Zelda

Are you a performance-orientated gamer or a mastery-orientated gamer? Have you even considered what 'type' of gamer you are? Have you even got the faintest clue what we are on about?

In slightly shocking news from Nintendo, it looks like the father of Mario and Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, will not be taking the stage at the company's E3 press conference in LA next week.

Nintendo has just announced a record fiscal year through to March 2009, but has indicated a slowing of profit in the current financial year.

UK retailers are advising that gamers without pre-orders for the new Nintendo DSi, which launches this coming Friday, are unlikely to get their hands on the new Zelda machine at launch.

Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, is set to give the keynote address at this year's Games Developers Conference in San Francisco in March.

Nintendo is set to make games easier for its legions of casual Wii gamers this year, if a new patent is anything to go by.

The Nintendo Wii celebrates its second birthday over in the US today, when it was greeted by a world full of cynics that said the name was too silly and the concept would never work.