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British cooking sensation and all round nice chap Jamie Oliver will be immortalised on the Nintendo DS handheld, thanks to a new 'game' being crafted by Phil Harrison's outfit Atari.

What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver is the name of the cooking guide-game thing, which will see users learning to Cook 100 of Oliver's favourite recipes - some of which are 'pukka', we'd imagine.

Beyond the recipes themselves, the DS title will also include shopping advice, and space to save your own recipes, wh . . . Read more

Nintendo has partnered with FujiFilm to launch the Digital Camera Print Channel, a new service for Japanese Wii consoles that allows users to order prints of their online photos, as well as business cards featuring a user's Mii avatar.

Users can transfer photos to the console from digital cameras and cell phones, and design the products using template sets provided in the new channel, placing orders directly through the new interface.

The current list of offerings include individual photo . . . Read more

In scenes that would have been somewhat unimaginable just a few years ago, when the UK was still one of Nintendo’s weakest major markets around the world, all but one of the games in the top ten this week are for a Nintendo format – five of those published by Nintendo themselves.

Still at number one thanks to renewed stock levels, Wii Fit has seen sales slip since the previous week. The multiformat Lego Indiana Jones has returned to the number one spot in the combined format charts, follo . . . Read more

Ahead of its E3 media briefing scheduled for July 15th, Nintendo has announced MotionPlus, a new accessory for its standard Wii-mote that it says will "more quickly and accurately" track motions in 3D space.

The accessory clips on to the end of the Wii-mote 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."

Nintendo says the addon . . . Read more

Ubisoft is coming out with Play Zone, yet another set of party games for the Nintendo Wii. Sports Party (Summer Sports: Paradise Island, in Europe) will be the first release in this little "party."

Says Ubisoft marketing director John Parkes: "With our new Play Zone party titles, the Wii gamers who like to spend time with friends and family will have fun with the Wii through innovative and involving mini-games."

(Source: http://www.nintendowiifan…ubisoft-announces-play-zo . . . Read more

We're guessing that not too many kids list air traffic controller very high in their list of things they want to be when they grow up. It doesn't have that same kind of flare that astronaut, firefighter, or even airline pilot does. But maybe that's because in America we haven't had a successful series of air traffic controller video games. Well that problem might be solved later this year when Majesco releases Air Traffic Chaos, a game all about the stress-inducing, life in your hands job of bei . . . Read more

Kids like games. Kids like texting. Kids like Nintendo. Now Disney is hoping to turn this holy kiddie trinity into cold hard cash and a warm fuzzy virtual community with the introduction of DGamer.

A new service launched Friday that essentially brings the chat and connection features of MSN or Xbox Live to the younger set, DGamer isn't just an online community tailored for Disney fans. According to Disney spokesperson Michelle Jacob, the service can also turn anyone's Nintendo DS into a text- . . . Read more

Unless the dust has settled so thick you can't even see it now, you probably woke up to find your Wii once again flashing that blue light, indicating you have a new message. Thankfully this isn't some new contest for Check Mii Out or another Mario Kart Wii friend invite, but rather an unexpected, but oh-so-welcome surprise from Nintendo: a new Wii Channel is now available to download!

If our latest feature has you drooling for some of those upcoming WiiWare games, then the Nintendo Channel mi . . . Read more

According to a recent interview EDGE Magazine, Ubisoft claimed the the recently announced and most likely cross-platform Prince of Persia Prequel would not be released for the Wii, as to not make a messy port as some critics claim their last Wii-ported game to be. ( Prince of Persia: Rival Swords ) Ubisoft says that they, instead, want to create a Wii-specific Prince of Persia game, but the idea has not been given the green light as of yet.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/05/next-princ . . . Read more

Ubisoft is the latest developer to jump on the WiiWare bandwagon. They are remaking the 2005 PC shooter Protothea. The game is a top-down vertical-scrolling shooter in which you control a spaceship charged with the challenge of taking down a huge, deadly asteroid called Maqno 01 and simultaneously disrupting the evil plans of a political faction called "The Core."

The game is scheduled to launch with the WiiWare service on May 12th, and will sell for 1,000 points. ($10 USD)

(Continuation S . . . Read more

....it's more likely than you think!

"Reports have been circulating across the Net that Peekaboo Pole Dancing -- a company that produces home pole-dancing kits endorsed by Carmen Electra -- is looking for a partner to help license their concept to create a pole-dancing fitness game for the Wii. This makes a certain amount of sense. Wii Fit is already way too hard to take seriously as a piece of exercise equipment, and pole dancing is already way too hard to take seriously as an exercise routi . . . Read more

"Hand over the Nintendo and without any effort, you have a window of about two hours of peace, with your child doing something quietly constructive.

Except, it's not. What is constructive about playing football on a tiny screen, or washing a virtual dog, or watching a hideous pink pony trot around a pink palace decorated with shells?

Fighting to get onto the machine was bad enough, but it was worse when they were forcibly dragged from it.

Our Nintendo had taken the guise of a small but . . . Read more

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