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For those of you keeping up with your Club Nintendo registrations to qualify for Elite status, you have until this Wednesday, June 30th to qualify for Gold or Platinum level for calendar year 2010. Don't have any qualifying Wii or DS games to register and are short some points? If you've been buying WiiWare or DSiWare games you may have surveys waiting for you in your Club Nintendo account ...

This week's DSiWare, WiiWare, and Virtual Console downloads:

Nintendo DSiWare

A Kappa's Trail
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Step into the world of a kappa, a mythical river spirit famous in Japanese folklore, as he tries to make his way to the human world. In addition to the challenging main game, you'll find three different minigames to further ...

I love my DS, but I'd rather shave my scrotum with a cheese grater than read Gulliver's Travels on it. Yet in the tradition of products like bottled water and premium news websites, our friends at the house that Mario built are more than happy to sell you something you can otherwise get for free. But let's look at the bright side, next week when the Vitality Sensor is shown at E3, people will forget ...

New HD video trailer for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (DS):

This just in from Nintendo of America:

Originally Posted by Nintendo of America

NINTENDO NEWS: MIDNIGHT BLUE NINTENDO DSI XL ARRIVES ON JULY 11

June 8, 2010

Nintendo of America today announced the addition of a new color scheme for the portable Nintendo DSi XL™ system. Starting July 11, U.S. consumers will be able to purchase the system in midnight blue. Like the original bronze and burgundy

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