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According to an MTV Multiplayer Blog post, August is the most painful month to be a gamer. Historically speaking, that is. For starters, two megaton Legend of Zelda games were apparently delayed in the month of August: Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. Lair was recently pushed back a few weeks, and if your memory is sharp, you'll recall GTA 4 has been delayed until sometime next year. All in August (or nearly in August, as the blog is careful to say).

Paranoia, or is our collective gamers' horoscope destined to bring us pain every year? At least we have Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to shine a bit of brightness on the gloomy August doom parade.

JoystiqAugust is a painful month for gamers originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bit Blot, the indie studio behind Aquaria, recently posted a short development feature about underwater fauna players will find in its upcoming exploration game. After all, what's the point of swimming around if there's nothing to try and bite you? Expect a battery of crustaceans to give chase under the sea, including a giant crab or two, as well as the not-so-friendly sea dragon. Players will also be able to ride seahorses as shown above.

Early in Aquaria's development, we were promised a thriving ecosystem of underwater creatures to interact with in the game. This is just an early taste. The team drew inspiration from the strange critters that swim Earth's seas. A thread on Bit Blot's forums is packed with images of strange and surreal animals.

Gallery: Aquaria

JoystiqAquaria blog discusses creatures, giant crabs included originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to a recent forum post, Nifflas, the creator of Knytt and Within a Deep Forest, may release the expansion to his upcoming Knytt Stories for free. At first Nifflas was considering releasing the pack for a modest fee, but after considering the extra work required to charge players (not to mention the fact that the taxman will take notice if he turns a reasonable profit), he's now leaning toward releasing it for free or as donationware.

Knytt Stories continues the atmospheric, exploration-based gameplay that Knytt brought to our attention, though this time there are more areas to discover and a few power-ups to find. Both the game and the editor have already been announced as free. Look for Knytt Stories at the end of August.

Gallery: Knytt Stories

JoystiqKnytt Stories expansion pack ... for free?! originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of the first computer-animated TV programs, ReBoot, is about to get a second chance at life. Sure, even in 1994 the show was a bit campy and featured thin plots and bad voice acting, but look how shiny everything was! Now Rainmaker Animation is getting ready to "relaunch the brand in a new way" by releasing a series of three feature-length episodes.

The interesting bit is that we, potential viewers, help sculpt the plot. Five undiscovered writers were recruited by Rainmaker to prepare separate pitches for a new ReBoot storyline. These will be posted on the Zeros 2 Heroes website where visitors can work with each production team to help refine their ideas and later vote to choose their favorite pitch. "When it comes to long-standing genre entertainment properties, the fans are the real experts.", says Zeros 2 Heroes president Matt Toner.

Not a bad idea. Fans know what they want to see, and this way Rainmaker will ensure nearly everyone is satisfied. And if the ReBoot reboot tanks, fans can only get angry at themselves.

[Via Ain't It Cool News]

JoystiqReBoot gets a reboot originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aimed at what the publisher calls a more "mature audience", NEVES for the DS is a simple tangram game of shape turning, sliding, and flipping.We thought we'd get to assemble overly detailed silhouettes of Pamela Anderson, but in reality NEVES is just designed for the more cognizant mind of the older, discriminating DS player. No bright happy colors and hand-holding tutorials, just over 500 brain-hurting tangram puzzles, all with touch screen control. Atlus USA will be bringing NEVES to North America in November this year.

JoystiqDS puzzle game for the grown-ups originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A reader of N+ recently sent in a note about Nintendo's unique marketing approach in Greece. To help promote Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, women dress up as nurses and walk around local beaches letting sunners test their brain age. This seems a bit counter-intuitive, as hot nurses plus scantily-clad beachgoers tend to make the blood flow to parts of the body that aren't the brain. But you have our attention, at the very least. More pics can be found on Nintendo's official Greek site.

[Via N+]

JoystiqNintendo uses beach nurses to promote Brain Age in Greece originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you've never heard Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra, you're missing one of the few ukulele-flavored treats in the gaming realm. Just a guy with a computer, a voice, and a ukulele, Tanguy makes (often rough) arrangements of game themes such as The Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, and Gyakuten Saiban. Recently three more tracks appeared on the site, including an Alex Kidd medley, the first stage of Double Dragon, and the moon music from Duck Tales. Great stuff, and we dig the organic, ukulele-in-the-livingroom feel.

