The 3DS is receiving a great deal of support from third-parties, thanks to Capcom, Konami, and many additional publishers. It has also been confirmed recently that NIS has a development kit. The company hasn’t announced any specific projects that are in development, so it’s doubtful that they are preparing any titles for launch. Still, expect to see a few NIS 3DS games sometime in the future.
This week brings the longest daylight hours of the season across North America. Whether your own neighborhood is under sunny skies or summer clouds, the weather on Nintendo’s Wii™ Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi™ Shop is always inviting. New additions for the WiiWare™ service this week include an eye-popping new installment in the Art Style™ series and a pair of The Tales of Bearsworth Manor™ action-puzzle games. Hand-held gamers can choose from five new games for the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, including the puzzle fun of Spin Six™, the undersea amusement of Puffins: Let’s Fish! and the prehistoric adventure of Legendary Wars: T-Rex Rumble.
We’ve also got new arrivals in the “Big Name Games” section of the WarioWare™: D.I.Y. series, which features downloadable microgames from some of the industry’s most talented figures. This week’s additions come from the Treehouse, Nintendo’s game localization team. New “Big Name Games” will be added every Monday through July 26, all available to download for zero Nintendo DSi Points™ to anyone with broadband Internet access and a copy of either WarioWare: D.I.Y. for the Nintendo DS™ family of systems or WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase software for the WiiWare service. Visit the Nintendo Channel on your Wii system today to learn more about these games.
Now that the 3DS has been officially unveiled and the first round of specs were released by Nintendo, other companies are sharing additional information about the system. DMP has announced the system will be using the PICA200 GPU chip. There’s only a press release in Japanese for now, though you can read about the GPU’s abilities below.
“The PICA200 scales with up to four pipelines and processes from up to four programmable vertex units. The 3D core, using their proprietary graphics technology named MAESTRO-2G, the second generation of the Maestro design, implements custom graphics algorithms as hardware for enabling a set of shading features that include per-vertex sub-surface scattering, bidirectional reflectance distribution function, cook-torrance, polygon subdivision, and soft shadowing. Their image post-processing module, the PICA-FBM frame buffer management, can polish the image with anti-aliasing and a set of other 2D functions and can actually be licensed independently as a core for 2D-only devices. In either case, the PICA-FBM can be extended with a PICA-VG vector graphics module.”
01. / 00. [WII] Xenoblade (Nintendo) – 82.952 / NEW
02. / 01. [WII] Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo) – 73.480 / 518.530 (-30%)
03. / 00. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City (Rockstar Games) – 64.249 / NEW
04. / 00. [NDS] Mega Man Zero Collection (Capcom) – 21.736 / NEW
05. / 03. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (Square Enix) – 19.593 / 1.141.582 (-16%)
06. / 00. [PS3] Just Cause 2 (Square Enix) – 18.795 / NEW
07. / 02. [PSP] Fairy Tail: Portable Guild (Konami) – 13.586 / 48.557 (-61%)
08. / 09. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Blue Samurai Challenge (Konami) – 12.617 / 106.055 (-10%)
09. / 10. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) – 12.229 / 3.263.000 (-12%)
10. / 11. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 11.864 / 3.885.000 (-9%)
Thanks to Ross M for the tip!
The 3DS has received a ton of positive press since it was officially revealed this past Tuesday. You might be curious to hear what one of the industry’s most prominent developers has to say, though. Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski offered his thoughts about the system before showing off his newest game on GameTrailers.
“I was almost late because I was over checking out the 3DS actually. It’s actually really good. It’s the kind of 3D I want. I don’t want to wear glasses.”
The original Conduit allowed gamers to add random players as “rivals” to a friends list so that you could battle with them in the future. There was one glaring omission, however: You couldn’t communicate through voice chat. The good news is that High Voltage Software is changing that for the sequel. At E3, the developers revealed that it is possible to use Wii Speak or the newly announced headset to chat with friends as well as rivals. This is just one of the additions Conduit fans can expect to see when the game arrives this fall.
This information comes from n-Space’s Facebook page…
“More titles to announce this year. But not Winter or Geist 2. We have one more unannounced DS title in development, and a Wiiware title left to announce.”
According to n-Space, GoldenEye is not one of the games they were teasing. I’m wondering when we’re going to hear about their projects! I’m also hoping that we’ll get a first look at the DS GoldenEye game next week.
