Earlier this week the above image did the rounds on American gaming websites pretty much confirming that the Black Wii will be arriving in the US in the near future. Honestly I didn’t think anyone really cared as it was blatantly obvious it would be making an appearance so really is this big news? Well according to the head of …

[Update: Core have confirmed that they are not expecting a price drop locally at the moment and they dropped the price by R1000 just last year] Gizmodo (the site who in the middle of the AppleGate* scandal) Australia has posted up an article this morning stating that the Wii in Australia/NZ will be receiving a AUD$100 price cut effective tomorrow. …

Happy Friday folks, it’s the weekend and we here at Lazygamer are all extremely revved-up and excited to go home and do absolutely toss-all. It also means that it’s time for our Flamebait Friday Debate. Motion controller thingamawhatsits are all the rage with the kids these days, aside from that damned devil’s music, what’s it called? Oh yeah, Hannah Montana. …

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has a release date set for the 23rd of May and that date cannot come quick enough for my family. Anything that has anything to do with Mario is getting scrutinised to see what’s new and what is returning and this latest trailer is showing us some awesome new things. The tummy slide looks like it’s …

It was with very little fanfare and no shortage of surprise that Nintendo announced it was developing a successor to the incredibly popular DSi a few weeks back. Their low key announcement is widely regarded as being forced out of them due to the hardware company being required to make an announcement and that we will only really see a …

This chart is titled “What you didn’t know about Nintendo” but in my last job I put together a presentation for the company on Nintendo. Explaining where they came from and what they did to get here. So I guess I did know this about Nintendo. However if you missed my presentation which is highly likely then click through and …

Shigeru Miyamoto – creator of some of the most beloved franchises in video gaming history; like Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda – is somehow under the deluded impression that the stuff he’s done in the last 5 years is his best work. “Unusual” titles like Wii fit Plus and “Wii Sports Resort.” “Ten years ago I could never have been …

When the Nintendo Wii first launched, interests were piqued when a game called Red Steel was announced. Red Steel promised to be the first Wii game to make proper use of the motion controller to for and FPS experience that gave people the ability to wield their Wiimote like a real sword. The game was received very badly, with most …