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DS Daily: Expanded worldview
by JC Fletcher 
{ Dec 8th 2008 at 9:00AM }
The DS is purportedly bringing in new gamers who wouldn't traditionally care about video games at all, with stuff like Nintendogs, Brain Age, and Personal Trainer: Cooking (as seen in the above ad). We're happy to see Nintendo capturing the interest of people who previously would have seen our hobby as either too kid-oriented or too teenage-dude-oriented.
Have you seen it work? Have you encountered the "expanded audience" out in the world? Become acquainted with any new DS owners lured in by language training or math? For our part, we seem to be meeting more late-to-the-party gamers than ever these days (in our limited capacity as socially inept shut-ins to meet people).
DS releases for the week of November 24th
by Alisha Karabinus { Nov 24th 2008 at 1:00PM }
This week, Japan gets what we desperately want -- another dose of Professor Layton -- but the pain of that is mitigated somewhat by Chrono Trigger and the rest of the North American lineup. Not a bad holiday week all in all! As ever, we're curious what you might be picking up now, and what you're interested in for later.- Age of Empire: Mythologies
- All Star Cheer Squad
- Chrono Trigger
- Chrysler Classic Racing
- Cradle of Rome
- Emma in the Mountains
- Imagine: Gymnast
- Neopets Puzzle Adventure
- Personal Trainer: Cooking
- Syberia
Joystiq impressions: Personal Trainer: Cooking
by Zack Stern { Oct 7th 2008 at 4:30AM }
Gallery: Personal Trainer: Cooking
Cooking Guide, Maths Training, Walking Rhythm DS rebranded for US
by JC Fletcher { Oct 3rd 2008 at 12:00PM }
One of the less-reported announcements from Nintendo's conference is the "Personal Trainer" series of games. We were a bit confused to see the announcement of Personal Trainer: Cooking when we're still waiting for Cooking Guide. And then about two seconds later we figured it out. Personal Trainer: Cooking is Cooking Guide. We're guessing, but it seems like a fairly uncontroversial guess.Nintendo's press release about the conference details Personal Trainer: Cooking and two other Personal Trainer titles that make it much more obvious that these are existing/known training games. Personal Trainer: Math is "a collection of basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division drills based on the Kageyama method." Which means it's Maths Training, released in Europe back in February. And Personal Trainer: Walking "will introduce a wireless pedometer, letting consumers not only track every step they take, but also turn walking into interactive entertainment." It must be Aruite Wakaru Seikatsu Rhythm DS (Learn by Walking Rhythm DS), then!
Cooking will be released on November 24, and the other two will appear sometime next year.
