iGadget Life

News and Reviews on Gaming Consoles, such as Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.

Nintendo are set to launch a new Nintendo DS Color in the US that comes bundled with Brain Age 2.

Available for $149.99 from August 21st the new two-tone DS sports a smooth, glossy Crimson top-half and a matte black base.
The top half of the new Nintendo DS sports a smooth, glossy Crimson, reminiscent of a [...]

Nintendo have rolled out a new System Update for Wii owners worldwide. Simply connect your Wii console to the internet and manually select “Wii System Update” from the Wii System Settings.

Version 3 includes:
Wii Menu

The weather forecast will now be displayed on the Forecast Channel icon in the [...]

UK Video Games Magazine Edge has named The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as the best video game of all time. The Nintendo 64 game that is now 10 years old (can you believe it) and was the first game to bring Zelda into the world of 3D.

Here is the Top 10:

The Legend [...]

Nintendo have just announced WiiWare, a game-creation service that will allow people to create new games which can then be uploaded for sale through the Wii Shop Channel.

“Independent developers armed with small budgets and big ideas will be able to get their original games into the marketplace to [...]

The popular Brain Training games for the Nintendo DS has a new addition originally titled More Brain Training. The interesting part of this is that Oscar winning movie actress Nicole Kidman is going to front a series of ad-campaigns for it across europe:

“I love the concept that Nintendo is reaching out to new audiences [...]

Coincidently on the subject of browsers, Opera has launched Nintendo Wii Awareness Wiik - to draw peoples attention to the fact that the Internet Channel (Opera Browser) for Wii will be free until the end of the month, from which it will then cost you 500 points to download.
The Internet Channel for Nintendo Wii, powered [...]

Here is a sneak-peek of the much anticipated DS game
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass released in Japan this weekend.

I have to say that it could just be one of the best DS games yet..
It’s a shame that we have to wait until October before it’s UK launch. Having gotten addicted to Zelda [...]

It would seem that the Nintendo Wii which was specifically designed to be ‘always on’ 24 hours a day really does have a low power consumption. According to the Sust-it website which rates power consumption of numerous household appliances the Wii is the second best performing console (after the PS One) using only 17watts.

Compare [...]

I got myself a Nintendo DS just before Christmas last year but no matter what I did I was unable to connect it to the internet using my wireless home router. I found some router information on Nintendo WiFi site but no matter what I did it just wouldn’t connect. It seemed that I [...]

Ubisoft are demonstrating one of their new games for the up-and-coming Nintendo Wii. Rayman Raving Rabbids is the latest in the Rayman series and this sneak-peek shows the new consoles controller in action..
Also checkout some more fun Raving Rabbid videos over at YouTube: