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Widely anticipated BIT.TRIP COMPLETE and BIT.TRIP SAGA to be released in Q1 2012, courtesy of Rising Star Games

Thursday 3rd November, 2011: Acclaimed video games publisher Rising Star Games has today announced the signing of two new Gaijin Games titles, BIT.TRIP COMPLETE and BIT.TRIP SAGA.

Both COMPLETE and SAGA offer an amazing collection of six of the very best celebrated indie BIT.TRIP games, and will be available to buy in Q1, 2012, on platforms Nintendo Wii and 3DS.


This art definitely isn’t as spoilerish as the batch we posted last night. Just to be safe, though, I’ve posted the images after the break.


This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

Nintendo eShop / Nintendo DSiWare™
1950s Lawn Mower Kids™ – Help Tom, Nancy and Tim mow lawns among UFOs, people, dogs, ducks, cats and birds. Avoid mowing down flower beds or crashing into tables and angry animals. (For Nintendo 3DS™ / Nintendo DSi™)

Nintendo eShop
Balloon Kid™ – Save your brother from peril by floating through eight different stages as you follow his trail of balloons. Test your piloting skills to avoid enemies, or let go of your balloons to face enemies on the ground. (For Nintendo 3DS)


Yesterday we learned that Amanita Design cancelled the WiiWare version of Machinarium. The game simply couldn’t be squeezed into the 40MB file size cap set by Nintendo.

Developer head Jakub Dvorský has elaborated on the situation behind the port. It was actually nearing completion before the team decided to scrap the project entirely. Again, this was mostly due to file size constraints.

Dvorský said:

“The port is practically finished, but after some discussions, we decided not to release it because it’s just not good. The resolution is crap, and we had to squeeze the whole game (which is around 360 MB in [the] original version) into [the] 40 MB WiiWare limit. The music sounds terrible, the background pictures are heavily compressed, and we had to throw out … some animations.”

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We’ve got our hands on another batch of Zelda: Skyward Sword art. These images show a variety of elements, such as item upgrades. The art also provides a look at some of the more mysterious characters in the game.

Head past the break for the art (spoiler warning as always)!


3DS – 65,041
PSP – 30,605
PS3 – 25,217
Wii – 11,784
DSi LL – 2,009
Xbox 360 – 1,704
PS2 – 1,228
DSi – 1,061
DS Lite – 55

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

3DS – 73,933
PS3 – 23,897
PSP – 22,095
Wii – 11,235
DSi LL – 2,005
Xbox 360 – 1,620
PS2 – 1,296
DSi – 1,293
DS Lite – 36



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