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The strange, musical game for the Nintendo DS called Electroplankton will be out next week in Japan. The commercial video doesn`t show how the gameplay work, but the video was really...unique.
IGN made an article about the Nintendo DS duking it out with the Sony PSP. This article is an interesting read. Nice find, Westmarch. The people of eurogamer has got their hands on the DS puzzle game, Meteos. See what they thought about the puzzle game.It looks like Bomberman for the Nintendo DS has been bumbed up for a earlier date. Bomberman was to release May 26 in Japan, but now the title will be released a week earlier on May 19, 2005. EA released four new screens for Need for Speed Underground 2 on the Nintendo DS. NFSU 2 is slated for an April release date. Nintendo announced that they expect to ship over six million Nintendo DS by the end of the month. Nintendo also promises a Wi-Fi gaming services that is free to the Nintendo DS owners across the globe. Nintendo also confirms that well over hundreds of titles is in development for the Nintendo DS, and there will be over 20 titles available for each genre for the Nintendo DS in the near future. We have the artwork for Snowboarding Kids for the Nintendo DS and more screenshots of Touch! Kirby's Magic Paintbrush, Guru Guru Nagetto, JumpSuper Stars, Naruto, Nintendogs, and Slime Morimori Dragon Quest. Here is the Japanese charts sale for the week of March 14.
DS Update now has a new article icon to introduce to the public. This icon (see left) will signify any news in Nintendos Wifi. The icon will also cover any online program features including any Demasked news. Mario Kart DS is one of the most anticipated Nintendo DS game to almost every Nintendo DS owner, and now Mario Kart is now WiFi enabled on the Nintendo DS! EGM reports that Mario Kart DS will be going online on the Nintendo DS, and Mario Kart DS will be coming out sooner than previously excepted.Nintendo has now shipped two new colours for the DS to Japan, black and white. The coloured DS's can be imported here for approximately $189 USD. Personally, I think the white DS looks the best. Well today is the launch of the PSP. For those of you getting one, I hope you have fun and a big wallet. Best wishes go out to Bad Blood, and Matt Prunty who I know will be picking one up. Anyways, I myself had my own PSP launch experiance which you can read about HERE. Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's head of marketing, announces that Play Yan, the multimedia that plays MP3 music and MP4 movies on the GBA and the Nintendo DS, will be coming to the United States and Europe later this year.First images of Namco’s new RTS game, Shogun Warrior, are out now in this scan from Nintendo power. The graphics are very sharp and clean, which is nice considering RTS games usually have very low poly counts. More news as it comes. Click the scan for more information.A bunch of quick news here for all of you.Datel has announced thier first product for the DS, a Action Replay. The action replay actually works on both GBA and DS, as it is inserted in the GBA slot for the DS. The cart comes with a USB slot and windows software to load game saves and other cheats to the cartridge. The product is suppose to be launched sometime next week. With the action replay you can also back up game saves on your computer as well. Here are the Japanese sales of the week of March 7th. Nintendo Power, the official Nintendo magazine in the US, announces that Namco is developing Katamari Damacy for the Nintendo DS. No more information was released.The latest issue of Nintendo Power now shows new things for the DS. First off there are the first scans of Age of Empires DS (now confirmed), and it is confirmed to be WiFi enabledand DS exclusive. Age of Empires will unfortanely be turn based, but the scans are looking good thus far. The game is set for a Q4 release. Along with Age of Empires comes scans of Goldeneye Rogue Agent DS. The game is set for June release date and will not be online. There is also a scan of the article about the DS going online. Good news today for the DS. More info on these games as they come. See the scans below.Majesco has now announced two new upcoming DS games, Texas Hold 'Em Poker and ATV: Quad Frenzy. Both games are suppose to incorparate the DS's innovation in some way or another, and both games are planned to be Wifi enabled, and are slated for a release later this year.There have recently been a number of games anounced for the DS so here is the overview. Ubisoft recently sent out thier plans for game releases in the next year, see below for all the DS games announced.Today we have scans of Yoshi Touch & Go manual submitted to us by JahnBodah. Click HERE to download the booklet. One of the most interesting features of the game is that it has a built in Pictochat sensory feature, similar to that of which was promised at E3. Check out the booklet and again thanks to JahnBodah for it.It is now confirmed that Pro Evolution Soccer being made by Konami will be fully online enabled. Along with this it is now also confirmed that a version of the game is in development for the Nintendo Revolution.Nintendo of Japan has released 6 new movies for the new Kirby game Touch! Kirby & The Magic Paintbrush. These are all movies that are suppose to teach you what the game is all about. You can check them out HERE."Got the touch? How about the sharp eye? To save Baby Mario, you're gonna need both!" Yoshi Touch & Go is now in stores and retails at $34.99! The website has also launched today! What are you waiting for? Go out and buy the most hailed Nintendo DS yet! According to Spong, Nintendo has recently shown some of their new software for the Nintendo DS. In the mix includes a calculator (which will transition the numbers you draw toward the input), a puzzle/logic game and a electronic dictionary. All of the software looks to be very promising and should hopefully help the Nintendo DS reach a new market! Spong indicates that E3 will show a full rollout of this software!
