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Foto Showdown Now Available for Nintendo DSi

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Players Incorporate Photography as Active Gameplay Mechanic in Konami’s First North American DSi Release

Majesco Entertainment Ships The Daring Game For Girls For Wii and Nintendo DS

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Ignite the Daring Girl in You with the First Video Game Based on the Best-Selling How-To Series The Daring Book for Girls

Foto Showdown Now Available for Nintendo DSi

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:12 +0000

Players Incorporate Photography as Active Gameplay Mechanic in Konami’s First North American DSi Release

Majesco Entertainment Ships The Daring Game For Girls For Wii and Nintendo DS

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:12 +0000

Ignite the Daring Girl in You with the First Video Game Based on the Best-Selling How-To Series The Daring Book for Girls

Ubisoft prepping short film, a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier prequel

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:11 +0000

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ubisoft will release a short film ahead of the release of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The film will be helmed by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, the duo that just won an Academy Award for their short film Logorama. We’re assuming the Ghost Recon film won’t be quite as cheeky. The short, which will serve as a prequel to Future Soldier, will be a 20-minute live-action film, reportedly with a budget between $8-10 million. It’s being written by Tim Sexton, co-writer of Children of Men.

The project is in line with Ubisoft’s ongoing strategy to expand its scope of media to include more than just video games. Last year, the company released the Assassin’s Creed: Lineage short film series to promote Assassin’s Creed II. Later in the year, Ubisoft Montreal’s Yannis Mallat envisioned a future where Ubisoft crafts films and games using the same assets, which is precisely what it did with Lineage. Given the talent and financial backing behind the Future Soldier film, it looks like Mallat’s future could be a bright one.

[Via Big Download]

Ubisoft prepping short film, a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier prequel originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LukPlus looking for Coropata publisher at GDC

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:10 +0000

If you’re reading this and you’re in charge of business development for a game publisher, and if you’re at GDC — as unlikely as all that is — please go talk to LukPlus. According to Siliconera, the publisher has a meeting room at the convention, and is actively working to find a North American publisher for its cute DS puzzle game Coropata.

We sampled Coropata at TGS and found it charming, and we’d appreciate the opportunity to do things like buy it in a store and read all the text. We admit that a cutesy, anime-style puzzle game similar to The Incredible Machine may be somewhat of a niche interest, though.

LukPlus looking for Coropata publisher at GDC originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Mega Man 10, Moon Cresta

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:05 +0000

Though there’s a lot of content on DSiWare in Japan today, it’s almost entirely training stuff. So, it would seem that DSiWare stepped aside to let WiiWare’s single release shine this week. (That’s probably not what really happened — but it’s a nice thought.)

In any case, Mega Man 10 is up on WiiWare in Japan today, and it’s likely to overshadow anything else available this week, including the ancient Moon Cresta:

Mega Man 10 (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Moon Cresta (VC Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

G.G. Series Throw Out (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Renjuku Kanji: Shougaku 4-nensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Renjuku Kanji: Shougaku 5-nensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Brain Challenge (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Let’s Golf (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

Japanese Nintendo downloads: Mega Man 10, Moon Cresta originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:10 +0000

Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Hacks, iPhone

Warning: If you are baffled by people who think dismantling technology is fun, and completely fail to understand the excitement of building robots to battle other robots, this post may not be for you. Just so you know.

On the Make: magazine blog, they recently posted a piece about the evolution of a project. It was an iPod remote from last year that has gone from a “start and stop” only device to a full featured remote. It is a lovely piece of tech, powered by Arduino hardware. Arduinos are open-source circuit boards and software you can use to develop interfaces with all sorts of electronics.

I remember reading the first post about this remote last fall and being interested in where he would take this project, mostly because I love seeing what people do with Altoids tins. I have to admit hooking one up to a giant “Easy” button for my car never really occurred to me, though.

I really like the idea of building my own remote; partly so I can say I did it, but also because it would be a nicer way to get my iPod or iPhone (depending) working nicely with my car stereo.

Honestly I only understand about half of what he’s talking about in this article, but I’m good at following instructions and I am reasonably handy with a soldering iron, so this doesn’t look completely unreasonable. If I do end up building one I’ll be sure to post all about it for you. In the meantime, have you built an unholy alliance between your Roomba and your iMac, or any other variety of Mac Tech Mashup? Tell me about it, I’d love to see what you all can do!

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/finsprings/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Don’t trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:04 +0000

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, iPad

Ever since the iPad’s introduction a month and a half ago, the internet has been awash in criticism of the as-yet-unreleased device. “It’s just a big iPod touch,” many have said. “No Flash, no multitasking, no sale,” others bemoaned. And a few have gone so far as to say, “It doesn’t do a lot of things that a netbook that costs half as much will do.” For these reasons and many more, many of the pundits and forum dwellers have but one prediction: the iPad is going to crash and burn.

Don’t you believe it, because the critics have been wrong before. Several times, actually, according to The Week, which provides a list of five Apple products the critics thought would fail. Out of those five, only one, the Newton, failed to find mainstream success. The other four were industry-defining products which went on to sell millions of units each.

What did the critics have to say about these four “failed” Apple products when they first debuted, and which products were they? Click “Read More” to find out.

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Don’t trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Major League Baseball 2K10

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:28 +0000

Major League Baseball 2K10 Review