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*Remember this Speculation* This blog site is calling themselves as a small Nintendo Revolution that are working on the Super Smash Bros. for the Revolution with HAL, and they called the title Super Smash Bros: Fire. Nintendo has not released the official name for Super Smash Bros. title yet.
Atlus and EA has released their box art for their upcoming games like Snowboarding Kids, Madden 2006, and Trauma Center: Under the Knife.
Famitsu put up a survey saying which next generation consoles impressed everyone the most, and Famitsu's readers chosen Nintendo's Revolution over Sony's PS3 and Xbox360. Revolution had 42.2%; PS3 had 39.8%; and the Xbox 360 got a pitiful 18%. Here's the weekly Japanese chart sales for the week of May 16. IDeaS seems to be a emulator for the Nintendo DS, but no details were given but this emulator will come out very soon. Loiok at these brand new screen of some demo game : A sequel for one of the best gbc game ever : Lost in Blue. Sorry for the delay for the E3 media, but now we have new Nintendo DS screenshots like Advanced Wars: Dual Strike, Electroplankton, Kirby:Canvas Curse , Meteos, Metroid Prime Pinballs, and Touch Golf. Coutesy of GC Cafe Now M-create has gave their results and this must be the lowest drop in hardware results that M-created posted this year. Weekly Japanese chart sales for the week of May 9th. Square-Enix confirms that they'll be developing their titles on the Revolution like their popular Final Fantasy franchise, and there is a rumor going around that the Dragon Quest franchise will be on the Revolution. It appears that the popular GBA title Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga will be having a successor on the Nintendo DS. By the looks of it, both Baby Mario and Baby Luigi will be joining in! Stay tuned for more news on this subject. Ok everyone I found this very, very interesting news for Nintendo Now! Remember last month in April, when I posted the news "Revolution Speculations?" It was were this mysterious guy named "Aries" posting everything he knew about the Nintendo Revolution and its games. He stated that Super Smash Bros will be on the Nintendo Revolution, and it will go online? Well he was right about that one as Iwata-san confirmed SSB will be on the Revolution and will go online. Also Aries had said that Square-Enix was very interested in what the Nintendo Revolution and its online networking has to offer, and again Aries was once again right as Square-Enix's President Wada-san was very excited about the Nintendo Revolution and online. Aries also reported that the Nintendo Revolution will have backward capabilities from every Nintendo system games that was made, and he was right with that one as well as Nintendo once again confirm at the press release. Nintendo Now also looked into the "mock-up" video of the Revolution before E3 started. Video gamer J posted this video on DS Update, and most of us (including myself) dismissed this as a mock-up, but if you watched the video the production value was simple magnificent for a "Nintendo fan." After the release of the video, Nintendo of America's vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan told news that the Nintendo Revolution will be very sleek and in that video, "the most sleek" appeared, and finally at the press conference, Reggie repeated "Right Brain" over and over again, but in the the video, it also said "The Brain". Aries also warned everyone that the press conference would not be a big hit, and that almost everything will be revealed May 19th, 2005 at E3.
At the E3 press confrence today, Nintendo released valuable information about the Revolution. The system pictures now released, Nintendo decided to take some time out to tell us some of the details of the system. 
More news from the Nintendo E3 confrence is the new Gameboy Micro. Little is known about the system other than its tiny weight weigh in at a light 2.8 ounces. The whole system is only 2 inches high, 7 inches wide, and 0.7 inches deep, making the entire system smaller than a cell phone. The new system is not known whether it will play Mp3s or movies or such. At the moment it is only known to play GBA games while Nintendo says it is not a successor to the DS or GBA.
The next generation in tunneling is coming soon with more development from Team Xlink. Xlink will be releasing thier eighth reitartion of thier Kai tunnelling program which made them famous in the video game community. Members from Xlink have said that the latest update will be the most impressive to date which will offer users the most interactive tunneling experiance to date. With streaming web avatars, active language translation, and loaded with radio and news the VIII is suppose to be a jump forward for gamers. Xlink will keep the same free program and will release for OS X, Linux, and Windows all at the same time. There is also word of larger jumps in the tunneling yet still, but no official word. To read the full extent of the update, or to download the current version of the tunneling program click the source. Kai VIII will be out to download soon.We can certainly expect all of these games at E3, where more info will emerge (some may even be in playable form, following nicely if you bring your Nintendo DS and download them). When E3 does take it's hit, we'll keep you updated!
