Do your parents never listen to your holiday wishes? Is Santa Claus simply not cool enough for you? Well, Nintendo and Varitalk feel your pain, and are now offering you the chance to pester your loved ones or, presumably, whatever random persons’ phone numbers you decide to submit, via the voice of everyone’s favorite plumber [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
The technology world has been seeing a surge of physics-based applications lately, and gaming has certainly had a good share of creative ideas, based on countless unique interpretations of this seemingly limitless concept. Deep Silver’s oddly named Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity is touted as the next big thing after the likes of World of Goo — [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 6, 2008
Though the title effectively dropped off the charts in Japan this October after selling a respectable 383,000 copies, music game Daigasso! Band Brothers DX was singled out by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in the company’s Q2 earnings presentation for being a prime example of how the company would like to embrace user-generated content. By partnering with [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
Travel guides. Calligraphy lessons. Realistic train simulators. There’s a lot of amazing non-gaming software in Japan that, whether it appeals to too niche or too foreign an interest, traditionally never makes it out of the country — and being a fan of both cultural exchange and quirky game titles, I’ve always thought that was a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 11, 2008
I will buy Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. Without exception, every handheld rendition of the series has been stellar, and I’ve long maintained that Fire Emblem is the perfect portable game. Relying on the auto-save feature that saves one’s progress after every single move, I would often pull out one of the Game Boy Advance titles [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 10, 2008
The developer behind Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir is Big Fish Games, a company that makes no secret of its specialty. Visiting the Big Fish website, one will see “Hidden Object” as the top genre of their catalog, a link to “10 New Hidden Object Games!” and a handful of editor’s picks, half of which are [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Though a number of quality software titles were shown off at last week’s Nintendo Media Summit (stay tuned to GameCyte for daily previews!), the biggest news of the two-day event was revealed within the first ten minutes of the event: the Nintendo DSi hardware. Spirited away by NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime just as quickly as it [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 2, 2008
Nintendo might have had a disappointing E3 showing this year, but they seem determined to make up for it at today’s media event in San Francisco. After a presentation by the Nintendo top brass, the company has issued a press release confirming the release of several games for the remainder of 2008, and a handful [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
When contacted for comment earlier today, Nintendo representatives in all major territories would not lend credence to reports that a new Nintendo DS will arrive in Japan before the end of the year. Mind you, they’re not denying it either…
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
Japan’s Nikkei newspaper (via NeoGAF) is reporting that a new Nintendo DS — featuring an integrated camera, music player and enhanced wireless connectivity — will be released in Japan before the end of the year. The device is expected to retail at a sub-200,000 yen (sub-$190) price point, and expected to look nothing like Yannis [...]
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