Nintendo Weekend Warrior – entering the Hall of Fame

20 years after Nintendo launched the Game Boy, the immensely popular portable gaming device has now been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of an elite list of legendary playthings. An honor well-deserved. Seeking to continue their hardware success, Nintendo has had another busy week, topped off with updates from three of their biggest execs.

20 years after Nintendo launched the Game Boy, the immensely popular portable gaming device has now been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of an elite list of legendary playthings. An honor well-deserved. Seeking to continue their hardware success, Nintendo has had another busy week, topped off with updates from three of their biggest execs.

• Weekend downloads line-up: DSi and WiiWare. Link
• Modern Warfare: Reflex
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Wii gets new title, boxart. Link
• Watch: Eight minutes of Modern Warfare: Reflex footage. Link
• Miyamoto’s wish fulfilled: Multiplayer on New Super Mario Bros. Wii thanks to Wii’s “graphical capacity.” Link
• Dragon Quest IX tops global software sales, Madden gets huge boost in US. Link
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney being ported to Wii? Link
• WiiWare demos in Nintendo’s plans. Link
• Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
• New Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks trailer features armored spirit Zelda. Link
• Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks: day 1 swag: feather stylus. Link
• Atlus announces North American release for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Link
• Three new Okamiden videos released. Link
• Sparkles, Vikings, and Dragons in this week’s Nintendo DSiWare update. Link
• Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow coming to US in 2010. Link

Industry and hardware

• Iwata: Digital distribution will have to wait another 20 years before its turn. Link
• Reggie: New Super Mario Bros Wii to outsell Modern Warfare 2 on a single platform, no Wii HD. Link
• Nintendo Game Boy inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Link
• Infinity Ward: Wii can’t deliver the experience we aim for. Link
• Court to young repeat offender: Behave or you’ll never see your Wii again. Link
• PS3 has outsold the Wii in Japan? Link
• If there was a gaming church, this would be one of its windows. Link

Hacks and homebrew

• Wii homebrew – Dop-IOS MOD v8. Link
• Homebrew game – Powder release 112. Link
• Wii homebrew – StartPatch v4.2.4 Link
• DS homebrew – S8DS v0.4. Link
• DS homebrew game – Super Smash Bros. Rumble DS v0.6 Link