Today in Nintendo news, the company has made a couple of announcements with both, bad and good news for us Nintendo fans.

The bad news is The legend of Zelda: Twlight Princess launch has been delayed to some point after March 2006. The game was expected to be the king of the holiday season and most stores were already listing it for November.

It seems like the game needs more developing time and they want to pulish the last single detail. I think we will find out more about the reason for this delay on the TGS. I wonder what will Nintendo do now for the holidays, i mean, Metroid Prime Hunters is coming on October(hopefully), the new pokémon versions also got pushed back and i don´t see another big game coming.

With this statement they also released 7 new Twilight Princess screenshots, you can check them out here.

Eiji Aonuma, director of both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess (among others) has revealed to an Latin American magazine (Club Nintendo i´m guessing) he´ll be directing the first Zelda game for the Revolution.

These are not amazing news since he´s been deeply involved with pretty much every Zelda game since Ocarina of time but if they already have a director we can guess the game is already on the works.

Via | Eurogamer

Nintendo is running some tests to make the final adjustments to their Wi Fi network wich will launch by the end of the year. They are gathering some info on users connections, to do this, they are asking you to download a little application wich runs a few tests on your modem and connection, then sends the info back to Nintendo.

When the software is done, you get a small animal crossing related surprise ;).

You can download the software at nintendo.com (MyNintendo account needed).

I think it´s still a little early to publish a list named “The top 25 Gamecube games of all time” because there´s a long list of upcoming games that might get left out (Twilight Princess anyone?) but Gamespy made the list and i think it´s mostly accurate. It´s hard to agree with every single game on this kind of top lists but this one seems ok.

From Ikaruga to Resident Evil 4 the list features most of the Must Have games for the cube so be sure to check it out.

Link | Gamespy

Pokémon Diamond and pearl were delayed until 2006 but you won´t miss the Pocket Monsters for so long, there are a lot of Pokémon games coming soo. The latest issue of Comic Korokoro features some info on these new 3 announced games and also some details on Pokémon Rangers wich was already announced.

First we have Pokemon Torouze, a puzzle for the DS where the pieces are 380 of the existing pokémons. The mechanics of the game look pretty simple, you just have to align 4 pieces of the same kind yo erase them, pretty much like every other single puzzle game out there. There´s going to be a history mode where you will take the role of Lucy Lightfoot and rescue pokémons from an evil organisation and of course the multiplayer mode where the fun will begin. The game hits Japan on October 20th and i hope it´s as fun as Pokémon Puzzle.

Next we have Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon Blue for the DS and Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon Blue for the GBA, details were not given about these games but apparently it will be some kind of action RPG.

Additionally we have the first details on Pokémon Ranger coming next year right before Diamond and Pearl versions and will feature some kind of interaction with these games. Here you will take the role of a Pokémon Ranger (surprised?) and your mission will be work to protect the natural enviroment, save some pokémon in danger and some of the stuff we´ve seen this people do on the tv series.

For some reason Nintendo “prelaunched” Mario Superstar Baseball official site today. It doesn´t have a lot of content but you can get a cool Mario wallpaper, take a look at some screenshots and watch a teaser.

This game looks really fun, it´s the most expected one from the Mario sports series and will be launched on August 28th.

Link | Official Site

Metroid Prime 3 will be the last game of the trilogy and is coming for Nintendo Revolution. We knew pretty much nothing about the game except for the small and not very useful video Nintendo showed at e3.

Luminoth Temple had an exclusive interview with one of the developers who gave a couple details and general info on the game.

Metroid Prime 3 will be First person shooter as expected, “We don’t plan on using a third-person camera for the times when Samus is in a suit”. Dide he just gave a hint on Samus not wearing a suit at some point of the game? Maybe.

Expect to see some known enemies and concepts, such as Phazon, visual improvements and a lot of new weapons.

The game will have basically the same gameplay but it will also take advantage of the controller´s features wich of course we don´t know yet. “We plan on taking advantage of a number of new features in the Revolution, including the controller”

The game will launch on 2006, probably as one of the first games for the Revolution.

I don´t want to get your hopes up guys but there is a tiny chance we´ll be getting some info on the Nintendo Revolution sooner than expected.

There´s a game convention in Germany this month (August 18th - 21st) and as you can see there´s a Nintendo 60 minutes conference scheduled for August 17th at 10:30 AM.

This wouldn´t be a big deal if the name of the conference wasn´t “Expand the definition of gaming”, but it is and we might get some details on the Revolution.

Cross your fingers but don´t jump out the window if here is not a lot of relevant information revealed.

If you have been expecting Mario Kart and other DS games coming this fall, you might already know by know Nintendo is launching an online service so you can play people who are in the other side of world with your DS.

Nintendo is putting all they got into this, and they have released the first theatrical trailer for the campaign.

With the slogan “For every action, there´s an equal and opposite reaction” (Kinda long, i know) you can expect to see the Nintendo Wi-fi Connection trailer a lot of times in theaters beggining this weekend.

Watch the trailer | IGN (5.2 MB)
Via | 4 Color Rebellion

Konami has confirmed the rumours about the release date for the upcoming Castlevania game for the Nintendo DS named Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

The game will be on stores on September 16th, at least in th US. Europe launch date is still listed for the first week of October.

Nintendogs also has an official release date for The UK. You guys will be able to get the game on October 7th and Nintendo also confirmed it will include three breeds that were not available in the Japanese version. US Nintendogs release is still expected for August 22nd.

This means, if you are from Europe, that you will be getting a lot of fun for the DS on October. Enjoy!