And while you're blowing out the end of the year and all, don't forget to head over to our two polls and vote for your picks for best games of the year.
Reminder: End of the Year Blowout (day eleven)
And while you're blowing out the end of the year and all, don't forget to head over to our two polls and vote for your picks for best games of the year.
Super Dodgeball mini-clips: 'USA! USA!'
"Pow! Right in the kisser!"
Aksys Games has put out another round of Super Dodgeball Brawlers videos, this time showcasing the special throws available with Team USA's roster (last week's clips were from the Nekketsu Highschool team). Once again, the movies are extremely short and without sound, but you still get to see some dudes get their blocks knocked off, thrown off the screen and across town from the force of a connected power shot.
Super Dodgeball Brawlers is scheduled to smack North America in the back of its head this Spring 2008 (without online support, unfortunately). The next set of videos Aksys plans to release will feature Team England and arrive on January 4th. Head past the break for the rest of this week's seconds-long clips -- you might want to take your glasses off first, though.
Bandai Namco cheats on their own video game test
Our Video Game Certification is a collection of minigames based on old 8-bit Namco games, designed to test your skill in very focused retrogaming tasks. Therefore, you'd expect the old 8-bit Namco games to be old 8-bit Namco games. They've got a lot of the things, from Cutie-Q to Wonder Momo -- one of the largest libraries of classic games ever. So why the heck did they have to put together a fake 8-bit version of The Idolm@ster?Well, okay, we're not actually upset by the development. In fact, it's pretty cool that they mocked up a whole new scene for the collection when they really didn't have to. Do you think you can "grab her heart" (according to our awesome translation skills, but you get the idea) in thirty seconds?
Other newly-revealed games in Our Video Game Certification include Xevious, Youkai Dochuuki, and Star Luster.
DS Daily: Heroes
No, we're not talking about the heroes you might be thinking of. We're talking about the heroes behind the heroes. The names and faces that make our games come alive. The visionaries, if you will.Yesterday's unveiling of a release date and the official website for Flower, Sun and Rain inspired a chat amongst the staff about the game's creator, Goichi Suda. You see, around these parts, we simply can't get enough of Suda's work: the wildly imaginative concepts, that inimitable visual style. Hand on heart, Suda's mere involvement in a project means a sale to this blogger is more than likely. We only wish others felt the same way.
But what about you, reader? Is there a particular development guru you look up to? Are you more about Sakaguchi or Shiggy, Molyneux or Mizuguchi? And do you ever purchase a game solely because they played a part in its creation?
DS Fanboy Lite: Dec. 15 - Dec. 21
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DS Fanswag: End of the Year Blowout!
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Readers' Choice: The best of 2007
Help us choose among the most-hyped games of the year. -
Readers' Choice: The best of the rest
We couldn't forget these, either.
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2007: A year in OMGWTF
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DS Fanboy Review: John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland
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All of the news DS Fanboy saw fit to print in 2007
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Promotional Consideration: Ms. Yanagihara
After DS Tarot, really, what's left?
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GameStop lists Apollo Justice for a February release
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New Advance Wars images show off new COs, new belly buttons
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Flash card latest: ESA and the Singapore police get their raid on
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Is the DS really this fragile?
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Study says girls prefer 'easier' 2D games
DS Fanboy got the dirt on the six -- count 'em, SIX -- games included in the study. None of them were Contra.
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Circuit City glitch leads to low, low prices
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Dragon Quest V screens for comparison and perusal
Check 'em out against older versions.
Friday Video: Because you need to get excited about Drone Tactics
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Nintendo collages for Nintendoholics
Artist Chris Lange (Etsy user sscjl14) is offering to create customizable collages of Nintendo characters, made completely out of Nintendo Power magazines. The results are pretty neat, no doubt, but you probably have to really bleed Nintendo love to shell out $250 for one of these 20 X 30 inch pieces of art. Still, we love the concept, and can't help but gawk at this kind of stuff even if we'll never buy it.
Check after the break if you're interested in seeing two more of his creations.
