[Now Watching| Ray]

Ive never actually used NetFlix or Gamefly, but people seem to love them. It cant be any worse than the ‘no late fees’ scheme Blockbuster is trying to push.

Gamefly is now offering DS games. There is a free trial period you can sign up for and then its $22 a month after that. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Gamefly

[Now Watching| Ray]

Nintendorks has a nice interview with Chris Morris from CNN/Money. He writes the column ‘Game Over’ and handles general gaming journalism for CNN. Smart and insightful.

Chris Morris Interview

[Now Playing| Pikmin - GC]

If I had 20/20 vision I would seriously consider going into the Airforce to fly fighter jets. If you are a civilian there is basically no chance that you will ever fly in a jet. However, Nintendo of Canada is going to give one lucky person a chance! At least, I think that is what this site is alluding to. No real info up yet, but how cool would that be? If only the plane was this one.

[F22 Raptor]

Topfox Site

[Now Playing| Pictochat - Java]

I love these things. I wish I had the skills (and money) to take consoles and turn them into sweet portable contraptions like these. Youve got to see them:

Console Portables Page
Link-Sang NES Player
DS & PSP Clones
Portable SNES

[Now Watching| Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends]

Wow, this is great. Check out these recent Foxtrot strips. Along with Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, Foxtrot is one of the few newspaper comics I have to read everyday. Great stuff.

[Foxtrot 01] [Foxtrot 02] [Foxtrot 03] [Foxtrot 04] [Foxtrot 05] [Foxtrot 06]

Thanks to Dilbert627 for the scans

[Now Playing| Pictochat - Java]

Here are a few Famitsu scans of Kirby’s Magic Paint Brush and Another. Looking good.

[Kirby DS] [Another]

[Now Playing| Pictochat - Java]

Just a couple of box art pics for everyone:

[Meteos Box] [Pac-Pix Box]

[Now Playing| Pictochat - Java]

Calm down, its not what you think. It is really sweet though. Someone has made a Java based client that works just like Pictochat. Awesome. See Nintendo, you should have done this from the start.

Pictochat Java

source: DS LiveJournal

[Now Searching Ebay For| Cubivore - GC]

The creator of the EyeToy gave a speech at D.I.C.E. Its very interesting to see how far along this technology is and it makes me wonder if any of this will be used with the Revolution. Gamespy has a write up of the event.

New Interfaces Discussion

All D.I.C.E. Articles

If you want to see any example you can find a video in this previous post:

Virtual Car Demo

[Now Playing| Minish Cap - DS]

Capcom has announced that they will be bringing their Gyakuten series over to the US with a new DS game. While unknown to me, I hear that the games are basically courtroom RPGs. You play as a lawyer and…well, do lawyer stuff, like investigate and litigate. There series is very popular in Japan and Im glad to see that, thanks to the DS, we are getting these kind of unique games.

[Now Listening To| The Roots - Tipping Point]

While the content on N-Sider usually runs cold with me they do have some nice stuff from time to time. Take this article for example. Hitting A Brick Wall is a nice look at the ever growing complexity of games. Writer Jason Nuyens also manages to get the opinion of multiple girl gamers on game puzzles, immersion and controllers. Its a good read.

N-Sider Article

[Now Playing| Minish Cap - DS]

Wow, this is hilarious! Over at GAF someone started a thread to show your designs of the Revolution. This one is my favorite. Priceless. Hop on over to the thread to see all of the crazy ideas.

[Revolution DNA Pic]

Revolution Design Thread

[Now Listening To| The Roots - Tipping Point]

It seems that people just cant get enough of Katamari Damacy, myself included. Its just so crazy and unique. Check out these new wallpapers and more.

Damacy Site

source: Kotaku

[Now Playing| Donkey Konga Multiplayer - GC]

Ive heard people complain about Gamespot and compare them to IGN (when its at its worst) but I just dont see it. Sure, they seem to lean more mainsteam than hardcore but I havent found them to be that biased. A little all loving of Sony and the PSP, but whatever, they are large media so what do you expect. Plus, Ricardo Torres is the man.

Anyway, one of my favorite features of theirs is ‘On the Spot’ which is a weekly video broadcast of news. They usually look at new games coming up and talk to developers as well as give away cool stuff. This week they have a ton of Nintendo stuff; NBA Street v3, StarFox Assault and Yoshi Touch & Go. They also talk about D.I.C.E. which sounds really awesome. Wish I could have attended.

Anyway, its cool and its free every week. Check it out.

On The Spot

[Now Playing| Mario 64 Mini-Games - DS]

According to DVDBoxOffice, Majesco will be making six Nintendo DS games. Moonlight Fables, Nanostray, Age of Empires, Jaws, Quad Desert Fury 2 and Texas Hold Em.

Ive seen some art and/or screen shots for Moonlight Fables and Nanostray, which both look sweet, but I havent seen anything on the rest of them. I found the original Microsoft game page for Age of Empires and it even has a trail version you can download. Looks like a decent RTS game set in Roman times.

Any news of an RTS game for the DS makes me very happy. I must have a Starcraft or Warcraft game though. You hear me Blizzard?

source: GamesAreFun