[Now Playing| Fire Emblem - DS]

Depending on the Nintendo products you have registered, you may be selected to receive a free advance copy of Nintendogs. A limited number of games will be given out on a first-come first-served basis. Supplies are limited, so act fast. If you are one of the first to respond, you will receive your advance copy of Nintendogs on or about Aug. 1.

Attempt to reserve a copy for yourself

[Now Working On| Layout Homework]

While reading an interesting article over at Buzzcut I came across this cool Chess indie game. Its classic chess, but you also get to see the computer oppenent ‘plan’ its moves.

Thinking Machine 4

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

Word has leaked from the recent issue of Famitsu that Capcom will release Resident Evil 5 for the PS3 and 360. There is no mention of a Revolution version, but then again it might just be too early for that, as even Nintendo hasnt revealed the full system or games. Regardless, RE5 is looking good and should build upon the great RE4.

GameFront Pic

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[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

A few new pics of Tony Hawk DS have been released. Im glad to see some cel shading going on there, as I really think the flat style looks good on the DS, since there is no texture filtering. The game is scheduled for mid October, and with guaranteed online, this might be the first 3rd party Wifi game we see.

Ign Article

Submitted by: ERon & Naveed

[Now Watching| Constantine]

The first screen shots of what Im expecting to be a stellar gba game/port have arrived. Luckily, the art style has survived with all of its character. I dont think there is any way they can mess this one up. Dont prove me wrong Behemoth.

Alien Hominid Screens

[Now Watching| Constantine]

Nanostray should be in stores today or tomorrow. Early reviews are saying that the game is firmly in the ‘B’ range. It seems to be a little short and have a few other nagging issues, but ultimately sounds worth it. Check out a few reviews:

1up Review

Ign Review

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

More info than you could ever want or need to know about the Power Glove…nuff said.

Power Glove Page

Submitter: Earthchild

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

Check out some impressions and a trailer for Neversoft’s upcoming Western game, Gun, headed for the Gamecube later this year. So far its looking pretty cool.

Kikizo Article (trailer at the bottom)

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

Good news for anyone thats been dying to get a white, black, red or pink DS. Lik-Sang is offering free shipping on all DS units until August 31st with the purchase of the system and a game. Hmm, black DS and Jump Super Stars. No, white DS and ElectroPlankton. No…

Lik-Sang page

UPDATE: Thanks to 4ndy for pointing out that Play-Asia (which many people prefer over Lik-Sang) is offering DS units at $149. Which in the end basically evens out to the same price as Lik-Sangs free shipping offer. And you dont have to buy a game.

Play-Asia page

Submitter: Kreven

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

Along with the SNES DS emulator, people are starting to port more things to the DS. Check out this info on a early version of a Neo Geo Pocket emulator. Now if only we could get a verions of Scummvm.

Troy is working on a NeoGeoPocket Emulator called NDSPop, based off the popular emulator: NeoPop. It’s still in the VERY early stages of development and desperately needs optimization. I’m not sure if things have changed, but when I was in #dsdev he still needed people to help him test. You can find the sourcecode at his site, along with (WiFi|Flash|Pass)Me binaries. If you’ve got a working homebrew hardware then I’m sure he’d appreciate your help.

Livejournal page

With the recent news about the Hellboy 2 Movie I decided to go back and watch the first one. Im not sure what it was, but prior to this viewing I had never really analyzed the movie. I always just sorta half-watched it, thinking of it more as a James Bond kind of action movie with cool visuals but not much in the way of substance. I have no idea what I was thinking!

More…

[Now Art Directing| Take 5]

I China, Nintendo is known as iQue. Not really sure of the reasoning behind it (probably a legal matter), but soon they will be releasing the DS over there. You can even see on the silver unit that the NintendoDS logo has been replaced with an iQue DS logo. As with all the other DS units, it looks like this one will be region free as well.

iQue Pictures

Submitter: earthchild

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

Some new info on Hellboy 2 has surfaced. According to Del Toro and Mignola, the movie will focus more on folklore and magic, as opposed to the monsters and Nazis of the first movie.

Scifi Article

Also take a look at these cool Hellboy toys that were shown off at Comicon:

Picture gallery

[Now Art Directing| Take 5]

Comic writer Mark Miller and artist Terry Dodson have been brought aboard the EA game Marvel Nemesis to help with the backstory and character designs. Glad to see that EA is bringing on more creators, including Jae Lee , for this project. Hopefully it will be worthwile, although Im still more excited about the Ultimate Spider-Man game.

EA Press Release

There is also a comic currently running that introduces the other characters that will appear in the game; the Imperfects.

4 pages from the comic

[Now Playing| Meteos - DS]

Here is a fun little hypothetical article. In fact, Ive often wonder this myself. I hope they do a second one about ‘What If Nintendo and Sony had made the Playstation a CD drive for the SNES’. Its always fun to play the What If game.

But what if? What if things hadn’t fallen through, and Nintendo’s Famicom had made it to the U.S. as the Atari Entertainment System — the AES, rather than the NES? Here’s a rundown of how history played out… and how it could have happened.

1up Article

Submitter: Nobullet