Posted on 08 March 2010 by Eurogamer - News
Long enough to hang out the back.
Nintendo’s patented a design for a new sort of game cartridge.
Accompanying diagrams (reproduced on Siliconera) show the cartridge to be around double the length of an existing DS game, so it sticks out.
However, the DS Lite-like machine pictured is there for “illustrative purposes only”. Does this mean that the cartridge has not been designed for DS Lite/DSi? We interrogated the patent listing for six hours in a windowless room but it kept silent.
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Posted on 08 March 2010 by Eurogamer - News
10,000 new adjectives, improved controls.
5th Cell is working on a new Scribblenauts DS game for release this autumn.
That’s according to the latest issue of Nintendo Power (thanks GoNintendo / Kotaku).
According to a developer’s post on NeoGAF confirming some of the details, the game is DS-only, and features d-pad controls for Maxwell, improved stylus control and a better camera.
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Posted on 01 March 2010 by James Lee
Nintendo is set to release a new DsiWare title that makes use of the built-in camera to create 3D worlds on screen.
Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda is set for release in Japan on March 3 and, if the YouTube video is accurate, it seems to track the position of the players head to change the perspective presented in the environment giving it an impressive 3D feel.
Currently there’s no US or European release date set for Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda.
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Posted on 25 February 2010 by Eurogamer - News
Japanese champion nearly here.
One date that slipped under the radar earlier was a summer launch for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.
Nintendo’s picked the same time-frame for the US.
Japan, however, has been playing since last summer. There, the DS RPG has been lauded by critics – Famitsu awarded the game 40/40 – and snapped up by a hungry public, which has bought 4.15m copies to date.
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Posted on 22 February 2010 by Eurogamer - News
Internal mechanism would require new DS.
An old Nintendo patent has been updated to include a rumble-feedback feature for a handheld device. How curious.
According to the refreshed filing (picked up by Broke My Controller), vibrations of varying strength are given through an LCD touch-screen. This appears to be an internal mechanic, which would require a new handheld – a new DS? – to be realised.
Earlier this year Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata was reported to have said that a new DS will have “highly detailed graphics” and “a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing”. The company said his comments had been misinterpreted, but the Japanese newspaper in question, and the translators reporting the comments into English, both stand by the accuracy of their work.
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Posted on 19 February 2010 by Eurogamer - News
While God Eater PSP tops software list.
The PSP was the top-performing individual console in Japan for the period of 8th to 14th February according to the latest Media Create numbers.
Japanese gamers bought 39,293 PSPs and another 1394 PSPgos according to the stats aggregator, no doubt in part thanks to Namco Bandai’s God Eater, which continues to top the software chart ahead of Dragon Quest VI.
However, with the DSi LL shifting 27,586 units, the DSi 18,082 and the DS Lite another 5659 in the same period, the DS family accounts for 51,327 sales, so we doubt Nintendo’s losing any sleep.
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Posted on 15 February 2010 by Eurogamer - News
DS game here in March.
PlatinumGames’ space RPG Infinite Space will be released on 26th March.
That’s the same developer responsible for Bayonetta and MadWorld.
But Infinite Space is a DS game, one that lets players pilot a ship to the far reaches of two galaxies in ambitious 3D environments.
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Posted on 02 February 2010 by Eurogamer - News
Give it a trial via the Nintendo Channel.
A demo of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has been released on the Nintendo Channel.
Like the Flash sampler embedded on Eurogamer back in December, this demo offers a taste of Capcom’s latest DS lawyer game.
You can also download the demo from DS pods in certain retailers around the UK.
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Posted on 01 February 2010 by Eurogamer - News
How a handheld “parody” changed the series.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that development of Zelda games is traditionally “an exercise in suffering” – but recognised that one game in the series, made in a completely different style and atmosphere, had a major influence on those that followed.
That game is the 1993 Game Boy classic Link’s Awakening, the first handheld Zelda, and the main focus of the latest Iwata asks covering the portable entries in the series.
Nintendo general manager Takashi Tezuka – a producer and director of many Mario and Zelda games, alongside Shigeru Miyamoto – revealed that its development began unofficially, as an after-hours experiment, and even after approval it continued in an informal atmosphere.
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Posted on 29 January 2010 by Eurogamer - News
All four Zero games, out in summer.
Capcom has announced that it’s releasing a compilation cart of all four Mega Man Zero games for the DS.
Mega Man Zero Collection is pencilled in for an early summer release “at a great price”. The announcement was made by Capcom’s North American office – we’ve contacted Capcom to see if it applies to Europe too.
The Zero series follows Zero, a character originally introduced through the Mega Man X games. The four games were originally released for the Game Boy Advance between 2002 and 2005 and follow the usual Mega Man formula of 2D platforming, running and gunning. “All-new modes” are promised for this DS bundle.
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