This week's Tokyo Game Show has been great for fans of the Okami franchise (it's a franchise now!). Capcom has released a brand new, adorable, trailer (above) for Okamiden, the DS sequel to Okami, while a couple of media outlets have posted off-screen footage of the game in action (available after the break).
Capcom has also launched the official Japanese website for Okamiden, featuring artwork, screenshots, and video.
We at N+, like everyone else with brains, absolutely loved the original Okami, and can't wait for the sequel, so we'll be sure to keep you updated with any news we hear!
Remember that mysterious Tingle game that Nintendo of Japan has been teasingforthe last couple of weeks? Here's a surprise no one saw coming.
Whatever the title was ended up being a downloadable DSiWare title, which is available in Japan ... now. We don't know what the title actually is, but from the screenshots, it looks to be some sort of collection of mini-apps, like a calculator, clock, etc.
While we wait for more details, feel free to check out more images at ImageShack, and we'll be sure to keep you updated.
UPDATE:GoNintendo has scans of the latest Famitsu, which seem to show ... Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland 2! A new retail Tingle game - that North America won't ever get! Two Tingle announcements in one day, what could be better? Answer: a lot.
The marketing department at Nintendo (and the guys handing out the money) are certainly hard at work for they came up with a very cool in-comic ad, spotted at a comic store (duh!) by the folks at Gamervision.
And no, this is NOT fan art. It is a real ad inside a real comic. Wow.
Last night, N+ brought you the news of one of High Voltage Software's new Wii games, Gladiator A.D. Tonight, thanks to IGN, we're able to bring you news of HVS's second Wii-exclusive title to be shown at E3: The Grinder.
The Grinder, a first person shooter featuring zombies, vampires, and werewolves, was designed to accommodate four player online co-op, and is already being called Wii's Left 4 Dead. Featuring four different characters with varying skill sets, WiiMotion Plus support for sword fighting, Wii Speak support, and awesome graphics based on High Voltage's Quantum3 engine, The Grinder is set to release in the 2010 holiday season.
For more details, images, and a lengthy interview, check out IGN Wii
Despite the hopes and dreams of Nintendo fans everywhere, Nintendo hasn't announced a sequel to 2007's Super Mario Galaxy (yet). Instead, Majesco has just announced their brand new platformer, titled Flip's Twisted World. Flip's Twisted World is, um, Galaxy with bad graphics and bad character design.
Once you get past the obvious similarities, though, Flip's Twisted World looks like it could be fun. There's certainly not an overflow of platformers on the Wii, and if you're going to imitate something, you could do a lot worse than Super Mario Galaxy.
Released earlier this year, Bit.Trip Beat is what I consider to be a "must buy" WiiWare game. A throwback to classic retro gaming, Bit.Trip Beat simulates the experience of Pong, but instead of going head to head with a friend, you're pitted against an (insanely tough) computer. The game provides awesome pixel graphics, amazingly retro sound, and hours and hours of entertaining (and did I say difficult?) gameplay, all for a cool $6 USD.
Over the course of the past month or so, Gaijin Games has been sending out cryptic teaser images for a future sequel in the "Bit.Trip" franchise. Those images aren't so cryptic anymore, as Bit.Trip Core has finally been announced.
Bit.Trip Core differs from it's predecessor in several areas. Instead of moving a paddle up and down along the left side of the screen, as in Beat, Core places you as a plus sign in the center of the screen. Holding a direction on the D-Pad highlights that direction on-screen, and pressing the 2 Button fires off a shot in that direction, with the object being to hit all of the incoming beats. According to GameSpot, Core is even tougher than Beat, a claim I find hard to believe...
Check out GameSpot for more details, images, and videos. We'll be sure to have more coverage of Bit.Trip Core as it's Summer WiiWare release approaches.
Since everyone is interested in different aspects of the DSi, we decided to run this like a list of features, all of which we see as improvements. There are a few caveat's like the choice of AAC over MP3. Truth is, AAC sounds better but MP3's are what everyone's got, so converting is a pain for some people, and will probably confure more people than it pleases - bit of a drawback, but in an added feature, so can we really complain? These types of micro details are all inside. Find what you're looking for, and see what else you may have missed about this excellent system. The truth is, games really make the system, and we know support for the DSi is going to be huge. However, this system comes with a great deal of additional ways to use it for fun, to record your life, share, and browse the web. You can't really go wrong. So, since no one's reading this long paragraph anyway, here's the listed details:
Continue reading for the full explanation, thoughts, pictures, videos, and more. N+RSS
N+ moderators Khadgar and myself were lucky enough to receive two Nintendo DSi's with the Opera web browser preinstalled a few weeks back, and we've been putting them through some rigorous testing (literally - I dropped mine twice, and I never drop anything, so it must have been for science).
