Nintendo these days are eagerly waiting for another great idea from their director,  Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto is the man who’s responsible forthe arise of Nintendo in the gaming industry with his own innovative ideas. He also responsible for the creation of Mario and Zelda in which are the big sellers for Nintendo. “Mario in particular has a game in practically every genre in the industry. Including spin-off and sports titles, Mario and his cohorts have been the stars of more than 20 games. Zelda comes in with a comparatively modest total title tally of 13.

“With the dissapointing E3 performance this year, Nintendo is relying on Miyamoto to have another golden idea up his sleevewhich is probably the reason behind Nintendo prohibiting Miyamoto from telling the public about his ideas or even hobbies.

Today Activitsion revealed that they’re going to be releasing sequels of their famous Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises.

According to Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith, the publisher’s 2009 lineup will include “multiple new Guitar Hero SKUs [and] an all new Call of Duty [due to our] leapfrog studio strategy,” along with the next Tony Hawk game.

Right now, the next games coming out soon for Activision is Guitar Hero: World Tour and Call of Duty: World at War.

Source via shacknews

I got an email about 2 days ago from Nintendo telling me that NHL 2K9 is coming to Wii. I, being a big hockey fan, was really happy about this news as i’ve been waiting about almost 2 years for a NHL game to come to Wii. I’ve read through some of the features the game has and so far it sounds incredible. It looks like they’re going to be incorporating a lot of the motion sensing of the Wii into the game. These include Wiimote shooting with wristshots being a flick of a wrist and slap shot includes holding the B button while flicking the Wii Remote.

A very interesting feature is the Wii Remote Fighting and the following details are from the Nintendo site “Adding a never-before-seen layer of fun to hockey video games, NHL 2K9 features on-ice showdowns. When two players have raised their aggression enough to fight, pointing the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller downward drops the gloves. Once a fight has started, punch with the Nunchuk and balance with the Wii Remote to get your opponent off their feet.”

NHL 2K9 is due out on September 9th, 2008 so all you hockey fans out there dying for a hockey game for Wii make sure you pre-order this one

You can fully read all the features included with this game on the Nintendo website located here

Nintendo these days are facing some troubles in the legal world. Recently Nintendo lost a bid to overturn a $21 million patent-infringement verdict therefore facing a ban on sales of the Wavebird, Classic Controller, and Nintendo GameCube controller for the Wii and GameCube.

This case was won by Anascape Ltd and a new trial requested by Nintendo was denied by the Judge. Though, the ban so far has been put on hold for the appeal of Nintendo to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

“Nintendo was already planning to appeal this case to the Federal Circuit court,” Nintendo spokesman Charlie Scibetta said in an e-mailed statement. “The recent ruling by the trial court does not impact that decision.”

Since Wiimote and Nunchuck don’t infringe the patent there shouldn’t be any worries of them being banned.