JoystiqNew tunes from Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra: Alex Kidd, Double Dragon, Duck Tales originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A German S.T.A.L.K.E.R. community has gone on strike, citing a lack of patch support from publisher THQ as their reason. The long-running fansite Oblivion Lost promises to hold the strike until THQ releases patches for every localization territory that actually work.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. launched with more than its fair share of bugs, but teams worked to patch the most critical errors as quickly as possible. The first patch squashed 68 bugs but rendered previous save games useless. Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

While they're at it, let's move to strike the periods from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s name. Boy is that a pain to type.

[Via CVG]

JoystiqGerman S.T.A.L.K.E.R. players go on strike originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Retro Treasures points us to a set of "handheld" arcade games (more like tabletop) up for auction on eBay. Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaxian, and Dracula have been preserved from the dark era of 1981 and are fully operational, supporting two players simultaneously and running off those not-necessarily-rechargeable things called C batteries. The auctioneer has several other tabletop arcade games on the block, including Donkey Kong and Q-Bert. The prices seem a little steep for some, but sometimes nostalgia knows no limits.

[Via Retro Treasures]

Joystiq"Handheld" arcade games hit eBay originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Making Link out of paper or spending an afternoon crafting Quake characters is all well and good, but why choose Link when you can sculpt a curvy female forms such as Lara Croft's? Ninjatoes spent grueling hours studying every inch of Lara's polygonal body and has made a papercraft worthy of our attention. With 116 parts, this ain't no paper hat project, so if you want Lara, you'll have to work for her.

[Via PaperKraft]

JoystiqFinally, Lara Croft papercraft! originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kyle Gabler, founder of the Experimental Gameplay Project and indie game studio 2D Boy, recently posted a few stats from his side project, Human Brain Cloud. The online "game" shows you a word or phrase and all you have to do is type in the first thing that comes to mind. The answers players give are amassed into a huge network of connected blobs viewable from the website. Nearly 800,000 associations have been submitted so far, connecting over 100,000 unique words and phrases.

What's the most commonly submitted word? "Sex", of course. The second most common is "me", while the third is "money". Good to know the collective consciousness of the human race has its priorities straight. Human Brain Cloud lets you sit and submit as many associations as you want, and we spent more time than we'd like to admit adding our two cents to the project.

[Via Independent Gaming]

JoystiqHuman Brain Cloud "proves" we think about sex more than money originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Got an old Pokemon Pinball cart laying around? Then you, friend, have a one-way ticket to frugal gaming fun ... with rumble! Xyzzy has just posted a tutorial on Instructables on how to build a rumble pak that fits smoothly into your DS lite GBA slot. Yes, Nintendo released a smaller version of the pak for the Lite, but you'd have to spend money and be like a normal consumer if you did that. With Xyzzy's plans, you can make a mess, destroy a game cart, and probably injure yourself too!

[Via Infendo]

JoystiqDIY Nintendo DS Lite rumble pak originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Slapping. The fighting style of choice for people wearing mittens, women, small children, and now, gamers. Rose & Camellia is a Japanese-made Flash game where you play a woman named Reiko who married into a noble family only to have her husband die shortly afterwards. The women of the house don't respect her, so its your job to slap some good old fashioned sense into them.

Fights are turn-based and you only have a few seconds to act. When it's your turn, click the "attack" button and swipe the mouse in an arc to slap the other woman. When she's on the offensive, click "evade" and make a mirrored arc to avoid the attack. Successfully dodge and you're ready for a counter-slap!

JoystiqRose & Camellia: Slap your way to gaming bliss originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>casualflashindependentindieSat, 21 Jul 2007 17:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Dave Perry: Wii won't last, gamers want prettier games]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/21/dave-perry-wii-wont-last-gamers-want-prettier-games/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/21/dave-perry-wii-wont-last-gamers-want-prettier-games/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/21/dave-perry-wii-wont-last-gamers-want-prettier-games/#commentsFiled under: ,

While the Wii surfs the waves of success, Shiny founder Dave Perry says the party won't last. Why? "Gamers are attracted to beautiful looking games. When a game comes out - a game like a Halo or something, something they haven't seen before - they'll drop everything and they'll drop their Wii controllers when it does.". And while waggle control is a step in the right direction, Perry notes that he doesn't feel it's the "final solution" to user interfaces.

