Metroid Prime: Hunters Commercial

Advertising in full force, Nintendo is sticking with the same type of advertising for this game. If you can't find the commercial on TV then you can check it out HERE.

Source: DS Advanced

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

More Another Code?

Dorimaga, a Japanese publication, interviewed Jinx/Cing, the creators of Another Code for the Nintendo DS, said in the interview that Another Code might be develop into a full series. This is good news, as Another Code gotten a high review from Famitsu.

Source: Gamecube Heaven, Gamecube Europe

-Falco8

Quick News

Conspiracy Entertainment announced today that it will be launching a game called the "Jeff Corwin Experience" for DS and PSP. The game will be based off a TV show on Animal Planet.
Also there are rumours rumbling of new DS colours coming in March to Japan. There are 4 colours speculated to come to the DS and yellow is supposed to be one of the colours.

Source: Gba.N64Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

DS PDA, GBE Launch?

Before you read on. Note the first half is stricktly news the second half is my speculation.

According to www.spong.com Nintendo will be making the most aggressive move in handheld gaming history. Apparently Nintendo will show off the gb2, otherwise known as game boy evolution at this years E3 expo. Many things were confirmed that no one really thought would be announced till at least e3 2006. It seems that the DS will have a PDA OS produced by Nintendo, As well as that the GBE will have revolution connectivity that will expand upon what was done with the GBA. Also, The GBE will be based off of, possibly identical to Gamecube technology.

That said here’s my insight on the situation. Click Here.

Source: Spong

-Blackmajik

Asphalt Review

know it has been along time, but Video GamerJ has recently typed up his review on Asphalt: Urban GT. Check it out HERE.

Pac-Pics

There are 26 new screenshots of Pac-Pix up. The screens include new bosses, the turtorial screen and others, check them out here

Source: GBA.N64Europe

-ElMariachi

DS Downloads

Starting tomorrow in Japan electronic stores will have areas where you will be able to bring your DS and download game demos. The demos will be stored on the DS's temporary memory. This means that after you power down your DS they will be gone. There is no news for the demos coming to North America, but this opens alot of doors for the DS and game demos in general. The game demos that are scheduled for launch tomorrow are

-Meteos demo
-Chokkan Hitofude demo
-Band Brothers songs

The Band Brothers songs are:
-Toko toko Yoshi (Catch! Touch! Yoshi!)
-DK: Jungle Beat
-Slider (Super Mario 64 DS)
-Ashley (WarioWare: Touched!)
-Parthena no Kagami: A Set
-Parthena no Kagami: B Set

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Weekly Japanese chart sales

Here is video game for the week of February 14 in Japan.

Software sales:
Devil May Cry 3 (PS2, Capcom) - 194,530 units
Dragon Ball Z3 (PS2, Bandai) - 90,911 / 517,807 units
Rumble Roses (PS2, Konami) - 73,935 units
D1 Grand Prix (PS2, Yuke's) - 26,286 units
Gladiator: Road to Freedom (PS2, Ertain) - 14,336 units
Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, Sony) - 12,863 / 956,680 units
Popolocrois: Pietro Ouji no Bouken (PSP, Sony) - 11,956 / 45,715 units
Catch! Touch! Yoshi! (NDS, Nintendo) - 11,591 / 120,669 units
Shinseiki Yuusha Taisen (PS2, Atlus) - 10,487 units
Everybody's Golf Portable (PSP, Sony) - 10,353 units

Hardware sales:
PlayStation 2 - 38,954 / 432,091 units
PlayStation Portable - 38,314 / 400,669 units
Nintendo DS - 22,363 / 328,042 units
GameBoy Advance SP - 10,849 / 148,726 units
GameCube - 3,256 / 55,428 units
GameBoy Advance - 399 / 4,421 units
Xbox - 295 / 3,595 units

Source: GC Cafe

-Falco8

NFSU Rivals delayed on the DS

It looks like EA's most anticipated underground racing game, Need for Speed Undergrounds Rivals for the Nintendo DS. NFSU Rivals delayed until April 19th in the US, and that means we might see a delay for the European version.

Source:TouchDS

-Falco8

Puyo Pop Fever

It has been a long time since we have heard anything about the game since around launch, but now there is a official North American release date of April.

