NP Readers’ Most Wanted
1. Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (TurboGrafx CD/Japan only)
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
3. Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES)
4. Mega Man X (SNES)
5. Rolling Thunder (arcade)
NP Staff’s Most Wanted
1. Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Genesis/Europe & Japan)
2. Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (TurboGrafx CD/Japan only)
3. The Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis)
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
5. Strider (Genesis)
“DQIX is currently being considered for release outside of Japan. When a definitive decision is made about the release we will make an official statement.” – Square-Enix rep
I wouldn’t worry too much about it, especially with all of the rave reviews the game is getting. I’d be far more surprised if the game didn’t come than if it did.
“Although we focused our marketing campaign on women, EA Sports Active was designed to accommodate everyone and our consumer base reflects that.” – Monique Gomel, marketing director
I think that there’s no surprise that EA Sports Active was targeted at women. From the advertisements to the box art, every one featured a woman either playing the game or talking about it, but it doesn’t come as a surprise when you hear that userbase is split pretty evenly.
In a recent Iwata Asks interview, Nintendo’s President stated that Flipnote Studio will help bring to life Nintendo’s relationship with the internet.
“I think from now on the relationship between Nintendo’s game consoles and the Internet will deepen now that there’s a way for people to easily bring their ideas to life and present them to others – the same way that today they fire off emails right and left. Flipnote Studio can be a place where people share their creations with each other and offer each other applause.
I would love it if Flipnote Studio led the way for software making it possible for people to share their creativity in that way. Everyone, let’s give it our best! (laughs) Thank you for sharing your thoughts today.” -Nintendo President Satoru Iwata
A lead Nintendo developer also stated that Flipnote was originally going to be a WiiWare game before they knew anything about the DSi.
“We talked about making it into WiiWare, so if you connected to the network you could exchange notes with lots of people, not just with your friends. At the time, we didn’t know anything about the Nintendo DSi.” – Yoshiaki Koizumi, Nintendo’s EAD Tokyo
Today Ignition Entertainment Ltd., a worldwide publisher and developer of videogames, launched a new fully interactive website for the upcoming Wii exclusive Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
Visitors to the site can sign up for an all-new fan art contest; learn about the game’s main characters and storyline or download new wallpapers, screenshots and gameplay videos! Gamers can also sign up to the Muramasa: The Demon Blade Facebook and Twitter pages to keep in touch with other fans and receive the latest news alerts.
Set during the feudal Genroku era, Muramasa: The Demon Blade takes players on an ambitious new adventure designed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.
Fight as one of two distinct heroes; Kisuke, a brave young lad whose lost his memory, and Momohime, an agile female ronin possessed by a dark spirit. Both Kisuke and Momohime must independently venture across the dangerous countryside, racing to collect a stash of cursed swords, before the vile Shogun can amass their dark powers.
For more information visit the official http://www.muramasathedemonblade.com/ website or follow the game on Twitter and/or Facebook!
Please spread word to your readers about Muramasa: The Demon Blade, the game that’s caught the attention of critics around the globe, and let them know where they can visit the game’s official website today.
Wii
Metroid Prime Trilogy 91%
Resident Evil: ARCHIVES 70%
Roogoo Twisted Towers 72%
Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball 48%
Octomainia 74%
DS
Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky 84%
Treasure World 75%
Shin Megami Tensei : Devil Suvivor 84%
Tomodachi Collection 80%
Happy Bakery 23%
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits 72%
Secret Flirts 47%
Ice Age 3 55%
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 58%
Space Camp 31%
Logic Machines 64%
Roogoo Attack 71%
Press Release
During a recent Investors Q&A session, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has discussed his feelings on the negative reaction to the Wii Vitality Sensor, outlining that it’s a good sign, contrary to popular belief.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking.”
He goes on to say that “if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.”
Nintendo gets a lot of hate for doing just this, and I can’t help but feel it’s entirely undeserved. In the second statement especially, Iwata brings up a fantastic point: Nintendo is doing something groundbreaking that reaches many more people than video game have ever done in the past. They’re thinking outside the box and delivering in areas that other game developers haven’t even begun to think about yet, and they’re doing all of this while still delivering their core franchises to the gamers that have been with them for so long. I can’t think of any other company that has done that, nor of any other company that could.