We can see Perry's point, but a gorgeous game doesn't need a Cell processor to exist. You can, in fact, create a beautiful game on a weak system, or craft a butt-ugly title on a PS3. The Wii may not dish out the horsepower that makes it easier to push the graphics wagon further, but what makes games gorgeous is the artistic direction, not tech specs.

JoystiqDave Perry: Wii won't last, gamers want prettier games originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to French gaming site Xboxygen (which doesn't cite a verifiable source), Activision has "announced" release dates for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. North America gets its taste on October 30, while Europe has to wait ten more days for November 9. CoD 4 ditches the World War II-theme for modern combat (hence the cryptic title). It also drops the familiar campaign system to unfold the gameplay like an "action novel of a television series". Check out our early look at CoD 4 from this year's E3 for more in-depth information.

We're still waiting to hear back from Activision.

Activision confirms that no announcements have been made: "The COD4: MF release date is Fall 2007-we haven't given out specific dates at this time."

JoystiqRumor: Possible release dates for Call of Duty 4 [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The computer program Chinook has been vanquishing human opponents in checkers for over ten years. Now, scientists at the University of Alberta (Chinook's home) say they have improved the program so that it can never lose. EVAR! No opponent, whether human, bacterium, or computer, can win when facing Chinook. In other words, checkers can be retired to the Pit of Practically Useless Games along with tic-tac-toe. The strategy behind checkers (which has over 500 billion possible board combinations) has been solved.

If you're a masochist, you can play against Chinook online. Only 24 games can be active at once, so you'll have to wait your turn to lose like a little baby.

JoystiqCheckers program unbeatable by humans, other computers originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While filming a commercial for the upcoming Project Gotham Racing 4, a Ferrari F430 drifted too wide out the corner and bumped into a concrete barrier. Did a massive explosion ensue? Screams of concerned mothers from the crowd echo in our ears? Well ... not really. Very little damage was done to the car, but considering that repairing the vehicle probably costs more than we make in a year, it kind of puts things in perspective. No Gizmondo executives were harmed in the crash.

The commercial is scheduled to appear in mid-August with PGR4 coming in September. Check out another video after the jump.

[Thanks, JimeneX]

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JoystiqOops: Ferrari crashes while filming PGR4 ad originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jeff "CJayC" Veasey, who founded the FAQ writing community GameFAQs back in 1995, recently posted a thread on the site announcing he will be leaving the company ... "eventually". Veasey created and operated the site on his own for nearly ten years before selling to CNET. Now, with a hotel-room-mirror revelation about getting older, he has decided to slowly fade away until he can leave altogether.

Jeff cites nothing more than wanting to move on as his reasons for leaving, as he feels it's time to pursue other interests and let his baby run free. We imagine distancing himself from the hordes of 10-year-old gamers is a nice side-benefit, as well.

JoystiqGameFAQs creator calls it quits originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We're not sure if this is a good thing, per se, but the August issue of Wired magazine features a "Martha Stewart blowout" (never thought we'd write those words in the same sentence) with the queen of gracious living giving tips on a number of geek-related topics.

In the spotlight: Martha shows us how to bake a Wii cake. Sounds ... yummy? Who cares, it's cake, and it looks like a Wii. We'll eat it. Hopefully another magazine will catch on to this trend and get Christopher Lowell to show us how to make a Wii-shaped entrance to our verandah.

[Via Infendo]

JoystiqMartha Stewart makes an edible Wii originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The non-game avalanche continues in merry old Japan, this time with a digital check register for the DS called Ganbaru Watshi no Kakei Diary, or "Doing My Best Family Finance Diary". The app lets you input all your expenses (food, bills, gambling debts to the mafia) and helps track your spending with several different types of graphs. After a month's worth of spending, cute fuzzy animals help you reach your spending goals. If that doesn't get your accounting cells are getting all hot and bothered, we're not sure what will.

