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New millionaire to share story of winning seven figure prize for being "perfect."

Streaming movie and television service wins big on the Wii.

As predicted by analysts late last year, Nintendo is forecasting a drop in annual profits for the first time since the Nintendo DS's 2004 introduction. It's not a loss, just a reduction in profits -- Nintendo is still forecasting profits of ¥230 billion ($2.43 billion), compared to fiscal 2009's ¥279.1 billion ($2.95 billion). The AP's Yuri Kageyama notes that the Wii price drop, as well as slower sales early in the fiscal year (reflected in the first half earnings report), negatively impacted Nintendo's profits.

Analyst Yuta Sakurai thinks Nintendo is being too pessimistic (or just not optimistic enough, considering that the subject is enormous profit). "We are expecting the results to be better than the company forecasts for the Wii," the Nomura Securities analyst said. "Christmas shopping was strong." Nintendo did have an extraordinary December, with both the Wii and the DS breaking three million units each just in the US. It then went on to break sales records in the first two months of 2010. Perhaps Sakurai is correct, and Nintendo is just being modest about its profits. We'll find out on Thursday when Nintendo releases its annual earnings.

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Hello, Feasters of the Cake!

Huzzah and Hooray!
Fat Princess has released in a portable way!

With new maps and modes for the PSP,
On top of those already from the PS3!

Play along with your friends, or go online.
You’re guaranteed a most wonderful time!

The new stuff adds up to 50 percent!
You’ve got to admit, that’s rather quite decent!

Made by a talented team at SuperVillain,
You will soon find yourself playing again and again.

Battles are fierce, intense and quite fun!
Soon you too will cry “Cake for everyone!”

OK, OK…. I couldn’t help myself. I have been in quite a festive mood as we near the release of Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake. I couldn’t help myself from trying out a bit of prose. As you can see… I won’t be running off to publish any poetry books in the near future, but I WILL be playing Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake on my PSP. I’m very proud of this game and how well SuperVillain Studios brought all of the PS3 fun into the PSP. Plus they have added so much more to it with new game modes like Demolition, Jailbreak and Grim Reaper, plus the neat Dilapidated mode which adds a neat spin to any game. In Dilapidated mode, you must first repair the hat machines in order to get them operational! The new maps are great, too. They also created a longer story mode to introduce you to these new game elements and help you get familiar with the new surroundings.

There is so much to do and so much to play,
Before you know it, you’ll have finished your day!

Sorry about that… I will stop with the rhymes now. Promise.

In fact, I’m going to finish this up and go play Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake on my PSP. It’s a whole lot of fun in the palm of your hand!

(OK, one more)

Get Fat Princess now on your PSP,

Available for download or on UMD!!

#howto Who the hell shoots and tosses grenades at their own team? Someone who wants to fail in the Halo Reach beta, that's who. Here's a few handy tips for folks who really want to suck. More »

At long last, PS3 owners of Modern Warfare 2 can jump in on the Stimulus Package DLC. The $15 bundle adds five "new" maps, including two returning maps from Call of Duty 4. If you want a chance of scoring a free code from us, you'll want to become a Joystiq fan on Facebook. Here's how to enter:

• Be sure to join Joystiq's Facebook fan page at facebook.com/Joystiq.
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• You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec).
• Limit 1 entry per person.
• The entry period is now open and will end at 10:00AM ET on Wednesday, May 5.
• At that time, we will randomly select 10 entries to receive a code to download the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package DLC (ARV $14.99). Codes will be distributed via Facebook. Please ensure your privacy settings allow for incoming private messages. Codes are only compatible with PS3 and require a copy of Modern Warfare 2 and internet access to redeem.
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Voice talent Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson, comic book scribe Matt Fraction, playable War Machine, and exclusive Lamb of God song set the stage for a stellar sequel.

#wii Every month we here at Kotaku crunch some numbers and tell you which 10 Wii games get played the most, per gamer, on the Nintendo Wii. Today, we're doubling our efforts. This is the top 20, as of May 1. More »

Click to fill your screen with sheer liquid wonderment There's an old sea shanty that goes: "I'm on a boat and it's going fast and I've got a nautical-themed pashmina afghan." Which reminds us that, in Hydro Thunder Hurricane from Vector Unit, you're in a boat and you're going fast -- and while it's up to you to provide your own fine pashmina wool garment, the game will provide a couple of nifty modes not found in the arcade original (or its home conversions).

The first of these is called Ring Master. Each course in the game will feature three different layouts of floating rings that must be raced through in this slalom-style event. These "gates" will get smaller and smaller as the difficulty level grows higher. Gauntlet mode will see the courses littered with exploding barrels to avoid, boost jump over or collide with, if that's your thing. Vector Unit has also built a system into its game whereby you'll see your friends' best split times as you pass checkpoints.

We've got a whole galley gallery of new screens today as well, so give 'em a look below. And if you haven't seen the game in action yet -- or read our hands-on impressions of it -- you really need to.

Nexon acquired 67percent of Ndoors' quota, added as a subsidiary of Nexon.

Coming from the official Facebook page for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II… Now that we have a date, how about we get some more details on the Wii version? I want to know if this is going to be the MotionPlus experience that I wanted the first game to be!

- Total time played: 25,555,299 hours - Total times launched: 7,238,382 times - Average time played: 159 hours, 13 minutes - Average times launched: 45.09 times Looks like North American gamers have a long way to go to catch up to Japan. I don’t think we’ll ever make it to that point, but we can still give it [...]

These cats aren't fast, just frightening.

Game will ship this fall.

A portion of a Nintendo Life review… It’s safe to say if you’re after an accurate and strategic football simulation, you’re not going to find it in 2010 FIFA World Cup. Setpieces are simplistic and the instant appeal of the arcade style wears off after a while, but there’s still enough fun here – particularly in [...]

Players will be able to jump to any character level and experience any content.

In Galactic Taz Ball, Taz is accidentally kidnapped by Marvin the Martian, who is stealing the Earth’s landscape to make Mars more scenic. Taz must spin his way across pieces of Earth floating in space to stop Marvin from destroying the planet and get back home. The game contains two worlds with completely different [...]

The worst thing about Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is how tough it is to write headlines about. The temptation to say that "screenshots have been unleashed" or "a new trailer has been unleashed" is palpable, but it just sounds weird when the word's already right there in the title like that.

As you can see, when we attempted to communicate that the game's official Facebook group had revealed its release date as October 26, our brains panicked and instead called up a reference to Star Trek. We hope that, in time, you can forgive us.

#releasedate May the Fourth be with you, and I couldn't imagine a better time for LucasArts to nail down a late October release date for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. More »

IRVINE, CA – May 4, 2010 – LITTLE ORBIT (www.littleorbit.com), the worldwide publisher and developer of entertainment products for the casual video game marketplace, has released seven new screenshots of Busy Scissors® today. The screenshots provide a first look at Busy Scissors on the Nintendo DS™ platform. The world’s first and only industry-backed hairstyling simulation game, [...]

Time for another video game audio quiz. This week you have a collection of a screams that come from various video game characters. Hit up the link below to have a listen, and see if you can’t figure out which game and series the scream comes from.

It's time.

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