This year, Dragon Quest will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The very first game in the series, Dragon Quest (also known as Dragon Warrior in North America for a long period of time), was released in 1986. To commemorate the occasion, Square Enix will be releasing an anniversary collection in Japan similar to the Super Mario All-Stars collection Nintendo released on Wii last year. A... more.

When the Wii 2 (aka Project Café) launches next year, it will likely be met with long lines, hardware shortages, a new franchise or two, and the promise of hotly anticipated sequels. Yes, this is the routine of every Nintendo console, and it’s why we love these game machines so darn much. While nothing official has been announced, rumors suggest t... more.

With the Wii wheezing its dying breaths, Nintendo is finally nearing the announcement of the console’s successor. On June 7 at 9 a.m. PST, Nintendo will hold a media briefing ahead of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. It was during this same event that the company announced the Wii in 2006, and it’s expected that Nintendo will make a similar console a... more.

Media Create Co. this week said the Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 ranked third in hardware sales in the latest Japan retail data amid an outage of the Playstation Network division. The PS3 sold 23,954 units between Apr. 25 and May 1 to rank No. 3 in overall hardware sales. The hardware ranked two titles in the top 10, including El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron at No. 3 and Konami Corp.’... more.

For those who may have missed it....Nintendo is scheduled to release a new video game system early next year, with a playable model set to debut next month in Los Angeles at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Just in case you missed the announcement and the smorgasbord of credible rumors that have hit the internet, Here's the rundown: It's significantly more powerful than the Xbox 360 ... more.

Nintendo has dropped the price of its Wii console to $150. The move is yet another in a long line of strategies on Nintendo’s part to try and ramp up the once-astronomical demand for its console. The only issue is, I don’t see a $150 price tag on the Wii helping out all that much. The console will undoubtedly see a short-term boost in sales, but this is a long-term game. And over the long-term... more.

The rumors were mostly right. On May 15, Nintendo will cut the price of the Wii from $200 to $150, but it's not a straightforward price drop. Instead, Nintendo will replace Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort with Mario Kart Wii as the pack-in game. Nintendo will also throw in one Wii wheel to enhance the kart racing experience. Wii Sports, which had been bundle... more.

Nintendo will officially drop the price of its Wii game console from $199.99 to $149.99, effective May 15.Details of the price drop — including the effective date — leaked online last month and retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and Toys R Us lowered the price on the console to $169.99 two weeks ago.Since its debut in 2006, the Wii has sold more than 35 million units in the U.S. alone. Sales bega... more.

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A new rumor about Nintendo's Project Cafe refers to it as "Nintendo Feel," and claims that its controller possesses a special touch screen with the ability to simulate textures. There are rumors a-plenty about Nintendo's successor to the wildly popular Wii - tentatively code-named Project Cafe - but so far, said rumors have some common threads. Two of said common threads are present first and for... more.