DS demo channel is coming, and WiiWare will launch in March 08 (Japan) with these games coming:
WiiWare Games Announced
A new Dr Mario
Pokemon Ranch (imports from diamond and pearl)
Star Soldier R
Mojipittan
Square-Enix WiiWare only title “Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles – Little King and the Promise Country”
The Nintendo Conference in Japan is going on right now first announcement is Fire Emblem DS.
It seems Contra 4 will not have the promised 4 player co-op, but will still have 2 player co-op. Contra 4 will be released November 13.
Matt Casamassina of IGN has taken a lot of heat for claiming in a podcast that Halo DS had been in development, he’s made promise after promise that he would provide evidence of it’s existence, and he finally has.
From his IGN Blog:
Some time ago, I blogged about playing a cancelled version of Halo DS. The game was the real deal, created by a real development studio and with a very big publisher. But for reasons we won’t discuss, Halo DS was never released. Clearly. Obviously. Still, it would’ve been cool, huh?
My Halo DS blog has haunted me since I posted it because many people were skeptical of my claims. I wouldn’t make something like that up, of course, but that hardly silenced any of my critics. When my brother called me the other day and told me that I even have a Wikipedia page that calls into question my Halo DS blog, I realized I had to at the very least prove that I hadn’t completely hatched the entire thing. So I figured what better way to mute naysayers than to show off the game I played. With that in mind, I present to you Halo DS videos and screenshots below. Please, somebody update my Wikipedia page.
So Matt isn’t a liar, about this at least…
Following in the footsteps of Viva Pinata, Blue Dragon is making the move from the Xbox 360 to the DS. Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump is reporting, well just that it’s coming, and new information/screens will come later. It’s not clear at the moment if this will be a reimagining of the 360 version, a sequel, spinoff, etc.
The 360 version hasn’t exactly set the charts on fire, and the world, more importantly Japan, just can’t get enough of the DS, so this move makes a lot of (bizarre) sense.
Featured at the Square Enix Closed Mega Theatre are trailers for the new KH spinoff games.
KH Coded – Mobile
KH 358/2 Days (358 Days Over 2) – DS
KH Birth by Sleep – PSP
Update from 1up
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP looks to be a single-player adventure in the vein of the PlayStation 2 iterations, though not “Kingdom Hearts III.” Birth by Sleep’s protagonist was not explicitly named in the presentation, but he looked an awful lot like Zack of Final Fantasy VII/Crisis Core fame.
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days for Nintendo DS appears to star Roxas from Kingdom Hearts II, but its main draw looks to be four-player simultaneous play using members of Organization XIII. It will be in full 3D.
Kingdom Hearts: Coded is a mobile game, likely for Japanese cell phones. It stars the familiar cast of main characters from the original Kingdom Hearts (Sora & co.) and seems to be set between the first and second PlayStation 2 titles.
Each title is said to have a time-related theme: Birth by Sleep is “the distant past,” KH: 358/2 Days is “time of the other side,” and Code is “time has gone by.” More as it comes!
Update 2 from Duckroll
KH 358/2 Days:
- Begins with the ending of KH Re:CoM, and mentions “the opposite side of time, while Sora was sleeping”.
- The entire game is centered around Roxas, and his time while Sora is asleep, as expected.
- XIII Org game total. 4 player multiplay.
- Ends with “In another 151 days, I will disappear from this world…”
KH Birth by Sleep:
The main character of Birth by Sleep is Terra
- Begins with the the KH ending going backwards to the Opening. “The distant past”, “Destiny is born from the sleeping secret”.
- Takes place in Hollow Bastion.
- Features the characters from the KH2FM+ secret ending, including the old man.
EA Japan announced Populous DS is in development, and will have 4 player wireless play. That’s all the info for now.
