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UK Official Nintendo Magazine subscriptions include Monster Hunter Tri

Great news for all our European readers who also, coincidentally, love the Wii. There’s an Official Nintendo Magazine promotion you might want check out. If you subscribe to the magazine, you get a game for your Wii for free. Not just any game either! You get Monster Hunter Tri, a game that’s actually fantastic…

Gamertell’s 10 best Wii games released in 2010

The Wii had a pretty good year, game-wise. Yes, first party games were the main darlings of 2010, but there were plenty of great games from companies other than Nintendo. With a few exceptions, it was overall a great year for new entries in existing series.

Join Gamertell as we look back and salute 10 of the best Wii games released in 2010. Perhaps you’ll see one or two of your recent favorites listed…

Gamertell’s 2010 Wii Holiday Gift Guide

Black Friday is this Thursday (November 26, 2010) and there have been a lot of major Wii releases recently. Which means shopping for gifts could be harder than ever. To make the experience a little less painful and make browsing through all those Black Friday ads easier, Gamertell’s compiled a list of 10 Wii games released in 2010 that are on a lot of people’s wishlists this holiday season.

Each game has a brief summary and a quick mention of who will actually want it, so you don’t inadvertently get a game like Babysitting Mama for your 47 year old, gun aficionado Stan. (That would be awkward!) All the ESRB ratings are included too, so you won’t upset any parents by buying a game that’s a little too mature for their child…

Start scheduling Monster Hunter Tri events

Wii owners can now know the joy of having their phones tell them when it’s time to take part in a righteous Monster Hunter Tri quest. Capcom’s updated the official Monster Hunter Community site to show the Quest Events. You just click the second icon on the main page, the one that sort of looks like a gem, and a listing comes up of all the forthcoming Arena and Event Quests…

Capcom will release online quests for Monster Hunter Tri

In case you were already worrying about what you’d do when the quests run out in Monster Hunter Tri, Capcom’s got an announcement that’ll erase any fears or doubts. It turns out that Capcom will be making good use of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to provide online quests.

Every month, Capcom is going to announce the online quests for the month via Capcom Unity. You can then make the appropriate plans so you can be online and playing Monster Hunter Tri when they come up…

Capcom releasing four games in Spring 2010

Capcom has announced that it will be releasing four major and highly anticipated games in Spring, 2010. Final Fight: Double Impact, Lost Planet 2, Monster Hunter Tri and Super Street Fighter IV will all be out before Summer, 2010 starts.

The first release will be Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii, in April, 2010. It’ll be available alone for $49.99, or in a $59.99 bundle that includes a black Classic Controller Pro. After that Super Street Fighter IV will be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 27, 2010 for $39.99. Lost Planet 2, for the PS3 and Xbox 360, will launch soon after on May 18, 2010, for $59.99…

Monster Hunter Tri comes with Classic Controller Pro

When Monster Hunter Tri was released back in Japan on August 1, 2009, it was available alone and in a special bundle that included a black Wii and Classic Controller Pro. Well, North America isn’t going to be fortunate enough to get the black Wii, but there will be a Monster Hunter Tri and Classic Controller Pro bundle available when the game is released April 6, 2010. The bundle will come with the game and a black Classic Controller Pro for $59.99.

You don’t have to buy the bundle though. Monster Hunter Tri will be available alone for $49.99. The Classic Controller Pro will also be available separately for $19.99 in either white or black. Nintendo doesn’t offer a specific release date for the Classic Controller Pro, so it looks like you’ll have to wait until April, 2010 for the new controller.

Monster Hunter Tri is the first entry in the series on the Wii, and includes 18 new monsters, Wii Speak support…

CES 2010: Nine Capcom games on display at CES

Capcom’s at CES 2010, and the company is using the event to show off some of its forthcoming console and PC games. Ace Attorney Investigations (DS), Dark Void (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), Final Fight: Double Impact (PS3, Xbox 360), Lost Planet 2 (PS3, Xbox 360), Mega Man 10 (PS3, Wii, Xbox 360), Monster Hunter Tri (Wii), MotoGP 09/10 (PS3, Xbox 360), Super Street Fighter IV (PS3, Xbox 360) and Tatsunoko VS. Capcom (Wii) are all appearing at Capcom’s booth this year.

Most of what’s showing up at CES are new screenshots and game footage. For example, new screenshots from Lost Planet 2 episode 2 are being shown for the first time at CES. Also, there’ll be new trailers shown of both Super Street Fighter IV and Tatsunoko VS. Capcom, and the Super Street Fighter IV trailer will show some of the characters’ new combos and costumes…

Capcom is on its way to GamesCom 2009

Back when Gamertell revealed Capcom’s official announcement concerning Monster Hunter Tri‘s worldwide release, it was mentioned that the English version of the Wii game would be at GamesCom 2009. Now, Capcom has made an announcement concerning what other games will be joining Monster Hunter Tri at the August 19-23, 2009 convention.

Capcom’s going to be using GamesCom to be showing off some of its prominent, forthcoming console and PC titles. Dark Void (PS3, Xbox 360, PC), Lost Planet 2 (PS3, Xbox 360), Monster Hunter Tri (Wii), MotoGP 09/10 (Xbox 360), Spyborgs (Wii), Resident Evil 5 (PC) and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars (Wii) will all be shown at the event. Dark Void and MotoGP 09/10 are both confirmed to be playable at the event, and the other titles may be as well…

Monster Hunter Tri on the way to the Wii in 2010

Capcom’s formally announced what many of us already knew thanks to the company’s May investor briefing – Monster Hunter Tri, aka Monster Hunter 3, is going to be released outside of Japan. The game just came out August 1, 2009 in Japan, but residents of North America and Europe will have to wait until the beginning of 2010 for their copies. Since the investor briefing stated it’d be out before the end of the 2009 Fiscal Year, there’s a good chance we’ll see it before the end of March, 2010.

Monster Hunter Tri is a Wii exclusive, designed specifically for the system. It introduces new monsters to hunt, utilizes the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for multiplayer, allows players to hunt underwater…