DS

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These details come from the latest edition of Famitsu:

– Releasing April 29 in Japan
– Play 90 microgames
– Make own games as well
– My House – where all
– WarioWare – game tutorial
– My Shop – Save games
– Game creating involves drawing sprites, making sound effects, putting them together with set of rules
– Can create music and four-panel comics
– Items can be uploaded to Nintendo for contests – can also download games, music, comics
– WiiWare title Asobu Made in Ore allows you to play created games on TV (800 points)

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“We are looking carefully at the DS, and certainly aren’t ruling out developing for it in the future. However, for right now, our focus is on Rock Band Unplugged as a PSP title.” – Greg LoPiccolo, VP of product development at Harmonix

Guitar Hero has dominated the DS and has been met with a great response from consumers. It would seem almost natural that Rock Band would follow a similar path if the franchise were to migrate to the handheld.

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Love-Plus
– DS
– by Konami
– Summer release
– 70% done

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Enroll in Magic Academy, Build Friendships, Cast Spells and Embark On Adventure In This Brand-New Title That Is Fun For All Ages

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today revealed new game details and screenshots from the upcoming real-time adventure title Magician’s Quest Mysterious Times for Nintendo DS™. Magician’s Quest Mysterious Times is a unique combination of an adventure game and simulation RPG. Players are tasked with attending classes at Magic Academy while learning the mysteries of magic and the art of casting spells while building relationships with other students. As players attend classes, they’ll be immersed in a living, breathing world where time progresses as it does in the real world, and each week, player’s skills are put to the test in a new magical adventure. Using their spell casting abilities and unique interactions with other characters and their surroundings, players are confronted with puzzles and adventures that will challenge their skill.

Magician’s Quest Mysterious Times contains over 50 mysterious events and introduces a variety of unique characters. Additionally, the town in Magician’s Quest Mysterious Times is packed with all sorts of crazy characters and different locations to make purchases. While the majority of the people in town are students, each with their own personality, there are a number of others who live and work in town. Here’s a guide to just a few of those people, what they do and where you can spend your hard earned Ritch, the currency gained within the game.

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It was announced a few months ago that the Wii would soon be receiving a video service from the big N. Now Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has expressed possible interest in extending the service to the DS and has reaffirmed that it may arrive in overseas territories.

“If the Wii and the DS are connected, it should be possible to download video through the Wii and take it with you on the DS…When the service begins, you’ll see how we’re going to do it differently in a Nintendo-like way. There are a lot of on-demand video services, so there’s no reason to do the same thing, so we’re going to do something different. We’ll start the service in Japan, and if it does well, we’d like to take it overseas. [Nintendo wants to make the Wii] something that people will turn on even if they don’t have a purpose in mind. We’re not there yet though, and there are a lot of things we have to do to achieve that.”

Thanks to Jake for the news tip.

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Today, Nintendo of Europe is showcasing a variety of new and exciting WiiWare & Nintendo DSiWare games from both Nintendo & third party developers, which will be available to download through the Wii Shop Channel & Nintendo DSi Shop in the coming months.

WiiWare launched last year and has enabled many smaller developers to take centre stage, creating Wii games that players can easily access and play. With the launch of the Nintendo DSi having taken place across Europe on 3rd April 2009, users can for the first time download fresh new games directly to their console via the Nintendo DSi Shop and store them on their Nintendo DSi which comes with its own built-in memory. This new range of software is called Nintendo DSiWare and will offer the opportunity for developers to create an ever-expanding and fresh range of fun games and applications to be made available for the Nintendo DSi.

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Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products, has launched a teaser website for the infotainment game “Russell Grants Astrology” for Nintendo DS™. The publisher also announced that the title is already in production. “Russell Grants Astrology” is due to be released on May 1st, 2009.

The website http://astrology.deepsilver.co.uk not only holds a description of the product, but interested gamers will also find an overview of all the most important features of “Russell Grants Astrology”. Moreover, the “Screenshots” section contains illustrative impressions of the game and of individual functions. Of course, eager amateur astrologists can also pre-order the game on the website.

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WHAT:
Nintendo’s hotly anticipated rhythm-based music game will be put to the test as consumers and eager beat-keepers gather at an exclusive invitation-only event at New York’s Scratch DJ Academy for a night of game sampling and turntable spinning. Following the April 5 launch of the Rhythm Heaven™ video game, playable on either the Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems, this unique event will give players and spectators an up-close look at the new game with interactive demonstrations, a live Rhythm Heaven/DJ battle and prize giveaways. The Scratch DJ Academy is the perfect place for consumers to experience the game for the first time, allowing players to apply rhythm skills learned in the game to real-life DJ techniques.

World-renowned DJ instructors DJ Daddy Dog and DJay Jung will also be on hand at the event to show attendees how the rhythm drills and beat-keeping exercises found in the DJ School mini-game in Rhythm Heaven relates to real-life DJ skills.

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– Write a sentence, then give system to another player who draws a picture based on what you wrote
– Then a third player tries to create a sentence that explains what the second player drew
– Cycle continues
– Game has a clear interface
– Can enter your name before each round
– Has a history of existing players/previous rounds
– Rounds saved at end of a turn
– 2-21 players
– Will release during launch window of DSi – no price yet

“We took it to Activision and Nintendo and everyone loved it. But the big problem was that although the game itself was pretty small in terms of file size, it really needed a lot of rewriteable flash memory to store all the save games. There was no cartridge available at the time for Nintendo DS that could support that save game file size the game needed…When we started working with the DSi platform it became immediately clear that it’s the perfect platform for Mixed Messages. DSiWare was the perfect service to get the game out to everyone…Since you take turns alternating writing sentences and drawing pictures, it works the best when you have an odd number of players,” he said. “If you have an even number of players, the game auto generates a really funny starter sentence from a database of nouns, verbs and phrases…We had an internal site that had dozens of game sessions posted and it was just hilarious to read – and even more fun playing it at lunch time or when were out to dinner. So it seemed like it would be great if we could share it with the world.” – Karthik Bala, CEO of Vicarious Visions

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