Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Fallon gets his 'Adult Female Face' blown away during 3DS demo on Late Night]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/26/fallon-gets-his-adult-female-face-blown-away-during-3ds-demo-o/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/26/fallon-gets-his-adult-female-face-blown-away-during-3ds-demo-o/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/26/fallon-gets-his-adult-female-face-blown-away-during-3ds-demo-o/#comments We expected Jimmy Fallon to flip out during Reggie Fils-Aime's 3DS demonstration during last night's episode of Late Night. We expected the audience to get a kick out of the device's AR functionality. However, we did not expect the 3DS to swap Fallon's gender on live national television. Priceless.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsdsface-raidersjimmy-fallonlate-night-with-jimmy-fallonnintendoreggie-fils-aimetelevisiontvSat, 26 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Select Walmart stores offering $100 credit toward 3DS with old DS trade-in]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/25/select-walmart-stores-offering-100-credit-toward-3ds-with-old-d/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/25/select-walmart-stores-offering-100-credit-toward-3ds-with-old-d/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/25/select-walmart-stores-offering-100-credit-toward-3ds-with-old-d/#comments This Sunday, the 3DS launches in the US and, to celebrate the occasion, US-based megastore Walmart is offering quite the deal for anyone who lives in one of a dozen states. When purchasing the new handheld, consumers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina will have the option of trading in their used DS for a $100 credit towards their 3DS purchase. If they've got two old DS systems laying around, both can be traded in for $200 towards a 3DS, but that's as high as Walmart's willing to go.

The trade-in program will start this Sunday with the 3DS launch and continue through April 30. This promotion is in-store only -- sorry, no online orders.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsdsds-litedsidsi-xlface-raidersnintendotrade-inused-gameswalmartFri, 25 Mar 2011 19:10:00 EST<![CDATA[Nintendo 3DS review: Depth, charge]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/10/nintendo-3ds-review/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/10/nintendo-3ds-review/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/10/nintendo-3ds-review/#comments Nintendo released its next-generation handheld console, the 3DS, in Japan last month. North American and European releases are scheduled for late March, but we went ahead and imported a unit so we could inspect all the new features -- and, of course, that screen.

After the break, find out all about the 3DS hardware and its built-in software, along with our impressions of each component. We might not be able to present the review in 3D, but that hasn't stopped us from going in-depth.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsar-gamesdsface-raidersjapannintendoThu, 10 Mar 2011 18:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Face Raiders preview: seriously, it's called Face Raiders]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/19/face-raiders-preview/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/19/face-raiders-preview/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/19/face-raiders-preview/#comments In my humble opinion, the best motion games are the ones that make you look embarrassingly stupid. Face Raiders continues Nintendo's long legacy of making you look foolish ... but usurps its predecessors by making the stupidity contagious. With its clever use of photo manipulation, motion controls, and augmented reality, Face Raiders is not only one of the most technologically impressive games available at the 3DS preview event today, but also one of the most fun. The fact that it's included for free on every 3DS system makes it that much more compelling.

Face Raiders is an extension of one of my favorite E3 tech demos: the augmented reality shooter. Thanks to the built-in 3D cameras, your world is your playground, whether you're at the office, at home or outside. Enemies will appear all around you, and you'll have to move your body to find and destroy these virtual baddies. Unlike the tech demo, though, you don't just fight random blocks and cubes. Instead, you fight people's faces. Yeah!

At the start of each level, you must take a portrait photo of someone, aligning their eyes and mouth with the on-screen indicator. Once you snap the picture, that image is morphed into a disembodied floating head that, for reasons unknown, will try to attack you. The novelty should be immediately apparent: shooting pellets at a mutated version of a friend's face is oddly compelling. As the level continues, you'll notice that the faces will morph, adding costumes, expressions and more.

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JoystiqFace Raiders preview: seriously, it's called Face Raiders originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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