[Via Infendo]

JoystiqNew non-game to ignore: Doing My Best Family Finance Diary originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The former chief lawyer and chief accounting officer of Take-Two Interactive pleaded guilty yesterday to falsifying business records in connection with the company's improper backdating of employee stock options. This comes just a few months after the former CEO pleaded guilty for the same crime. The "Oh, I must have hit the wrong button." defense would have never worked, so pleading guilty was the best option.

Take-Two has brought in new management and is attempting to recover from five quarters of losses. Better buy GTA 4 twice if we want to see more.

JoystiqEx-Take-Twoers plead guilty originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Camp Hyrule, the virtual summer camp moderated by Nintendo, has been devastated by earthquakes, floods, Bowser attacks, and meteor showers. So, to celebrate its 13th year of operation, the camp has decided to shake things up a bit with the biggest disaster yet: closing its doors. That's right, no more Java-based summer camp games or Photoshop contests, plus you'll have to find a new excuse to dart around in tights and a tunic.

To ease the separation anxiety, the site will hold a contest from August 13-26 to win a life-size Link statue. Fond memories not included, but bitter resentment is free.

[Via DS Fanboy]

JoystiqCamp Hyrule closes its doors originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Super Mario Galaxy scans from Famitsu reveal a new woman in Mario's world: Rosetta. Peach has been the standard damsel in distress for most of Mario's career, with the notable exceptions of Princess Daisy in Super Mario Land and Pauline in the original Donkey Kong game. Now it seems this Rosetta lass is in need of Mario's super saving services, though Peach's kidnapping is the original reason he launches himself into space.

Is Rosetta just some random lady in a dress, or are we looking at the makings of a daytime TV drama here?

JoystiqNew princess spotted in Super Mario Galaxy: Rosetta originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whoever writes the press packages for Sony is either Rainman-good at math or just a big pile of sarcasm. The Tokyo PlayStation Premiere press conference was recently held, and according to Sony's press materials, Final Fantasy XIII is now 13% complete, while Final Fantasy Versus XIII sits at a rather exact 1.3%.

Hmm. XIII, 13, 1.3. That's an awful lot of the same number. We get the picture: stop bugging Square-Enix about releasing the games and just sit back and let them work. To help tide us over, two new images have been released, one from each game. They're obviously trailer grabs, but we'll take what we can get for now. Hit the jump for the other image.

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

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JoystiqFun with numbers: Final Fantasy Versus XIII is 1.3% complete, FFXIII 13% originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Games based on Looney Tunes characters have been few, far-between, and mostly forgettable. Shown at E3 last week, Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck for the DS might just change that. The game is based on the classic cartoon in which an animator constantly redraws Daffy just to piss him off. Duck Amuck follows the same format and charges you with the task of driving Daffy insane in a series of mini-games. Daffy even gets upset if you close the DS, initiating a game where you must tap the L or R buttons following Daffy's voice. Developer WayForward, the same studio behind Contra 4, had to get special permission from Nintendo to implement that feature.

Duck Amuck is scheduled for release this holiday season, and early impressions have been extremely positive.

JoystiqUpcoming DS game lets you re-draw Daffy Duck, drive him insane originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Homestar Runner's fictional game development studio, Videlectrix (who also created Peasant's Quest and Thy Dungeonman 3: Behold Thy Graphics!), have just released another treasure of gaming hilarity: Where's an Egg?. The gameplay is reminiscent of old adventure titles and has you visiting a number of locations talking to people and hunting for the egg. The catch is that you only have 999 seconds to find it. Oh, and did we mention you have a gun? Yup, loaded with three bullets you can use to shoot anyone you like. Bring on the adventuring!

JoystiqVidelectrix releases another game parody: Where's an Egg? originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Paul Eres recently published a short preview of the upcoming indie game Knytt Stories. The feature walks through a few of the major points of the game, comparing it with the previous Knytt release and the creator's other major game, Within a Deep Forest. Half a dozen new screenshots were also unveiled, shown in the gallery below. Paul's most interesting quote comes from his blog announcement of the preview: "... the more I play the best independent games, the more I don't want to play mainstream games ever again.".

This game along with Aquaria could go in our book as two of the best releases of 2007. Look for Knytt Stories on August 30.

