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NHK reported yesterday that NTT, a major communications company, is working with Nintendo as well as other companies on speech recognition technology. NTT started the trials on the technology today in Tottori Prefecture and Okinawa. It would convert voices into text that would help disabled children in the classroom. Nintendo helps out with the use of the Nintendo DS. When the teachers speak, their words are converted into text and displayed on electronic blackboards or portable gaming machine. It can also be used as a communication tool....

This week our featured fanart is “Zelda Poker Card Set” by deviantART artist Nelde. It’s always fun to see what kind of things fans can make with a fandom they love, and this deck of Zelda Poker Cards is really well made. All the suites have been parodied into Triforces, Heartpieces, Swords, and Rupees, and [...]

Mirror Here I wish my grandmother loved video games. Kathleen Kit, known as Kit, doesn't spend her days knitting or playing bingo. She spends two hours a day playing on her favourite gaming console, the Nintendo DS. She still lives independently at the age of 100, and doesn't feel a day over 80. She loved her DS so much she had to get a new one when she wore out her first handheld. She plays them to keep her mind active, and believes that children should be playing these learning games as well. She can't speak highly enough about it....

Mirror Here Nintendo of America has released a new trailer for the upcoming Kid Icarus: Uprising game on the Nintendo 3DS. It shows details on the Fiend Cauldron, which allows the players to customize the intensity level of the game to have more monsters to defeat.You collect hearts from enemies that you defeat. After you have collected hearts, you can bet them to increase the intensity. The higher a player raises the difficulty, the greater the reward. ...

Last year, Club Nintendo started offering the Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary poster set for 400 coins as part of their rewards program. Unfortunately, they have now become unavailable, at least for the near future. However, fans that ordered them right away received a surprise in their email yesterday. It turns out that Nintendo noticed [...]

Over at Much Needed Merch, you can purchase some of the most random Legend of Zelda shirts you can think of, all for fairly reasonable prices. The randomness includes a Clocktown Astronomy Club shirt, a ‘Keep Calm and Save Hyrule’ shirt, as well as a Team Groose shirt that you see to the left. While [...]

Swapnote, the 3DS's "messenger system," has garnered success since its launch during the holidays. While there is no quantitative data as to how many times the software was downloaded, there have been ten million handwritten notes exchanged, which is quite good for something as simple as Swapnote. I actually like the software, considering at first I thought it wouldn't get off the ground. Having said that, in other news, Shigeru Miyamoto is currently developing new projects. More on that, after the jump....

Man, what is with Satoru Iwata being all over the gaming news these days? Satoru Iwata has announced that Nintendo has the necessary infrastructure to begin a digital business campaign, due to implications about its importance in future workings. Sadly, more information is being withheld from the public because undetermined rumors from what Nintendo says hurts them in the long run. More information would be revealed when digital distribution begins, if ever. More information about retailing after the break....

Nintendo is doing a lot to make up for their mistakes lately. This time around they are sending out a brand new replacement poster because there was a minor mistake in their Club Nintendo Skyward Sword poster. If you have not noticed, there was a slight error near one the Loft wings. Some people noticed [...]

That is such a classy title. Just makes you want to read it, doesn't it? Iwata had quite a bit to talk about in these topics and questions, which nice because even those that don't keep up to the every day news of the world of gaming can understand what he is talking about. His first response is to a remark about Capcom's Monster Hunter Tri G making a change to the Nintendo 3DS's user demographics. He says quite simply, that they are correct. The number of 3DS users who think themselves as skilled game players is increasing. He then continues to discuss about the ages and gender ratios of Nintendo players, and describes the demographic as a camel hump. He also talks about the overseas market, where software sales is mostly generated through home consoles. Thus, most western publishers will put more priority in the development of software for the home consoles. Yet, because of the recent increase of sales in the Nintendo 3DS, the attitudes are now changing. He continues to discuss how he hopes to see Japanese software sell better outside of Japan. I suggest localizing more. The last bit of info on this portion of the...