Over the next few weeks, we'll be posting daily on the DSi. We're going to cover EVERYTHING because it seems like no other blog did. Exclusive to N+ will be our unique coverage of the new DS Browser - because our DSi's (even though they are Japanese language versions) were sent to the sexy folks in Norway where they downloaded it for us from DSware before shipping to N+. This new version has obvious updates like no need for additional RAM, it becomes a 'channel' on the DSi home screen, and since it's software based there is potential for updates, like the Wii browser has seen (and will get again).
What we'll need from you is comments and feedback on what you want to see, so we get you the most interesting info. DSi compared to DS lite, in every way. New DS browser compared to Old DS browser, in every way. DSi compared to G.I. Joes, in every way. New DSi Browser compared to Opera Mini, iPhone, iPod touch, GBA, GameBoy Player, a cat named Skoo, etc., in every way.
So give us some work to do in the comments, tell us what you want to see, while we compile our data from the past weeks and we'll give you guys and girls something to read daily on the upcoming European and North American Nintendo DSi.
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IGN's put up fresh, new screenshots from the re-make of Pikmin for the Wii's new series of GameCube ports, New Play Control!. There have been quite a few images added to their existing gallery, so if you're a fan of Pikmin eagerly waiting for this adaptation, you should definitely take a look. Now, I'm not exactly a Pikmin fan (mostly because I haven't played the game), and I'm even less than excited about this New Play Control! series, but the screenshots look quite nice (and according to this week's IGN Nintendo Podcast the game is admittedly making a believer out of them, too). Check this link for the full gallery, and check past the break for the image depicting the button assignment for the WiiMote and Nunchuck.
Ubisoft confirmed what the rumours taunted in the past: a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighter game is coming our way in partnership with some of the guys who worked on Super Smash Bros. Brawl and a few others from Team Ninja. This is going to be tied in to a looooot of merchandise expansions to be released this year as a part of the 25th anniversary of the TMNT comics. (Another movie, perhaps?). Anyway, Ubisoft also released screenshots! OK, OK, its only two screenshots... Gallery and info via IGN. Update: The game is set to be released this fall, will feature local multiplayer (4) and an as-of-yet unspecified "very robust online multiplayer mode". Via Gamasutra
IGN has put up a few screenshots for Sega's upcoming WiiWare title. I don't know about you, but I think Nintendo should be getting royalties for this... TONS of them...
Remember Buffy? She stabbed her stake into our hearts back in the day, and is now coming back to fight evil on the DS. It's a special game, partnering 505 Games with Twentieth Century Fox, and it brings back Rob Deshotel, an original writer for the series, to write the story. It takes place sometime after the final season, and players control Buffy in her quest to steal back the Hellmouth (you can steal the Hellmouth?). Sadly, it looks to be quite short, at only 12 levels, but it brings back basically all the main characters from the series. Also, it's only for Europe! So you folks be looking for it in November. Which means that, you know, it probably already came out and I'm slow.
Hit the jump for six screenshots and a full press release.
Want to take a peek at the over-the-top stylized killer Sega brings exclusively to the Wii? Well, check out our Madworld Gallery then! Its got a really nice hi-res shot of the cover and the logo, as well as some decent gameplay images to look at.
Be warned, and use good judgement. The gallery is based off of a game that is GOING TO GET the M for Mature rating.
It looks like we may have some official box art for the game on our hands. I have seen plenty of fake stuff before, and it has always looked like crap. This, actually doesn't look so bad, it's got the right feel to it, and isn't obviously ripped from other images that were hastily Photoshoped together. Judge for yourself, I wont claim this as IT or NOT IT until its official. - via animal xing Also, it looks like there MIGHT be a bundle of AC:CF and the WiiSpeak accessory. When the game launches in November it is said that you can get the game by itself, or with the mic for a bundled price of $69.99. If this price point and news IS true then its a good idea to get the bundle if you know that you will use the mic, even for future games if not this one, because it saves you a couple bucks compared to buying the things seperately. - via wii fanboy
My most anticipated game on the DS now has an official website! Check it out at http://moon-game.com for screenshots, videos, and information on Renegade Kid's DS project, Moon.
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