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Another Patent Filing Speaks of Rumble-Enabled DS
A newly published patent application lends additional credence to what Nikkei reported last month, that Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS handheld will feature force feedback The application shows it working through a coin-sized motor. An earlier filing in February also hinted at force feedback without identifying how. Its illustrations also used a different configuration of the DS.…
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Monster Hunter Tri Keeps Going And Going
If Capcom has its way, once you put Monster Hunter Tri into your Wii you’ll never want to take it out, with regularly scheduled downloadable quests and events keeping the game fresh well past release. The on-disc content is only the beginning in Monster Hunter Tri, coming exclusively to the Wii on April 20. Capcom…
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Nintendo Boss Says Capcom’s Visuals Puts Zelda Devs Under ‘Pressure’
Monster Hunter Tri, due for a North American release this month, won critical acclaim and commercial success in Japan last year with a strong assist from its visuals. Nintendo’s chief even thinks Capcom’s outdoing his company, on its own hardware. In a roundtable conducted last year with two Monster Hunter developers (translated and posted now),…
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Is This The Best Nintendo 3DS Mockup We’ve Seen, Or The Real Thing?
If this wonderful little piece of machinery isn’t Nintendo’s 3DS, slated to be revealed at E3 later this year, then we damn sure wish it was. Check out the sliding, twisting marvel in all its glory. The pictures come from a Japanese website called, as Google’s translator indicates, Munch Blog, a site about anime, manga,…
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The Nintendo Download: No One Here But Mr. Driller
It’s a slow week in The Nintendo Download, with a couple of educational WiiWare titles, a NEOGEO shooter, several Game & Watch titles, and poor little Mr. Driller taking up the rear. Poor Mr. Driller. He’s potentially the highlight of this week’s Nintendo download, yet he’s buried down at the bottom of a list of…
By Mike Fahey
