Nintendo Weekend Warrior – “fun-enough products” for 2010

Fresh after receiving yet another prestigious award, Shigeru Miyamoto admits that Nintendo didn’t deliver on the fun-enough projects last year. Fortunately though, his company is looking to step it up this year – they’re having some hands-on Monster Hunter Tri events in Europe, they’re coming up with new games, and they’ve announced the Nintendo 3DS.

Fresh after receiving yet another prestigious award, Shigeru Miyamoto admits that Nintendo didn’t deliver on the fun-enough projects last year. Fortunately though, his company is looking to step it up this year – they’re having some hands-on Monster Hunter Tri events in Europe, they’re coming up with new games, and they’ve announced the Nintendo 3DS.

Games

• Monster Hunter Tri hands-on events happening in Europe next month. Link
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 official boxart. Link
• Tournament of Legends gets a new date and trailer. Link
• New NintendoWare releases: Cave Story and Game & Watch titles. Link
• Video: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands dev diary. Link
• Two minutes worth of Dragon Ball: Origins 2 gameplay. Link

Hardware and industry

• Miyamoto: We didn’t do fun-enough products in 2009. Link
• Shigeru Miyamoto bags another award. Link
• Nintendo 3DS
  
  • 3DS to be playable at E3. Link
  • Nintendo announces new 3DS handheld. Link
  • Sony says no 3D PSP announcement soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement. Link
  • 3DS screen bigger than DSi’s, will have 3D analog sticks. Link
• Nintendo rolling out DS in Japan schools. Link

Hacks and homebrew

• Wii homebrew – SDL MAME v0.5 Link
• Wii homebrew game – Wii Splattercastle v20100324b Link
• Wii homebrew – Riivolution v1.01 Link
• Wii homebrew game – Alien Puzzle Wii v0.1 Link
• Wii homebrew – C64-network.org v2 Link
• DS homebrew – fb4nds v1.1 Link
• DS homebrew game – Pokemon battle v0.4 Link
• DS homebrew – Piano DS v0.5 Link
• DS homebrew – MsxDS v0.81 Link