Punch Out Release date

Nintendo has recently announced that Punch Out will release May 18th in America. So Australia should probaly get it around Late May or Early June.

If you've never heard of the game it's a remake of a classic game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 80's. That was back when it had Mike Tysons name in the title.

With specific Wii controls this game looks like it's knock me out (pun intented).

Here's a trailer

New DSi Colours for Japan

As we sit here and wait for our DS lite's upgrade, Japan is already getting treated to more colour options then us (you just can't beat Japan now can you).

The colours are Pink, Lime Green and Mtellic blue and all three will be released march 20th.

This still makes me wonder why Nintendo didn't release a White dsi in America, since they're releasing it everywhere else along with more virbant colours in Japan.

Motion-control

The Wii has been out for almost three years now and gaming has changed because of it. Back in the day (2006), we used to be incredibly amazed by waggle, and it's incredible future. We dreamed of swinging Link's sword in real life, or punching bowser in real life ( the exercise was just an extra).

Now motion control has become so commonly used it's almost sickening to play something for hours by just waggling. We've pretty much seen it all from Nintendo, so third party developers really need to step it up to impress us.

Flick the Wii remote to jump?! That's been done before!

Flick the controller to swing your sword?! That's been done before!

Although we are partly to blame for this. Wii sports gave us incredible gameplay showing us that we should swing the Wii remote wildly to have fun. But as gamers we found ways around this. We generally like to complete things for completeness's' sake. We found out the best and easiest ways to play.

Instead of swinging a tennis racket,  we were swinging a ping pong paddle.

Instead of Punching someone in the face repeatedly, we were banging bongo drums.

It's only natural as gamers for us to automatically sit down and competitively complete everything.

Inserting motion control into a hardcore game might have the problems mentioned above, so let's Nintendo's new motion plus will find a way around it.

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BLING BLING! It's that Mario Thing!

This Mario pendant covered in 14.5 carrats of round cut diamonds in Mario colours is worth $11,000 dollars! But you can buy it now for $7000.

It's not unusual to see strange things on eBay, but the fact that someone put so much effort into making it just see it being sold on a website where people usually sell toenail clippings and ghosts is fairly extravagant!

Wanna buy it? too late the item has ended.

here it is!

Pokemon Platinum gets a site

Coming right after the news of dsi's release date this is pretty much overshadowed. But it is news nonetheless.

Pokemon Platinum is the latest Pokemon game that was only released in Japan and we've been waiting since around July or August last year. When your forced to wait for something you want it becomes less hyped, but this game has been praised for all the new things it brings to immensely huge Pokemon table (see what I did there?).

With this game release around the same time as GTA: Chinatown Wars (March 22) I'm curious to see which game comes up on top in the end.

Australia Get DSi April 2nd

Only a few months after it was released in Japan, the DSi will be hitting Ausie shelves on April 2nd, Americans' will be getting it April 5th, and Europe will be getting it April 3rd.

The colours available on launch are (matte) black and (matte) white (above), where as the Americans will be getting the odd combination Black and blue. 

Available on launch will be Nintendo points for applications as well as the dsi internet browser.

The dsi in Australia will cost $299. $100 more than the it's predececcor (ds lite). This price increase is a bit steep, but Australian gamers have been screwed over worse before so you should be used to it by now.

What I find most intriguing about all this is the fact that Australian's get the dsi first! Before the Europeans and Americans!!!

I think Nintendo is throwing us a bone!

Now if your reading this then your most likely a gamer, so there's no doubt you've heard about this hardware. But for those who haven't (yes all three of you) I will post some videos and links to some informative sites. But don't forget to come back here!

http://vooks.net/modules.php?module=article&id=13771

http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox/news.cfm?newID=548

http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/02/19/dsi-gouging-new-handheld-out-april-2-for-au-299/

I posted this video, so check out my channel, it's mostly reviews and trailers http://www.youtube.com/user/nintendrastic

Dead Space Announced for Wii

                                                         Just another day at work...

EA announced an updoming Dead Space sequel on Wii. Saying, "We're bringing core intellectual properties and franchises in categories we think have legs on the Wii platform. A good example of this is Dead Space. We're bringing a Wii title to the market this year and it is absolutely going to be the quality and fear factor that you got on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC SKUs this past year."

EA also hinted at using the Wii MotionPlus technology. It's currently unkown whether this will be a standalone game or a sequel.

I think this should work great for the franchise. Wii owners previously couldn't experients the depth and techical intrigue of the previous game but now we'll be treated to a unique game with new controls. Expect the news as it happens.

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New Metroid?

Well no that's not entirely true..

Oh Nintendo why do you tease us? The official Metroidsite has mentioned another side story, for the metroid franchise. Underneath the english text is the following:"Follow the history of Metroid Prime from the perspective of the Space Pirates".

 Okay so we already knew Nintendo is planning to relase Prime 1 & 2 with a new style of playing, but this has never been mentioned before. Maybe it's a new metroid game where you are the enemy! Or maybe it's just some sort of retrospective or comic.

Whatever it is, it's certainly turned a few heads and raised a few eyebrows.

There'll be more news as it happens.

Wanna check out the site?http://metroid.jp/

Nintendo Australia gets it's own Magazine!

Thats Right! After almost ten years of us Aussies lacing an official Nintendo Mag, we've finnally got one! And it's not bad!

I have read issue 1 and issue 2 and I can say this: you wont be dissapointed. The Official Nintendo Magazine is Packed with information and content, and even I learn a few things.

But the problem that everyone seems to bring up is the mag being biased. Being official it's a worry that they'll say nothing but good things to promote their games, but it hasn't really happened yet. Although I have noticed their not as critical as that other gaming mag, Hyper.

Issue 2 is out now.