Nintendo Connection Tour Photo's Coming Soon
Melbourne Australia, 17 July, 2008 - After a Nationwide Tour that saw players of all ages compete in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl Challenge, The Nintendo Connection Tour 08 has come to a close. Stay tuned for photo's of the event and the daily Super Smash Bros. Brawl champions!
Nintendo E3 Announcements
Melbourne Australia, 17 July, 2008 - Nintendo recently unveiled the following exciting announcements at the E3 Media and Business Summit in Los Angeles:
Wii MotionPlus
An enhancement for the Wii Remote controller, Wii MotionPlus, will more quickly and accurately reflect motions in a 3-D space. The Wii MotionPlus accessory attached to the end of the Wii Remote and, combined with the accelerometer and the sensor bar, allows for more comprehensive tracking of a player's arm position and orientation, providing players with an unmatched level of precision and immersion.
The long awaited sequel to Wii Sports is coming - Wii Sports Resort. Wii Sports Resort will come packaged with the Wii MotionPlus accessory to provide incredibly realistic motion experience in new games including Sword Play, Power Cruising and Disc Dog.
Animal Crossing makes its way to Wii with Animal Crossing: City Folk. Connect with other players in new ways using WiiConnect 24, or chat with other players on the new WiiSpeak microphone as you move into a fun community populated by quirky animals.
Also available on Wii will be Wii Music – jam to tunes even if you don’t know anything about music! With more than 60 different instruments you can strum, shake, tap and drum along in a musical playground where there are no mistakes. Come up with creative arrangements which you can send to your friends via WiiConnect24.
Nintendo DS remains on top with more than 40 million units sold worldwide. New titles for Nintendo DS include Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia. Play as a Pokémon Ranger as you work to help people in a new area called Almia Region, meet and capture all kinds of different Pokémon as you progress to the highest Ranger rank: Top Ranger.
Coming exclusively to Nintendo DS will be a new entry in Rockstar Games’ award winning Grand Theft Auto franchise - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Another exclusive title for Nintendo DS will be Activision’s Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, and Nintendo DS will also welcome wild and wonderful critters with Spore Creatures from Electronic Arts.
LATEST VIRTUAL CONSOLE AND
WiiWARE GAMES AVAILABLE ON Wii
Melbourne, Australia, 18 July, 2008 – One new WiiWare game is now available for download on Wii.
Pirates: The Key of Dreams is a frantic nautical shoot-em-up. Sail your way across the Caribbean, cannons blazing, looting booty, running blockades, and ultimately, battling Blackbeard himself.
The player takes control of a Navy Captain sent deep undercover as a ruthless Pirate, in order to seek out and retrieve The Key of Dreams, a valuable and dangerous cursed artifact. Rescue castaways to bolster your ship's crew, gaining performance increases to your navigation, weaponry, structural integrity and cartography skills. Collect increasingly powerful weaponry including Rockets, Mines, Chain Shot, Saw Blades and a Flamethrower to hurl destruction into the path of your enemies.
Play against three of your scurvy friends or AI opponents in pitched multiplayer battles over 35 levels, in seven themed environments. Choose from different ship types that reflect your play style. Play in turbo mode if you're Pirate enough!
Melbourne, Australia, 11 July, 2008 – The Virtual Console games NEOGEO ART OF FIGHTING 2 and NEOGEO NINJA COMMANDO are now available for download on Wii.
COOKING MADE EASY WITH
NINTENDO DS
Australia, 26 June, 2008 – Not sure what meal to cook today? Let Nintendo DS® help you choose, prepare and cook a variety of international dishes with Cooking Guide™: Can’t decide what to eat?. Available 3 July 2008, Cooking Guide: Can’t decide what to eat? is an interactive cook book on Nintendo DS, with more than 250 recipes and your own expert chef!
The Nintendo DS chef will guide you through simple steps to help you prepare a variety of dishes, as the Nintendo DS becomes your cooking companion.
Browse the world map to select which country you would like a recipe from; choose your recipe via difficulty levels, so you can start with an easy or challenging recipe depending on your preference. You can even select your recipe by your favourite ingredients, for example choose chicken to see the range of chicken based recipes that you can cook. Or why not choose your recipe based on how many calories you want, or don’t want, to consume!
