Category Archives: Mini-games

He lives in a pineapple under the sea, but SpongeBob SquarePants has just made his Nintendo 3DS debut too, with the release of SpongeBob SquigglePants from THQ.

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Another Olympic Games, another SEGA tie-in. Everybody’s favourite plumber and most beloved hedgehog are indeed headed to London for the 2012 games, and we’ve got some new art assets from the game to show just what’s in store.

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Sony’s just announced that Ape Escape will be coming to PS3 this June.

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Saucy Wii mini-game collection We Dare won’t be released in the Uk following negative public reaction, Ubisoft has confirmed.

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Nintendo have launched a website for the upcoming Mario Sports Mix, which will presumably shift bazillions of units on release this week. Just see if you can keep your wallet in your pocket after watching this series of videos grabbed from the site.

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Fable III asks some very thought-provoking questions. Where do you draw the line between king and tyrant? Are a leader’s promises just empty words?

Fable Coin Golf, er, asks significantly less interesting questions.

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Nintendo has announced the Australian release date for the Square Enix-developed Mario Sports Mix, pipping the UK and US at the post by over a week for a January 27 launch.

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A mysterious new sports game has been outed by an interview with SEGA Studios Australia producer Kim Sellentin.

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Kinect Sports, which seems to be an Xbox 360 version of Wii Sports, has been developed by Rare.

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In the first LittleBigPlanet, if you could create something that wasn’t a second-rate Mario level, you were heralded as one of the finest minds of your generation. In LittleBigPlanet 2, someone’s already made a Command & Conquer clone.

That’s right: in LittleBigPlanet, you made levels. In LittleBigPlanet 2, you create entire games. How do we know? Because the latest issue of Game Informer’s leaked the lot.

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Just Add Water has announced it’s creating a new series of titles for the Minis collection on PSP and PS3 and for iPhone known as Vektar.

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During the course of the week, loads of indie games, less mainstream titles and those point-and-click adventures you are always hearing about, sometimes get lost in the shuffle -what with news on Uncharted 2 and Modern Warfare 2 happening every three minutes or so.

That’s why, much like the MMO news round-up, we’ve decided to remedy this by giving you a heads up on news, demos, patches, announcements, trailers, screens and other doodads pertaining to these games that you missed out on during the week.

Yes, it’s all here for you in one post! See how much we love you guys? Another wall of text for the win!

While not comprehensive, since there are loads of this sort out there, we will do our best to be as thorough as possible.

Read on past the break for the first of, hopefully, many “Indie and other games of interest” post.

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Nintendo’s announced it’ll be releasing Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics on October 16th for Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.

Umm, thats pretty much it. The game was announced back in March.

Thanks, CVG.

Nintendo’s announced “Britain’s Best Brain”, a Five TV programme in the format of the endless, suicide-inducing talent shows vomited all over recent annual schedules.

Contestants will take part in national heats, competing on Wii and DS games including Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old is your Brain?, Wii Fit and Big Brain Academy.

There’s a list of regionals after the break. If you’re interested, look at this.

Coincidentally, MCV reckons Nintendo’s coughed up £2 million for this.

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505′s secured the rights to Grease. As in, the movie. With Rizzo. Undated Wii and DS games are on the way.

This happened yesterday. We must have been drunk, or something.

“Paramount Digital Entertainment is pleased to be working with 505 Games to develop Grease,” said Paramount’s John Kavanagh.

“Grease is the ideal opportunity to reach a broad gaming audience who love to sing, dance and have fun with a party-style game.”

You can insert any one of 500 billion quotes from the film here as a “joke”. Then read the PR after the break.

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A huge, in-depth survey into teenager’s gaming habits and the relationship to civic engagement has shown that the five most popular games played in the US are Guitar Hero, Halo 3, Madden NFL, Solitaire, and Dance Dance Revolution.

The wide spread of genres on display is not uncommon, says the survey:

80% of teens play five or more different game genres, and 40% play eight or more types whilst 55% of daily gamers play eight or more types of games; just 33% of less frequent gamers do so. Girls play an average of 6 different game genres; boys average 8 different types.

Through this link are more stats about US teenage gaming habits than you could shake a stick at. Get the coffee ready and dive in.

Good grief. There’s a video after the break of WarioWare Snap being demoed in the Iwata keynote at GDC on Wednesday. It’s preposterous.

Seriously. Look.

Thanks, Destructoid.

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Rich Amtower, localization manager/producer at NoE has confirmed to IGN the games that will launch alongside DSi in the US on April 5th.

There’s the Opera Browser, WarioWare Snapped!, Art Style: Aquia and Bird and Beans.

No price as yet, full details through the link.

The DS officially has its You’re in the Movies-killer.

At today’s GDC keynote, Nintendo gave conference-goers a look at WarioWare: Snapped for the DSi.

The game requires that you line up your head and hands for the camera before catapulting you through a, er, typical WarioWare gauntlet so that it can then play back recorded footage of you playing the game after you’re done.

Sounds like the kids’ll soon have a new set of questionable tapes to innocently stumble onto. God help us all if the game has multiple save files.

Speaking to MCV, Nintendo UK marketing boss Dawn Paine has admitted there are currently no plans for any more Brain Training games from Nintendo.

“The idea behind More Brain Training is that people can move across to it once they have played the first one, and vice versa, and are looking for new challenges and training exercises,” said Paine.

“Given that both titles continue to perform well, there are no plans for any more titles in the series.”

More through the link.