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Videos

Blue Dragon Plus Info Video
PT: Cooking – Supermarket Spree & Cook Off!
Wii Music Tips 7: Wii Music Master Class
Skate It Multiplayer Video
Wario Land: Shake It! Tips 2
Boogie Superstar Info Video
Cooking Mama: World Kitchen Club Sammich
Rock Band 2: Silversun Pickups Featurette
FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play Video 2
Age of Empires: Mythologies Video 3
Tiki Towers Info Video
Fun! Fun! Minigolf Info Video
Digest Video

Demos (Expire 12/28)

Personal Trainer: Cooking Lasagna Demo
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero
Soul Bubbles Demo
Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins Demo
Lock’s Quest
MySims Kingdom

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The Nintendo DSi was released into the wild was released into the wild in November. Since then, the portable has continued to top the hardware charts in Japan. Unsurprisingly, the handheld has already reached a milestone with more than one million units sold. To date, 1,062,416 DSi hardware units have been sold. In general DS sales numbers, 24,859,874 units have been sold.

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LW TW Title Format Label Publisher
1 1 MARIO KART WII WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
2 2 DR KAWASHIMA’S BRAIN TRAINING DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
4 3 WII PLAY WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
– 4 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
3 5 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
5 6 WII FIT WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
26 7 FIFA 09 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
6 8 LITTLEBIGPLANET PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
7 9 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR PS3 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
8 10 GEARS OF WAR 2 XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT

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Remember: Games like Zack & Wiki were released in Europe this year.

1 – Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
2 – Zack & Wiki: Quest For Barbaros’ Treasure (Wii)
3 – Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
4 – Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS)
5 – Okami (Wii)
6 – Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (DS)
7 – Soul Bubbles (DS)
8 – Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii)
9 – de Blob (Wii)
10 – No More Heroes (Wii)
11 – Mega Man 9 (WiiWare)
12 – The World Ends With You (DS)
13 – Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
14 – Sonic Chronicles (DS)
15 – FIFA 09 All Play (Wii)
16 – Dr. Mario & Germ Buster (WiiWare)
17 – Boom Blox (Wii)
18 – Space Invaders Extreme (DS)
19 – Trackmania DS (DS)
20 – We Love Golf (Wii)
21 – Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise (DS)
22 – Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS)
23 – Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People (WiiWare)
24 – Call of Duty: World at War (Wii)
25 – Wii Fit (Wii)

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– 13 different background themes to listen to whilst you read (14 if you include ‘No BGM’!), e.g. Easy Listening, Beach, Airport and Summer Day.

– Change font size from small to large (small is probably more like a ‘medium’ – no strain on the eyes)

– Can choose to just show the current page number, or show page number and total pages (for those that want to know how long is left)

– Use either the D-Pad or L/R buttons to change pages (remember the DS is held sideways, like in Brain Training and Hotel Dusk to emulate a real book!)

– The DS orientation can be changed to suit left-handed people

– Local Wireless: Send a trial version to another DS (‘Send Trial’, ‘Send Book’, ‘Receive Book’)

– Wi-Fi: Download New Books (ten available right now – seems like there’s about 1MB of free space on the cartridge and the books are less than 100KB – took about six seconds to download a 70KB book and a further five to save it to the DS card), and Update Rankings (book popularity – ranked by users of the game or categorised by ten different user-attributed criteria, such as ‘Exciting’, ‘Shocking’, ‘Profound’ and ‘Bizarre’)

– Tutorial: tap either edge of the touch screen to change page or slide stylus across screen to flip pages back and forth. Tap the bottom of the screen to bring up a scroll bar that lets you jump to whatever page you want. Tap the top of the screen to bring up a menu that lets you bookmark the current page (automatically removed when you go back in and change the page) or exit the book.

– Books that have been read will be highlighted with an ‘R’ on its spine in the selection screen.

– Quiz feature: The in-game owl asks several questions (‘What did you dream last night’, ‘What is your favourite colour’, etc) to determine what books will most likely be interest to the user (for me the three were ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’, ‘The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’!)

– Choosing books is as simple as going to the in-game bookshelf and using either the stylus (slower) or scroll bar at the bottom (faster) to browse what’s on offer. When a book spine is tapped on, its specific menu pops up, where users can read the book, learn more about it or learn about its author.

– Search and sort functions also exist by tapping the top of the screen in the bookshelf mode. Search Alphabetically, By Length, Genre, Era, My History, Ratings and/or Description. Sort by Author or Title.

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Best Buy

Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii) – $39.99
Carnival Games: MiniGolf (Wii) – $29.99
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip (Wii) – $39.99
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (Wii) – $39.99
Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals (DS) – $19.99
Ben 10: Alien Force (DS) – $19.99
Zenses: Ocean (DS) – $14.99
Zenses: Rain Forest (DS) – $14.99

Circuit City

Skate City Heroes (Wii) – $19.99
My Fitness Coach (Wii) – $19.99
NCAA Football ’09: All Play (Wii) – $19.99
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? (Wii) – $19.99
Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades (DS) – Free gift card with purchase

Target

Guitar Hero World Tour (2 guitars + game) – $88
Guitar Hero On Tour Box Set (DS) – $59
Tinker Bell (DS) – $25
The Cheetah Girls: Passport To Stardom (DS) – $25
Ultimate Band (DS) – $25
Bolt (DS) – $25
Spongebob Squarepants: Globs Of Doom (DS) – $25
Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals (DS) – $25
Clube Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (DS) – $25
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (Wii) – $39.99
Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii) – $46

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Sonic Unleashed (Wii) – 79%
Skate It (Wii) – 78%
Tomb Raider Underworld (Wii) – 70%
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (DS) – 84%
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels (Wii) – 71%
Facebreaker: KO Party (Wii) – 42%
Guitar Rock Tour (DS) – 80%
Call of Duty: World At War (Wii) – 92% / Gold Award
Need For Speed: Undercover (Wii) – 39%
Forgotten Worlds (Wii Virtual Console) – 61%
The Prince of Persia: The Fallen King (DS) – 80%
Exit DS (DS) – 77%
Tomb Raider Underworld (DS): 77%
Mega Man 3 (Wii Virtual Console): 64%
Guinness World Records (Wii): 72%
SNK Arcade Classics: Vol. One (Wii): 81%
Tom Clancy’s EndWar (DS): 61%
Dragon Ball Origins (DS): 70%
Monster Lab (Wii): 79%
Strong Bad: Dangeresque (WiiWare) – 88%
World of Goo (WiiWare) -95% / Gold Award
Art Style: ORBIENT (WiiWare): 81%
Art Style: CUBELLO (WiiWare): 86%
Art Style: ROTOHEX (WiiWare): 72%

Thanks to Joclo for the news tip!

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– Combat is in real time
– Move character on battle field attacking directly
– Wait gauge – wait for it to fill before attacking again
– Access magic through circles on touch screen
– Online compatible – groups of three, can send chat messages to each other while taking on quests
– Complex character customization system – Start with default male or female, then can change parts
– Eyebrows, eyes, hair styles/color, mouth shape, voice can all be changed
– Equipment has visual effects on the characters
– Single player also has parties of three
– Takes two years after events of the original
– Still on track for 2009

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