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Photo story: Nintendo Wii launch night

Crave Midnight on 8 December 2006 marked the release of the most anticipated next-generation gaming console of the year, the Nintendo Wii. Hundreds queued outside Game and HMV on London's Oxford street to be among the first to purchase the new Nintendo...

8 December 2006, 11:28

Nintendo GBA Micro: Party in your pocket

Crave One member of the Crave team says he'd rather have Nintendo's console than a PlayStation Portable, while another is simply bored of Nintendo constantly re-releasing the same technology and games. It's a strong-feelings kidney whichever way you...

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9 December 2005, 10:33

Nintendo DS Lite: Play and be proud

Crave Many Crave staffers are obsessive Nintendo fans. But as Nintendo-obsessed as we are, we could never get into the Nintendo DS. Thankfully, Friday 23 June saw the UK launch of the new Nintendo DS Lite -- a sleeker, sexier, more iPod-like take on the...

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26 June 2006, 12:44

State of Play: Nintendo Wii

Crave Nintendo is the last dedicated games company. Nintendo has to deliver on that promise, or it may be swallowed up. Update: a full review of the Nintendo Wii is now live. Nintendo can't hope to compete with these enormous companies, can it?

Tags: nintendo, character, motion, xbox

13 November 2006, 14:26

Mario vs Browser: Battle for the Nintendo DS

Crave The cunningly named Nintendo DS Browser is a standard DS cartridge that lets you surf the Net via Wi-Fi, so you can use it at home or at any public hotspot. The Nintendo DS Browser is available from today for around £30.

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6 October 2006, 12:16

Wii MotionPlus: Making it easier to control your Wii

Crave Nintendo has unveiled a new Wii remote accessory that could make controlling your Wii games a whole lot easier. Feeling too wobbly during Wario Ware: Smooth Moves? The Wii MotionPlus sticks to the bottom of your Wiimote and combines with the...

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15 July 2008, 12:25

Wii Zapper to include Zelda crossbow game

Crave Crave US: When Nintendo announced the Wii Zapper at July's E3 show, the company promised the add-on would be bundled with a game (a 'pack-in', in gamer parlance). Either way, it's good to see Nintendo adding some value to what's less a controller...

Tags: nintendo, training, wii, zapper

11 September 2007, 10:36

Nintendogs: Welcome to the doghouse

Crave Screw Sony's £1,500 effort -- now we're raising a Labrador called Maxwell courtesy of Nintendo, the only company that could make a game as sublime as Nintendogs for the DS. Real dogs are cute and adorable, but they are to the gadgeteer what the...

Tags: nintendo, commands, psp, virtual

17 November 2005, 10:47

Crave Essentials: Travel tech we love

Crave In order to give you all the latest and greatest tech news, Crave has to travel far and wide. Thirty years ago, travelling around the world and getting pictures and text back to the mother ship would have been a daunting task.

Tags: love, crave, listen, travel

22 February 2007, 11:27

Nintendo's quiet Revolution

Crave We love Nintendo, we really do. But with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 pulling out all the stops for the next-gen console war, Nintendo's E3 showing was a big disappointment. Well, it will have access to the entire Nintendo back catalogue, able to...

Tags: nintendo, console, revolution, nintendo ds

18 May 2005, 10:18

Nintendo DS: touching new games

Crave Crave took time out yesterday to see how the Nintendo DS plans to compete with the Sony PSP, due out in September. The DS is currently outselling the PSP in Japan and Nintendo seems determined to offer a varied mix of gaming treaures.

Tags: nintendo, gameplay, multiplayer, lan

15 June 2005, 11:35

Nintendo's post-E3 shakedown

Crave When Nintendo asks you over to play all of this year's biggest games, you can't really turn them down. As you'd expect from Nintendo, the horse riding feels perfectly in tune with the rest of the game, and after a few minutes it felt like a...

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15 June 2005, 9:23

Nintendo DS: launch in Oxford Street

Crave The media launch of the Nintendo DS in London on Wednesday was a sedate affair. The Nintendo DS has baffled many Nintendo fans. So what’s the new Nintendo like to play with? The Nintendo’s dual LCDs with touchscreen capability really does provide a...

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9 March 2005, 16:27

Nintendo DS : turning blue in the face of competition

Crave There's the PSP, the V3, the Ixus 40, and of course the Nintendo's DS, which we break out frequently for manic fruit-chopping sessions in the wonderful Wario Ware. Why, you say, are we still cluttering our pockets with the Nintendo DS now that the...

Tags: nintendo, strategy, ds, pockets

25 April 2005, 10:14

Nintendo: is that a Game Boy in your pocket?

Crave Nintendo's strategy in the face of the imminent PSP launch? Why, release an even smaller version of the Game Boy. We thought the company had all but ditched the Game Boy brand with the launch of the DS, but it seems you just can't keep a 16-year...

Tags: nintendo, console, psp, face

18 May 2005, 11:28