Source: IGN

-Marcus
-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Euro Q2 Release Dates

Nintendo released the European release dates for its upcoming games in Q2. See below-

Nintendo DS-
Yoshi Touch & Go (Nintendo) - 6 May 2005
Need for Speed Underground 2 (EA) - 29 April 2005
Cocoto Card Racer (Neko) - April 2005
Space Invadors Revolution (Marvelous/Rising Star Games) - April 2005
Ultimate Brain games (Telegames) - May 2005
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Ubisoft) - May 2005
Madagascar (Activision) - June 2005
Ultimate Card games (Telegames) - June 2005
Pac-Pix (NAMCO) - Q2 2005

Source: Cube-Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Wifi?

According to Kotaku, Nintendo is preparing a launch of the Nintendo DS WiFi service as well as an unseen DivX rollout. Kotaku's source says that there is no word on where the hotspots will be located and that there is no solid release date because the protocol still has minor issues.

Redirecting to DivX, apparently the media will be stored on DS cartridges and should be able to hold power for a couple hours. It's quite strange however considering Nintendo's direction of the Play-Yan. Why abandon it? Whether you question the legitimacy of this, something is bound to happen soon with WiFi.

Kotaku

-Video Gamer J

Rayman Movie and Pokemon Rumour

It appears that a new Rayman DS movie has surfaced and you can see it HERE.

Also according to the latest issue of Nihon Keizai Shimbun (a Japanese magazine) Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are scheduled to be released in November 2005 in Japan. By this marker it would be reasonable to suspect that the game would launch in North American and Europe around March of 2006. Nothing has been confirmed by Nintendo though so it'a all just speculation for the time being.

Source: Cube-Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Play Yan Recall

It seems that only days after it's launch in Japan, the Play-Yan has encountered an overlooked problem: Reverse sound output. While this would be very unnoticable in many cases, Nintendo will be replacing the Play-Yan device for all those who purchased it. According to the e-mail, a replacement is being readied for delivery on 3/5. In order to get the replacement, you'll have to give the broken unit to the courier who delivers the item. A special thanks to SpeedBrkr for
letting us know about this!

Source: IGN

-Video GamerJ

Play Yan Launched

Today the Play Yan launched in Japan and it will be a new era of Nintendo and media relations. Along with the launch of the Play Yan Nintendo also released a site where Play Yan games are downloadable for Club Nintendo members. The site is here, and there is still now word of a North American release date on the Play Yan thus far.

Source: Planet Gamecube

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Iwata Speaks

Over at Spong, a well pieced article and exclusive interview with Nintendo's president can be found. The Nintendo DS is continually brought up in this with great information. Here's some of the following:

Speaking of momentum, the PSP has launched in Japan though has been met with supply problems. Right now the DS is outselling Sony's machine, though whether this can this be sustained once the PSP product flow has been eased is an issue Nintendo, and its armies or spin doctors, need to address. "There are two things here you need to understand," asserts the Nintendo president. "Number one; Sales of the DS have never slowed, even with the launch of the PSP. And the second
thing is; even though Sony claims it would have sold more given one circumstance or another, the situation is pretty much similar with the DS. At various points, if we had have had more product on store shelves, we would be boasting even bigger sales than we are today. So that argument from Sony is invalid." Tough talking indeed.

Of course, there are MANY more things brought up in this fantastic interview, so without hesitation, go to Spong.com and read the rest!

Source: Spong

-Video GamerJ

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Another Code Shots

10 new "Another Code" screenshots have been released. In my opinion this game just keeps on looking better, the graphics look really great. You can check out all 10 new screens here.

Source: GBA.N64Europe

-ElMariachi

Zelda News

Zelda news, and who better to post it? Anyways there was a recent interview with Eiji Aonuma, a Zelda developer, and he said alot about the upcoming DS and Gamecube Zelda games. Below is the translation of a quote.

