of course. This means no Dixie, Funky or all those weird Kongs from Donkey Kong 64 that no one really cares about anyway. Continue Reading…
Remember the days of bloody hands and broken Nintendo 64 joysticks? Well if you do, then you’ll probably be very pleased to hear that Mario Party 2 has recently been spotted on Nintendo of Europe’s Q4 release list.
Mario’s second Nintendo 64 party is due out on the Wii’s Virtual Console sometime during December and will most-likely cost 1000 Nintendo Points. The title features six playable characters, six-themed boards, 65 mini Continue Reading…
