How many of you have been brawling it up?

Glad that Brawl came around just in time for my birthday this year.

Also check out Insecticide, it looks like a great detective style action/mystery that sort of combines platforming action with Ace Attorney type gameplay.

Insecticide, I will be checking this game out tomorrow.

News From GoNintendo:

The guy has a point.  He explains that DS developers are not putting fourth full effort into their game design.  He says that DS games should not be half-ass ports equivalent to cell phone games, and actually supports the DS by saying it is capable of more than that.

Article here: DS Third Party

News from Kotaku: 

Parappa creator, Masaya Matsuura is back explaining his statement a while back about the DS bubble bursting in Japan.

He explains that games with non-gaming content are struggling with low numbers. For example, the second Brain Training game did not sell as well as the first. He also goes on to say that the situation for the Wii is much more difficult, because it seems that third parties get no support in Japan.

Well, that seems like the situation here too. For some reason, Nintendo fans just don’t seem to be giving the third parties any love. It’s OK Ubisoft, I own a few of your games on the Wii and the DS.

Still, this is all coming from the guy who sticks to one genre. I loved the original Parappa, but it was just as simple as many of the games he is talking about now. There was not a whole lot of content, it was just a fun game.

Check out the real article here: Masaya Matsuura talks DS and Wii 

From Penny Arcade 

I haven’t had a chance to play the game yet.  I will when I can afford it.

News From Gamepolitics:

According to the BBC the DS game Brain Training (known as Brain Age here in the states) is clearly discriminating against certain U.K. Accents. In what is probably one of the most ridiculous reports I have heard of in a long time, the BBC program ‘Watchdog‘, devoted 5 minutes to this segment.

In a quote from the original article one complaint says, “I don’t know what’s wrong with the way I say ‘blue’. I can say it as many different ways that I could try and it just really wouldn’t pick it up.”

So let me get this straight. A Nintendo DS and a $20 dollar piece of software is discriminating against you? Maybe you didn’t know about some of the limitations of speech recognition software on something with the limitations of the DS. It will have it’s flaws.

This must also explain why they have to wait so long for games over there.

Remember when must Windows Vista discriminated against an American accent? Vista Oops

Read full article here: DS Discrimination

News from GamePolitics:

According to an anonymous spokesperson for the ELSPA, John Hillier’s quote about 90% of American DS gamers playing pirated software is completely wrong. In fact, the ELSPA doesn’t comment on anything outside of the UK. The article came from ‘The Sunday Post’ who got the information from a website in Singapore:

“The quotes from The Sunday Post were ascribed to his name from another article which originates from a website in Singapore. This, it appears, is where The Sunday Post first found out about the supposed R4 situation and for some reason unknown to John have quoted him on what this article said”

Article Here: 90%?! 

This explains things. Sorry Mr. Hillier.