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    Find your way home with the Ranger GPS for DS Lite

    April 15, 2009 - 7:15pm


    Don't throw away those DS Lites just yet! GBalpha has announced the Ranger GPS system. which, if it does everything it's supposed to, sounds pretty sweet. The unit plugs into the GBA slot of your DS Lite (and presumably your old DS Phat), features a u-blox GPS module, support for Google Earth and Google Maps and even packs a rechargeable battery.Sadly, the price remains a mystery, which doesn't really matter as the unit doesn't appear to be available anywhere just yet. Let's just hope it releases before E3; LA traffic is a nightmare.[Via Engadget]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Transformers: Nintendo Versions of the Fallen

    April 15, 2009 - 5:15pm

    Activision released new assets for the upcoming Wii and DS adaptations of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie. If the last movie is any indication, these games will be your best shot at actually seeing some Transformers instead of just Shia LeBeouf with a talking car.Revenge of the Fallen on DS, like the last DS Transformers game, is divided into Autobot and Decepticon versions, both of which are developed by Vicarious Visions. The last Wii game was developed by Traveller's Tales, but the new one is being made by Krome Studios and appears to be much more of a brawler than the somewhat sandbox-style Transformers: The Game. At least, we hope it's as brawl-y as it looks. What could be better than huge robots just beating each other up?

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    Rumor: Beatles Rock Band supports multiple mics, harmonies

    April 15, 2009 - 5:00pm


    From the pages of Game Informer, according to Destructoid, comes a rumor that the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band will support multiple microphones so that players can harmonize on vocal tracks. Apart from making sense, given the wide use of harmonies in Beatles music, the rumor raises a question: Where are we going to keep all this stuff? The sheer amount of equipment needed to supply four virtual rockers with both an instrument and a microphone begins to rival that of a real band. Here's hoping the next Rock Band accessory is a full-size van.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Pre-order The Conduit's 'Exclusive Limited Edition Special Upgrade with Bonus' at GameStop!

    April 15, 2009 - 3:45pm


    Boy, that GameStop sure has a way with words, huh? The retailer's game page for The Conduit declares an "Exclusive Limited Edition -- with Bonus!" It's the usual: Pre-order the game with a down payment and secure your "Special Edition upgrade." But just how limited/special/upgraded, you ask? Well, you're looking at it. Don't see it? Look harder: That's a custom-detailed A.S.E., pal, and a not-so-secret-looking "Secret Agent" multiplayer skin. Oh, and there's an art book. But, honestly, are you really ever gonna open that?See, around here, we believe the best art is art with no strings attached. And to prove it, we're opening up our vault of non-exclusive and unlimited [go on, keep clicking] multiplayer screens! But that's not all ... We've got the first online multiplayer trailer too! Continue on after the break to watch it, again and again, until your eyes bleed.

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    You have the right to watch this Miami Law trailer

    April 15, 2009 - 2:30pm

    Hudson released this brief trailer of Miami Law that offers us an even briefer look at the game in action -- and a bit of confusion. We thought the male cop's name was Law Martin! Despite the fact that they're totally different games, Miami Law looks a lot like Atlus's Tokyo Beat Down in motion, which isn't going to do much to stop us from mixing the games up. This one is part shooting, part puzzle-solving adventure. Tokyo Beat Down is part punching, part ... also punching.The new screens display some of the puzzles that take place in Sara Starling's half of the game. And they also display the fact that Martin Law has his gun drawn at all times. Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Doki Doki Majo Shinpan hits the beach

    April 15, 2009 - 1:30pm

    Great news for -- well, pervs! And also people like us who think skeezy DS games are hilarious. SNK Playmore's infamous witch-touching adventure series, Doki Doki Majo Shinpan is returning this summer with an appropriately summery sequel. Doki Majo Plus includes unspecified "new scenarios" and "new systems," as well as new characters like the demure Kanan Kiara. This time, the investigation takes place during an island vacation.What hasn't changed is the goal of the game: to find "witch marks" on the bodies of your classmates. And the fact that this series is as unlikely as ever to see release outside of Japan -- which is probably okay. But before we condemn SNK for this stuff, keep in mind that this is what pays for those fancy new sprites in King of Fighters XII.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Surprise! Nintendo dismisses WiiWare sales threshold as 'rumour and speculation'

    April 15, 2009 - 12:30pm

    Whenever a topic comes up that Nintendo doesn't want to address, the company responds with, "We don't comment on rumors and speculation." Basically, anything other than a press release or recorded statement from an executive is considered rumor and speculation. MotionPlus release date? Rumors and speculation! A new DS model? Rumors and speculation! (Well, "research and speculation," just to keep it fresh!)And so it is with the WiiWare sales threshold story presented yesterday. A Nintendo UK spokesperson told Edge that the information was "rumour and speculation." Technically, it's true to say that -- statements from unnamed developers really are rumors, just like estimates of Wii manufacturing costs are speculation. But it's no less frustrating. Even so, it's worth noting that the rep followed up not with a denial of the payment scheme, but, "The terms, conditions and contracts between Nintendo and developers is a private and confidential matter."Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Wii games unlikely to be patched with MotionPlus support

    April 15, 2009 - 11:30am

    Trying to make sense of the month-and-a-half delay between the release of Nintendo's MotionPlus and the first Nintendo game to use it, Wii Sports Resort, GameDaily proposed a theory. Maybe there would be games to play at launch -- old games! "With a nearly two-month span of time between the accessory release and the game's arrival at retail," GameDaily's Micheal Mullen wrote, "we expect that Nintendo will release patches that will make the new accessory work with your already existing library." The first game to receive such treatment, of course, would be the original Wii Sports.Nintendo's response to GameDaily suggests that this won't be happening: "The Wii MotionPlus accessory is only for games that are designed to make use of its abilities." Nintendo isn't really much for patching games with updated functionality, unless you consider releasing the game again seven years later on a different disc a kind of "patching."Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Jenny McCarthy has been gaming longer than you

    April 14, 2009 - 11:50pm


    When she's not busy appearing in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 or starring in commercials for amazing PS1 games, Jenny McCarthy is a gaming mom. Speaking to WhatTheyPlay this week, McCarthy says she started playing Pac-Man at the age of eight. "I even made my own Atari glove because I had blisters all over my hand from playing Pac-Man," she notes, saying her own mom bought her the game with an Atari 2600 as a reward for getting a vaccination shot.While she claims she fell out of gaming because of "cheerleading and boys," gaming also apparently helped to keep her marriage to Double Dragon film star [actor] John Asher alive. "That's all we basically did; we just played video games. That saved our marriage -- playing video games." Her current significant other, Jim Carrey, reportedly has a Wii, though McCarthy says she's doing less gaming and more writing these days (having penned "six books in four years"). "I can't compete with these kids now. They've grown up with this kind of technology ... I'm like the brains behind the guy who's using the controller."Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

    Virtua Tennis 2009 serves up Wii MotionPlus support

    April 14, 2009 - 8:30pm


    The rumors were true: Sega has confirmed the Wii version of Virtua Tennis 2009 will support Nintendo's upcoming MotionPlus remote add-on. The publisher is making a racket about the fact its game will be out before EA Sports' Grand Slam Tennis, which hits in June, making it the first title on the market to utilize Ninty's fancy new doohickey.Of course, Wii MotionPlus won't even be out until June, but it's still nice to know VT2009 supports it without pesky patches. (You know, those things Wii games don't have?) We suspect we'll be hearing more about the extra-sensitive Wii version of the game soon. Right now, Sega's only providing a general "spring 2009" release window.
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