Archive for August, 2005

Resident Evil DS

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Japanese video game magazine Famitsu has revealed that the Resident Evil series will soon be making its firs appearance on the Nintendo DS. Though there are few details at the moment the DS release seems to be a remake of the original Playstation game.

Players will be able to take on the role of the characters […]

Nintendo Europe has wi-fi plans

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Jim Merrick, Nintendo’s European Director of Marketing has outlined the companies plans for wi-fi multi-player gaming on the DS and Revolution.
“Ease of use. No usernames. No passwords. No IP addresses. No URLs. No unintelligible technobabble. Just gaming.” is the first part of Nintendo’s vision for wi-fi gaming.

Wi-fi is the focus of Nintendo’s efforts as it […]

Pink and blue DS for Europe

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Nintendo have announced that the standard silver DS will be joined by pink and blue units during October.
Both already available in Japan with the blue DS also available in the US, this is timed to coincide with the European release of Nintendogs.

Immensely popular in Japan, the pet simulator Nintendogs is set to launch an assault […]

Nintendo DS Rumble Pack

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Pinball game coming with vibrating add-on.

Nintendo DS instant messaging

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

An instant messaging client for the DS has been announced by Meetro. The product, called Meetro, is due for release in the summer of 2006
It promises to support AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN and Jabber. More news when it happens

Dig Dug Digging Strike DS

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Namco have announced that Dig Dug Digging Strike is to be released for the Nintendo DS this spring.
The familiar digging action is combined with a 3D environments to explore along with new enemies, weapons and mini-games to bring the popular title up to date.

Some familiar faces to Dig Dug players are back, Pooka and Fygar, […]