Filed under: Imports, Channels
Proof that Japan gets everything awesome — including first dibs on new releases, Super Famicom Classic Controllers, and giant mechas piloted by bratty kids — the island country’s Minna no Nintendo Channel (Everybody’s Nintendo Channel) has started to post student-developed games in its DS downloads section.
For those of you unfamiliar with these titles, Nintendo hosts a 10-month seminar every year in which 40 students take courses on programming and game design, eventually working in teams to develop small DS games to be featured through download stations in Japan. This year’s batch consisted of four different titles, including Wakerai no Heya Tsuzuki, a Hotel Dusk-styled horror adventure, and Nan de Momo Koko Yasan, a touchscreen coloring game.
Wakerai no Heya Tsuzuki has already been posted on the Japan-only (for now) Minna no Nintendo Channel, available for free until April 22nd. Presumably, the other three student-developed titles will be set up with a similar arrangement in the coming weeks. Though we doubt Nintendo of America will bring these Japanese releases over when it finally releases Everybody’s Nintendo Channel in the states, at this point, we would be happy just to have the dang channel! It has been almost five months since the channel debuted in Japan!
Filed under: News, Peripherals
Only in America! And probably Europe as well! The new boxing game Don King Presents: Prizefighter is going to have a lovely feature that will be welcome among Wii Fit owners: Balance Board compatibility. Unfortunately, you won’t be wobbling on the board to bob and weave — it’s limited to training modes only.
Those training modes do seem to be carefully considered, however, being designed under the guidance of a boxing instructor and intended to offer an actual challenge: “It’s a workout - even the silly Wii Sports one is a workout. We intend to give you a real one with the Balance Board.” The example included a jump rope game done on the board with the Wiimote in your back pocket — though we hope it doesn’t involve actual, Balance Board-crunching jumps.
[Via NeoGAF]
- Author: Alisha Karabinus
- Filed under: Uncategorized
- Date: Apr 16,2008
Filed under: Virtual Console, Contests / Giveaways
You may have noticed that Virtually Free has moved to Wednesdays. Don’t worry! It’s not going anywhere! You’ll still have your chance at free Virtual Console games every other week … just now, we’re a day late. This week, we’ve only got one game to offer up, but according to David Hinkle, who chose this week’s prize, it may be all you need. Up for grabs? Legend of the Mystical Ninja (800 Wii points/$8) from the Super Nintendo.
So what do you have to do to win? First of all, you have to leave a comment (with a valid e-mail address) on this post suggesting a game for a future edition of Virtually Free. It must be available on the VC in the U.S. at present. Second, you must be a legal resident of the United States with an American Wii (sorry, Canadians, we have to leave you out of this one; blame the gifting system and not us!) and 18 years of age or older. You may enter once per day between now and Monday, April 21; the contest comes to a close that night at 11:59 PM Eastern time, and we’ll select a winner in a random drawing the next day. Questions? Check out the official rules.
