Australian software sales for the week of September the 21st for all consoles, the Wii and the Nintendo DS.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed heavily dominated the all consoles top ten, also managing a respectable second on the top ten Wii games from being beaten by Wii Fit which also managed third being the best all console seller other than Star Wars. Wall-E managed top spot for the DS chart closely followed by Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat.

Overall the Nintendo Wii was by far ...

"It’s been almost a year since Nintendo stepped onto the stage of their E3 2007 press conference and threw the industry a curveball with their new take on gaming.

Let’s run down some of the major announcements at last year’s conference:

* “Wii Fit” revealed and demoed
* “Super Smash Bros. Brawl,” “Super Mario Galaxy” release dates
* Wii Zapper announced
* “Mario Kart Wii” and wheel peripheral shown

More importantly, Nintendo did the opposite of their wildly popular ..."

"Brian Brinegar, a 29-year-old web developer from Lafayette, Indiana, and two of his avid gamers friends, Dan May and John Groth, decided to get together and play seven Super Mario Brothers games straight through the weekend for a good cause, the Child’s Play Charity.

The trio have been playing the original Super Mario Bro. all the way through to Super Mario Galaxy. Check out the fun while it lasts at Super Mario Marathon; and please give what you can, if you’re apt to do so! To date they’v..."

"Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Battletoads
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Contra 4
Etrian Odyssey
F-Zero GX
Gradius Galaxies
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Metal Gear Solid
Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Trauma Center: New Blood
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Super Impossible Brothers
I Wanna Be The Guy
Mega Man and Bass
Super Mario World: Kaizo Edition
Super G..."

"Bioshock
This atmospheric first-person shooter game drew players in to a unique dystopian setting and broke ground with a storyline that forced players to make moral decisions.

Portal
One of the most original (and funny) games in recent history requires players to solve puzzles using a teleporting "Portal Gun." It also features a hugely compelling character in the computerized guide GLaDOS.

Rock Band
The studio that created toy-guitar game phenomenon "Guitar Hero" cranked the volume ..."

"Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is interviewed in the latest issue of Famitsu. While the interview, which was done to commemorate the magazine reaching issue number 1000, is mostly reflection, Miyamoto did give a few hints on future plans.

First, the Balance Wii Board, the peripheral that's included with Wii Fit. The magazine noted that Wii Fit has been quite the success story for Nintendo so far. To this, Miyamoto responded that if the game sees success overseas as well, Nintendo may end up r..."

"Although it had hefty competition, we selected Super Mario Galaxy as our Game of the Year because the spectacular platformer embodies the very best attributes of old-school game design -- namely, unsurpassed pick-up-and-play control and highly engaging, clever in-level challenges. Moreover, Galaxy truly feels like the spiritual successor to Super Mario 64 thanks to its homages to classic Mushroom Kingdom faces and places, and at the same time its new outer space theme nurtures an entirely fre..."

"Calling all Cars! - Incognito Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment
PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network)

I think I've had more raw fun in its fast, frantic, and ridiculously fun four player face-offs than I've had with just about any 3D game in the history of forever. Hyperbole? I don't think so. While there's definitely fun to be found in games like God of War 2, or Halo 3, or Mass Effect, Calling All Cars! grabs you by the short and curlies and doesn't let go for the from the minute..."

"Hit the jump to see the winners and then make up your own list of winners in the comments. I'm interested to see how different the list would have been had it been entirely in your hands.

GOTY DS:
The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass

GOTY PC:
Portal

GOTY PS2:
God of War II

GOTY PS3:
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

GOTY PSP:
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters

GOTY Wii:
Super Mario Galaxy

GOTY Xbox 360:
Bioshock

GOTY XBLA:
Alien Hominid HD

GOTY PSN:
Everyday Shooter..."

"The critical popularity of flagship titles, mixed with continued fan attraction to established franchises and the introduction of valuable new IPs (intellectual properties), has also led to considerable commercial success. Software sales are on the rise to the tune of around $10.5 billion (through October) in the United States, while the UK gaming market has taken a total of around £1.52 billion during 2007."

"While some readers may deride the respectability of certain review sources listed on Metacritics pages, there’s little arguing with contributing numbers provided by IGN, GameSpot, GameSpy, Game Informer, Edge, 1UP, Play, and Games Radar.

Bearing that in mind, Metacritic has unveiled various "Best" and "Dud" games spread across a host of categories, which are as follows..."

"Cheesemeister

01./02. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) - 180,042 / 826,000
02./01. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 124,238 / 535,000
03./00. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (Sony) - 115,748 / NEW
04./05. [NDS] Prof. Layton and Pandora's Box (Level 5) - 74,378 / 444,000
05./09. [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) - 74,113 / 550,000
06./06. [NDS] Dragon Quest IV (Square-Enix) - 73,061 / 868,000
07./10. [WII] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 64,228 / 212,000
08./14. [WII] Wii ..."

"Brittany Umar asks research analyst Michael Comeau, who calls Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii the best game of the year, why sales of the game are not out of this world."

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"In the USA, Super Mario Galaxy has sold through an impressive 500,000 copies in it's first week of sale.

Sales are expected to continue strong with the frantic Christmas shopping near full swing and Black Friday just around the corner.

"Super Mario Galaxy had the strongest one-week debut of any Wii game to date and has also become the best-selling Mario title ever in its first week," said George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communicati..."

"The latest sales are in from Japan for the week starting 12/11 and ending 18/11, and surprisingly, the PS3 is holding on in there with its new 40GB model, fighting off Nintendo’s Wii for another week."

