The latest advertising onslaught from Nintendo is a series of commercials featuring female celebrities playing DS games with the tag-line, “I Play for Me.”

This seems like a fairly innocent notion and a means to get women and girls interested in the system by showing famous women engaged in games. However, quite a few gamers have taken issue with the games depicted and the actresses’ behavior.

There are three TV commercials currently airing: One features singer Carrie Underwood playing Nintendogs, another features actress Liv Tyler playing Brain Age 2 and the final commercial shows America Ferrera playing New Super Mario Brothers…

Reminiscent of the original GameBoy Color announcement, Nintendo is releasing a DS with the Color moniker (at least for marketing purposes). The DS Color is not really a new DS, just the same ol’ DS Lite with a new color scheme. Here is Nintendo’s description of the color scheme: The top half of the new more »

It’s a big list with more than 40 games, so plan on a little scrolling. Most noteworthy are Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, Mario Strikers Charged (online play!) for the Wii and Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day for the DS. Also look for familiar cross-platform games like Madden and Tiger Woods. There more »