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Tobidase! Kagaku-kun: Lightning, submarines, and...
“Mr. Science,” nude and skinless, attempting to charge a car battery with lightning. Dude already got his skin flayed off, how much more does he need to tempt fate?
Namco Bandai released more screenshots of Tobidase! Kagaku-kun, showing the kind of activities Shoko Nakagawa and Naoki Tanaka get down to when doing Science! with a guy who is, again, skinless.
The majority of the...
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Donkey Kong Country Returns for $35 and other... →
Though prices for the Dragon Quest Slime Speaker have skyrocketed back up to $37+, there is still a lot of other game product discounts worth your attention on Amazon, like the very well received (and really difficult) Donkey Kong Country Returns for only $34.99.
[Update: The Donkey Kong deal is now dead, but you can still jump on the other sales mentioned here.]
Also on sale right now at the...
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Dragon Quest VI's English release a month too late...
Around 15 years ago, Enix America closed its doors, leaving many RPG fans to wonder what would become of SNES titles available in Japan but not yet in the U.S., like Dragon Quest VI and Tactics Ogre.
At the time Nintendo Power encouraged readers to send in their thoughts about the shuttering, and the magazine printed several letters, including this one:
“I’m now 76 years old. I...
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Radiant Historia screenshots, podcast
Atlus sent out some Radiant Historia screens featuring royal boasting, moving orders, and, as you can see above, pants theft. You may have already heard about the time travel feature in this RPG, but maybe you didn’t know about those other new features! Like the one in which your avatar demands clothes. Check out the rest after the break.
If you’re piqued by these images, or already...
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First 3DS worldwide update coming May, adds eShop...
The 3DS hasn’t even hit stores yet, but Nintendo has already announced that the system’s first firmware update will hit this May, three months after the portable ships in Japan and two months after it debuts in the West.
Contrary to the reports everyone else picked up about the eShop appearing in Europe on the day of the Nintendo 3DS’s launch*, this firmware update is...
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3DS battery life, power save mode detailed
When Nintendo revealed a battery life of around 3.5 to 5 hours for the 3DS (5 to 8 hours when playing standard DS games), many presumed that was an estimate for only the system’s highest brightness setting.
Not so, explains 3DS system designer Ryuji Umezu:
“We announced the other day that the battery duration for playing Nintendo 3DS games on it is about three to five hours. When...
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Nintendo: No short-term plans for 3DS Lite
For those waiting until the Nintendo 3DS’s inevitable redesign before jumping into the handheld stereoscopic 3D gaming pool, you might have to wait a while before the company releases a smaller/lighter/sleeker model.
Nintendo says the 3DS’s internals are “pretty packed from the start” this time around. The company’s hardware design Kenichi Sugino commented about...
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Devil Survivor: OC, Kid Icarus, and Ocarina of...
Nintendo of America revealed yesterday that marquee titles Kid Icarus: Uprising and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will ship sometime after “early June” which I’m sure is disappointing for those hoping to pick them up shortly after the 3DS’s release, and especially embittering for the delusional folks who expected them to be out on the system’s launch day.
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Yoshinori Ono-modeled Street Fighter shirt on sale →
During last week’s 3DS conference, Eric commented to me about how great the shirt Super Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono wore in his interview was, a sentiment with which I had no trouble agreeing. (We also agreed that Ono seemed huggable — doesn’t he?) Little did I know, that Street Fighter vs. Tokidoki shirt was released during last year’s New York Comic-Con,...
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Critical Slime Speaker update: $17.02 →
Those people who purchased the Hori Slime Speaker Stand for $17.91? Total suckers. Amazon has dropped the price of the impractical, squishy DS speaker accessory to an unprecedented $17.02. Take that 89 cents and savor the delicious vending-machine Runts you’ve earned by waiting.
In other news about incremental discounts on Hori accessories we’ve posted multiple times, the Wii Hori...
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Gollop on Ghost Recon 3DS and its Advance...
For those who missed it, we recently published a massive (compared to our usual tiny posts) article on Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, which will launch alongside the Nintendo 3DS in Europe and likely debut around the same time in North America.
Julian Gollop — who developed revered games like X-Com and Laser Squad Nemesis, and is working with the Ubisoft Sofia/Bulgaria team...
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English patch released for SaGa 2 remake →
Crimson Nocturnal has released a English patch for SaGa 2: Goddess of Destiny, the DS remake for Final Fantasy Legend II (Game Boy) released in Japan two years ago.
For those of you who’ve already pushed this game out of your memory, 1UP posted a favorable preview:
“Given the original’s lasting appeal, it’s hardly surprising that Square Enix has decided to revisit the...
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Game Night 4 at Giant Robot L.A. tonight! →
If you’re around Los Angeles and wishing to recapture the holiday spirit, don’t forget that Giant Robot’s rescheduled Game Night 4 is party tonight, where there will be Christmas-themed indie games (including an exclusive X-Mas edition of Super Crate Box), chiptunes, hot cocoa, cookies, and plenty of cool dudes and ladies.
You can R.S.V.P. for Game Night 4 on Facebook —...
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Julian Gollop's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
The Nintendo 3DS game I’m looking forward to the most isn’t Kid Icarus: Uprising or Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition — it’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, a squad-based tactical game from Ubisoft’s Bulgaria/Sofia team led by Julian Gollop, the celebrated designer who brought us X-Com: UFO Defense.
There’s a pitiful amount of info and media...
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Slime Speaker update and more sales →
Though it’s helped raise awareness for the plight of DS owners who don’t yet have this critical accessory, our attention on the Dragon Quest Slime Speaker Stand and its Amazon discounts had the unfortunate side effect of spiking the item’s price above the $19 mark.
Conditions have stabilized for the squishy stand, however, and it’s now reached a record low price of...
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Getting the most from your 3DS’s battery
Check that out — even when you remove the Nintendo 3DS from its pack-in charging cradle, the dock still has a face in a place! Any name suggestions for this happy fellow?
But, uh, back to the lecture at hand, there’s a vocal group of folks who are unsatisfied with the system’s estimated battery life of around 3.5 to 5 hours when playing 3DS games (5 to 8 hours with standard...
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Get a free case with 3DS preorders at Walmart →
Here’s the first 3DS preorder deal in North America to offer some kind of bonus. There are just two caveats:
The bonus is a $10 “Flex Case” from Power A, which actually looks okay, if a bit waffular
It’s from Walmart.
Still, it’s better than getting nothing but a 3DS with your 3DS preorder!
See also: All the 3DS launch details you need
[Via GoNintendo]
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