"An image of Mario from his new title Super Mario Galaxy has been beamed on London's Battersea Power Station. Dave Yarton, General Manager for Nintendo UK had this to say about the promotion:

"Mario mania is huge and yesterday we proved it by beaming a giant image onto one of London's iconic land marks. We expect the release of Super Mario Galaxy to help break the 200 million franchise barrier.""

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"Xbox 360:

Assassin's Creed

BlackSite: Area 51

Beowulf: The Game

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Need for Speed Pro Street

Monster Jam

Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back

America's Army: True Soldiers

WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW 2008

Xbox Live Arcade:

Screwjumper

PS3:

Assassin's Creed

Need for Speed Pro Street

Beowulf: The Game

WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW 2008

Uncharted Drake's Fortune

Nintendo Wii:

Super Mario Galaxy

Geometry Wars: Galaxies

Cars: Mater National

Spongebob: Atlantis Squarepanti...

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I've never watched the new Fox News Channel. But if this interview with Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime is any indication, I don't need to watch. The interviewer can hardly say Reggie's title (chief operating officer) and she talks about how it's exceeding "anticipation" (I think she meant expectation). My favourite part, though, is when they post the Super Mario Galaxy metacritic at the bottom of the screen (a 96)."

"Iwata:
For this last interview, I would like to ask Miyamoto-san, the creator of Mario, and the person in charge of game design for Super Mario Galaxy.

Miyamoto:
Thank you."

"Several of the folks frequenting the message boards over at GameFAQS are reporting that several Best Buy locations have broken the street date for Super Mario Galaxy. These lucky folk who were able to walk into their local Best Buy and walk out with a wrapped copy of Super Mario Galaxy not only win what is sure to be the best Wii game of the year (Sorry, Metroid Prime 3. We still BFF?), but also our unadulterated hate. Why? Because our local Best Buy is closed at the time of this report.

N..."

Finally the Super Mario Galaxy site is almost complete (with only some topics to go)!

The last 2 galaxies have been revealed and a new topic has been added about the stats page listing all the stars and coins collected in those levels!

Enjoy!

The Japanese Super Mario Galaxy site has had some good updates!

Firstly it has almost all of the galaxy areas shown now (only 2 left) and has many new screenshots of the galaxies within!

And lastly an topics page has been added which has 2 topics so far which i cannot understand so you try to decifer it! ;)

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The new videos of the different galaxies on the Japanese Super Mario Galaxy site have some bosses shown!

Here are the bosses:

Monty Mole
Magikoopa (forgot the wizard koopas name so i'll call him Magikoopa)
Some Giant Beetle/Crab
Spinning Top (lol!)

Enjoy

There's a bunch of updates related to Super Mario Galaxy, all with videos. For the sake of possible spoilers and discretion, all videos will be posted behind links.

First of all:
Super Mario Galaxy: Creator's Voice Vol.3
Included:
Orchestrated Music
Super Mario Galaxy Main Theme

Next:
Super Mario Galaxy Site Updates
Alternate: Gamersyde
Included:
Powerups
Worlds

Enjoy.

"Satoru Iwata interviews the development team behind Super Mario Galaxy regarding the development process behind the game."

The Japanese Super Mario Galaxy has had it's first couple of updates!

There are 2 new videos for items (Invincibility Star and Ice Mario), it also shows the fire mario and spring mario their aswell but you can't click them! :D

There are also new screens and information about some of the galaxies!

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The Japanese site for upcoming Wii title Super Mario Galaxy has opened, and there is a video of the prologue located on the site.

To find the prologue, click on the second button from the left on the top row.

"Nintendo UK's brand new "Assets Library" website, confirms that Super Mario Galaxy is set for a UK/Europe release of November 16th.

After the announcement that US gamers would get Super Mario Galaxy on November 12th, alot of European gamers felt their hearts sink as it seemed unlikely that they would see the game this side of Christmas."

"Nintendo’s increasing commitment to casual gamers is plain, and now Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said that future games from the company will have a stronger focus on fun and immediacy, and will steer clear of being overly difficult. Forthcoming Wii platformer Super Mario Galaxy, explained Miyamoto to Japanese magazine Famitsu, would typify this new approach."

"Quite a few new details have been revealed from the new screenshots, including a levels set in the desert, on a pirate ship, and what looks to be something of a giant mechanism similar to Super Mario 64’s Tick Tock Clock stage."

"GamerSquad doesn't know about you, but on the release of the Apple iPod our collective thought was something along the lines of "Wouldn't that just sit so snugly in the woolly outfit of one of the world's biggest videogaming icons?" We wouldn't blame you for wondering exactly the same thing.

Sadly, our knitting skills don't stretch much further than watching grandmother sit in the corner of the room, piecing together a multicoloured winter hat that you know you'll be forced to wear and rid..."

"Most of Nintendo’s E3 trailer coverage centred on games we’ve been waiting ages for, which included Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, and Endless Ocean.

Along with those came the likes of Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn, Mario Strikers Charged, Donkey Kong: Jungle Climbers, Donkey Kong: Bongo Blast, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2: Around the World, and two new official peripherals called the Wii Wheel and the Wii Zapper."

"During Nintendo's E3 2007 conference, Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime told the world what it wanted to hear: Super Mario Galaxy will release this year, on November 12. Along with the announcement that Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be available December 3, Nintendo is making good on its promise to deliver its "big three" this year (with Metroid Prime 3 releasing at the end of summer).

Video footage of the game shown during the conference also revealed a new bee costume for Mario. Look f..."