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Nintendo has announced today four more new additions to its Nintendo Selects line of $20 bargain-priced games for the Nintendo Wii Console. The new additions include Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Paper Mario. Each title will retail for $19.99 on August 28.

With the announcement of the Nintendo Wii U yesterday at E3 2011, and a serious lack in the software lined up for the brand-new HD system, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to go and come up with a list on the top five titles that we would love to see ported or remade on the Wii U. Keeping in mind the touchscreen features and interaction between the controller and the actual console, here’s what we came up with. Mass Effect Trilogy If there’s one thing Nintendo gamers have missed this…

Read what each of the three big game platforms had in store for this year’s E3.

Gamehoot takes a look at the plans announced for E3 2011.

Nintendo to drop down the Wii’s MSRP to $149.99 on May 15th in preparation for their next console.

In a recent Q&A with investors after a financial briefing, president and CEO of Nintendo Satoru Iwata revealed that the not-very-talked-about Vitality Sensor peripheral from the Kyoto, Japan-based corporation is not canceled, and he also explained the long development time, according to the video game business website IndustryGamers.

Gamers won’t have to wait too long between the launch of the glass-free 3-D Nintendo 3DS handheld and the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, but Nintendo has got gamers backs by adding some new content to make up for it.

The Clone Wars animated series were quite popular among the Star Wars faithful so much so that Traveller’s Tales developed Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. For those of you who don’t know, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is a 2011 Lego game based on The Clone Wars animated series. This game has come out for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Windows and Nintendo 3DS. Yeah, it just came out on every possible gaming platform.

The 3-D portable remake of Link’s first polygonal adventure has a release date.

The Nintendo 3DS hit North American store shelves on March 27, the Kyoto, Japan-based corporation’s latest hand-held game system featuring glasses-free 3-D technology. Nintendo may be looking elsewhere, other than 3-D technology, for another innovation to feature in its next home gaming console.

Only five days remain until Nintendo’s glasses-free 3DS portable device makes its North American debut on March 27. The handheld system will ship alongside 18 titles on day one.

The NFL may be in labor disputes, but that isn’t stopping EA Sports from announcing today a bracket-style voting campaign, akin to the on-going NCAA March Madness, to determine the next cover athlete for its NFL video game series next rendition, “Madden NFL 12”. EA Sports partnered with ESPN’s SportsNation to present this voting campaign starting today with the first round and running through next Sunday. The field is divided into two ranked sides of 16 with a star player from each team representing their respective franchise. Some noteworthy representatives…