'There will be without any doubt Zelda for the DS. In fact, you appear that the reflexions which we developed around Four Swords largely contributed to the reflexion which we had to conceive the DS. The concepts with work in Four Swords formed part of the examples that we experienced while thinking on the possible plays for the DS and the advantages that the double screen allows. It was theoretical but today, it would be very a shame, and even ashamed, that one does not make the opposite demonstration: a truth good Zelda on DS. The next episode of Zelda conceived for GameCube is already completed but I can absolutely nothing say some moreover. You know the house: even the title and the topic are still secret. This next large Zelda, which makes continuation with the WindWaker episode chronologically, will leave to Japan at at the end of 2005. I am engaged to 200 % in his development and I can betray one secrecy of it: it will be very, very beautiful.'

To be fair, that quote looked smaller when I read it. Anyways it is good to hear about Zelda whatever the news.

Source: Jeux-France

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Абсолютная металлокерамика

Organizer Plus DS

At Nintendo.com, they've revealed a new game or an application software for the Nintendo DS called Organizer Plus. The game is being developed by Summitsoft; this game might feature PDA capibilities, but there is no official word from Summitsoft or Nintendo if the game will have PDA capibilities. DS Update will keep you up to date on this news.

Source: Cubed3

-Falco8

Europa Universalis 2 hits the DS

Paradox Intertainment announces today that they're critically acclaimed strategy game, Europa Universalis 2 will be coming to the Nintendo DS` owners hands.

Fredrik Lindgren, VP of Sales and Marketing at Paradox Interactive says, "Europa Universalis II is one of our most appreciated titles. As a leading force in the pocket PC entertainment business, Pocket PC Studios are the perfect partners to continue its legacy on a new platform. This additional accessibility is something that will suit the current fan base as well as attract new curious gamers. "

Europa Universalis 2 was released on the PC in the year 2001. Which takes place more than 400 years, while players will choose their own nation to try to conquer Europe and the world. The players will have to deal with domestic and foreign policies, religious struggles in your country, and claim lands in the New World for your country.

"This is a fantastic opportunity for Pocket PC Studios and Paradox Interactive to bring this phenomenal title to mobile gamers", says Becky Moore, Director of Business Development at Pocket PC Studios. She also adds that the game will be released in 2005.

Falco8 says: I think this game will be very interesting. Even though the C&C DS game was a bust, This game might bring enjoyment to strategy fans who have a Nintendo DS.

Source: GBA Europe

-Falco8

Spyro RPG

Vivendi Studios announces that Spyro will be having his next adventures on the Nintendo DS, but now Spyro will not be an action adventure game this time, but the gameplay will be a Tactical RPG for Spyro DS. Expect to see Spyro on the Nintendo DS by the end of the year.

Source: JeuxPo

-Falco8

Monkey Island DS

UPDATE: It seems as if this is all one lie generated from a forum. If you wish to view more information about it, head to gba.n64europe.com.
Sorry for the misunderstanding!
In a recent European interview with Lucas Arts, it has been discovered they been testing out the development kits for most of the upcoming consoles (and handhelds). In this testing, they have undergone some early work for Monkey Island 3 on the Nintendo DS. Lucas Arts stated that with the particular design of the DS and it's gameplay mechanisms, a lot of older games or possibly cancelled projects could be ported. While the screenshots are supposedly authentic, Lucas Arts claimed the game is only at experimental phase and could be cancelled at any given time.

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Source: Consolewars.de

-Video GamerJ

Pepsi DS

In Japan, Nintendo and Pepsi are getting together in the Pepsi "Get! Nintendo DS!" - promotional campaign running through March 15, 2005 to May 31, 2005. People are suppose to buy Pepsi products and collect 7 different tickets and after this is all over Pepsi will hold a lottery to see who gets 1 of the 1,000 DS's. The DS will be a Pepsi blue color and it will also come with a matching blue carrying case and headphones with the Pepsi logo on both of them. Check it out HERE.

Source: GBA.N64Europe

-ElMariachi

New Wallpaper

Our very talented artist, Marcus, has made an amazing new background wallpaper/picture that is truly incredible. Take a look at the new picture, Dirty Gaming.

Wario Ware: Minisite

The Wario Ware minisite has now launched and is right on time with the shipment of the game. Check it out HERE.

-UZG

Nanostray Details

Recently, PlanetDS.de had the time to sit down with Manfred Linzer, a developer for the upcoming game, Nanostray. While the interview was entirely in German, many new details emerged:

-Graphics for Nanostray will not be compared to SNES shooters, but instead to shooters like IKARUGA. Nanostray is expected to be the DS' finest showing yet with a solid 60 frames per second (FPS) throughout gameplay.

