[negitoro]

Paint chip...? Like inside where? Are you sure it's not a dead pixel?

[x kisekiboshi]

Paint chip...? Like inside where? Are you sure it's not a dead pixel?

Oh my bad, I didn't specify it It's like a tiny spec near the left hand speakers. Sorry for the confusion, heh. ><

[RS Trax]

portion of my Wii News & Updates post..
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North American releases this week:
Wii
Mario Kart Wii (w/ Wii Wheel) Official Website, Wiki
Wild Earth: African Safari IGN
Battle of the Bands IGN
Target Terror IGN
Heavenly Guardian IGN

Nintendo DS
The World Ends With You Official Websites (NA, JP, EU), Wiki
Dream Pinball 3D IGN
River King: Mystic Valley IGN
Mazes of Fate IGN

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Biohazard 0 (Resident Evil 0) [Wii] Japanese Debut Trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33250.html

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_Zero

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Quote from Nintendo president that there will not be a price cut for Wii.

"Our earnings projection for the year is not based on hardware price cuts, and I don�t think we are going to need them." - Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata

Source

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Unreal Tournament 3 - Super Mario Bros. Mod:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKbfvUiTHnI[/youtube]

Grand Theft Auto on NES
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYq66pasAac[/youtube]

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See you all next week when we start our engines in Mario Kart Wii. GO~! \:D/


// Roth

[mojomunkeez]

The World Ends with You is a great game. Everyone should pick it up.

...or download it.

[JESS-C]

yep, i agree! the world ends with you is soo fun.
i just finished the game and now i'm playing the side story v^^

[demllequ]

looks fun, i wanna get a DS now =D
gotta start saving

[TrainDriver]

i find it hard concentrating on fighting with both characters in the World Ends.

anyway, i just started playing ninja gaiden, SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mojomunkeez]

You can set the top screen to autopilot. I did that for Joshua, since his attack style is so lame.

[xthefirst]

i wish maplestory would come to DS to America..

[SlashRain]

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/square-enix-bri.html

Square Enix Brings Creepy Horror to DS

Play this game and you may die in seven days.

Square Enix is bucking its trend of Final Fantasy remakes to bring an original horror title, Nanashi no Game ("The Game With No Name") to Nintendo DS.

The gameplay looks to take a page from previous DS adventure games such as Hotel Dusk: Room 215, and even plays the same way, with the DS tilted sideways.

But here's the twist: Nanashi introduces the idea of a cursed game, a la The Ring, that not only affects the in-game characters, but the player as well. You'll also get to experience the game within the game (in the form of a retro RPG), and get haunted messages via an interface that looks just like the Nintendo DS' front end.

The game is set for release on July 3rd in Japan. No announcements of a release outside Japan, yet.

I'm all for more graphic adventure games on the DS -- I loved both Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk -- and I'm still hoping that all the classic LucasArts games -- anything from Maniac Mansion to the Monkey Island series -- will someday appear on the DS. In their absence, this looks really interesting.

[la folie]

^Wow wtf o_o that sounds really scary but i wanna try it xD

[srenity]

I'm all for more graphic adventure games on the DS -- I loved both Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk -- and I'm still hoping that all the classic LucasArts games -- anything from Maniac Mansion to the Monkey Island series -- will someday appear on the DS. In their absence, this looks really interesting.

Hahahhaa.
Sounds like something I would say =P

[Darkpaladinzz]

i wish maplestory would come to DS to America..

its gonna be hard to emulate a MMORPG for DS though
especially consider there is so much lag on wifi already
and offline MMO is kinda meh

[Joanne <3]

Just received my AceKard 2 in the mail today, and I love it! Only my DS just ran out of battery, so I'm not fiddling with it anymore T_T. For those interested in buying and are from Australia, www.ozmodchips.com was reliable for me - it only took a couple of days .
*runs off to play games again*

[amydien]

Waaah sounds nice. I want that Creepy Horror game when it gets released in canada!

[xthefirst]

its gonna be hard to emulate a MMORPG for DS though
especially consider there is so much lag on wifi already
and offline MMO is kinda meh

but it's supposed to NOT be an MMO; supposed to be 1player, an i think it'll have the option of multiplayer through wifi.
it's supposed to release in Korea soon, but I don't know about the US..

[Ms. X]

and offline MMO is kinda meh

Not to get technical but MMORPG stands for Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, therefore what you said is an oxymoron.
If it was offline it would just be a RPG, which is totally doable.

Just to add, I think the MapleStory on DS will be targeting offline play, but also including some WiFi feature. It is hard to keep an online community (like the PC version) because I don't think the DS cartridge allows extra memory (ie. expansions and patches).
I'm not even a MapleStory fan (have never played it) but if it came to DS I'd definitely try it out.

[Darkpaladinzz]

Not to get technical but MMORPG stands for Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, therefore what you said is an oxymoron.
If it was offline it would just be a RPG, which is totally doable.

Just to add, I think the MapleStory on DS will be targeting offline play, but also including some WiFi feature. It is hard to keep an online community (like the PC version) because I don't think the DS cartridge allows extra memory (ie. expansions and patches).
I'm not even a MapleStory fan (have never played it) but if it came to DS I'd definitely try it out.

um.. diablo II was MMO but still had offline elements... im just saying that playing by yourself isnt fun..
MMO =/= online only

[Ms. X]

um.. diablo II was MMO but still had offline elements... im just saying that playing by yourself isnt fun..
MMO =/= online only

Being a MMO with offline elements does not make it an offline MMO. Likewise, being an offline game with online elements does not make it a MMO.
No one said MMOs needed to be online ONLY, however if anything takes place offline it should affect what happens online. Which is to say, the game is still online.
When what goes on offline is completely detached to what happens online, then it is really its own game (such as an offline adaptation of a game).

You simply cannot have a MMO without the general game taking place in an online, multi-playered community (hence the name). MMOs are built around the community and interaction between players.
I'll use your example. If you isolated the offline experience of Diablo II and called it a game (as if the online portion never existed) the game is just a regular RPG game.
You would not be calling it an offline MMO, because nothing about it is multi-playered or online.

[xthefirst]

...

either way, i just hope Maplestory comes.