Topic: Nintendo DS

Pencil and Paper as Good as Nintendo DS Brain-Training Games

Nintendo scored a surprising market success with its Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training title on the DS--not a typical slash/shoot'em-up game at all, but rather one designed to actively boost your mental prowess. Along with other ...READ»

Nintendo Goes to School: DS Classroom Turns Handheld Console Into Teaching Tool

Nintendo, never content to create gaming products that are simply for gaming, is taking its portable DS system to school. Partnering with program developer Sharp System Products, the company that turned the Wii into a home gym is ...READ»

New Handheld Device From Nintendo?

Despite the popularity of the Nintendo [TYO:7974] DS in the United States, Japanese buyers are apparently bored with the device and sales are sinking (especially in comparison to Sony's [NYSE:SNE] PSP). According to Wedbush Morgan ...READ»

Live from E3: Nintendo announces WiiMusic, WiiSports Resorts, Grand Theft Auto and more

Today is the first official day of E3 2008 and Nintendo kicked it off with their media briefing at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. After a montage of people “smiling”, Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president of Nintendo, U.S., ...READ»

Nintendo's Innovation Console: A Q&A With Reggie Fils-Aime

For the past several years, Nintendo executives have been touting such books as "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "Blue Ocean Strategy" as a way to explain why they've been zigging while everyone else zagged. That's why at last month's ...READ»

Design's New Hyperinteractive Audience

We've entered an age where designing for interaction means designing for distraction.READ»

• Brett Lovelady's ASTRO Design blog

Nintendo Super-Sizes the DSi

Nintendo's just announced a newer, bigger DS handheld--the DSi LL. The whole aim of a bigger machine is a bigger screen, of course, and Nintendo's delivered that with a 4.2-inch screen in a body that's still very ...READ»

Technology: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Show-Off for E3

The three game console creators have kicked off this year's E3 -- the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- with their respective press conferences. As the console war heats up, these press conferences gain new significance as the gaming ...READ»

Sony's Next Big Thing

Sony announced yesterday that their new PlayStation Portable would launch March 24 at a retail price of $249. To offset the high price point, it will ship with a 32MB memory stick, headphones, AC adaptor and other accessories. The ...READ»

E3 2008: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Press Conferences

Every summer at the E3 videogame event the big 3 platform holders have press conferences to try to capture the attention of gaming journalism, mainstream media, and the public. How did they fare this year? All three conferences held ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Gaming

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Gaming.READ»

New Colors for Nintendo DS; Accessories for XBox Rock Band

While those of us in the States were stocking up on chips, charcoal and frozen meat last week, Nintendo quietly confirmed that it will begin shipping its Nintendo DS handhelds in three colors in its European market: red, turquoise and green.READ»

New Colors for Nintendo DS; Accessories for XBox Rock Band

While those of us in the States were stocking up on chips, charcoal and frozen meat last week, Nintendo (TYO: 7974) quietly confirmed that it will begin shipping its Nintendo DS handhelds in three colors in its European market: red, ...READ»

One More Killer App for Nintendo: Saving Lives

The American Heart Association wants to create a program to teach CPR using the Wii, while Bayer has created a blood-glucose monitor that plugs into the Nintendo DS.READ»

Datebook

Critical calendar listings for March 2005.READ»

Apple Takes on Sony and Nintendo with iPhone 3.0 Gaming

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event today made it abundantly clear that the iPhone is evolving into a gaming machine. Here's why:READ»

Microsoft's First Move

Last night Microsoft announced that they had hired Hironobu Sakaguchi to create two games for their upcoming Xbox Next. Sakaguchi is the creator of the bestselling series Final Fantasy. And so Microsoft makes their first move for ...READ»

In Scribblenauts, Your Vocabulary Controls the Game

Gaming interfaces have seen a renaissance of late thanks to the Nintendo Wii and touch screen controls. But Scribblenauts may be the first game to use your vocabulary as the interface.READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Consumer Electronics.READ»

Sony Impresses, Nintendo Disappoints at E3

Sony unveiled the PSP Go, a motion controller, and a slew of impressive titles--including a new one from Rockstar, creators of the Grand Theft Auto franchise--during today's E3 video game expo. While Nintendo, maker of the leading ...READ»

• Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)

Fast 50 2008: Nintendo

For the past two decades, the history of the video game industry has been as predictable as most of its products: More advanced technology creates more powerful consoles, which run more realistic games. It was all about leveling up. ...READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Boys Just Want to Have Fun

In the world of boy's play, Hot Wheels and Matchbox just don't cut it anymore. And neither does Batman, nor Superman action figures. So what's a toy maker to do? Mattel has presumably figured out a solution. If boys are playing ...READ»

Could Rumored "PSP Go" Save Sony's Tiny Games Machine?

Sony's PlayStation Portable has had a few tweaks and adjustments throughout its life, and if we can trust a new rumor, then it's about to undergo a radical design overhaul. If it ditches the proprietary UMD drive, as is speculated, ...READ»

PS3 Sales Rocketing, Leaving Nintendo Lost in the Dust?

We knew it was likely to happen, we just didn't realize how big the effect was going to be: According to some reports, the PS3 make-over and price drop has resulted in sales rocketing 1000%. Is Sony beating its gaming rivals? The ...READ»

With New 'Need for Speed' and 'Tiger Woods' Editions, EA Embraces Online Games

As its Need for Speed racing franchise reaches 100 million units sold, gaming giant Electronic Arts reveals its move onto the Internet next year with "Need for Speed World Online." READ»