“In the past, in the eighties and nineties, that was a major issue. I remember the big ‘Mario vs. Sonic’ debates. What we see today is that the influence of exclusive titles on the sales curves becomes ever smaller. In addition, we are in a situation that there is a head-to-head race on several consoles and that nobody is super clear in leadership – especially in matters of the PlayStation 3 against Xbox 360.” – Microsoft’s German Xbox 360 product manager Boris Schneider-Johne
In the case of the Wii, I believe that exclusives are important. I just don’t see the Wii in the promising position as it is today granted the 360 or PS3 also had Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Zack & Wiki, Boom Blox, and countless other titles on their systems.
Boys Noize Arcade Robot Oi Oi Oi
Boys Noize Oh! Oi Oi Oi
Dropkick Murphys The Warrior’s Code The Warrior’s Code
Fort Knox Five feat. Mustafa Akbar The Spirit of 75 Radio Free DC (lp)
From First To Last Worlds Away From First To Last
From First To Last Two As One From First To Last
From First To Last We All Turn Back To Dust From First To Last
Fujiya & Miyagi Sucker Punch Transparent Things
Gogol Bordello 60 Revolutions Gypsy Punks
Kenna Out Of Control (State of Emotion) – Free Donuts and Shellfish XXXChange with Ronnie Darko Spankrock Remix Make Sure They See My Face
Kinky Uruapan Breaks Reina
Los Mocosos Bandolera Era (Reggaeton Remix) Global Dancefloor
Ozomatli Street Signs Street Signs
Tone Loc feat. Peaches Wild Thing (Peaches RMX) RMXXOLOGY
Prophet Omega Criminal The Natural World
Quit Your Day Job feat. R.A. The Rugged Man Warmachine (Remake) Tools For Fools
Santogold Creator Santogold
Sweatmaster Animal Animal
The Go! Team Universal Speech Proof Of Youth
The Hives Square One Here I Come The Black And White Album
The Procussions Fight Here 5 Sparrows For 2 Cents
The Rivers Knock Me Down Knock Me Down EP
Tigarah Girl Fight Revolution
Tone Deaf Junkies Kwaai Techtic Alpha
Wolfmother Woman (MSTRKRFT Remix) Woman – Single
According to the Pokemon game translator himself, Nob Ogasawara, Nintendo has told him that his services are no longer needed. Ogasawara will no longer be in charge of translating the Pokemon games. Instead, Nintendo plans on doing any translation work internally. Said Ogasawara, “So, after nearly a dozen years and nineteen Pokemon games later, I am out. I was told that my services were no longer needed because translation work will be handled internally hereafter. They assured me it’s not a quality issue, but because of some bureaucratic thing. OK, cool, whatever. As a career-long-and-not-about-to-change freelancer, I always expected this day to come, but not for this reason. But such is life…”
The main reason why I’m marking this as a rumor is because I can’t say with 100% certainty (although it’s highly likely) that Mr. Ogasawara is indeed the poster of the news and we haven’t heard anything official from Nintendo. Nevertheless, hearing about Nob Ogasawara leaving is a bit saddening, since he’s been there since the beginning of the Pokemon games.
Thanks to Ohnoes for the tip.
Nintendo News: Nintendo DS Fans Have a Hot New Color for the Fall: Metallic Silver
In some venues, silver is the color of second place. For Nintendo DS™, silver is No. 1. Starting Sept. 7, Metallic Silver joins the Nintendo DS color palette. The new Metallic Silver version makes a nice addition to any tech collection, whether you’re a gadget hipster or fashionista. Watch for the Metallic Silver DS to be featured in the new upcoming Nintendo DS print ad featuring actress Liv Tyler.
Millions of people around the world, from core gamers to new players, have discovered Nintendo DS. Some like to play traditional games like New Super Mario Bros.™, Mario Kart® DS or The Legend of Zelda®: Phantom Hourglass. Others use it to train their brains with Brain Age®: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day or solve puzzles with Crosswords DS. With a library of more than 600 games in every conceivable genre, there’s a game or experience for everyone.
Well, the mystery has been solved! Disaster will be heading to Europe in October, although I can’t say the same for any other territory.
2nd September 2008 – Earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, flood, hurricane… and the small matter of an ex-military terrorist group with their hands on some nuclear weapons – and all in just 24 hours! Welcome to Disaster: Day of Crisis, the action adventure game on Wii from Nintendo and Monolith Soft., sweeping across Europe on 24th October 2008, guaranteed to bring out the survival skills in everyone.
Stepping into the shoes of Raymond Bryce, a traumatised but highly decorated retired US marine and former operative of the International Rescue Team, you’ll prepare for a day like no other. Called back into action to deal with the threat of SURGE, an ex-military terrorist unit led by former elite forces specialist Colonel Hayes, Ray must overcome personal tragedy and numerous devastating natural disasters to prevent the threat of nuclear warfare.
Wracked with guilt over the loss of his best friend in the line of duty, Ray finds out that SURGE has kidnapped a leading seismologist and his assistant in order to predict the arrival of an earthquake, which will act as a diversion for their plan to seize the nuclear weapons. However, upon finding out that the assistant is his lost friend’s sister, Lisa, the mission turns personal and offers Ray the chance of redemption he’s been craving for.
Videos
Developer’s Voice – Mystery Case Files
Mystery Case Files: Demo Download is Available NOW
Spore Creatures: Demo Download is Available NOW
My Aquarium Info Video
Super Mario RPG Info Video
Mario Super Sluggers TV Spot
Helix Developer’s Voice 1
NHL 2K9 Info Video
de Blob Video 3
Dokapon Kingdom Info Video
Tornado TV Spot 3
Moon Info Video
Digest Video
Demos
Mystery Case Files MillionHeir (no expiry date)
Crosswords DS-Anagrams Demo (expires 9/7)
Spore Creatures Demo (expires 9/7)
PICTOIMAGE (expires 9/7)
Arkanoid DS (expires 9/7)
Small update: N-Europe has translated some details coming from the German Disaster: Day of Crisis German page.
Some rumored information about Disaster: Day of Crisis has come to light based off of the latest screenshots of the game. None of these details are confirmed by Nintendo, though the information below is still somewhat realistic.
– You can set where the radio messages and the gun sound fx comes out from. The screen shows the Radio messages output set to the Wiimote, and the Gun sound fx output set to the Wiimote as well.
– There are items in the game, and you have an inventory. They look like the normal restorative items for health and whatnot.
– The game is stage based and you get a ranking for how well you did at the end of each stage.
– You earn BP from combat and SP from rescuing people (and probably completing various QTE events successfully). BP is used to buy new weapons and upgrade the weapons, while SP is used to improve the character stats.
– You start with 3 basic weapons available – Rifle 1, Handgun 1 and Assault Rifle 1. Each of these are the start of a weapons tree, kinda like a skill tree in RPGs (lol Monolithsoft). You buy more weapons with BP via this tree.
– For weapons you already have, there are 5 areas you can upgrade them in – Power, ammo capacity, reload speed, etc. Upgrading will also cost BP.
