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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars exclusive heading to Nintendo DS
It’s traditional for every console maker to come up with a big surprise for E3. Some struggle to stay under wraps in the monstrous hype preceding the event, but other come as a very pleasant bolt from the blue. Nintendo achieved the latter with the announcement of GTA: Chinatown Wars for Nintendo DS.
Ubisoft calls for Sony to "go back to the drawing board" with the PlayStation Portable.
Games publisher, Ubisoft, has criticised Sony’s PlayStation Portable for its failure to keep pace with the Nintendo DS handheld. UK Managing Director Rob Cooper has said in a recent interview that PSP lacks direction and that Sony has over-complicated and over-priced the console…
Guitar Hero Nintendo DS bundle will cost $180, look like this…
God Slash bless Toys ‘R’ Us, who has leaked the Guitar Hero bundle ahead of the release, complete with picture AND price. This is a good day for music-loving commuters.
The retailer will be charging $179.99 for the limited edition DS bundle, which includes not only the game and Guitar Grip peripheral, but…
Anti-Port gamers, be warned! Paper Mario possibly ported to Nintendo DS in July!
This is exciting! Someone over at NeoGAF has claimed that Paper Mario is going to be either ported or remade for the DS in July.
It’s not entirely unbelievable either, with the N64 original selling superbly well on the Wii since it got added to the Virtual Console shelves (since release, it’s been in the US top 20 most popular downloads list), and even the remake, Super Paper Mario, for the Wii proving popular, especially in Japan.
The platform RPG-style game might…
Top ten changes I'd like to see made in the next Nintendo DS
According to virtually every tech or gaming-orientated blog on the internet superhighway, come July the rumour is that Nintendo will be announcing the next-gen DS console at the E3 expo.
As someone who’s rushed out and bought both previous incarnations of the portable gaming console, I can appreciate the huge lead made between the two, and as much as I adore the Lite, I can think of a couple improvements I’d like to see in the next version, which is rumoured to be called the ‘Liter’ or ‘Extreme’.
The rumour mill has already started grinding, with fingers being pointed at ‘larger screens’, with both possibly being touch-screen, and the hardware being ‘lighter and thinner’. So far, the DS fans aren’t really thinking outside the box, so if you read below, you’ll see my hopes for the next version…
1.) Flash memory – I know that game saves etc are saved onto the game cartridges, but if the DS took a few pointers from their rival the PSP (read on below), then they’d be needing a good 4GB of storage capacity at least.
2.) MP3-playback facility – sure, you can get external add-ons that will enable you to play media on your DS, but wouldn’t it be better if it was integrated?
3.) HSDPA chip – it’s not ever going to happen, but goodness, can you imagine? It already has Wi-Fi, so you can use the Opera browser when in hotspots, or play against your friends, but inbuilt HSDPA would allow you speedy web browsing without the need to be lurking outside Coffee Republic. A collaboration between Ninty and a mobile network would prove lucrative, allowing for a cheap monthly subscription to the web ‘n walk style internet service.
Yo! Sushi is now offering Cooking Mama 2 amongst the raw fish on conveyor belts
Normally PR stunts leave a sour taste in my mouth, but whoever is behind the marketing of Cooking Mama 2 on the DS has given me a favourable wasabe flavour.
Why wasabe? Well, Publisher 505 Games has collaborated with British sushi chain Yo! Sushi and from the 14th of April will put DS consoles with the Cooking Mama 2 game (released back in February) on the sushi conveyor belts for customers to have a play whilst they munch on Futomaki. It all starts at…
'Grand Theft Auto IV to be released on Nintendo DS come August' sez French bloggers
Lots of Grand Theft Auto IV news leaking out of the waterlogged PR machine, with the latest rumour revolving around a possible Nintendo DS version.
The rumour originated with the French lads at Game-Class, who claim to have spotted information about the port being released in France in August. I’m calling shenanigans on this one, however if Nintendo…
Opinion: Why Apple's iPhone won't beat Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS at their own game!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… Mobile phones will never, ever, be portable games consoles. Nokia tried it with their N-Gage device, and they are trying it again with N-Gage software on their normal handsets. Gizmondo (while not strictly a phone) tried it – and failed miserably.
Now Steve Jobs has set his sights on trying to battle Sony and Nintendo for a slice of the portable gaming industry by opening up the iPhone to top-notch titles.
It’s a nice soundbite, it’s a good offering for Apple consumers, but it will still only ever be a mobile phone that you can play games on – rather than a games console. And they are, and always shall be, two totally different propositions and never the twain should meet…
Japanese DS gamers set for mixed reality treasure hunt
The combination of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Advance Wars: Dark Conflict means my DS will be constantly to hand in the coming weeks. But in Japan, the hot new DS thing isn’t a standard game. It’s a groundbreaking ‘mixed reality’ treasure hunt created by Tokyo firm Rush Japan.
Nintendo's DS turns black and blue, poor thing
Someone’s gotten physical with the Nintendo DS, as it’s turned all black and blue! Who would do such a horrid thing to such a…oh hang on…
