The WiiWare demos continue this week, DSiWare sees four new titles, and the Virtual Console gets a single NES game.
Seemingly "getting the memo" from fans, Nintendo has continued to provide WiiWare demos in this week's Nintendo Download. Players can sample both Lit from Wayforward Technologies and Urbanix from Nordcurrent.
Nintendo will be promoting their upcoming title, Mario Sports Mix, with a mock press conference.
Next week, fans of Mario sports titles can tune into a special live press conference starring the Italian plumber himself. Mario will be discussing his career in sports in promotion of his upcoming Wii title, Mario Sports Mix.
If I could turn back time... ooh baby
I really haven’t played a scrolling shooter in some time, the main reason being that it isn’t exactly an evolving genre. Pull almost any of the “new” games off the shelves and you have another Contra or 1942 waiting for you to dodge waves of bullets, collect power-ups, and obliterate massive bosses that take longer to beat than the actual stage you traversed to reach them. Zeit² tries to be one of the games that falls outside of the “almost any” pack previously mentioned. While it definitely has the same general rules as the genre dictates, it adds a twist with the introduction of time travel.
So nice, they coded twice?
The Sims. Perhaps you've heard of it. The Sims is a game people play where ordinary, everyday people play as ordinary everyday people. A Sim can raise a family, meet neighbors, or get a job. Basically, Sims do just about everything the people who play them do. Re:coded is, in this sense, a game where the heroes of many worlds play as the heroes of many worlds. The digital characters fight heartless, solve a universe of problems, and try to determine the identity and purpose of mysterious figures. Basically, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded's digital Sora does just about everything Sora does.
Teaser Trailer for LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean reveals areas to be rendered with regular objects like LEGO Batman as opposed to an all LEGO setting.
The NGP is here! And by here, I mean on my PC monitor, but only sometimes. This issue of the podcast deals with it. Things like comparisons between it and the 3DS, launch price, and my opinion of the device's potential performance are all discussed.
CommanderVideo's last adventure is a homecoming with Bit.TRIP Beat's classic Pong-style gameplay returning to the spotlight once more.
Fire Up for February with Fresh Downloads for Nintendo Systems
Winter blues got you down? Bid farewell to January and say hello to a new batch of downloadable games for Wii™ and Nintendo DSiT systems. As always, the latest additions to the WiiWareT and Nintendo DSiWareT services offer a wide variety of titles to lift your spirits. WiiWare users can also take advantage of demo versions of select games available for zero Wii PointsT, giving players the chance to sample select games before downloading the full versions. As you trudge through the dog days of winter, the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop are open 24 hours a day to help keep you fired up no matter what the weather has in store.
All six titles will be coming on two separate discs to the PlayStation 3 in late March.
Late last year, Ubisoft announced plans to rerelease two of their popular Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell trilogies from last generation in HD on the PlayStation 3. Prince of Persia saw release on the PlayStation Network last year, with each individual title released separately. Yesterday, Ubisoft revealed that the trilogies will now be released in disc-based form exclusively on the PlayStation 3.
This experimentation with puzzles and music is unbelievably engaging.
For many years, puzzle games have been very well-defined and extremely rigid in their design. Whether it was shifting blocks, or simply moving on a set plane, every game had a finite set of possible moves and functions. As time has gone on, particularly in this generation, puzzle games have become more abstract, requiring use of a more fluid style of control and design. Auditorium HD is such a game, as it allows players to move and shift a flow of sound waves in real time toward different repositories to produce a song and complete a level. With an open-ended way to solve puzzles, and a wide variety of different tools to direct the flow of sound waves, Auditorium HD is a fascinating and deep puzzle game that remains interesting from beginning to end.
