Nintendo's gutsy move to barge into the HD console war half way through a generation has thrown a spanner in the works of video game releases this year. Nintendo Wii U will feature state of the art high definition graphics, the potential of which can produce twice as powerful games as the PlayStation 3. Aside from raw power, the console also sports a large touchscreen controller which adds func... more.

The Australian Classification Board is renown worldwide as the most ham-fisted, civil liberty crushing classification group on the planet. Daily, video games and movies that are in mass production for other countries are outright banned in Australia because of extreme violence or sexual themes. This is done under the intention to protect children from seeing or experiencing themes beyond their ... more.

2012 is becoming the "Year of the Wii U" as Nintendo ramps up manufacturing, polishes off their launch titles and comes up with exciting marketing ads to get us throwing cash their way. But you may have some unfinished business with your current Wii. The Nintendo Wii revolutionised not only the way we play video games, but also the way we use technology with everyone from Apple to Samsung using... more.

This is a bit of a blog post, which is not really something we do often on Aussie-Gamer, but we have recently discovered something awesome and figured it would be great to share with the Australian gaming community. We all love playing video games for hours on end, and we're all guilty of mindlessly snacking on all kinds of delicious filth while busting some noobs or saving the most topical pri... more.

Clearly, we're all pretty much partying here on Aussie-Gamer.com instead of actually doing any work as we count down to the end of what has been a fluctuating year of emotions and individual sanity. 2011 ushered in some interesting changes to the video game landscape. Nintendo were first to release some new hardware with the Nintendo 3DS; the world's first gaming device that produces 3D visuals... more.

As a video gamer for my entire life, I've seen it all. I've seen he evolution of the arcade, the classic 2D RPG golden age, the polygonal 3D revolution, the demise of Sega's hardware outings, the HD generation and everything in between. What I've never seen (until recent years) is the thick layer of ignorance and misinformation surrounding new hardware releases. When the first Nintendo Wii was ... more.

When Nintendo released it's 3DS handheld console earlier this year, it was achieving two things. The company who usually turns it's back on conventional thinking was backing an emerging technology when it decided to push 3D gaming. The second thing Nintendo achieved was that it delivered a console that was built from the ground up for video gamers; for a loyal fan base who have been begging Nin... more.

Nintendo have announced the return of the Nintendo Conference, set to take place on September 13 in a private room in Tokyo. The conference will be focused on the Nintendo 3DS. People who claim to be insiders have hinted at a large array of announcements from massive game titles to a redesigned Nintendo 3DS console. We've come up with a list of announcements we think are realistic enough to exp... more.

We've been having some issues with our website lately, so we thought we would reward our loyal readers with some awesome free stuff! We dug into the Aussie-Gamer wallet and came up with an awesome giveaway. We're giving away one AtGames Sega MegaDrive console, which comes complete with two controllers and 15 classic Sega games built in. Not only that, we're also throwing in 5 compatible Sega Me... more.

Welcome back to The eShop Weekly! This week Nintendo Australia have added a total of three titles to your Nintendo 3DS eShop Download catalogues. Let's take a look at the titles you'll be spending that hard earned cash on this week! GameLoft's Let's Golf 3D marks the third original 3DS download title to be made available. Also this week you have the classic GameBoy title Baseball as well as the... more.