Source: Juexpo
-VideoGamerJ
IGN hits the spot stating that Nintendo is developing a new first party game for the Nintendo DS. Completely original at that, it looks like they are keeping their word so far with branching new frachises. Here's the weekly Japanese charts sales fpr the week of April 14. Looks like the Revolution will be coming out mid-2006. Monolithic Systems Technologies, the company which makes the memory component for the Nintendo GameCube, has announced that they will be making a memory component for the Nintendo Revolution, but in a conference call yesterday, Mark Voll, Interim CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Monolithic Systems Technologies says, "We are excited to be a participating member of the Nintendo team once again as Nintendo will roll out its successor game console to the GameCube in mid-2006."Majesco is working on Lionhead Studios' classic "Black and White" for the Nintendo DS. The official title is named Black and White Creatures. IGN provides some information and a screenshot below:
Spidy is gonna swing onto the Nintendo DS with his newgame title, Ultimate Spider-Man . Ultimate Spider-Man title will be based on the comic books rather than movies, which might lead the Spider-Man franchise in gaming in the right direction. no more information was given, but stick with DS Update for the lastest news on this title. After seeing how well Naruto 3 for the Nintendo DS did well over in Japan, Tomy has announced anouther Naruto game for the Nintendo DS, but now the title will become a RPG. The game is called Naruto RPG DS: Chidori VS. Rasengan and will be released in Japan by July 14, 2005. So if you liked the imported Naruto 3 DS title and like RPG, then you might want to keep an eye on this game.
A new Scan of Splinter cell Chaos theory has just surfaced. This new scan shows the games 3D engine as well as the inventory menu. This pretty much dismisses all rumors of the last scan we received being a mock up. You can veiw the scan hereE3 is coming in less than 9 days and while the days drop, a couple of things have come to my attention.
Quite unseemly of Nintendo corporation is their latest advertising campaign in Stuff magazine for the Nintendo DS. They feature two models -- the good girl and the bad girl. Below are the images:Linux fanatics will try and get Linux to run on anything. They've done it with iPods, PDAs, and more. Now, DSLinux.org has managed to make a version of the popular OS for the DS. Below is their proof (a simple text-based game): Have you guys ever wondered what happened to the tech demo of Sega's Sonic DS? Well it looks like the tech demo will now become a real game for the Nintendo DS and will be at E3. Spong reports that there will be a little secret about the game saying, "SPOnG can confirm that this game will be something of a surprise, with the usual Sonic button-driven capers being replaced by an all-new touch-panel control scheme."We've all heard the rumors of the GameBoy Evolution (or whatever the hipsters are calling it these days). Basically, the portable GameCube. So if you didn't know, a couple of months ago, a few of websites were claiming that this new handheld would be shown at E3 (this year). While this concept art is very nice it is a shame its fake.
A Korean-English dictionary is in the works. It's official name is 'Touch! Dic!' and while translating it will do, it will also provide as a calculator (but not a homebrew TI ^_^ ). This is not being developed by Nintendo but instead by a Korean company. More information is provided at the official website: Touch! Dic!.
Yesterday, Puyo Pop Fever shipped to retailers throughout North America. The game is being published by Atlus (Ogre Battle Saga, etc) and features interesting touch screen corroboration (as well as mild gameplay modes).
For those of you who have not heard it, the two corporate giants Namco and Bandai have merged into an even larger corporation. Namco is famous for Pac Man, as well as the Tekken and Soul Calibur series. Bandai is responsible for bringing Mobile Suit Gundam titles to North America. E3 is getting closer and closer, and now we get new Revolution specultions from an ex-Nintendo staff. The speculations are that the Revolution will getting six Third-Party support from Square-Enix, Namco, EA, Sega, Activision, and Zoonami. EA will be making a Madden game for the Revolution will have voice commands to call audibles and plays, the game will feature wireless capabilities, and the game will not a port. Sega is developing three games for the Nintendo Revolution, and the games will be at E3; There will be one game Sega will be "surprising" at E3, and a "Typical, quirky Sega game." No information was given for the last game. Zoonami will be making a Sam Fisher type game for the Revolution, Namco is working on a Revolution game, but no details were given, and Activision will be bringing porting a game to the Revolution. the latest issue of Nintendo Power magazine there was an article stating that Namco would be releasing Super Pac Man Pinball for the Nintendo DS, a graphically advanced version of Pac Man Pinball for the GBA, the top and bottom screen will be used to show a large game table. The magazine included 2 screenshots of the game in action. Coutesy of PlanetDS, the first screenshot for Splinter Cell DS has arrived. It Looks like this will not be a quick GameBoy Advance port. Which is a sigh of relief. I'm a fan of Splinter Cell but the only way I will gain interest in the DS version is if it successfully makes use of the DS' features [Wireless multiplayer (with online multiplayer as an added bonus), voice communication (perhaps a headset too?) and good touch screen implementation]. Anyway, enjoy.
Following the tremendous success of Nintendogs in Japan, word has spread that Nintendo is aiming to supply the Nintendo DS in more areas. What does this mean? We can only assume that instead of traditional electronics stores, we may instead see the DS in hobby stores or even pet stores (promoting Nintendogs for example). At this point plans seem early, but we will keep you updated.
