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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Phoenix Wright, Zaxxon, Photo Fighter X

December 15th, 2009 at 05:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

The release list for the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops are a bit more restrained than the last couple of weeks, offering a much more manageable (read: smaller) selection of downloadable titles. On Virtual Console, for example, Sega’s isometric arcade shmup Zaxxon is the only offering. Similarly, there’s just one WiiWare game, but it’s Phoenix Wright!

DSiWare gets the cool Photo FIghter X, which lets you build fighting game characters from DSi camera snaps. More Paint By DS joins it, this time all about dogs; and in the requisite “puzzle game” positions are a new G.G. series entry and a Jupiter-developed game about rotating blocks to match colors.

Zaxxon (Arcade, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (WiiWare, 1 player, 900 Wii Points)
Shashin de Kakutou! Photo Fighter X! (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200 DSi Points)
G.G. Series Vertex (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kanji Practice First Grade (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai Inu-hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Atelier Deco La Doll (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Castle of Magic (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Panewa! (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Nintendo dates Endless Ocean 2, Pokemon HeartGold, more

December 14th, 2009 at 02:40pm Under DS

Nintendo’s Q1 release schedule is as packed with new information as all Nintendo release schedules are. In addition to the announcements we’ve already covered, Nintendo confirmed the March 14 date for Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. Endless Ocean 2, another game Nintendo has been silent about since E3, is now called Endless Ocean: Blue World, and e-divers will be able to start exploring it on February 22.

Some big WiiWare indies are on the way in Q1, including And Yet It Moves and Super Meat Boy. See the full list of releases, including a series of unannounced, Nintendo-published DSiWare games, after the break.

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NintendoWare weekly: Bejeweled, Blaster Master, Earthworm Jim 2

December 14th, 2009 at 02:20pm Under DS

As promised, Sunsoft’s brought Blaster Master to the Virtual Console — though we think the impact is somewhat dulled by the quantity of other games available for download this week. There’s a total of 11 different games available, so head past the break for the full list.

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European Nintendo downloads: Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, Monkey Island

December 11th, 2009 at 05:00pm Under Wii / Nintendo

The sole Virtual Console release this week is a reminder of a very odd time: when Sega thought Alex Kidd was a viable character. The company took an in-progress Shinobi parody game called Shinobi Kid, and then added the Alex Kidd character. Someone at Sega was under the impression that a game would sell better with Alex Kidd in it.

Also available: more Monkey Island, an expansion of one of Rubik’s World’s games, and Pallurikio, a cute platformer with a slingshot mechanic. And on DSiWare, it’s … a stripped-down version of Hell’s Kitchen!

Pallurikio (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points)
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4 (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (Sega Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
PictureBook Games: The Royal Bluff (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points)
Hell’s Kitchen Vs. (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 800 DSi Points)

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Two Japanese DSiWare games with clever camera uses

December 11th, 2009 at 02:45pm Under DS

The upcoming Japanese DSiWare game Katamuction uses the system’s cameras in a unique way: to simulate tilt control. Using Motion Cortex, technology originally designed for motion-based browsing on cell phones, the game uses camera information to sense the direction in which the DS is moved. And what is that technology used for? A game about running away from a dinosaur! Katamuction will be out December 24 for 500 DSi Points.

Fight with Pictures: Photo Fighter X from Nintendo uses the camera to create fighting game characters: you take photos of yourself in various poses, and the game makes a fighter out of it! It’s out in Japan next week for 200 points.

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Atlus announces PhotoWorld for DSi — through the ESRB

December 8th, 2009 at 02:00pm Under DS

Using its cost-effective ESRB method of announcing new games, Atlus revealed a new DSi program called PhotoWorld. As you may expect from a game with that title, it involves taking pictures with the DSi camera. Players shoot a self-portrait and then “customize the pictures with a variety of stamps, photo effects, and text boxes.”

As Siliconera notes, Atlus already sort of has a program like this on DSiWare. Nintendo’s Sparkle Snapshots is based on Atlus’s popular Print Club (Purikura) booths. We look forward to finding out how this one differs — there’s absolutely no way it could be any more sparkly, that’s for sure. Of course, we aren’t even sure this is DSiWare — while this sounds like the kind of thing you would sell as a download, all we know is that it’s for the DSi.

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This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Jack’s stress reliever

December 7th, 2009 at 07:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

When we heard about Stop Stress: A Day of Fury, we were pretty interested. It’s not that we have above-normal levels of stress or anything, it’s all about the method Jack employs. After checking out the game’s info video on the Nintendo Channel this week, we can safely say that Jack just has a short fuse. Hey, Jack, we deal with large, autonomous copy machines all the time and you don’t see us going on a rampage. Seriously, stop being such a spaz!

Head past the break for the full list of this week’s content.

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NintendoWare Weekly: Rayman, Stop Stress, Shinobi, Street Fighter Alpha 2

December 7th, 2009 at 11:30am Under DS

There’s some classic platforming to be had in both Rayman and Shinobi in this week’s Nintendo downloads, and even a way to deal with Jack’s overabundance of stress in Stop Stress: A Day of Fury. There’s over ten titles in all, so cruise past the break for the full list.

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European Nintendo downloads: Earthworm Jim 2, holiday games

December 4th, 2009 at 02:45pm Under DS

This week, the European Wii and DS Shops’ halls are decked, with one festive, holiday-themed game each! Happy Holidays: Christmas on WiiWare is, like the Halloween WiiWare release, a program that lets you put together and send e-cards. Yep.

Just Sing! Christmas Songs on DSiWare is pretty much what it sounds like: a karaoke game in which you just sing Christmas songs. Two of them. Just watch the trailer (via GoNintendo) after the break.

Oh, also, Earthworm Jim 2 on Virtual Console. Neat!

Earthworm Jim 2 (Mega Drive, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Mahjong (WiiWare, 500 Wii Points)
Happy Holidays: Christmas (WiiWare, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
A Little Bit of … Magic Made Fun: Matchmaker (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Just Sing! Christmas Songs (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
myNotebook: Red (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: King of Fighters ‘95, Kamenin Merchant

December 1st, 2009 at 02:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Today, for those Japanese gamers who like King of Fighters games but didn’t purchase the Orochi Collection disc — or the Neo Geo Online Collection Complete Box sets, King of Fighters ‘95 is available on the Virtual Console. SNK Playmore’s business model is so strange — these Virtual Console releases seem to actively compete with the company’s retail collections.

Also available: two cute Namco arcade games, including Rompers, an obscure game about pushing walls over on enemies. DSiWare features a Tales of Graces spinoff, a calendar that lets you mark upcoming events, and a Picross variant with surprisingly nice sprite work.