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It was inevitable, but the Nintendo DS has surpassed the Game Boy Advance in sales worldwide. Figures recently released by Nintendo put the number of Nintendo DS sold at the end of Q2 this year at 84.33 million compared to the 81.36 million the Game Boy Advance has sold.
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Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a puzzle game that I picked up a few months back that I have been playing on and off since. Professor Layton and the Curious Village is an adventure game with a story along that is moved along as the player completes puzzles spread between the wide cast of characters.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village follows Professor Layton and his assistant Luke as they are employed by a rich Baroness to search the village of St. Mystere for the “Golden Apple”, a treasure claimed to be left by the late Baron Reinhold. Continue Reading »
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Nintendo will be improving it’s dual-screen handheld gaming juggernaut later this year in Japan and early next year for the rest of the world. The new Nintendo DSi will be smaller and lighter, it will will come with a camera, digital music player, larger screens, an online games and application store, better audio and improved wireless internet. The most interesting new twist is that the GBA slot has been ditched and the DSi will now come with an SD card slot for storage.
I believe that this 3rd generation DS is finally complete and now has all the functionality if should have shipped with in the first place. Better late than never though, I’ve already been through 1 DS phat and 2 DS lites…and guess what? I’m going to buy this two when it comes out. Continue Reading »
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Tales of Hearts is an upcoming RPG for the Nintendo DS. I spotted a couple trailers for the game while browsing and I really liked the 2 trailers that put a spin on what a regular game trailer is like. It’s basically the same trailer in terms of the various scenes but one is made completely using computer generated graphics while the other is made anime style. Guess which style I preferred?…..anime!
Check out the anime trailer.
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Starting next week Nintendo DS owners in Japan will be watch full length animated features on their handhelds. The service is made posible by AM3 and DaiNippon Printing and will be initially offering downloads of thePokemon Anime Movie. Pokemon is super popular in Japan and the world so I guess they are trying to ensure a big start to the service.
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I’m a Nintendo fan but and maybe even a fanboy but is it just me or did Nintendo’s recently concluded E3 2008 conference filled with nothing but flattering figure comparisons, estrogen, Continue Reading »
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It’s no secret that I love strategy games that require more from a gamer than just how fast they can mash a button or swing a nunchuck and for this reason it’s no surprise that I am a fan Continue Reading »
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Four weeks of non stop adventuring and I am now official back home and reintroduced to my boring life. My time spent in the States was wonderful and after worrying that I would not be able to Continue Reading »
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Alex Evans is the co-founder of Media Molecule, the UK based video game company currently hard at work on the highly anticipated Playstation 3 co-operative puzzle platformer Continue Reading »
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Shigeru Miyamoto is no stranger to printed version of the Times Magazine Top 100 Most Influential People list, but in the latest online list voted on by users the “father of modern gaming” Continue Reading »
