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Nintendo Co. announced new wireless features for its DS portable video game player Thursday, including a free service that will let consumers beam game demos and other content directly to the device.
Closing the door barn door after the horse has slowly walked out as to avoid suspicion, Ubisoft has issued a press release officially announcing Assassin's Creed Altaïr's Chronicles for the Nintendo DS, heading to a retailer near you this February.
Reader Mikey snagged the boxart for Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles when he went to GameStop to reserve the title. He scanned in the sheet for us to check out. The graphics are looking pretty impressive to me! See What Else Is New Today At Gamevine!
Charitable organization Sense About Science has published its report on celebrities endorsing "scientific mumbo jumbo" that is of debatable merit.
Speaking with the New York Times, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime has offered a little more info on the Wii's ability to interact with the DS.
... according to Japanese sales tracker Media Create, which got its abacus out to calculate that the DS has now shifted 20,954,157 units, compared to 20,901,468 PS2s.
In related new... Prior to December 2007, Sony's PSP held the record, having shifted 185,000 units in one week following its launch in September 2005. The week before last, however, Nintendo sold 191,104 DS units, followed by a further 212,584 systems last week.
Having been on the market for over three years now you would have figured that sales of the Nintendo DS may have plateaued off. After Nintendo's brilliant marketing campaign to appeal to non-gamers the exact opposite is the case.
The time of year has come again to take a fond look back at the best of the best. Best movies, albums, books, TV shows and, yes, games!
Hardware: Nintendo DS 1.53 million Wii 981K Xbox 360 770K PSP 567K PlayStation 2 496K PlayStation 3 466K Software:
My small family of two has contributed to 3 maybe 4 of those sales. I can't even remember anymore... ...more than 6 million DS were sold in the U.S. in 2007 through Nov. 30. Taken another way, that's about one every five seconds... and remember it doesn't include December.
A man details his successful attempts to get Hugs, a Haskell interpreter, to run on the Nintendo DS. Haskell is a pure-functional language based on lambda calculation that totally rocks.
In December certain things are inevitable; inflated credit card debt, Bill O'Reilly's 'War on Christmas' and year-end retrospectives reminding us how ridiculous the events of the past year sound when stacked up next to each other.
Ready to see what's instead early next year Nintendo-wise? Game site CVG has apparently confirmed a big list of Wii and DS titles. Doesn't seem to include Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but there other games which certainly won't make up for its absence.
NGamer magazine gives a few first details about the DS version of the upcoming Ghostbuster game, revealing that it will be in a management based style with users creating and running their own ghostbusting franchise. See What Else Is New Today At Gamevine!
It's getting near that time again. Soon, Newsvine will decide the best games of the year just like they did in 2006. (You can see for yourself.)
Late last week I seeded an article titled 8 Reasons Why The PSP Might Overtake the DS in which the article was put to task in the comment section.
GamePro shatters 27 video game myths in this popular reoccurring series. This article: HD-DVD versus Blu-ray, HDMI versus component, the PS3 as a failure, and more!
With out predicting the impending demise of the DS (cockroaches will go extinct before that happens) Gizmodo gives a run down as to why the PSP is more than just a paperweight.
Now, Nintendo has revealed its sales figures in the US for the "Black Friday" week of November 18-24. The seven-day period was Nintendo's best ever in the US, with over 1.03 million systems sold in the 50 states. Of those, 350,000 were $249 Wiis, and 653,000 were $129 DSes.
It's called the R4, and it's here to rain on Nintendo's parade. The R4 fits right into the DS's cartridge slot. Data is stored on a Micro SD and downloaded via a flash drive. The R4 has a small slot that the Micro SD card goes into.
Now I don't know who this Evan Wilson analyst is - mainly because his name isn't Michael "Papa" Pachter - but his contacts indicate that a newly redesigned DS is completed and waiting in the wings.
Do you want a new Wii in 2 years? How about waiting 8 more years for a new Nintendo hand held? Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata vision of the future involves tossing out the predisposed notion of a 4 year console cycle, which of course can be very beneficial for Nintendo's bottom-line.
Nintendo today released figures showing that the combined sales of the original Nintendo DS and the revamped Nintendo DS Lite have sold more than 4 million units in the UK.
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