Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ships for every platform under the sun this week.
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Three new Harry Potter videos apparate onto the web originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It wouldn’t be Monday without new games to download across Nintendo platforms. This week’s highlight is definitely Hudson’s first-person soaker, Water Warfare. It’s a neat concept, but we really think Hudson could’ve spent some time tightening up the graphics in level three.
Continue reading NintendoWare Weekly: Water Warfare in for a Reel Fishing Challenge
NintendoWare Weekly: Water Warfare in for a Reel Fishing Challenge originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As for the program, it uses the extra processing capabilities of the DSi to double the number of analog synthesizers (to four) and drum synthesizers (to eight), allows the use of twelve tracks, and features real-time editing. Korg DS-10 Plus will be out in Japan on September 17. See the faux Stevenote after the break.
[Via Offworld]
Continue reading One more thing: AQ Interactive announces Korg DS-10 Plus
One more thing: AQ Interactive announces Korg DS-10 Plus originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Hudson releases are joined by Taito’s Puzzle Bobble/Bust a Move update and by Altered Beast. Now, we love Altered Beast more than most people (by which we mean we love it some), but 900 points for the arcade version? What’s that about?
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VC Friday: Hudson Powers Up originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The tri-Crescendo-developed Namco Bandai RPG, Fragile, will eventually make its way to Europe, GameSpot reports. Sometime in early 2010, Europeans will be able to get their own taste of this post-apocalyptic title following Seto, who is believed to be the last living human being. It’s kind of like I Am Legend, but, like, bearable.
Made by the same team behind Eternal Sonata, Fragile is currently set to release in North America during the holidays courtesy of XSEED, and will arrive in Europe via Rising Star Games.
Gallery: Fragile
Fragile arrives on European shores early 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Thanks to the success of games such as Wii Fit, EA Sports Active and Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009, the medical community is starting to take games seriously as a means to pump you up keep us healthy. Reuters reports that at this year’s fifth annual Games for Health Conference in Boston, a bolstered attendance brought health experts together to talk about these games, and you’d be surprised how much money these titles generated last year.
“Healthcare is 18 percent of the GDP of the United States and so games for health is probably the largest sector of activity in the serious games field long-term,” said Ben Sawyer, a co-founder of The Games for Health Project. He added, “If you add up the 18 month sales of Wii Fit and the sales of EA Sports Active, Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution and other healthy games, the worldwide retail numbers are over $2 billion.” That’s not a bad slice of the $22 billion pie that gaming lovingly prepared last year, if we may say so.
Some experts think the government should look into offering these types of games in schools to help kids learn the importance of exercise, while others think that a public service campaign should be started and backed by the president, Congress, and other federal agencies. We’d comment, but we really only play Wii Fit for the hulahoop game.
Health games big business, experts push for exergaming in schools originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon host, uh, Jimmy Fallon, laid down the gauntlet for one golf legend Tiger Woods recently, challenging him in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 on Wii. Kotaku reports that Tiger has accepted and will play Fallon on his late-night show this Thursday.
We take special interest in this because we’ve always had a dream of challenging Bill Laimbeer in his stellar SNES basketball romp, Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball, so you can bet we’ll be cheering Fallon on all the way.
Jimmy Fallon takes on Tiger Woods this Thursday night originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The mysterious Tingle game that Nintendo’s been teasing was revealed last night — when it was released. Dekisugi Tingle Pack is a DSiWare download that is actually not a game, but a set of little tools and apps, all starring Link’s “pal.”
The included utilities are a fortune-telling program (hence the fortune teller on the website), a calculator, a little dancing Tingle image that dances in front of your photos, a timer, and a coin-flipping minigame.
But don’t get upset about the secret Tingle project being a 500-point nongame and not a real game, because the latest issue of Famitsu reveals another Tingle DS game, this time more in the style of Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland. The new game, called Irobuki Tingle no Ai no Balloon Trip (Color-changing Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love) features the green-suited adventurer searching for, yes, love. The teaser site offers a fake news report, a fake dating show, and some Flipnote Studio Tingle animations, all in celebration of this new game.
[Dekisugi Tingle Pack screens via GAME Watch]
New Tingle game and new Tingle ‘game’ revealed originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The site has been somewhat of a work-in-progress since then, with some extra pages translated, including the explanation of the premium Ugomemo Hatena Plus service, and some content remaining in Japanese. It’s a sign that we’ll be able to share our insane sprite sheet flip books and cute Mario animations immediately after the service launches, whenever that happens.
[Via GoNintendo]
Preview the Flipnote Studio site originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It’s not like the previous Guitar Hero boxes set the world on fire, but the recently revealed box art for Guitar Hero 5 is … well it’s definitely different. At least the previous boxes had, you know, guitars on them. As one Joystiq blogger put it, the Guitar Hero 5 art looks more suited to an expansion or a DLC voucher than it does to a full release. Still, we suppose we can appreciate the backstage insider appeal it exudes. Besides, it’s not like there are many people left that are unfamiliar with the title at this point.
See the full monty after the break.
Update: It looks like there is a guitar on the box. See if you can find it!
Continue reading Guitar Hero 5 box art revealed (find the guitar!) [update]
Guitar Hero 5 box art revealed (find the guitar!) [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.