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New Pokemon
fun on deck with 'EX Hidden Legends'
Nintendo of America Inc. has just unleashed
a card trader's dream: "Pokemon Trading Card
Game: EX Hidden Legends." The game features
101 cards that include rare characters and
some that have never before been seen in
trading-card form.
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Nintendo of
America is ramping up the release for
Pokemon: Fire Red and Pokemon: Leaf Green
for a September launch with a prepurchase
program.
Starting Aug. 1, consumers who reserve a
copy of Pokemon: Fire Red or Pokemon: Leaf
Green at participating retailers will
receive the Pokemon Pocket Trainer's Guide.
The guide provides Pokemon facts and
information about the various characters.
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A little different sort of a story today:
Vin Diesel
I’m a Vin Diesel convert. I’ll admit that I
was once pretty ambivalent about the guy – I
enjoyed some of his flicks, but I never
really understood what the hype was all
about. But after meeting him last week,
that’s all changed.
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Star Wars
Miniatures
Play out the battle between good and evil on
your tabletop with the new Star Wars
Miniatures Collectible Miniatures Game. This
September, Wizards of the Coast will be
releasing the Star Wars Miniatures Rebel
Storm Starter Kit and Booster Packs for fans
with fully assembled, prepainted plastic
miniatures of characters from the Star Wars
Original Trilogy.
The Star Wars Miniatures Rebel Storm Starter
Set provides all the starting materials a
player needs to become familiar with the
brand-new Star Wars miniatures game. The
miniatures in in the Starter Kit are
randomized and playable right out of the
box.
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Wizards of
the Coast's truth-dare card game targets
girls
The Wizards of the Coast customer service
department, which handles calls for games
like Dungeons & Dragons, started to hear
from a new type of customer earlier this
year.
Girls.
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Nintendo to
sell wireless GBA adapter separately
Previously product-bundled peripheral will
go on sale July 15, with a Famicom-themed
wireless adapter available through Club
Nintendo.
TOKYO--Starting July 15, Nintendo will start
selling its wireless Game Boy Advance link
adapter separately in Japan. Until now, the
peripheral has only been available in a
bundle with three titles: Pokemon Fire Red,
Pokemon Leaf Green, and Mario Golf: Advance
Tour.
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Nintendo
Backing GameCube For The Long Haul?
In an interesting coda to the news of
Nintendo's next game console from the
company's management policy meeting earlier
this week, the Yomiuri Shimbun today passes
on another comment on the new hardware from
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Iwata
evidently mentioned that Nintendo's next
console, presently code-named "Revolution,"
might be sold alongside its current GameCube
hardware for some time after its release.
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Nintendo
Reveal Limited Edition GBA SP Banana
flavoured handheld for Japan only.
Super Donkey Kong 2 If, like SPOnG, you love
anything to do with Japan, monkeys and
bananas, then news of Nintendo's new limited
edition GBA SP will have you whooping and
hollering like a loud American in a whooping
and hollering competition. Purchasers of
Japanese versions of Donkey Konga 2 (GC) and
Super Donkey Kong 2 (GBA) will receive a
free piece of card that also happens to be a
prize-draw entry form. The lucky one
thousand winners will then receive their
limited edition Donkey Kong GBA SP which is
- cue drum roll - yellow!
With the DK logo proudly adorning the
flip-top cover, and tasteful burgundy
buttons adding dramatic and impactful
contrast to the general yellowness, it is
undeniably a collectable bit of kit.
Although it would be nice to think that
Nintendo Europe might run a similar summer
campaign over here, you can bet your bottom
dollar that they won't. Alternatively, you
could spend your bottom dollar on a pot of
yellow paint and a paintbrush.
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Nintendo's
Gosen Slams Microsoft
The battle for console supremacy turns into
a war of words.
A story on gamesindustry.biz reported on
Nintendo Europe's managing director David
Gosen who recently spoke about the state of
current generation consoles and the expected
life-cycle the industry has come to embrace.
Speaking at the ELSPA Games Summit in
London, Gosen expressed his displeasure with
the media and other hardware manufactures
desire to speed up the gap between consoles
by saying, "five to six years is right, and
come what may, we're going to stick to it."
Specifically targeting Microsoft, who is
expected to release their next generation
Xbox in 2005, Gosen claimed that games
profitability "is not their key motivation"
in aiming to launch the Xbox' successor
during 2005, after only a four year lifespan
for the original console."
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WWE Smackdown
vs. RAW
Behold wrestling fans: the first screenshots
and info from the year's biggest grappling
game.
June 11, 2004 - As passionate as the teams
at THQ and Yuke's are about their WWE
Smackdown franchise, getting them to talk
about the next iteration of the series
hasn't exactly been easy. Originally
announced last month exclusively through IGN
prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo,
the sixth installment known as Smackdown!
vs. RAW has been quickly transformed into
one of the most talked about forthcoming PS2
titles this year.
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NINTENDO
warns of Gamecube memory card problems
Because the Memory Card 1019 uses new
technology that more than quadruples the
previous storage capacity of our other
Memory Cards, there may be issues when
saving a small number of older games.
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Van Helsing
for PS2
THIS 3D action offering is vaguely based on
the movie of the same name.
You get to play the all- conquering,
vampire-killing hero from the movie and,
needless to say, there are hordes of
zombies, ghouls and other foul creatures
ready to take on you and your special
whirling blades.
Van Helsing isn't the most cerebral of games
and the levels are for the most part killing
zones, in which you line up your ghoulish
foes and smite them one by one.
There are some terrific bosses for you to
battle, though, and these are characters
from the film. Dracula is the last in a long
line of bosses you get to beat.
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Magic the Gathering