Gallery: Knytt Stories

JoystiqKnytt Stories preview and screenshots originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A group of students in Iran unveiled a new project that simulates an attempt to rescue two Iranian nuclear experts kidnapped by the U.S. military. Rescue the Nuke Scientist was created in response to the American-made Assault on Iran, a game that depicts a U.S. attack on an Iranian nuclear facility.

In Rescue the Nuke Scientist, players take control of an Iranian security force carrying out a mission code-named "The Special Operation". Penetrate the U.S. troops' fortified locations, kill U.S. and Israeli troops, and seize their laptops to win the game.

"We tried to promote the idea of defense, sacrifice and martyrdom in this game," one of the students told reporters. "This is our defense against the enemy's cultural onslaught."

JoystiqRescue nuclear scientists from U.S. military in new Iranian-made game originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In Philadelphia, 13-year-old Jahmir Ricks stabbed his older brother Antwan in what was believed to be a dispute over a videogame. According to the report, a house rule for the boys was that if you lose the game, you lose the joystick. Antwan was apparently unwilling to pass the controller, so Jahmir stabbed him twice in the chest with a steak knife, piercing his heart and lung. Antwan was pronounced dead in the emergency room. His brother stands charged as an adult with first-degree murder.

Police chief Daniel Kortan was quick to point out that videogames were not the direct cause and the boys weren't acting out or mimicking the game they were playing. It was two boys fighting over whose turn it was to play, and things just got out of hand.

[Via GamePolitics]

JoystiqBoy believed to have stabbed his brother over a videogame originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In an interview with IGN, Square Enix's Motomu Toriyama speaks about the upcoming US release of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings and divulges a healthy little detail about the company's interest in the Wii Fit balance board. No, a Final Fantasy workout game isn't in the pipeline (though taking on a Gigas or two would be great for our quads), but Toriyama and company are "intrigued" by the idea of using weight and balance to control games. Full body interactive RPG combat, anyone?

JoystiqSquare Enix interested in Wii Fit board for RPG originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While the mainstream press gets ready to crown Nintendo the innovator of fresh new gaming technology, Water Cooler Games points out the Wii Fit balance pad isn't as revolutionary as some may think. Way back in 1982 (yes, the same year Michael Jackson unleashed Thriller), Persuasive Games released a balance board accessory for the Atari VCS called the Joyboard. Only one game supported the peripheral: a ski jumping title called Mogul Maniac, and the technology wasn't nearly as advanced as the Wii Fit pad. The idea was there, however, Nintendo just came along with its magic touch and made it ten times better.

[Thanks, Vlad]

JoystiqWii Fit pad similar to 25-year-old Atari accessory originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to a tipster gobo_4227, the following images are from an unannounced Nintendo DS debut of the GBA's RPG series, Golden Sun. The legitimacy of the images is obviously in doubt, but it does realize some of our far-fetched dreams. Make it happen, developers!

Gallery: Golden Sun DS

JoystiqRumor: Golden Sun DS images snapped [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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First mentioned by Takeshi Shimada back in March, Nintendo today announced the Mii Popularity Channel will be making its way to North America sometime soon. Dubbed "Check Mii Out", gamers can submit Miis to be voted on and engage in contests and promotions. Kind of like Hot or Not, but, you know, with cartoon characters. Polish up your Mii likenesses of Stalin and Buddha, it's time for them to take a walk down the runway.

JoystiqMii Popularity Channel announced for North America: Check Mii Out originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Planned for release in 2001, Affinix Software was ready to put the final touches on Infinity, a role playing title for the Game Boy Color. Unfortunately publishers were already looking ahead to the Game Boy Advance and all the pretty pictures it could display. Infinity was never released, Affinix was eventually dissolved, and the game was left to sit on its creators' hard drives for years. But a Lost Levels forum member unearthed a video of the game in action (watch it after the jump) and suddenly Infinity finds itself the recipient of some well-deserved attention.

In early February a news post on the Affinix website mentioned the possible release of an Infinity ROM. We contacted project leader Justin Karneges to get an updated status on the game. According to him, Infinity is very close to being complete and just needs a few story points linked together, spells filled in, and a final boss programmed. In addition to himself, one more team member is needed to tie up the loose ends, everything else is ready to roll. You can even download the full soundtrack from composer Eric Hache's website. As for the ROM: "There's no need to talk us into releasing a ROM. If we had a finished game, it would be released.".

