Animal Crossing: Wild World owners can now get a special new year's gift from Nintendo President, Satora Iwata. British Game Blog writes: "Go to the bedroom, and on the phone, allow mail from Nintendo or whatever. Now turn on Wi-Fi connection in any way, (maybe just open and close your gates) and you’ll have received some mail. It’s a new years message and a [Mario] coin!"
DS Meet is a great online resource to hook up with other wi-fi-ers, track game usage, and more. The site's motto is as follows: "DS Meet was built from scratch to allow Nintendo DS players to meet, chat, share friend codes, and have a great time. We love the Nintendo DS so much, that we decided to build an entire community around it!"
You can now get VOIP service on your DS via HelloDS. The platform is still in a very early iteration, but here's hoping it turns out nicely. From the official site:
Tetris DS is coming in only a few months and will utilize Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection for multiplayer madness. The game will include several modes like special Tetris puzzles and an online point system will be used for WFC play. The game will feature head-to-head action between two players, and multiplayer wireless battles between up to 10 DS users. That's possible even if only one player has a game card. Players can also log onto Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection to compete in two- or four-player battle."
Datel has released a new product called WiFi Max that is cheap alternative to a wireless router or Nintendo's USB adapter. The adaptor plugs into a PC and creates a wireless access point which can be used by both a DS and PSP. Great for gamers with both handhelds, but we're betting if you've got both, you probably have a wifi router. To the few (or many) that don't though, the unit retails for £29.99/$39.99.
What do you get when you take a hot Microsoft published PC game and sprinkle in just a little bit of secret Nintendo sauce? You get Age of Empires DS: The Age of Kings of course.
Rumor has it that Nintendo's USB wi-fi connector is now available in stores across the US. From the article: "It isn’t just Best Buy that is getting Nintendo’s USB wi-fi adapter. Apparently, Nintendo’s wi-fi connection is doing so well, that Nintendo made the decision to ship the USB adapter to stores all over America."
It's true. People in Europe simply can't restrain themselves from buying Nintendo's portable wonder. More than 3.5 million units have been sold, almost all of them to people with exceedingly cool accents. The top-selling game since October has been the infinitely lovable Nintendogs, followed closely by the shell-spinning Mario Kart DS which saw release in November. The games have sold 1.6 million and 800,000 copies respectively and respectfully.
French gaming site, Jeux-France, has posted new screens of the upcoming Age of Empires for the Nintendo DS. Infendo writes: "The DS version will be turn-based strategy rather than the real-time strategy of previous iterations of the game. It will offer four-player multiplayer gameplay." No word regarding Nintendo wi-fi usage has been announced though.
Contact for the Nintendo DS appears to be the first RPG game that will launch for the dual screen handheld. The RPG, due out next month in Japan, features the Nintendo Wi-Fi logo on the developer's official website (pictured). Eurogamer writes: "Contact is being produced by Gouichi Suda, director of Capcom's schizophrenic shooter Killer 7. It follows the adventures of a boy called Cherry who's tasked with helping a nutty professor find all the lost components of his spaceship."
In addition to the online track hacks and other unlockables for Mario Kart DS that we've previously reported on, you can know uncover beta courses that were never released by Nintendo. A forum member writes: "There are several courses in Mario Kart DS that are unfinished and completely unavailable (beta). They can be played with a little bit of hacking, but not at all perfectly. The textures are missing, so the courses are displayed almost pure white."
An excellent article over at Game Girl Advance (which was, in fact, written by a man) points out the 5 trends that were felt the most throughout the gaming world in 2005. Naturally, certain warm caffeinated beverages are touched upon, but we were more interested in how the DS made its entirely uncontroversial mark.
While many see it as an enjoyable RPG romp with endless variety, Pokémon is in truth built upon far darker principles. The game is obviously representative of the greed in our hearts, our unending desire to garner vast material wealth and yes, our very need to catch...them...ALL. Well, I guess the games are pretty fun too.< Previous Page | Next Page >
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