Archive for the ‘Nintendo DS’ Category
By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 12:13 am
It’s official, the Ghostbusters’ video game will be published in June 2009 by Atari. Right after Comic-Con 2008, it was reported the game was dropped by Activision because of their recent merger with Blizzard, even though the game was months away from being release.
By the time the game hits store shelves in June, the game will have been delayed 7 months from its original planned date. We’re hoping the delay is to make sure the game lives up to the name. However, when the game was shown off back in July — it received a decent amount of praise. Maybe with the game being pushed back; it’ll end up being even better…
Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2 and DS
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By: Nick Collins on December 1st, 2008 pm31 7:45 pm
With titles for all but the PSP this week, nothing really puts a blip on the radar bigger than Prince of Persia. This is an absolute must have for this week on my list. Other notables are GTA IV on the PC and the new Mushroom Men for the Wii.
(PS3)
Prince of Persia, SingStar ABBA
(Xbox 360)
Prince of Persia, Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon
(Wii)
The Tale of Despereaux, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek, My Fitness Coach, Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
(PC)
Neopets Puzzle Adventure, The Tale of Despereaux, Grand Theft Auto IV, Dairy Queen Tycoon, A Vampyre Story
(DS)
Prince of Pesia: The Fallen King, The Tale of Despereaux, Animal Boxing, Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi, Slingo Quest, My Fun Facts Coach, Dreamer: Puppy Trainer
(PS2)
The Tale of Despereaux, SingStar ABBA, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
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By: Jon Christensen on November 30th, 2008 pm30 8:34 pm
Okay Activision, the first time we watched the Guitar Hero commercial directed by Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) which was obviously inspired by the movie ‘Risky Business‘ featuring Kobe and company — we chuckled. Then the company also filmed an ad starring Heidi Klum playing the same game, but in her bra and panties. We were okay with that because we kinda saw boobies and video games at the same time.
However, the Risky Business advertisements should have stopped there! Because now get to watch Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) playing the On Tour DS game. This time it’s not original enough to make us laugh nor does it show boobs — we only get to see some teen heartthrob — yuck!
This one is so bad, Penny Arcade made fun of it — there reaction was the same as mine.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 26th, 2008 am30 2:47 am
I think this deserves a proper funeral. We all recognize the famous red Nintendo logo. Heck, the logo is one of my earliest memories of successful visual marketing from any company. Well, it looks like Nintendo is changing the color permanently. The logo itself will remain the same, however the color is changing to grey.
A press release from Germany reported the new change and when translated to English reads:
Dear Media Partner,
For several years, a new generation of Wii and Nintendo DS games have adorned themselves with a new logo, in discrete grey.
In various publications the former logo, with red lettering, can still be seen. In the event that you have not already done so, we would like to sincerely ask you to now only use the current, gray Nintendo logo.
Yours sincerely,
The team from Nintendo & Popular PR
Although, the grey has been around since the Gamecube days, the red logo still could be seen from time to time. And it’s certainly sad to see it go.
Source: kotaku
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By: Jon Christensen on November 23rd, 2008 pm30 11:54 pm
I’m sure many of you have seen the weird “glitchy” commercial with a guy playing a PSP in the back of the convertible and at the end of the ad it has big letters that read: “LA plays PSP.’ Well, it looks like Sony is going around different cities trying to convince people that everyone in the town only plays their handheld.
While riding on the Bart in San Francisco — I saw an ad inside the train that read: “SF plays PSP“. However, later that night I saw two separate people playing the Nintendo DS. and zero people playing the PSP. In fact besides myself, I can’t remember the last time I saw someone play the device. I believe Sony is lying to us — don’t fall for their tricks.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 20th, 2008 pm30 2:55 pm
Let’s be honest, games in the 90s were not nearly on the same level as they are today. They were…much simpler back than; however that doesn’t take away the greatness of some of them. But to find a complex game then, is like trying to find a simple game today on the PS3.
