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WIN WIN WIN! – Nintendo DS and a copy of Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance – last day!
Just a quick reminder that today’s the last day to enter our Nintendo DS competition. Want to pretend that your stylus is a mini-lightsaber? Now’s your chance!
It’s ridiculously easy to enter. Go here, fill in the form, and hit okay. Go do it now, in fact. Imagine how jolly your little kid (or you, if you’re sprog-free) will feel on Christmas day when he or she unwraps it.
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Overclock your DS with the XCM Hyper Gear Case
150cc in Mario Kart DS not enough of a challenge for you? How about playing it at nearly double the speed? XCM has created a “Hyper Gear” case that overclocks your poor little DS to either 1.4x or 1.7x its regular speed. You can see the little switch in the bottom right of the case in the picture above.
Of course, overclocking a DS isn’t like overclocking a PC – everything speeds up. Sound, graphics, gameplay, everything. Check out the video over the jump for some idea of what it’ll be like (though the DS in the video isn’t being overclocked by the case). The XCM Hyper Gear will be available in the next few weeks from your favourite DS modding websites…
TD Tips: Portable Gaming
It’s that time of the week again. Time for us to pick a topic, seemingly at random, and tell you what you should buy to get the most out of it. This week it’s portable gaming devices. I’m being quite broad with that definition – I’m including anything from proper consoles, to mobile phones, to electronic sudoku on a keyring. Unsurprisingly, however, no-one plumped for the keyring…
UPDATED: Nintendo DS to relaunch with a camera and MP3 player
The Nikkei Business Daily reported on Sunday that Nintendo are planning to launch a version of the DS that can take pictures and play music, and here’s the best bit – it’ll apparently be out before the end of the year…
GTA: Chinatown Wars to feature drug-dealing minigame
There was a promise of “tasteful minigames” for the forthcoming DS version of the bazillion-selling GTA franchise. I guess that’s out the window, because one of the games is drug-dealing, where you can sell heroin, cocaine, weed, ecstasy, acid and downers. It’ll get you cash that you can then spend on weapons, or body armour. Rockstar VP Dan Houser said…
Screenshots of GTA: Chinatown Wars for the DS released
The folks over at Nintendo Everything have managed to get their hands on some screenshots of the forthcoming DS version of GTA – GTA:Chinatown Wars, which we posted new details about on Friday. Click on the image below to start the gallery.
GTA: Chinatown Wars (via Nintendo Everything)
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Chinatown Wars DS to be cel-shaded; awesome
Some details have been released about the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto game on the kid-friendly DS console. It’s going to be isometric, not 3D or top-down, like other GTA games, and it’s going to be cel-shaded. It’ll also be incredibly awesome. That wasn’t in the leak, but it’s true.
Nintendo to release new DS bundles for Christmas
Nintendo doesn’t often do too much with the DS. Since the Lite was released there hasn’t been anything new except for the odd new colour here and there, so it’s nice to hear that the big N hasn’t forgotten its little console with a zillion rubbish games…
Nintendo saves UK education system – Brain Training sets new games chart record
The game officially known as Prof. Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? was first released in June of 2006. It’s still in the UK software top 10 this very week, moving up one place to number eight.
This staggering achievement makes a total of 80 weeks in the top 10 for Nintendo’s DS concentration masterclass, a stay which takes the all time record…
E3 2008, best twenty video games, now done in Haiku
According to my watch, E3 is now finished. The conference has been shifted and downsized and generally turned upside down by format changes but it is still one of the biggest video games spectacles in the world. Nearly everything worth looking out for in the coming months and, in several cases, years was on show. I'm can't write up each one individually as it would take me till September, so here they are in a convenient Haiku form. I take no responsibility for whether these actually conform to rigorous Haiku format requirements.
