People have been calling Solatorobo: Red the Hunter the swan song of the Nintendo DS. This is perhaps the fourth or fifth game to get that designation, and I have a feeling there’ll be four or five more. A more accurate way to label this game is as an adventure featuring a talking dog/fox thing who rides around on the back of a robot that likes to throw stuff.

When you have a development team called Cooking Mama Limited, what other game are you going to make? Majesco Entertainment has announced that our favorite helpful (but slightly scornful) chef will be returning this fall in two games: Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic for Nintendo 3DS and Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures for the DS. Why? Because the Mama franchise has sold 8 and a half million units in North America alone, that’s why.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is just begging to be a prime time TV show. The main character has just been shot and killed. He doesn’t know why or by whom, but he’s obtained the ability to travel back in time four minutes to alter the fates of others. Also, there’s a talking dog, a detective with a pigeon on his head, a chicken restaurant, a giant submarine, and a punk rock guitarist who flushes secret messages through a prison toilet to a guy with a sausage shaped head.

If you have any Nintendo DS system and a mere $14.99, you can now get you a sickeningly vast collection of Intellivision games. Intellivision Lives! has more than 60 games on it – more than my collection of Intellivision games as a child – and it includes half a dozen games made but never released more »

Labor Day is the day when most of us get off a day off work but that doesn’t mean we all have to slack off in the process.

Just to keep you in the “working” mood, I have picked out 5 labor-intensive games that can be played this Labor Day (September 6, 2010). Too bad you won’t get paid for it…

Nintendo’s ongoing crusade against the manufacturers of R4 cartridges and mod chips just got a big boost. This week a Hague District Court in the Netherlands found 11 online retailers guilty of selling game pirating equipment. A single R4 cart can hold many illegally obtained copies of Nintendo DS titles. Mod chips allow the Nintendo Wii to play copies of games and play games regardless of which region the system was purchased in…

I’ll admit it, I have always questioned the medical credentials of “Dr. Mario.” A young boy from the UK and his parents are singing the praises of Nintendo’s Mario Kart game, used as part of an unusual treatment for his eye condition. Ben Michaels had amblyopia, a severe case of what is commonly referred to as a “lazy eye.”

Disney has created many kids’ first MMO-type experience with its Club Penguin online playground setup.

Little Disney fans can play games online with each other and attend various penguin-themed events in the virtual realm. A virtual world filled with sneaky polar bears and super spy penguins was a natural transition to video games and Club Penguin jumped to the Nintendo DS in 2008. That effort has now spawned a sequel.

In video game mysteries (as opposed to novels or movies), I get to investigate the crime scene myself. I can put together the evidence and reach my own conclusion (within a certain framework, of course). The crime is mine to solve, not just observe. But unfortunately, that’s not actually the case with Dreamcatcher Interactive’s Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders. Rather, this game is mainly a collection of puzzles framed by the popular story by Agatha Christie.

As further proof that the game industry is not playing around when it comes to piracy, United Kingdom resident Yun Can Meng has been sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Meng plead guilty to illegally importing R4 game copier cards. How many? Try 26,500 on for size. The cards allow the use of pirated content on the Nintendo DS.

This bust was a combined effort of…