Category: Nintendo

Tales of the Abyss is a franchise that’s been around for a long time; however, it seems to be forgotten about a surprising amount. This may be due to the lack of coverage of titles for this franchise, or because the last major release was many moons ago now. However, NamcoBandai have now released some…

Building up to 15th July, when the most anticipated ending to the hugely popular franchise hits our cinema screens, EA have released more screenshots and a new trailer for the movie-game tie in. The screens show the Wizarding World of Harry Potter ablaze, with Hogwarts on fire and Voldemort and his evil army taking over…

HMV are offering 10% off 3DS games when a store Mii is picked up via streetpass. In a clever use of marketing and to further promote the streetpass feature on Nintendo’s third dimension console, any person to have picked up one of the Mii’s at HMV’s participating stores, will receive the discount on 3DS games.

Today sees the Twentieth Birthday of everybody’s favourite blue hedgehog. In 1991 we first saw Sonic run through Green Hill Zone on the Mega Drive and he only had the jump and roll to his name. 20 years on and we are waiting expectantly for the next instalment in one of VGN’s favourite Videogame series.…

Along with Batman and Catwoman, it has emerged that Robin will be a playable character in the follow-up to 2008’s Batman Arkham Asylum. For customers in the USA who pre-order the game at Best Buy stores, will be treated to the bonus of the caped crusader’s sidekick – Robin. The good news about this is…

The behemoth that is Pop Cap’s ridiculously addictive game – Bejeweled – is having it’s third instalment to the major consoles this year. This marks the first time the series has seen a simultaneous console release. Since the game was launched just over 10 years ago, the series has been played by an estimated half…

Jewel Quest IV (Heritage) brings the popular mystery puzzler back to the Nintendo DS. This time there are over 175 puzzle boards to play through in order to solve a family mystery. The game goes on a whirlwind tour of Europe’s exotic and ancient hotspot and includes three gem swapping modes, with a surprise on…

Nintendo UK have announced this week’s new downloadable content across their online networks. With one truly big hitter that will take many gamers back over a decade to an era before mobile phones and black and white handhelds and three other titles for most of the Nintendo networks.

Mastertronic, a leading independent publisher of unique and challenging videogames has today announced that they will be releasing a new game this summer on the Nintendo DS – May’s Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville. May’s Mysteries is a new puzzle adventure where our hero embarks on an adventure to find her missing brother.

Little is known about the Wii U at the moment save for the controller. At E3 we weren’t even shown the console until after the conference. Since E3 however Nintendo and a few well known developers have given us an insight to the wonder machine. Firstly Nintendo have confirmed that the disk reader in the…