-There will be no pre-rendering. Everything will be real-time.

-The game is sceduled to support multiplayer through one game cartridge. Also mentioned is the possibility of an online ranking system.

-The Nintendo DS' touch screen will be utilized in many ways, including selecting of the weapons, scanning of opponents, scanning of the environment and all status information.

Manfred also mentioned that developing is much easier for the Nintendo DS than the GameBoy Advance.

Source: PlanetDS.de

-Video Gamer J

Tetris DS

Although we've already seen a couple of people porting their homebrew software onto the Nintendo DS, this is problably the first time we have seen someone sucessfully use both screens for a game that they have made (or ported). The gameTetris for the DS

Here's a screenshot

Source: Planet GameCube

-Videogamer J

At this time I would like to welcome Videogamer J to the DS Update family, and boy is it getting big... Either way we hope he will add to the site and contribute to help us grow and thrive.

Valentine's Surprise

Today is the day of love, and while everyone is going out and getting thier loves flowers some of us are going and getting games. Our very talented artist, Marcus made us a special Valentine's picture for all of you and it makes you wonder Who's Your Valentine?

Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at DS Update

V-Pocket Update

There Have been all sorts of speculation going around about nintendo's registered trademark V-Pocket, and it seems now acording to sources that it is a Palm OS for the nintendo DS.

"Nintendo will soon unveil a complete suit of personal organiser tools for its Nintendo DS platform, expected to be shown before E3. Nintendo believes that the functionality of the DS, combined with high-end PDA software, will give it an edge over Sony’s PSP, which is, and will remain a media-driven value-added console."

Source: Spong.com


Bad Blood

Red Alert 3 DS (Update)

Few days back, DS Update reported EA will be developing Red Alert 3 for the Nintendo DS, but we listed this game as a rumor beacuse of no official announcment from EA or Nintendo, but now it looks like Red Alert 3 will not be coming to the Nintendo DS. Gamespot's Rumor Control reports that EA's C&C development team denies any Red Alert game development for the Nintendo DS. Well all you strategy fans have to wait until Advance Wars DS.

Source: Gamespot

-Falco8

Ford Racing on the DS

Razorworks Studio will be making their acclaimed racing game, Ford Racing for the Nintendo DS. The racing game will be released in September 2005, but there is no infomation yet on this game.

Source: Gaming Evolution

-Falco8

New Need for Speed Shots

There are now 5 new Need for Speed DS high resolution screen shots. Check them out HERE.

Source: Cube-Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Wario Ware: Screens

Nintendo has recently posted a bunch of new screens giving away alot of the cool ideas for the mini games, these are really cool screenshots and you may want to check them out just to be sure this game is going to be amazing and believe me I've seen them and it will be amazing.
Click Here for the shots

Source: Nintendo.com

Bad Blood

Weekly Sales Figures

In the latest weekly sales, we find out if the Nintendo DS reclaimed the top spot, or did the PSP once again beat the DS to the top spot.

Software - This Week | Total Sales

1.) Super Robot Battle: Original Generation 2 (GBA, Banpresto) - 117,876 | NEW
2.) Another Century's Episode (PS2, Banpresto) - 39,694 | 220,579
3.) Radiata Stories (PS2, Square Enix) - 38,786 | 213,067
4.) Biohazard 4 (GC, Capcom) - 28,608 | 170,633
5.) Yoshi Touch & Go (NDS, Nintendo) - 27,336 | 91,069
6.) WWE SmackDown! vs RAW (PS2, Yuke's) - 25,189 | NEW
7.) Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, Sony) - 21,142 | 929,091
8.) Death by Degrees (PS2, Namco) - 13,915 | 50,598
9.) WarioWare: Touched! (NDS, Nintendo) - 13,710 | 642,271
10.) Monster Hunter G (PS2, Capcom) - 13,558 | 167,610

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | Total 2005 Sales

1.) PSP - 48,781 | 74,405 | 316,383
2.) PlayStation 2 - 47,963 | 58,673 | 353,248
3.) Nintendo DS - 29,552 | 43,226 | 279,474
4.) Game Boy Advance SP - 13,459 | 11,589 | 127,505
5.) GameCube - 6,922 | 8,214 | 47,673
6.) Game Boy Advance - 411 | 399 | 3,449
7.) XBOX - 388 | 467 | 3,038

Well it looks like the PSP is once agina the victore against the DS, but on the positive side, The DS has strong software sales, including claiming the top spot on the software charts.

