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It was announced by Square Enix that they would be releasing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time in Europe and other PAL territories in March this year. The game will be exclusively only for Nintendo DS and Wii.

Both the Nintendo Ds and Wii owners will be able to play against each other as it will be the first cross platform multiplayer adventures. The game will have advanced features of 3D graphics and players from different platforms that can be connected for playing using the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection mode. Players can chose from over 300 different items and costume combinations to add to the fun and hey can play in English, French, German or Spanish.

Electronic Arts is the latest major games publisher which has announced a number of Wii titles. It will make use of Nintendo’s much-improved Wii Motion Plus motion control tech. Sega had also announced the Virtual Tennis for Wii this month.

Wii’s latest control technology could be seen in Nintendo’s own Wii Sports Resort. It would be the first title by Nintendo to use this technology. It will be released in May which will be followed afterwards by Sega’s Virtual Tennis. EA has announced that Tiger Woods 10 and a new tennis title whose name is yet to be confirmed will be among the first titles that would support Wii MotionPlus controller tech.

The black version of Nintendo DS Lite (officially known as the “DSLite Onyx”) has been discontinued by Nintendo. According to a newsletter, a copy of which was intercepted and reprinted by Kotaku, the employees have been alerted about Nintendo’s choice to end the sale of the product. The company has also reminded them that once the current stock of the black DS Lite has been sold, they are to remove all the advertisements featuring the black color from the stores.

Kotaku has pointed out that Nintendo has already discontinued the White DS Lite and replaced it by the Silver DS Lite If this is true then it could also mean that the Onyx DS Lite has been discontinued to make way for the black DSi.

Mario and Sonic are coming together in the officially licensed Olympic-themed smash hit Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. It takes the players to the host city of the official 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Vancouver, Canada. The gaming experience invites players of all ages to participate in some of the most intense winter competitions available fro Nintendo platform.

Both Nintendo DS and Wii gamers will have a unique experience playing on each platform having its own specific gameplay features and modes. Players of all skill levels will enjoy both the Wii and Nintendo DS controls, in both single and multiplayer gaming modes. One of the new features found in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the inclusion of the Wii Balance Board which can be used in some events in the Wii version of the game providing more interaction and a realistic gaming experience.

Nintendo has achieved huge success in the last few years mainly as both his Wii console and the DS handheld have always dominated the sales chart ever since they have been launched. The Wii will always hold its top position and the DSi which has been recently launched will also attract more customers.

A wide variety of content backs up this success but most of the companies release their titles which are aimed at only a certain territory like Japan or North America. This of course creates a discontentment among the gamers of other regions that are deprived of their favorite games. Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aime spoke to GameDaily about this problem and stated that games are targeted at those regions where they are expected to sell well. However, his company was trying to please everyone and release games in all the territories.

Lego videogame series will have a hew entry with Nintendo DS, as announced by Warner Bros. interactive Entertainment and series creators TT Games. Legos Battles is a squad game based on the three toys of Lego. These are Lego Castle, Lego Pirates and Lego Space. All these three themes have been mixed together in the game.
You may thus, expect to see aliens, pirates, ninjas, dragons who may battle side-by-side in the games. The game will allow the players to build bases giving the game a more strategic nature. The wireless DS multiplayer card play system supports the multiplayer facility in the game. Legos Battles will be developed by Hellbent Games and is expected to be released this summer.

Electronic Arts, the videogame maker that hasn’t made any revenue for seven quarters and is flaking 10 percent of its work force, is looking to women and Nintendo Co.’s Wii to repeal its fortunes. The fitness game “EA Sports Active,” set for a May release exclusively for the Wii, will be marketed to women with a blitz “at least” as large as the annual campaign for bestseller “Madden NFL,” EA Sports president Peter Moore said.

To hone the appeal to women, Moore enlisted television host Winfrey’s personal trainer, Bob Greene, to help develop exercises for the game and serve as a spokesman. He also hired a former marketing director for Paris-based L’Oreal SA, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, and is negotiating deals with sporting goods stores to sell the game.

The nation may be short of cash, but it also needs to get into shape – at least that’s what the ELSPA Gfk-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 suggests, with Nintendo’s Wii Fit clinging on to top spot for the second week on the trot following a hike in sales of 21 per cent. It’s the first time Wii Fit has retained its place at the top of the charts, though this is the sixth time it has been the UK number one. And this week it’s not the only fitness title featuring in the top ten, with Ubisoft’s My Fitness Coach debuting in seventh position.


It’s also a good week for second placed Call of Duty: World at War succeeds in fending off the advances of EA’s Skate 2, which enters the listings in its debut week in third spot. EA claims three titles in the top five (bettered only by Nintendo’s five), with FIFA 09 in fourth and The Lord of the Rings: Conquest at number five.

The ELSPA Gfk-ChartTrack All Formats Top Ten in full (week ending January 24th):

1. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
2. Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
3. Skate 2 (EA)
4. FIFA 09 (EA)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (EA)
6. Wii Play (Nintendo)
7. My Fitness Coach (Nintendo)
8. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
9. Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos)
10. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo)

Everyone knows the Playstation 3 has one key thing over the Wii, a Blu-ray player. But according to a recent report, the PS3 will soon have one more thing above the others: local stereoscopic 3D gaming. It's a development that’s not terribly astonishing, but it's interesting enough that its competitors are sure to be watching. 

According to Neil Schneider, the CEO of 3D tech purveyor MTBS, Sony will begin supporting their Blitz Tech 3D engine on the console in 2009. Expected to be a downloadable firmware update, the tech will permit players to advance their console to stereoscopic 3D visuals and inevitably, to Blu-ray content on 3D.

The assortment of the old time devoted gaming is gradually dying out. While there were games out there for rest of us, the Wii and its lineup are smiling all the way to the bank. Since November of 2006, the Wii has sold 15.4 million consoles in the US alone, and if given choice you would buy Nintendo any day just as well. In the month November 2008, Four of the games made for the console were in the Top 10 best sellers.
Wii Play took No.3 with more than 796,000 units sold, Wii Fit at No. 4 with more 697,000 units sold, Mario Kart grabbing No.5 with 637,000 units sold, and near the rear was Wii Music at No. 9 with more than 297,000 sold.