Super Mario Galaxy 3 possible, but not before Nintendo's next console
Meanwhile, Miyamoto defends 2015 Nintendo line-up.
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken of the "opportunity" for a new Super Mario Galaxy game as the company's "hardware technology gets better and advances".
Nintendo issues takedown notice for Super Mario 64 HD project
UPDATE: Creator pulls all downloads. "Fair enough, really."
UPDATE 1/4/15 13.40pm Super Mario 64 HD creator Erik Ross has admitted defeat and pulled all download mirrors for his free, Unity-based version of the platformer's first level.
Nintendo's "kishōtenketsu" Mario level design philosophy explained
But will it also work on mobile?
Nintendo designed many of its recent 3D Mario levels using the four-part structure of Chinese poetry and Japanese comics.
Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid Prime Trilogy headed to Wii U eShop
Nintendo launching digital versions of Wii games, starting today.
Nintendo will begin selling digital versions of Wii games on Wii U, the company has annonuced.
Mario Galaxy's planetary physics examined in university paper
"It would likely explode."
Four University of Leicester students have examined the physics behind Nintendo's platforming hit Super Mario Galaxy.
The most pirated PC, Wii, 360 games of 2011
Can you guess what it is yet?
The most pirated PC game of 2011 wasn't Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3 or Skyrim - it was Crysis 2.
Why Super Mario Galaxy 2 isn't coming to 3DS
"Mario looked like a speck."
Nintendo won't port Super Mario Galaxy 2 to the 3DS because Mario looks like a "speck" on the smaller handheld screen.
Wii U: Nintendo kept own devs in dark
Secrecy a detriment to first-party line-up?
Nintendo kept even the most senior internal developers in the dark about the capabilities of Wii U leading up to the console's E3 2011 announcement.
BAFTA Game nominations announced
AC: Brotherhood, Mario, COD slug it out.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops dominate this year's BAFTA Game nominations, released today.
Assassin's Creed has the most nods with six, followed by Black Ops and Galaxy 2 with five each. Kudos to indie underdog LIMBO for picking up four.
Wondering why GOTY contender Red Dead Redemption doesn't feature more prominently? Developer Rockstar Games decided not to enter it into competition.
BAFTA GAME Award shortlist revealed
Vote for your top title of 2010.
The 10-game shortlist for this year's public vote prize at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards was announced this morning.
Iwata: Think our sales "already peaked"?
Nintendo CEO says Wii "never" lost momentum.
Satoru Iwata has used a bunch of his favourite graphs to prove that Nintendo's Wii and DS are not doing badly in shops, despite posting a six-month profit loss of $25 million (Ł15 million) recently.
"I hope each and all of these charts will convince you that Wii, as a machine set to welcome its fifth holiday sales season, can never be considered to have lost momentum," Iwata said, splashing them liberally in investor's chops (as reported by Gamasutra).
His slides depicted impressive stuff such as Wii sales outpacing PS2 over a similar time-frame; Wii games having tremendously long sales tails; and phenomenal and unpredictable Christmas demand for Wii - 3.8 million were sold in the US last December ("The fact is, such unexpected things can happen when the seasonality throws its weight around.").
Super Mario Galaxy 2 sells loads
Pokemon: Black/White not far behind.
Wonderful Wii platformer Super Mario Galaxy 2 has sold a whopping 5.1 million units worldwide, Nintendo has announced.
Mario's latest deserves its sales success: we awarded it 10/10 in our June review.
Phenomenon Pokémon: Black & White, though, will no doubt top it as Nintendo's best-selling game of 2010: the DS game is already on 4.07 million units having only gone on sale in Japan last month.
StarCraft II US sales monstrous
Best-selling game in July.
Blizzard's science fiction real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty obliterated sales of all other games released in the US in July, NPD said.
It sold an eye-watering 721,000 units at retail. StarCraft II was released on 27th July, so those sales were achieved in just five days.
StarCraft II is the fastest-selling strategy game ever.
Nintendo's Q1 DS sales down 44 per cent
While Mario Galaxy 2 sells over 4m.
Nintendo lost money during the three months ended 30th June 2010, with worldwide DS sales down 44.7 per cent year on year to 3.15 million, while DS software sales slumped 22.9 per cent to 22.42 million.
The platform holder blamed "fewer new software titles", a lowering of the DS price and hefty foreign exchange losses for the losses.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 provided the only noted silver lining, recording 4.06 million sales worldwide since its May/June release. That helped Wii hardware sales climb by over a third compared to the same period last year.
Red Dead holds off Mario Galaxy 2
Rockstar continues flogging Dead horses.
Red Dead Redemption maintained its horseshoe-like grip on the top of the UK charts this week despite the launch of Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Wii on Friday.
Martinet to appear at SMG2 launch event
Voice of Mario returns to London.
Nintendo's announced a midnight London launch for Super Mario Galaxy 2 next Thursday, 10th June [game's out Friday, 11th June -Ed].
GAME's Oxford Street store will be the location and Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, the celebrity.
The event starts on Thursday evening at 11pm and ends on Friday morning at 1am.
Full Galaxy 2 soundtrack on YouTube
The next best thing to playing it.
Super Mario Galaxy 2's composer Mahito Yokota - or someone purporting to be him - has uploaded the entire soundtrack for the game to a YouTube playlist. (Thanks, Kotaku).
Luigi playable in Mario Galaxy 2
New video shows other brother.
Nintendo has confirmed that Mario's brother Luigi will be a playable character in the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Mario Galaxy 2 has tutorial DVD
That you can't play on Wii.
Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will sell with a bonus tutorial DVD.
SMG2 ditches hub for world map
Universal applause.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 will ditch the hub world and opt for a traditional world map instead.
Mario Galaxy 2 gets European date
Plus: Monster Hunter, S&P2, Metroid.
Nintendo Europe has announced European dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2 and other titles at its London press event.
US dates for Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid
Plus: Monster Hunter Tri date, DQ IX for US.
Nintendo has announced US release dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M and Monster Hunter Tri.
Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid this summer
According to Nintendo Australia.
Nintendo Australia has said that both Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M will be summer releases.
Mario Galaxy 2 to get Super Guide?
Miyamoto's not sure - but it will be hard.
Asked by Official Nintendo magazine if Super Mario Galaxy 2 will use the Super Guide feature that makes its debut in this week's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Shigeru Miyamoto said he "cannot tell".
E3: Mario Galaxy 2 is "90 per cent new"
Perhaps up to 99 per cent, says Miyamoto.
Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that "about 90 per cent" of the content in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is new - adding that the figure could be as high as 99 per cent.
E3: Super Mario Galaxy 2 announced
Out 2010. Has Yoshi.
Nintendo has announced Super Mario Galaxy 2 - the second Mario game of its E3 conference after New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Due on Wii next year, it looks to be chock-a-block with all of the traditional and much-loved Mario elements, in a style very familiar to players of the wonderful original.
Much of the action shown took place on the mini-planetoids and cylinders of SMG's universe, and we caught some of the star-launching malarkey which was the first title's hallmark.