SOURCE: Gaming Evolution

-MPRUNTY

Xlink's Lost Connection

Depressing news, Xlink is now stopping development on tunneling the DS. The announcement came today along with many disappointed DS fans. Team Xlink says that they will stop DS development for now, but who knows whether they will ever start again. Along with this there has been no news of the forgotten Nitro Online and many suspect they will never finish online as well. It seems that after a delay on Demasked, a forgotten Nitro, and now a cancelled Xlink it appears that it will be a long wait before we see the DS online.

Source: Xlink

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Metroid Pinball

EB Games has listed another DS game to their website. The game is apperantly called Metroid Pinball and is set for December of 2005. This was never annouced by Nintendo, when a representitive was asked about the game he simply said "Nintendo does not comment on rumors of speculation" So who knows what's going to happen at this point but hopefully we'll find out if this game is going to be released or not. Could it just be a misprint for a Mario Pinball or perhaps a Metroid Prime?

Source: IGN

-ElMariachi

Atari Classics Screenshots

Atari has released a new game schedule from 2005 to 2006. Nothing new for the DS though but Atari also relased a few more screenshots from Retro Atari, you can check them out HERE.

Source: GBA.N64Europe

-ElMariachi

Nintendo V-pocket

According to sources, Nintendo has registered a new trademark in Japan. There are no details at the time besides the announced name, "Nintendo v-pocket". Now in the logo the text is basically identical to the logo text for the DS. Some are speculating that the "v" stands for video. Making it possibly the U.S. and European version of the gba/ ds media player the play-yan. Others speculate anything from online DS device/service to a something virtual boy-esque. More news as it comes. Trademark.

Source : Gba.n64-europe

-blackmajik

Jeremy: I have to also give credit to John Winter who emailed me this news several hours before this post. He also gave me the link to the original source: quitter.jp. Thanks John!

Splinter Cell DS

Ubi Soft today announced three new games for the DS. Today Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, King Kong, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory were all announced for the DS. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is set for release later this year, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is set to come out this spring in the general timeframe of the movie, and King Kong is set for release this holiday season.

Source: Cube-Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Cubed-3 Back

After a series of unfortunate events with hackers, server crashes and who knows what else. Cubed-3 is finally back up and running. Cubed-3 has been one of our key sites for sourcing in the past, and all of us from DS Update would like to say congratulations on getting the site back up.

Cubed-3

Mist Walker Artwork!

Just after the recent announcemeent of Mist Walker developing an Simulation RPG title for the DS, the creative minds over there have release a small snippet of what we can expect from the great minds at Mist Walker.



AT this point, no release date has been given, but judging from the artwork, they have one talented staff on deck to bring some true love to the Nintendo DS.

SOURCE: Gaming Evolution

-MPRUNTY

Nintendo Keeping Another Secret?

It seems that Nintendo has surprises afterall in the ready wing for its fellow consumers. After a little digging around, I came across a listing on the ESRB website listing a new product made by Nintendo. The following link will take you to the listing on the website

ESRB Website

In regards to this mystery, there is no news what-so-ever on any other website or news feed giving any type of hint as to what is Nintendo actually up to. Could this be a future DS title?, or possibly a future product for the Nintendo DS? One thing is for sure, this is a mistery worth looking into.

SOURCE: DS Gaming

-MPRUNTY

Nintendo DS Tour

In the latest news to be released, Nintendo has announced some new details about their upcoming DS tour of the United Kingdom. The following linke below, will take you to the press release giving details about the tour.

Press Release

SOURCE: Planet Gamecube

-MPRUNTY

Red Alert 3

It looks like the Dutch may know a little more than we do about upcomgin Nintendo DS titles. It seems on a Dutch website, Sen Gamer that a small and independent studio is bringing this title later this year to the Nintendo DS with the help and support of EA Pacific (formally known as Westwood). For those who dont know about Westwood, they were the original developers of Comman and Conquer.

