As in high. Animal Crossing: Wild World stays at number 2 this past week in Japan, but it made sure the DS kept its bird’s eye view of all other systems. Software 1. Tales of Abyss PS2 405 000 / 405 000 New2. Animal Crossing DS 184 000 / 761 0003. Mario Kart DS 146 000 / 365 0004. Final Fantasy IV GBM 97 000 / 97 000 New5. Tamagotchi DS 92 000 / 565 0006. Pokemon Dungeon Red GBA 85 000 / 356...
According to Spong, Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) titles will be available for the Revolution backcatalog download system. From the article: “Our long-term, trusted source told us, under terms of strick anonymity, that Sega is “on the brink of being in a position to announce exactly what it has agreed [with Nintendo]” with the 16-bit console’s first-party catalogue to lead the w...
Though the game is still expected as a spring GameCube title, when you pop it in your Revolution later in the fall of 2006, the game will allow you to control Link & Friends with the new free style controller. From 4cr: “NGC can exclusively reveal that Twilight Princess will be playable on the forthcoming Revolution using the upcoming console’s unique controller. Zelda will actuall...
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Nothing like passing the holidays while making a Nintendo Entertainment System out of ginger bread. But how would it taste?[Source: Gizmodo]
Apparantly our K.K. Don’t Play That post and Nintendo poking fun at the music industry has gotten a response from the NY Times and Nintendo themselves. From the article: “People can read a lot into a little,” explained NoA head of communications Perrin Kaplan, “but musician K.K. Slider – a guitar-playing cartoon dog – is saying only that he’s a free spirit who c...
The newly formed Japanese publisher, AQ Interactive (Artistic Quality) held a press conference today where they revealed everything they are working on. Previously, all anyone knew about them was that they published the Xbox 360 title Tetris: Grand master Ace in Japan for that system’s launch. Today, all of AQ’s plans have been unfurled. AQ is working on a multitude of platforms and ga...
Pretty cool for such a low-tech platform to be competing so well. From the article: “The latest figures from the market are from the week, when Microsoft debuted their Xbox 360 in this high profile gaming market. And it shows that the Nintendo DS dominated everything else.” [Source: TechWack]
Tales of Symphonia was one of the best games, in any genre, to make it’s way to the GCN. It’s gripping story, amazing gameplay and graphics made for a great experience. So ToS fans rejoice! The folks at Namco have given us the first footage from Tales of Tempest, the new Tales title headed to the DS. Not a lot of information is known at this point, but from the looks of things, we coul...
Things have been a little hectic and slow around here. This side of the internet moves a lot faster, and we didn’t get a chance to stay up on our tips. A big shout out to all that sent them in, namely our Japanese correspondent Dale, Martin, Fabio, Nicholas B, Ryan, Andrew, and Dana. Here’s the best of the best: Animal Crossing Blue Screen of Death! For Canadians, save $30.00 on the GB...
The Nintendo DS is the worlds best selling game platform in the world with 8.83 units sold worldwide. That’s since September only. Best platform of 2005 easily. Nintendo also released figures for the GC and GBA. From the article: “The Gamecube has just passed 10 million units sold in the US, bringing it to 19.31 million worldwide, and 169.51 million Gamecube games have been sold to Sep...
In response to Zelda: Twilight Princess being delayed back on August 16, an anonymous reader posted the following comment that pretty much summed up the sentiment of millions of gamers the world over: Twilight Princess delayed… “Consequently, we’re announcing a new global launch in 2006, after the conclusion of this fiscal year (March 31). We’ll provide a specific date at a...