Growing up, I always had this fascination with Maxis’ Sim City. The original ‘god-game’ could have been my first experience playing a complicated game. And boy did I love it. It was definitely the first time I had played something that felt like a real breathing world — and I had complete control of it. There was something about building a world class city and then in an instant; I destroyed it with a tornado. Looking back at it today, I must have had some god issues.
Flash forward more than 15 years and I still go back to play it to this day. Now get word that EA plans on bringing Sim City (resembles SC 3000) to the iPhone. Remember, the phone has a touch screen, which should make the game feel like it always belonged on the device.
I know the DS has had a few versions of the city builder game, but there is something about bringing just my phone around and not having to switch a cartridge. I also would much rather use my finger than to hold a styles.
The game is coming out this December and will sell $10. Thanks EA, I’m never going to have any battery life to talk on my phone anymore.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 18th, 2008 am30 3:46 am
National Geographic is known for their stunning pictures and information in their magazine. They’re also created a well produced cable station as well. Over the last few months, the company began dabbing their fingers in the gaming industry with the release of their iPhone and DS games.
Apparently the publication likes the idea of developing games, because the Associated Press have broke a story about their plans to create a full fledge studio and focus on all gaming systems and handhelds.
If you’re thinking the games will only be educational, Paul Levine wants you to think again. “Our content is extremely well-suited for a global gaming audience, Levine said. “Our content is extremely well-suited for a global gaming audience,” he added.
I’m open to the idea for National Geographic looking into ways of making games more interesting, heck — even if I learn something, I’m cool with that too. Everything they seem to touch generally turns out good. So, maybe they can create games, however — it could also be out of their league. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 17th, 2008 am30 1:47 am
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has the potential of being one of the best games to come out for the Nintendo DS. Obviously, the fact that RockStar North is one of the developers working on it, it should be decent. However up to this point, information has been scarce. But thanks to nintendoeverything who translated a spanish magazine, we finally have some features included in the sandbox portable game.
The game main plot looks to focus on drugs and includes many different drug deal ‘mini-games,’ which we already knew. However, it looks to be more about that then we previously thought.
Another cool, yet gimmicky aspect part of the game is to whistle for a cap. That’s right, you literally whistle in the DS’s microphone to hail down a taxi. Kinda neat, but really sucks for people who can’t whistle — and no not me, but I do know a FEW people who still can’t. Check out everything after the jump. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on November 13th, 2008 pm30 3:54 pm
One of the biggest announcements for Nintendo at their press briefing at this year’s E3 was RockStar developing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS. During the same conference, Nintendo confirmed the game would be released during the holiday season. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s the case anymore.
During a presentation at the BMO Capital Markets Conference, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said the ‘open-world’ DS game would be out in stores around the 2009 fiscal year. Sadly that could be anywhere from January 31, 2009 till the end of April.
It was also confirmed at the same keynote speech that the downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV is likely to appear in Spring of 2009. Just to put that in perspective — GTA IV will be out for almost a year when the DLC is finally released online.
Source: MTV
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By: Jon Christensen on November 13th, 2008 am30 3:48 am
Here is the commercial for Activision’s followup to Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS, which was one of the most popular games for the handheld. This newest advertisement for Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades shows a female and male gamer sitting next to each other and end up being friends because they decide to play the game against each other. It’s just like real life except for a girl playing a game…
Ok-ok, I know they play them — but seriously, does she look like a gamer?
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By: Jon Christensen on November 12th, 2008 am30 2:13 am
Want to own a crappy game for a next generation system — but buy it for dirt cheap!? Now you can, thanks to Amazon’s Deal of the Day. For only $9.98, you too can play as the legendary actor Brandon Fraser in his greatest movie yet — ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,’ for the Wii. That’s 80% off the original price!
You can buy even the inferior versions cheaper for PS2 ($7.98) and DS ($4.98). WOW, what a DEAL!
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By: Jon Christensen on November 12th, 2008 am30 12:08 am
Yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone surpassed the Motorola Razor as the best selling mobile phone on the market. The phone features the best mobile phone internet browser, music player, GPS, and the 3G network. There is also no denying the device has the ability to become a pretty powerful portable gaming machine. And with the App-Store – the handheld could become a major force in that specific market.