The DS recently launched in the UK and sold 87 000 units in the first week making it the fastest selling console ever in the UK (home or handheld). The next leading system was the Gamecube with 69 000 units. It seems that the DS is off to a good start so far in Europe. Star Wars 3: Revenage of the Sith is being made for the Nintendo DS by Lucas Arts and Ubi Soft. The game is going to be released May 1st, and now here is the box art for the Star Wars DS game. The popular anime show that comes on Adult Swim, Full Metal Alchemist is coming on the Nintendo DS, and now we have the first scans of the game, thanks to DS Central. Here is the weekly Japanese sales charts for the week of Febuary 28th.Another interview with Reggie has been done by Gamespot, and it sums up the GDC and leads toward E3. Check out the interview HERE.Gundam and Fullmetal Alchemist are now both in development for the DS. Fullmetal is being developed by Square-Enix, and Gundam is being developed by Bandai. Now news on any North American release dates yet.I'm sure all have you have caught Nintendo's GDC news yesterday. Fortunately, there is now a source to the video coverage of Iwata's address and Reggie Fils-Aime interview. If you've already heard and read both (as we provided transcript and audio download), you may like to watch the address to see the Mario Kart DS, Nintendogs, Electroplankton and Animal Crossing footage. Enjoy!IGN has released a new animal crossing video which is from the GDC. Watch the video here.For those of you who have not listened to the keynote speech, we now have a transcript of the speech which you can read here.Today at the GDC Iwata delivered his keynote speech and so much more to Nintendo fans everywhere. Nintendo's president announced Revolution, and DS online which is sweet news to Nintendo fans. To cover the basic points of the speech:IGN did a great interview with Reggie FIls-Aime, Nintendo of America's vice president of sales and marketing. In the interview IGN covers E3, GDC, Online, and the Revolution. This interview is a must read and you can check it out here.Here are twenty new Castlevania DS shots from DS Advanced click here to see them.Today some details on the Konami's upcoming RPG emerged today at the GDC. Here is the fact sheet they provided: WE've got all the US release dates for the Nintendo DS games. Including two new Nintendo DS games called Crash Tag Team and Blades of Thunder 2.
According to IGN, Nintendo's president, Satoru Iwata, may be doing more then first suspected at his keynote speech tomorrow at the GDC tomorrow at 10:30. Apparently there may be actual demonstrations of the DS going online and showing some of the games that will use it. Hopefully the rumours are true, but we will bring a complete analysis on the keynote speech tomorrow so stay tuned.Here is a ton of DS media that is not worth posting alone. It appears that Ageia has developed a new processor for game physics called the PhysX. The new PPU (Physics Processing Unit) will help games with: Here's the hardware and software charts for week of Febuary 27th:Club Nintendo magazine has recently done an interview with Reginald Fils-Aime, Nintendo's VP of Sales and Marketing. The interview covers alot about what will be shown and said at this years GDC and E3. The talks of the Revolution, online, DS, and GBE come up in the interview and it's worth checking out. See the translated version of the interview click HERE If some of you DS owners wanted to see the Nintendo DS go online, then your prayers might get answered! Nintendo will be speaking about their onlinr plans for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Revolution at the Game Developer`s Conference 2005.The Nanostray site is now up and running and it contains new screenshots and videos. Visit the site HERE.It appears that there is a new music game coming on to the scene for the DS, Electroplankton. Today the site launched for the upcoming music game that has a Japanese launch date of April 7, 2005. The site is in Japanese and after watching the movie for the game I have no idea what you do in the game, but it looks intriguing. It appears that Robots DS is now out on the DS at a retail price of $29.99Today a new commercial for Retro Atari Classics was released and it looks pretty nice. Check it out HERE.Mini R/C Racing and Franklin are now two new games announced for the DS. Mini R/C Racing is a racing game (who would've guessed) and is scheduled for a November 21, 2005 launchin Europe. Franklin is a platformer and will be launched on October 28, 2005 in Europe.If you haven't heard of Nintendogs yet (Puppy Times in the US), it's a virtual pet game that lets you play with dogs, teach them new things and even let them communicate with your friend's dogs through wireless connection. It seems to be Nintendo's biggest attempt yet at attracting non gamers to the Nintendo DS. So with that in mind, earlier today Nintendo updated their Japanese website with some interesting information.According to Nintendo of Japan, the Nintendo DS will be coming in 4 new colors. The first set of colors will be Black and White, which are scheduled to release on March 24th in Japan. The two other colors will be pink and blue, which will come out sometime next month. Unfortunately, Nintendo of America has not announced new colors for it's region. As always, comments are appreciated!
EGM is reporting that Nintendo is almost finished with the "Nintendo DS Network". A few months later, after announcing full detail of the Nintendo DS, Miyamoto-san and Akitoshi Kawazu, Square-Enix producer, announced that they will be making an online network for the Nintendo DS.The UK is getting its share of advertising for the DS and we have two of the DS commercials. The commercials are alot different from the ones we see over here and they seem superior in alot of ways.