Suda's other assassin game hitting Japan in March
No More Heroes wasn't the only Goichi Suda game to cause our pulses to race in the last few weeks. With its Groundhog Day-esque hook and all-too-topical tale of airborne terrorism, we're anxious to hear whether or not Flower, Sun, and Rain will ever leave Japan. It doesn't strike us as the most import-friendly title, so unless you're one of those forward-thinking types who took the time to learn kanji, a western release might just be our
We know one thing, however: the game is scheduled to release in Japan on March 6th, and it has a shiny new official site to prove it. Poke around there, and you'll find a number of (tiny) new screens, character profiles for three of the game's fifteen primary characters (including protagonist and assassin Sumio Mondo), and a rundown on "Katherine," the suitcase-shaped instrument that Sumio carries to crack codes.
[Via Go Nintendo]
Dragon Quest V screens for comparison and perusal
Gallery: Dragon Quest V
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WRUP: Squad-based vehicles edition
So, what are you playing?
Fist of the North Star DS comes with neighsayer
The DS Fist of the North Star game was already an interactive manga in which you tap spots on the screen to beat up on dudes. It was already pretty bizarre. But Spike has decided to pile bizarre upon bizarre with this bonus for early purchasers.
It's a keychain that plays a horse noise. Awesome, right? You could be out anywhere, and suddenly have the urge to listen to the sound of a horse, and just have a horse noise right there. In your pocket. To be fair, the horse immortalized by this keychain is not just some regular horse, but Kokuoh-Go, Raoh's giant horse who is also a king. Unfortunately, we don't know what Kokuoh-Go sounds like, but maybe his neigh is way tougher-sounding than a normal horse's.
GAME Watch has some new screens of the game, in case you're as interested in extremely violent screen-tapping as we are.
It's a keychain that plays a horse noise. Awesome, right? You could be out anywhere, and suddenly have the urge to listen to the sound of a horse, and just have a horse noise right there. In your pocket. To be fair, the horse immortalized by this keychain is not just some regular horse, but Kokuoh-Go, Raoh's giant horse who is also a king. Unfortunately, we don't know what Kokuoh-Go sounds like, but maybe his neigh is way tougher-sounding than a normal horse's.
GAME Watch has some new screens of the game, in case you're as interested in extremely violent screen-tapping as we are.
The crimson and black Lite we should have received
iQue Limited is at it again. After last month's Super Mario 64 DS Lite, Nintendo's distributor for China has come up with this drool-worthy reworking of the senior crimson and black Lite that the U.S. and Japan received earlier this year. With its laser-etched dragons and deep red hue, it's one highly desirable piece of kit, but we'd advise you don't hold your breath for a release outside China.
As you dwell with us on how life is so terribly unfair, click past the break for more shots.
Continue reading The crimson and black Lite we should have received
Reminder: End of the Year Blowout (day ten)
And while you're blowing out the end of the year and all, don't forget to head over to our two polls and vote for your picks for best games of the year.
Fan-made DS Lite redesign is impressive
Either someone created the coolest DS Lite redesign ever, or they're just a little too into Transformers. We love the screen that flips up and we're especially fond of the first process of the unit opening itself up. Regardless of what caused its creation, this fan-made unit is pretty slick and something we'd easily plunk down the dough for.
Actually, now that we think about it, how much would Nintendo even charge for something like this?
[Thanks, shak!]
Did you know Iwata is the man?
At least, according to Next-Gen, he is. And who could blame them for placing Nintendo's main man at the top of their list of (industry) people of the year. These are the twenty-five individuals the folks at Next-Gen felt made the greatest contributions to the gaming industry this year ... and Iwata wasn't the only one from Nintendo to be recognized. Outgoing VP George Harrison ranked in at 18th, and Yoshiaki Koizumi, director of Super Mario Galaxy, turned up in the 6th position. But the chief of chiefs reigned supreme, and is it any surprise? Satoru Iwata had led Nintendo in this banner year, and as dedicated fans, we salute him. We're just glad that Next-Gen does, as well.
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