Once you’ve selected a recipe, you’ll be given a list of utensils you will need to cook the dish. If you’re not sure what a particular utensil is, simply tap on the name of it, to see a photograph and a brief explanation.
Next, check what ingredients you require, Cooking Guide: Can’t decide what to eat? will provide a check list, which you can actually mark off with the Nintendo DS stylus. If you are missing ingredients you can put them on the ‘Shopping List’ and even take your Nintendo DS with you to the supermarket. Once you’ve checked your ingredients you’re ready to work with the Nintendo DS chef on your meal.
As your hands will be busy preparing and cooking the ingredients, you can speak into the Nintendo DS’ microphone to progress through each stage of the recipe. The Nintendo DS chef will take you through each step with photos on screen and easy to follow spoken instructions.
Surprise the family with delicious meal ideas, whether you are an experienced cook, or learning to cook for the first time, Cooking Guide: Can’t decide what to eat? has something for everyone. Use the illustrated ‘Cooking A-Z’ feature to learn everything you need to know in the kitchen. The ‘Cooking A-Z’ feature will help you find substitute ingredients, and it can even explain specific techniques – how to julienne carrots and devein prawns - via tutorial videos.
If you’re pressed for time, Cooking Guide: Can’t decide what to eat? can recommend a recipe that’s quick to prepare and cook! So now there’s no excuse not to be eating delicious meals every time, as Cooking Guide: Can’t decide what to eat? caters for any meal situation.
Become A Pokémon With Nintendo DS
- Two New Pokémon games and two new colours for Nintendo DS -
For more than a decade, Pokémon fans have caught, trained and battled Pokémon, now fans will have the chance to experience life from a Pokémon’s point of view with Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness.
Both games feature randomly generated dungeons that make every mission unique, so new and returning players are sure to find an endless array of game play possibilities. In this new pair of Pokémon adventures, players are transported to a secluded land inhabited only by Pokémon. After taking a personality test that determines which Pokémon best represents their personality, players will begin their adventure and explore the land as an actual Pokémon! Throughout the journey, players must discover why they have been turned into a Pokémon, all the while trying to stop a Pokémon who is determined to stop time and plunge the world into darkness.
Also new to Nintendo DS 19 June are two new colours - Blue/Black and Red/Black – for a limited time only.
Joining Polar White, Black, Ice Blue, and Pink, Blue/Black and Red/Black adds two cool new colour options to the Nintendo DS range. Nintendo DS’ slick look, innovative touch screen, Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, PictoChat™ software and voice recognition features have reinvented the way people think about video games.
Nintendo DS has sold more than 1.1 million units* in Australia since its launch in June 2006, and is home to unique games including Animal Crossing™ Wild World, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass®, New Super Mario Bros.™ and also the Touch! Generations range which includes Brain Training™, More Brain Training™, Sight Training™, Tetris® DS, Clubhouse Games™, and nintendogs™. Touch! Generations games are easy to play and fun for anyone.
Wii Welcomes
Nintendo Channel
Melbourne,Australia, 29 May, 2008 – Arriving 30 May on Wii™ will be Nintendo Channel, an interactive guide to what’s new in the world of Nintendo. Downloadable free of charge via Wii Shop Channel, Nintendo Channel allows you to watch videos, search for games, download game demos to your Nintendo DS® and recommend games you’ve played.
Watch videos – from trailers, mini-documentaries, TV commercials, product demonstrations and game play videos. When you access Nintendo Channel you can view the latest videos, simply click on the one you want to watch for it to play. More information about the video content will be forthcoming so stay tuned!
Search for games – browse the game guide pages to find information on your favourite Wii and Nintendo DS games. Search by release date, platform, publisher, genre, or by keywords. Once you find the game you’re looking for, click on the game’s title to find out more detailed information.
DS Download Play – using the DS Download Service, you can download game demos and videos on to your Nintendo DS! Choose a game demo, select ‘DS Download Play’ on your Nintendo DS, and moments later you’ll be playing the latest game demos. Your demos will be playable until the Nintendo DS is turned off.
