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New Super Mario Bros. Wii sells nearly a million units; pushes Wii into the hardware top spot.

ZaaM IT, creator of the Halo 3 and ODST armor generators, is at it again, this time with a nifty app for Windows Mobile devices. Called WM Live, the application allows users to sync up their Xbox Live friends lists and check out their own stats as well as those of their friends. The app shows user Avatars, gamercards, and game history, so you'll be able to keep track of what your friends have been up to from just about anywhere. Best of all, the app is free, so there's really no reason not to pick it up if you have a Windows Mobile device. Also, since it complies with the Xbox Community Developers Program, it will never get pulled. Keep in mind that it's still in beta, though ZaaM IT plans to acquire feedback and improve the application in later releases.

Brain teasing puzzler developed by Two Tribes - the puzzle masters unveils U.S. release date on WiiWare.

Grab a towel and chillax.

Infiltrate the world's biggest social network.

Meet the beast mistress.

More than twenty years and five home consoles later, you'd think Nintendo would get this "third-party support" thing by now. However, EA CEO John Riccitiello says the console manufacturer is still learning how to reach out and offer a hand to games other than their own. "They've always been first-party-centric, and they're learning how to be third-party supportive," Riccitiello told Gamasutra. Looking at November's NPD figures, it's clear that Nintendo has been very good to itself. But is there hope for EA on the Wii? "Third-parties can do a lot better on the platform with the right support from Nintendo." What kind of "support" are third parties like EA looking for? Most likely, third parties are looking for co-opted marketing opportunities provided by other first-party platforms, like Sony's PlayStation.Blog or Microsoft's MW2-branded hardware. Unfortunately, Nintendo appears content with its hands-off approach to third-party marketing, offsetting all the blame for the failures of GTA: Chinatown Wars and countless other games at the hands of their respective publishers.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii sells nearly a million units; pushes Wii into the hardware top spot.

Players invite friends to join 'Dragonica Online' and win.

- Parcelite Republic is one of the world’s three kingdoms - Parcelite Rupublic is the most technologically advanced, and it has also prospered greatly from artistic expression - in this screen you can see the President’s mansion, which has one of the three holy artifacts resting above it. This artifact blesses people with water, leading [...]

To be completely honest with you, I had no idea just how hard it would be to pick my favorite Kirby music. I happen to be a big fan of Kirby games, as well as the soundtracks that go with them. I just didn’t realize how much good music was out there! [...]

Atlus is bringing the intrepid and mysterious dungeon-exploring hero back to the States.

I’m sure there are many big Zelda fans here, but chances are there are a few entries in the series that you haven’t played. For example, above you see a screenshot from Legend Of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets BS. I’ve never played the game, and I probably never will. It’s one of [...]

Norwegian Wood headed your way.

We've heard from Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson in the past on why he thinks certain games shouldn't be available to Australian consumers. And when he was asked recently by ABC why the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator was refused classification in his country (read: banned), he echoed previous sentiments on the interactivity of games having a stronger affect on people than other mediums. "I accept that 98 percent, 99 percent of gamers will tell the difference between fantasy and reality, but the 1 to 2 percent could go on to be motivated by these games to commit horrible acts of violence," Atkinson said. When the subject of AvP comes up, though, Atkinson put on his game reviewer cap and offered, "You don't need to be playing a game in which you impale, decapitate and dismember people." So, what're you thinking, Mr. Atkinson -- 5.0/10 maybe? 4.7/10? We're all ears. [Via GamesIndustry.biz]

For the sake of clarity and brevity in this week's Rock Band Weekly, let's split this info up: The Beatles: Rock Band will have the album Rubber Soul available next week. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road were previously released on November 17 and October 20, respectively. The standard Rock Band music store receives new tracks from All-American Rejects, 30 Seconds to Mars and even more Green Day. As a reminder, Rock Band Unplugged DLC is going on holiday for an unspecified amount of time. Check out pricing and track details after the break. Select a platform below to view complete DLC listing:

The latest Transformers game, War for Cybertron, takes place before the Autobots and Decepticons arrived on Earth. As such, they have no concept of our Earth "trucks" and "awesome jets," and can only transform into ... things that look pretty much like trucks and awesome jets, but alien. The teaser after the break introduces the setting for the new High Moon-developed title, and Game Informer promises more info on its constantly updating War for Cybertron hub page. If the new locale and exotic transformations don't grab you, think about this: all humans are millions of miles away from Cybertron, so unlike the movies, you'll actually get to see the Transformers in this game.

