February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
What are the two Sony Pictures Television game shows that THQ has licensed for video games?
The publisher announced that it has acquired multi-year licenses for the two venerable game shows, specifically for the Wii and DS/DSi, with options for other platforms. The first games will be out later this year.
A statement from THQ Kids, Family, and Casual Games Executive VP Doug Clemmer suggests that THQ has online play in mind for its adaptations: “The opportunity to implement new features such as Wii Speak will re-imagine how these games are played and engage fans with a whole new level of interactivity,” he said. No longer will it be shameful to leave the show with naught but the home game!
An aside: We find it extremely odd that there’s a sudden uptick in Wii Speak use a year-and-a-half after the accessory was released.
THQ buys a vowel, licenses Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
We usually write off Nintendo Week as nothing more than the usual PR flim-flam, but this week’s episode on the Nintendo Channel is one to watch. The segments on Muscle March, Super Mario RPG and Little King’s Story are nice, but there’s an important lesson to be learned here: New Super Mario Bros. Wii ruins friendships. If you plan on partaking in Mario and Co.’s latest outing on the Wii, make sure those bonds are krazy glue strong; otherwise, you’ll do something cliched … like divide the room in half with tape.
Head past the break for this week’s Nintendo Channel content and be sure to check out the new Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth demo!
Continue reading This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Faux-fighting
This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Faux-fighting originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
It may be the shortest month in terms of days, but February is no slouch when it comes to new releases. We’ve got plenty of heavy hitters including BioShock 2, Heavy Rain and Dante’s Inferno.
You know, we heard it a lot when games kept getting delayed out of fall of 2009, but we think the reality is finally dawning on us just now: There will never again not be new games. We’re not sure we can handle it, frankly.
New Games This Month: February 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 1st, 2010 — Hacks & Mods
February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
With Dragon Quest VI in stores in Japan for almost one whole week, Square Enix wasted no time in announcing another upcoming Dragon Quest game for DS. The latest new announcement is Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2, a sequel to the Pokemon-like DS Dragon Quest spinoff from 2007.
The new sequel, out April 28 in Japan, will feature over 300 catchable monsters and online multiplayer for up to eight people. And in a post-Dragon Quest IX Japan, with millions of people happily playing online, this game would seem to have a built-in audience.
[Via Andriasang]
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 to be Japan’s next hit DS game originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 1st, 2010 — Hacks & Mods
Today our good friends over at Woot! are selling the Leapfrog Didj, a low cost educational toy aimed at little kids. Lucky for hackers out there, the Didj is actually a linux device, and gaining serial console access is as easy as soldering two wires. The documentation out there is a little outdated, with a number of broken links and stale wikis, but $25 for a portable linux device is a hard deal to beat. A list of sites which might be helpful are listed after the break, as well as the hardware specs of the Didj.
Let us know if you have played around with hacking the Didj before, and if you have any tips for other readers. Don’t forget to tell us what you do with the Didj as well!
Thanks to [Mark] for the tips and the hardware details.
(Possibly) Useful links:
Hardware Specs:
* Processor: 393 MHz Arm 9
* Display: 320×240 resolution
* One 24-bit 2D layer (no hardware acceleration)
* One 16-bit 3D layer
* One YUV video layer (no hardware acceleration)
* Graphics: API OpenGL ES 1.1–A reduced instruction set version of OpenGL for embedded systems
* Main RAM: 32 MB DDRI 131 MHz
* NAND Flash: 256MB for data storage/download content
* Media Cartridge: 64MB
* System Software: Brio–Firmware is built on an abstraction layer called Brio to make OS and hardware transparent to developers. This means all software must be ported to Brio to run on this device.
* Screen LCD: 3.2 inches, 16.7-Million Color TFT
February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
A bold new enterprise.
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Continue reading Now Playing: February 1-7, 2010
Now Playing: February 1-7, 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
According to a new trademark, EA’s surprisingly adorable MySims are preparing for another adventure — after Agents, Kingdom, Party, Racing, and the original MySims (the last of which being less of an adventure and more of a life). EA has filed a trademark for MySims Sky Heroes (and MySims SkyHeroes), for what we assume will be a game about operating a small neighborhood coffee shop flying flghter planes.
We can safely guess that if this game does end up being made, it’ll be released for DS and Wii. And it’ll be really cute. Unless this is to be the “mature” relaunch of MySims.
[Via Trademork, Destructoid]
EA trademarks ‘MySims Sky Heroes’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 1st, 2010 — Hacks & Mods
February 1st, 2010 — Nintendo DS / DS Lite, Nintendo DSi
There are a couple of interesting games hidden in an unusually crowded lineup of new Nintendo downloads. The Tales of Monkey Island series concludes, Alex Kidd appears in a weird crossover game, and DSiWare features a game that uses the camera for motion controls. And somehow, Digital Leisure released the same game twice! Find out how that happened (and what all the other new games are) after the break.
Continue reading NintendoWare Weekly: Monkey Island, Alex Kidd, Rollway Puzzle
NintendoWare Weekly: Monkey Island, Alex Kidd, Rollway Puzzle originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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