April 2011
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Nyko's Nintendo 3DS Power Pak + timed →
Our own JC Fletcher tested Nyko’s Power Pak + for the Nintendo 3DS, which boasts “double the battery life” of the system’s standard battery, to see if the extra charge was worth the 20 percent increase in thickness (and your cash), posting his full impressions over at Joystiq.
Along with applauding the Power Pak +’s “grippy texture” and “much...
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Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions to include Pac-Man CE,... →
Hey, good news: Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions isn’t going to be terrible! The latest Famitsu reveals that in addition to the two new (and iffy) games on the 3DS cart, “Pac-Man Tilt” and “Galaga 3D Impact,” there are some proven good games in the collection!
Specifically, Pac-Man Championship Edition and Galaga Legions, both making their first appearances on...
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Draw Grasshopper women, win rare stuff →
No, I don’t mean women who are part grasshopper. Please don’t draw that, and if you do, don’t show me.
Our awesome pal Matt “Fort90” Hawkins has teamed up with Grasshopper Manufacture and Jap-Sai to give away lots of rad Grasshopper swag to the person who sends him the best fanart of any female character from a GHM game.
He explains, “Not gonna lie: I’m...
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“U.S. day-one sales numbers for Nintendo 3DS were the highest of any Nintendo...”
– Nintendo on the 3DS’s day-one unit sales outperforming the Game Boy, GBC, GBA, DS, DS Lite, DSi, and DSi XL.
I thought everyone was supposed to be abandoning dedicated handheld gaming devices, and doing all their gaming on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad now?
Buy: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates,...
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Tons of Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition... →
My favorite Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition feature that I’ll never use? Totally the figurine mode. I anticipate pouring Play Coins into the game and hunting down every code I can get to amass a giant army of figurines… which I’ll never trade or bring out for StreetPass battles due to hermitude.
NeoGAFfer wackojackosnose has compiled a list of passwords that can be redeemed...
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“You never hear people say, ‘The HD visuals looked great but didn’t...”
– Astute observation from NeoGAF forumer Padlock on the complaints from journalists and gamers that 3D effects don’t add much to the gameplay in the 3DS’ launch titles.
Curiously, for all the criticisms about Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars having “last handheld generation graphics”...
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Once Upon a Pixel Season One DVDs available →
Ashley Davis has collected all 12 episodes of the SO CUTE animated video series Once Upon a Pixel, which retells games in various (SO CUTE) styles, in one convenient DVD.
Once Upon a Pixel: Season One contains commentary, behind-the-scenes footage of the drawing process, commentary by Davis and Anthony Burch, and “ALL THE ART EVER! Everything ever used in the show, sketches, concepts,...
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Prepare for the 3DS launch with a dozen links
The Nintendo 3DS launches in North America tomorrow, and it just so happens that in addition to maintaining a convenient site with DS/3DS release dates and deals, we have written a ton about the new portable!
We went through our archives and picked out a dozen articles, videos, and more to inform/entertain you about the 3DS’s capabilities and launch software:
3DS deals easing the hurt on...
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Tiny Preview: Ghost Recon 3DS, or the secret best...
There are people who will insist the Nintendo 3DS “has no launch games”, that no 3DS titles available this weekend deserve the bills in your pocket. They are liars.
And there exists a worse group, rapscallions that will dismiss Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars for being a DS project migrated to the 3DS. Through some misguided logic, they will argue that a game benefiting from an extended...
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3DS deals easing the hurt on your wallet →
At $250, the 3DS hardware is already more expensive than most would like — paying for a launch game to play with it probably doesn’t seem like a preferred option for some, what with most of them costing $40 and the 3DS already coming with some interesting built-in software.
Amazon won’t hear any of that, though, and has two deals to convince to buy a launch game or two...
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Tiny Review: Steel Diver
Things have been super busy at the Tiny Cartridge office in recent weeks (hence the slowed updates), but I was able to find two to three free hours in my schedule to complete and review Steel Diver for the Nintendo 3DS — yes, it’s as short an experience as everyone’s saying!
Five details that are fab:
Managing the submarines’ slow movements takes a while to get used...
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3DS is strap ambidextrous
Today, Eric and I were discussing one of our biggest concerns about the new Nintendo 3DS hardware: that we wouldn’t be able to attach wrist straps on it.
This would be terrible because not only would we risk dropping our expensive-ass systems, Eric wouldn’t be able to accessorize with the Game Center CX charm I gave him. It would also mark the end of the thumbstrap thingy that...
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3DS games shipping, SSFIV 3D deal →
While the Nintendo 3DS won’t hit stores until this Sunday, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts are already shipping their 3DS titles. As usual, we’ve updated our spin-off site DS Dates to list all of this week’s 3DS, DS, and DSiWare releases.
Along with game releases, we try to highlight current deals on DS Dates, like Amazon’s $10 store credit offer for preorders on Super...
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eShop delay for Nintendo 3DS explained
Much to the dismay of downloadable game developers and the handheld’s soon-to-be owners, the Nintendo 3DS’s eShop — a revamped online service for DSiWare games, Virtual Console releases, 3DS demos, and “3D Classics” — won’t come online until some time in May.
Hideki Konno, the hardware’s producer, explained why Nintendo is spending so much time on...
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PlayStation card case now available at Strapya →
If you were taken with the PlayStation business card case we posted a few days ago, I’m happy to tell you that you can now order your very own from Strapya, for $15.60.
“Official licensed and made in Japan!”, the product page reads. “Just in case you thought it is too good to be true! It’s not! It is licensed by Sony Japan and also made in Japan so it is the real...
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“The time of the DS is over now, and we may not see its like again. The comically...”
– Games journalist and iOS gaming advocate Stuart Campbell calling for “a valedictory salute to the DS as it shuffles towards the exit door”.
I’m not as down on the DS’s twilight years or the 3DS’s future as Campbell, but I do share some of his criticisms that he leveled...
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Tiny Cartridge talks 3DS in EGM
Perhaps because all the other gaming writers and experts were busy that day, Kyle Orland spoke with Eric and me about the Nintendo 3DS as part of a two-page article in this month’s Electronic Gaming Monthly (with the above cover, featuring the result of a secret affair between Kratos and Spider-Man’s Carnage).
We throw around some half-formed theories about the 3DS’s...