However, the head honcho in marking for the iPhone Greg Joswiak, seems to think the mobile phone is already the future of portable gaming devices.
“There are already so many games and as we look at it, to us it really seems this is the future of gameplay. Whereas a lot of these devices [Nintendo DS and Sony PSP] are more in the past. And a big part of that is not just the device itself, which is easier to carry, and has the touch display and accelerometer which is great for gameplay, but it’s the electronic distribution of the apps as well.”
Before hardcore gamers ask for his head — let’s all make sure we read his quote correctly. First of all, he didn’t blast the ‘competitors,’ or even say the iPhone is a superior machine. He simply believes what the iPhone is doing — is the future. And you know what, we agree with him. Let’s face, the phone is extremely powerful, so powerful that John Carmack thinks it can run the same games the PS2 could play. But instead of having to go into a store, purchase the game and put it inside the unit — you just download it…from anywhere. There is no question and every piece of gaming hardware will at some point; follow suit.
But right now, I still prefer playing my DS and/or PSP over the iPhone. Why? Obviously the games are considerably better. Until the iPhone can reproduce the quality of gameplay those handhelds can do and please both the casual and hardcore gamer — I’m sticking to them.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 11th, 2008 pm30 4:44 pm
Tim Lincecum has just won the best honor in Major League Baseball today — being the cover athlete for the 2K9 baseball game. Oh and he apparently won another award for being the best pitcher in the National League — the Cy Young. Not a bad move by Take-Two, who obviously rigged the ballots for the exclusive MLB award. Senior VP of 2K Sports Greg Thomas said the following about their new athlete representative:
We couldn’t have selected a more naturally talented and exciting player to represent Major League Baseball 2K9 next season, and given that he’s an avid gamer, it will be a lot of fun working together,”
The San Francisco Giants pitcher also talked about winning both honors, “Winning the Cy Young Award is truly an amazing honor, and now having the opportunity to be on the cover of Major League Baseball 2K9 is another dream come true and an absolutely surreal experience,” he said, ” “Whenever I’m hanging out at home or traveling on the road, you can find me playing video games, and I’m definitely the best gamer in the clubhouse by far. I’m incredibly stoked that 2K Sports picked me to represent Major League Baseball 2K9, and I look forward to lending my baseball knowledge to the development process.”
Picking Tim Linecum was a safe bet, but I’m also going to read into it. Greg Thomas revolutionized baseball video games with bringing a pitching meter in MVP Baseball. Could picking a pitcher for a cover athlete predict more emphases on the pitching aspect of the game? We think so…
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By: Jon Christensen on November 11th, 2008 am30 2:28 am
Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy are the co-founders of the music gaming company Harmonix. These guys are so talented, they created two highly successful franchises with both Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Not only did their company develop some of the biggest games in the world today — they’re now ridiculously rich. And they’re not ‘video game rich,’ but ‘Hollywood A-list rich.’
Because of the sales of Rock Band — Which exceeded expectations, they received a pretty bonus from Viacom Inc, parent company of MTV Games. The New York based media company paid a combine $300 Million to both Rigopulos and Egozy. Which gives each of them a 150,000,000 big-ones.
With the endless amount of Rock Band games that will come out and the new Beatles version that was just announced, plus the downloads that appear every week — these two guys should be billionaires in no time. Boy, do we all suck…
Source: bloomberg
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By: Jon Christensen on November 10th, 2008 pm30 2:08 pm
In the video above, someone is showing off the Opera web browser that is featured with the DSi. If anyone used the browser in the older Nintendo DS, they would recognize that the new version of the handheld is exactly the same, but with one one difference — it runs a hell of a lot smoother than it’s predecessor.
So if you decided to purchase the DSi in the future, make sure you bookmark /gamer — so you can receive your latest PSP news straight to your DS.
Source (via gonintendo)
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