Nintendo announced that it has secured another legal victory today, after a Maryland US District judge dismissed a patent infringement suit against the company. The suit from IA Labs CA, LLC had alleged that various Nintendo products including Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus, and the Balance Board accessory infringed on one of its patents.

"We refuse to succumb to patent trolls," said Nintendo's senior VP of legal & general counsel Rick Flamm.

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Guitar Hero III is the best selling video game of the "current generation," according to market research firm NPD Group's retail-only data. The top-ten games are revealed over on CNBC.

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Nintendo and the American Heart Association have joined forces to help people "create healthy lifestyles through physically active play," the unlikely duo announced today.

The "multifaceted strategic relationship" will include a website extolling "the benefits of physically active play," a study to "take a closer look at the synergies and potential benefits of active-play video games and physically active lifestyles" and slapping the American Heart Association logo on Wii, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort boxes. Read more »

The triumvirate of research groups behind Top Global Markets--NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc.--have issued their breakdown of 2009, listing the year's top-selling console games and detailing the status of their markets.

2009* Top 5 Video Game Titles - Top Global Markets Report (By Units**)

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Having updated its lifetime hardware sales figures, Nintendo today confirmed that the Wii has outsold the Nintendo Entertainment System--making Wii the "best selling Nintendo home videogame console of all time"--while the Nintendo DS has replaced the GameBoy as its best-selling hardware of all time.

"Needless to say, these are just two milestones of a larger journey in our efforts to reach the ultimate goal of bringing one home console for every household and one handheld for everyone," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained in his presentation. Read more »

Kicking off new year with self-congratulatory press release, Nintendo began today by listing off some of its accomplishments in 2009, such as its estimate that the Nintendo DS "set a new all-time calendar-year U.S. sales record for any console or hand-held."

The company further boasted that the Nintendo DS represents the "best selling videogame console" in European history with over 40 million sold across five years, with the Wii having sold just over 20 million in the territory across three years. Read more »

EA Maxis' sim-evolution game Spore (PC) has been named as Time magazine's 20th best invention of 2008, with the publication referred to it as "the everything game."

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Speaking at Microsoft's GameFest UK keynote, Xbox Europe VP David Gosen claimed that some 60% of Wii Fit owners played Nintendo's fitness-oriented, balance board-equipped title once and shelved it soon thereafter, noting that developers should be wary of pushing gimmicks in the place of solid gameplay.

"We've seen some research that says 60 percent of people who bought a Wii Fit play it once and don't play it again. So we have to get the balance right, because what we are doing is bringing new consumers into the market for the first time in their lives sometimes—and we have to treat them with respect," Gosen told attendees. Read more »

Nintendo has slightly delayed this week's release of Wii Fit, nudging the title from two days past its announced debut on Monday, May 19.

Though Nintendo launched the game at New York's Nintendo World Store yesterday (pictured left), the rest of the North America has to wait until Wednesday, May 21 to get its hands and feet on the $89.99 fitness game and its weight-sensitive balance board. Read more »

Publisher Electronic Arts is looking into the development of a Wii fitness game, Eurogamer reports.

Speaking at an event, EA Sports president Peter Moore remarked on the opportunities created by Nintendo's Wii Fit, already launched overseas and aimed for release in North America on May 19.

"We're watching very closely what the Wii Fit board does," Moore said. "We think we have to have a role to play with that mum—the kids have gone to school, she's got 45 minutes on her own, the Wii is there, it's the first console she's ever liked because she can do things herself. And we're working on stuff, trying to work out how we can use EA Sports applications there." Read more »

New financial documents released by Nintendo have revealed that the

company's Wii console has sold 24.45 million units worldwide since its

2006 release, with the handheld Nintendo DS selling 70.6 million units worldwide Read more »

Nintendo of America has announced that its upcoming healthy lifestyle software Wii Fit (Wii) will carry a suggested retail price of $89.99 in North America.

Bundled with the pressure sensitive Wii Balance Board, Wii Fit and its 40-plus activities hits North America on May 19.

Ever eager to please, Nintendo has released 43 new screenshots of Wii Fit, showing off the various activities and European localization of its upcoming fitness title.

Bundled with the pressure sensitive Wii Balance Board, Wii Fit hits North America on May 19, with the European version set to arrive a bit before on April 24.

Namco Bandai today announced We Ski, revealing its intent to poach some fresh powder on the Wii. Due out later this spring in North America, the title allows up to four players to take their personalized Mii avatars to the slopes.

According to Namco, the game will offer a variety of events, including ski school, freestyle skiing, moguls and slaloms, and photography.

Along with the expected motion-sensitive Wii Remote controls, the game can played via the upcoming Wii Balance Board, which will be bundled with Nintendo's Wii Fit when it arrives May 19. Read more »

In a press release noting its Game Developers Conference presence, Nintendo has announced that the first U.S. WiiWare games will start showing up May 12. According to Nintendo, early WiiWare -- just like Virtual Console games, available through the Wii 's built-in Shop Channel -- titles will include games from Square Enix, Frontier Developments and Telltale Games.

Meanwhile the exercise product Wii Fit, which has sold over 1.4 million copies in Japan since its December 1, 2007 launch, will reach U.S. shores May 19.