Nintendo Bringing Mario Super Sluggers to Cal Ripken World Series (1up.com)

Nintendo's Mario baseball title to get public premiere at youth baseball academy.

Blown Away (Anime News Network)

This is a busy week. Well, it's more accurate to denote next week as the busy one, as that is when we shall be flooded by games with anime themes and made-in-Japan relevance. In fact, it's so much that I'm skipping an Extra Lives entry this time around.

Review: Braid (Ferrago)

The days of the lone bedroom programmer have well and truly returned. The aesthetically beautiful and philosophically challenging time-travelling 2D platform puzzle adventure Braid proves it to be so without doubt. Designer Jonathan Blow will no doubt be an inspiration to aspiring independent solo game artists with aspirations of creating great masterpieces such as this very game. That's right, ...

Saling The World: Madden NFL 09 Leads U.S. Sales on 360 and PS3 (Gamasutra)

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five real-time Amazon.com sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from August 14th, 2008, see Madden NFL 09 outselling all Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 competition in its first week of release in North ...

Nintendo dominates Aussie chart (gamesindustry.biz)

Nintendo has dominated the Australian software chart for the week ended August 10, with Wii and DS titles taking up the top seven places, according to data from GfK Australia.

10 Reasons To Stay Loyal To Nintendo (Games Radar)

Feeling like you've been betrayed for the casuals? We understand. Let us put your mind at rest