At this point, little is known about this title, so until more is known or figured out, i would have to put this game in the category of "rumors".

SOURCE: GBA.N64.Europe

-MPRUNTY

Retro Atari Preview

One of our newest members at DS Update has now done his first preview on Retro Atari DS. Check out the full preview HERE.

Gyakuten Saiban DS

New screens and info were released today. This is going to be the first stateside version of the series, which has 3 GBA entries in Japan. It’s an action courtroom battle game. It seems to be going in an anime art direction even though the graphics are strikingly similar to those found in the not-so-amazing Sprung. You can view the screens HERE.

Source: IGN

-Blackmajik

Rising Star Brings More Games

Marvelous Interactive Inc. and Bergsala have created Rising Star Games Limited, the company that vows to bring more Japanese titles to Western gamers and reduce Japanese importing. The company promises that some titles will even release in Europe before thier Japanese counter-part. The company is already planning to bring Bubble Bobble DS, and Space Invaders DS to Europe ASAP.

Source: Cube-Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Famitsu Scans

The latest scans from Famitsu magazine have shown images of Kirby DS, Nintendogs, and Another DS. See them below:

Another
Kirby DS
Nintendogs

Source: Jeux-France

-Jeremy Olson
-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Pac-Pix Boxart

Here is the Japanese boxart for pac-pix, the North American version shouldnt be too much different.



Source: DS Central

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Bubble Bobble DS

The classic puzzle game Bubble Bobble is now heading its way to the DS. The game is now announced, and release date and details should be released soon.

Source: DS Central

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

NOJ Interview

IGN has put up an interview with NOJ Pr Office Manager Toyoda Ken, in the interview Toyoda didn't really talk about the Nintendo Revolution or the Nintendo DS but gave some info about what they might or might not do at E3. You can read the full interview HERE.

-ElMariachi

New Retro Atari Classics Screens Emerge

IGN have posted some new screens for the upcoming game Retro Atari Classics. Check them out here.

Voice your opinion on this title on this forum thread.

Family Guy and Devilish DS

No point in making two posts and taking up more space so....

Fox has now announced Take-Two Interactive will be publishing a Family Guy video game for just about every system imaginable. The game is expected to come in 2006 and Family Guy returns to Fox in May of this year.

Devilish was a game on the Sega Game Gear is now being remade for the DS. The game is a dark horror style game. It will be published by Starfish in Japan and will include multiplayer, and use of the touch screen. There is no word on a North American release date.

Source: IGN

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

PSP Price and Date

The PSP now has a North American price and launch date. For $249.99 on March 24th you'll get the equivalent of the Japanese PSP Value Pack, which includes the PSP, a battery pack, an AC adaptor, a 32MB Memory Stick Duo, headphones fitted with a remote control, a soft carrying case, a cleaning cloth and a sample UMD with non-playable game demos. Also the first million buyers will get a copy of Spiderman 2 on UMD. The price also translates into $310 CND (before taxes). The price is higher, but it also launches with 24 games. Even with UMD movies, I don't think that movies on the PSP will become large sellers. How will Nintendo respond to the news, will we see a DS price drop? Time will tell...

Source: Computer and Video Games

-Ultimate Zelda Guru
-Jeremy Olson

Search!

You may have noticed the old "search" link on our sidebar is gone. We took the old search down because it was neither practical nor accurate.

We have now implimented Google's search tool which seems to work very well. It is now easily accessible on the main page and any where else on DS Update. The search engine will search through all the mounds of DS Update content and find what you are looking for. For example, search Rayman DS and you will get all related content.

We think this will be a great new way for our viewers to find the content they are interested in and we would love to get some input. Make sure to voice your opinion either on the comments section of this post, on the forums, or through email.

-Jeremy Olson

Nintendo Protects Wifi

Nintendo has now licensed RSA's BSAFE encryption schemes for the DS. The new encription scheme will help protect the DS from piracy over Wifi with full games and demos. No word on when the new encryption will be implimented.

