DS / DSi

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):

Tons of information coming out of Japan today as part of an update to Nintendo of Japan's official site:

-Wii Party's Japanese release date has been set for July 8
-Wii Party may replace Wii Play as the "bundled with a Wiimote" sale juggernaut, with Pink and White Wiimote (with Motion Plus) bundles being showcased
-Nintendo will release three new DSi XL colors in Japan on June 19. ...