- create fighters and stages using the DSi camera - due out Jan. 16th in Japan for 200 Nintendo Points - take pictures of yourself in fighting poses - add voice work to your character - give yourself a name and fighting type - create backgrounds by taking pictures - stores 8 custom fighters - use custom characters in both single and [...]

Huzzah! No more of your intense Headquarters Pro matches will be interrupted by gargantuan, killer shockwaves expelled by morally dubious combatants. That is to say, Modern Warfare 2's Javelin glitch, which enabled a dirty, cheating player to instantly detonate upon death, was fixed earlier this morning by a patch for the Xbox 360 version of the game. According to a recent tweet from Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, the PS3 version of the game has already received the patch. In addition to removing the Javelin's unadvertised self-immolation feature, the patch also fixes the equally insidious "unlimited care packages" glitch, and fixes a few areas where players could exploit gaps in the game's geography. In a perfect world, Infinity Ward would have also sent parcels to the houses of anyone who leveraged these exploits -- parcels full of bees. The bad kind. The kind you see on the Discovery Channel. The ones that can kill a full-grown elephant with a surprisingly small swarm.

Yes, that’s Wil Wheaton, prior to Star Trek stardom, as the main winner at the “Super Mario-A-Thon”. His high score of 239,400 on Super Mario Bros. earned him a NES Deluxe Set, and a lifetime of nightmares from that strange Mario costume.

Direct link here Check out more screens in our Flickr set New York – Dec. 11, 2009 – Apple Corps, Ltd., MTV Games and Harmonix, the world’s leading developer of music-based games and a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced The Beatles’ album Rubber Soul (1965) will be available in its entirety for [...]

Konami appears to be daring enough to localize Ninety-Nine Nights 2 -- which, we suppose, isn't too much of a surprise since it showed the courage to publish the sequel to the mediocre action title in the first place. While Konami hasn't said anything official, an OFLC rating has appeared for N32, outing at least a tentative plan to publish the game in Australia. Speculation: Konami's not going to localize the game just for Australia. Whether the announcement is good news or not depends on your faith in Feelplus (for whom this is the first action game) to deliver a better Dynasty Warriors-type game than Phantagram did.

- due out Feb. 18th in Japan - 6 play modes: Concert Hall, Quiz Cafe, Music Salon, My Room, Change Box, and Nodamegami no Izumi - Concert Hall: main mode, perform 30 songs with the stylus, choose either Nodame or Chiaki as your in-game counterpart, uses 3d models, change clothing, choose stage type - Music Salon: music player, [...]

We've got another two months to go before the release of Splinter Cell Conviction. That's plenty of time, it would seem, for Ubisoft to tease us relentlessly with more information and gameplay snippets, as evidenced by the latest trailer. It's filled with a mess of information for returning Splinter Cell fans, and capped off by the realization that, "For the first time, you'll feel what it's like to be one of those NPCs hunted by a Splinter Cell." And yes, that prospect looks just as terrifying as it sounds.

Check out more screens in our Flickr set Title: Diatomic Launches: US 14th december 2009 EU TBA Platforms: WiiWare Genre: Retro Arcade Action ESRB: Everyone (mild fantasy violence) Publisher: Grendel Games Developer: Grendel Games Status: For immediate release Price: 800 Wii Points “Diatomic”, Grendel Games’ original take on retro arcade action games will be available through the WiiWare service in the US from the 14th of [...]