Infinity could be a breathtaking game, or it could turn out to be a dud. We won't know until we get to play it, and we're itching to take her for a spin. If you need us, we'll be consulting our astrologers to make sure the stars are in perfect alignment to get this game into the wild.

[Via Insert Credit]

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JoystiqUnreleased Game Boy Color RPG resurfaces originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A Dragon Quest fan who goes by the handle XB-LIM has done what every retro RPG gamer would have killed for two decades ago: mapped the first four Dragon Quest games in the style of Google Maps. They're zoomable, they're scrollable, and one of them even has bubble annotations (in Japanese). Kind of takes the fun out of wandering around and exploring, which is half the entertainment value of classic RPGs. Fighting hundreds of random battles to gain a few levels so you can actually make the trek to the first town is the other half.
[Via GamersWeb]

JoystiqDragon Quest maps, Google style originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tale of Tales, an indie studio founded by artists Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, will be showing several of its works-in-progress over the next few weeks in three separate venues around the world. The studio's oldest game (currently on hold), 8, is a dreamy single player title based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. It will be presented at E3, while the MMOG The Endless Forest will be shown in Spain. Starting August 8 visitors to Mexico City's Museo Tamayo will be treated to older works from Harvey and Samyn.

Currently, Tale of Tales is hard at work on The Path, an experimental single player horror game inspired by Little Red Ridinghood. You take the role of six characters, each representing Little Red Ridinghood at a different age, and explore hidden emotions surrounding the process of growing up. The game dares to ask "What happens in the dark woods when a girl meets a wolf for the very first time?"

We'll guess it involves a lot of screaming.

JoystiqTale of Tales showcases artistic games in development originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If showing off your geekiness by wearing Joystiq t-shirts and stacking Tetris shelves in every room of your house isn't enough, how about a Unicorn vs. Godzilla wallet? Artists drawing for Tinymeat.com have placed several quasi-game-related wallet designs on the handmade item market Etsy. Other gems include a pirate playing ping pong against an alien, a Katamari-like land of happy monsters, and a sea monster battling a ship. Most of the images look as if they were taken right from an episode of Samurai Jack and will elicit shocked looks from 90 year old store clerks wherever you go. And for 14 measly dollars, it's worth it.

JoystiqUnicorn vs. Godzilla and other geeky wallets originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Twin Galaxies, the as-official-as-it-gets record keepers of the videogame realm, recently printed a revised edition of its Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records. The tome details 4,000 arcade games with current high scores for each one. Gamer Rocky Howard is convinced many of those records are there simply because no one can be bothered to find the arcade machine to play (emulated game scores are not allowed). As a result, Rocky's new life goal is to play every game listed to see how "feasible the scores listed are", then seek out the arcade machines to have his name plastered throughout the book.

The experiment began just over a month ago and Rocky is currently on his 14th game. At this rate it will take him over 25 years to work through everything, at which point finding the original machines will be about as easy as unearthing a t-rex femur with a spork in your backyard. But hey, gotta have a hobby, right?

JoystiqBored? Try playing 4,000 games. originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Famitsu unveiled today a brand new way to play doctor on the Wii: Trauma Center: New Blood. The biggest new feature will be a two player cooperative mode that lets you and a friend hack into bodies/save lives together. Sounds like the perfect activity for couples' counseling sessions, as well. New Blood will also feature a fresh cast of characters, new missions, and online leaderboards to see who's the handiest with a scalpel.

Gallery: Trauma Center: New Blood

JoystiqTrauma Center: New Blood (Wii) unveiled originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The official box art for the Japanese release of Forever Blue has just been unveiled. A few vague details were leaked earlier this month confirming the non-game will be exploration-based as you swim the ocean cataloging and photographing the sea life you encounter. With the little blue Wi-Fi logo, the box also confirms online multiplayer exploration. Although a North American or European release has not been mentioned, we're still filing this one under the "Japan gets all the cool boxes" category.

Gallery: Forever Blue

JoystiqForever Blue Japanese box revealed originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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