Source: Gamespot

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Nintendo Polls for Revolution

Nintendo is now polling on thier forums for the games that people would like to see on Nintendo Revolution. The possible options for voting are:
-More M-rated games. Please
-All new franchises and characters for my age group.
-Mario, Mario, and more Mario
-I'd like more T-rated games. No more kiddie titles

This is good for Nintendo, although I do not think that the options cover the full range of what gamers want though. Perhaps an option such as 'New franchises and the classics to go with it'. Either way it is good to see that Nintendo is looking towards thier next generation console and polling the gamers to see what they want.

Source: Nintendo.com

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Polarium Boxart

The European boxart for Polarium has been released now, check it out.



Source: DS Central

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Dead Pixel

I found my DS afflicted with DPS, Dead Pixel Syndrome (thats the medical term), you can find out what I did with my DS and see exclusive footage of real Dead Pixel just to see how noticeable it is HERE.

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Mistwalker RPG DS

Mistwalker Studios have now announced that they are working on a new simulation RPG that will be a 'playable experiment'. The game is suppose to be able to play with 4-5 players. Along with that, Mistwalker has also employed some people who have worked on the Final Fantasy series to work on the game. More details on the game are suppose to come soon.

Source: Cube-Europe

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Space Invaders DS

Taito announces that Space Invaders is in development for the Nintendo DS and will launch in Japan on March 24, 2005.

Source: gba.n64-europe

-Falco8

Rayman DS Video

Rayman DS makes its first appearance in moving picture. Albeit, not very long, but it is still video footage.

Check it out here

Source: Game Trailers

Gaming-Side to Develop DS

Gaming-Side, developers of HILL Project for PC/PS2, now say they would like to bring their game to the DS eventually. No solid dates or projects, though.

Source: DS Central

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Age of Empires coming to DS?

DVD Box Office has added Age of Empires, Quad Desert Fury 2 and Texas Hold Em to their list of upcoming DS games. All the games are apparently being published by Majesco, there has been no official word on any of the games as of now.

Source: DS Central

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

Polarium Delayed

Nintendo has pushed back Polarium (One-Line Puzzle's) date up April 18th, 2005. Japanese gamers got to play this game back in December. So the question is, why is it being delayed here in the US? There is almost no translation needed, and the game itself doesn't have to change at all to come over here, so this leaves gamers wondering about the delay. Polarium is also currently off the Nintendo.com gamelist, whether it be permanent or temporary we will have to see.

Source: DS Central and Nintendo.com

-Ultimate Zelda Guru

WarioWare Touched! Preview

I just finished a preview for the upcoming Valentine's Day surprise, WarioWare Touched!. Check it out HERE.

Game Informer Interviews Castlevania Developer

Game Informer have just posted an interesting interview with Koji Igarashi, the main man when it comes to the Castlevania series. The interview covers the upcoming Castlevania game for the Nintendo DS and hints at some interesting things. What got my attention was this little quote:

"GI: We played the demo and I was wondering, outside of the sealing of the bosses and the removal of the boxes with the touch screen, is there anything else you do with the touch screen?

Iga:  I don’t want to reveal too much too early, but it’s used in various places throughout the game (laughs).  There is one more thing that uses it, but I haven’t told anyone about it yet.  I’m not going to say what it is, but it’s in there. (laughs)"

Read the full interview here.

Update: Gamespot has a new video interview with Koji Igarashi which you can see here.

Meteos Flash Demo

GBA.N64Europe reports: "A Japanese flash-homebrewer has constructed a small flash-demo of what the upcoming Nintendo DS game Meteos simulates."

You can check out the demo here and sound off in this forum topic.

The screen shown in this post is a snapshot of the real game in action. Image courtesy of IGN.

No special DS for Europe

A few days ago, the web was buzzing with rumors speculating whether or not the European DS will wake from sleep mode if encountered by another DS in range. The rumor was based upon the following exerpt from the European Nintendo DS website: "The Nintendo DS, when in sleep mode, will spring to life if it senses another DS transmitting in range, alerting users that someone wants to chat or play games with them!"

GBA.N64Europe have the official word from Nintendo:

"Unfortunately, Nintendo BeNeLux replied to us that the feature will not be included in the European DS units. Furthermore, Nintendo told us that the original plans indeed included the feature of notifying a user when a DS comes within range, however at a later point the decision was made not to do so (as we reported earlier)."

So it looks like there will be no advanced Nintendo DS for Europe after all, sorry chaps :).