Archive for July, 2010

3DS Resident Evil Revelations revealed in trailer

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Capcom announced that Resident Evil: Revelations, the 3ds survival horror game, uses the same MT Framework engine that powers console games like Lost Planet 2 and Resident Evil 5. According to Capcom, the engine delivers stereoscopic visuals and “graphical top quality comparable to consoles.” You can judge for yourself within the trailer below. Of course, since it isn’t [...]

NEWS for n3ds-3DS ‘Paddle Ball’ tech demo

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

I know, I know — a preview of a tech demo? In fairness, this one kind of blew my mind. Here’s the skinny: outside of games we’re assigned to play, there’s rarely extra time while covering the controlled madness of ʵ for Joystiq writers to check out something they’re personally interested in … other than the last day, [...]

The 3DS changed my life

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

We’ve read (and written!) some positive write-ups on Nintendo’s recently revealed, extra-dimensional handheld, but nothing quite so glowing as the latest blog post from developer extraordinaire Warren Spector. “The 3DS changed my life,” Spector explained on his personal blog. We’re still attempting to tell if he was being sincere, or if he was just trying to come [...]

Yoot Saito teases possibility of Seaman

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

If you were to take the entire 3ds lineup announced at Nintendo’s E3 press conference last week, and roll all our anticipation for said titles into a single lump, it probably wouldn’t match the scope of our excitement for this faintly teased remake. A fan of Yoot Saito recently asked the idiosyncratic game developer on Twitter [...]

Reggie confirms 2011 launch for 3DS on Fallon

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Reggie confirms 2011 launch for 3ds on Fallon Nintendo of America’s towering president stopped by the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday, closing off the show’s week long celebration of upcoming video games with a look at Donkey Kong Country Returns. After teaching Fallon the correct method of Diddy-maneuvering, Reggie Fils-Aime brought out the big [...]

NEWS for n3ds-Marvelous plans new IP, 3DS Harvest Moon for next fiscal year

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

NEWS for N3DS-Marvelous plans new IP, 3ds Harvest Moon for next fiscal year NEWS for n3ds-Marvelous plans new IP, 3DS Harvest Moon for next fiscal year NEWS for n3ds-Marvelous plans new IP, 3DS Harvest Moon for next fiscal year The reduction of new IP coming out of Marvelous Entertainment isn’t as total as we’d heard. In a recent investor [...]

Masahiro Sakurai explains Kid Icarus’ uprising on 3DS

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Speaking to Techland, Kid Icarus: Uprising producer Masahiro Sakurai described how the new 3ds franchise revival came about. Essentially, all in the distinguishing characteristics with the video game came into the picture separately. Initial, Sakurai decided that he wanted to make a shooting video game for Nintendo’s new handheld, which he knew would be much more powerful than the DS. [...]

Saint’s Row for 3DS was already being made for Xbox Live Arcade

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

The Nintendo 3DS video game list has a great deal of predictable titles on it, but seeing Saint’s Row on there was somewhat of a surprise. But it was a natural fit, as THQ VP Danny Bilson recently said. Not only was Nintendo enthusiastic about putting mature content material on its new system, but “the interesting thing about the [...]

Drive By coming to 3DS, XBLA

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Saints Row 3ds was only briefly mentioned by Nintendo throughout its E3 press conference, and THQ has today decided to reveal a little additional. It is called Saints Row: Drive By, and it’ll also be available for Xbox Live Arcade. The XBLA version will apparently have connectivity with Saints Row 3, unlocking content for the next [...]

Why We’re Excited for Pokemon Black/White

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Back in April we asked you, the readers, what changes you wanted inside the new Pokemon games, and boy did you tell us. There were a ton of responses, and we printed the most typical ones, but we haven’t heard very much about the newest Pokemon Games to follow up. Until now. The newest issue of CoroCoro [...]