Recommend games you’ve played – after you’ve played a Wii game for over an hour, the Nintendo Channel allows you to rate it. Everybody’s opinion counts! Enter your gender and age, rate the game, and recommend if you think it should be played alone or with friends. Results are then graphed and will be published on an ongoing basis to help you find games based on other people’s recommendations.
By accessing Nintendo Channel, you will be kept up-to-date on all the latest information for past, present and future games on all Nintendo platforms.
Wii is far more than just a game console; explore the other Wii Channels including, Mii Channel, Everybody Votes Channel, News Channel, Forecast Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Internet Channel, Photo Channel and Mii Contest Channel to discover entertainment and information that the whole family can enjoy.
Please note that the above URLs are a reference only, and some Australian content may vary from US content.
A compatible internet connection is required to use the Nintendo Channel. Certain features of this channel also require that the Internet Channel be installed on your Wii.
Nintendo Announces
WiiWare Launch for Australia
Nintendo’s new game download service for consumers and developers
Melbourne Australia, 20 May, 2008 - Now the Wii Shop Channel offers Wii™ owners more, with today’s launch of WiiWare™.
WiiWare is a new game download service, accessible via the Wii Shop Channel, where users can download a variety of new games in exchange for Wii Points. The Wii Shop Channel is free to access and is where WiiWare and Virtual Console games can be downloaded.
Whereas Virtual Console allows consumers to download classic games, WiiWare offers brand new titles, and is also an opportunity for video game developers to create new games for Wii. Developers, no matter how big or small, will be able to create new downloadable games to be sold through the Wii Shop Channel. Changing the way developers create Wii games and how players access them, WiiWare will make it possible for smaller, creative titles to take centre stage. The combination of low development barriers and unique game experiences, through use of the Wii remote, will enable developers to try new ideas with lower risk in a quicker, more creative and affordable way.
WiiWare games will come from celebrated developers such as Square Enix, creators of FINAL FANTASY® CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a King™; as well as up and coming developers such as Frontier, creators of the unique platform adventure Lost Winds™, and other independent developers with great game ideas.
The first WiiWare games available include:
Lost Winds™
Star Soldier R
Dr. Mario & Germ Buster™
Toki Tori Take 2
TV Show King
FINAL FANTASY® CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a King™
WiiWare also empowers consumers to determine with their Wii Points which games have the ability to become the next big thing. Consumers will assist in the creative process as their choices will directly determine the success of current projects and direct the plans for future ones.
There will be something for everyone on WiiWare with a wide range of games from varying genres, concepts and price levels.
A broadband internet connection is required to access WiiWare.
DOWNLOADABLE DEMO GAMES AT
NINTENDO WI-FI CONNECTION
HOTSPOTS
Melbourne, Australia October 30th 2007 - New downloadable demo games are available at Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots around the country.
Take your Nintendo DS to any Hotspot location to download and enjoy the fun and challenge of the latest Nintendo DS Games, including Brain Training, More Brain Training, Clubhouse Games, Picross DS, Big Brain Academy, Custom Robo and a Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass video.
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots also feature unique Animal Crossing items you can download to your copy of the game, and a special Nintendogs function that allows Nintendogs owners to experience the joys of Bark Mode without having someone else physically there to play with.
If you have a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection compatible game, you can use it at a Hotspot to interact and play with other players around the world.
Nintendo DS users can also enjoy Wi-Fi service to Nintendo DS at over 1,000 Telstra Wireless Hotspot destinations across Australia. Telstra Wireless Hotspot detinations do not allow the download of demo games, but you can use this complimentary service to access the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to interact and play with players around the world.
Information for
"Wii Remote Jacket"
Australia, Melbourne, October 2, 2007 - Nintendo is committed to ensuring an innovative and unique game play experience on the Wii. To help players adapt to this new style of play and provide additional protection we have created a protective cover for the Wii Remote - the "Wii Remote Jacket".
We recommend to fit the "Wii Remote Jacket" to the Wii Remote in order to enhance your grip and provide additional protection if the Wii Remote is accidentally thrown or dropped during game play.
The "Wii Remote Jacket" is being offered free of charge to all Wii owners.
To request a "Wii Remote Jacket", contact NINTENDO CUSTOMER SERVICE on (03) 9730 9822 Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm (EST)
Please have your Wii console serial number ready when you phone.
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