An obvious addition to the DS platform is the DSi’s embedded cameras. Like most cell phones, the DSi handheld an external camera and an internal clamshell camera. This makes for easy picture-snapping.
All DS games may be created equal, but not every DS console is created equal. Especially when it comes to screen brightness. Just look at this comparison pic (click through for a bigger version)! On the top, the original DS. Bottom-left, the DS Lite. Bottom-right, the new DSi. Nice to finally see where some of that decreased battery life is going.
Easy! Take a t-shirt and apply the Bape sub-label Baby Milo. That’s eighty bucks already. You’re almost half way there. Next, make it exclusive to the members-only online store Nigo’s Favourite Shop. Finally, add Japanese import mark up and you’ve easily reached $US175. The designs, featuring artwork from the Bape branded Nintendo DSs released earlier this year, may not be spectacular enough to warrant nearly two-hundred bucks in t-shirt purchases, but it’s not outrageous for retailers to ask this much money.
The tinkering continues! The official NPD charts were interesting, but fundamentally flawed. So we added Steam’s charts as well. Steam painted a much clearer picture of the actual purchasing habits of PC users, but was still incomplete, because we’d left off the other major purveyor of digital distribution, Direct2Drive. So this week, they’re included as well, giving us not one, not two, but three PC sales charts. If you can’t get a clear idea of what’s been selling on the PC after that, well, you’re probably asking too much of your sales charts.
For a celebrity whose past is filled with questionable choices — nearly making out with her own brother on camera, having “Billy Bob” tattooed on her arm, making two Tomb Raider movies — Angelina Jolie has taken a shocking turn for the normal. The UN goodwill ambassador has a decent head on her shoulders, at least in terms of talking to her kids about violence and video games.
Are you the type of gamer who thrives on the rich worlds of EVE Online or World of Warcraft, worlds made more realistic by the semi-real interactions with other flesh and blood gamers? ‘Cause, man, I am so not. And neither is Wired’s Clive Thompson, who writes today about the joys of playing solo, even in games that simulate, in a fashion, big open worlds filled with personalities like Fable II.
Look, just let it go. There will not be a portable Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox 720, 180, 90 or any other combination of ‘Xbox’ and/or 90-degree increments.
There was some good news from the THQ camp today, with the publisher announcing a second expansion for Company of Heroes — the real-time strategy World War II game that everybody loves — would ship in spring of 2009. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valour will follow previous expansion Opposing Fronts with “a ton of rich, new content” including “new campaigns and multiplayer modes, brand-new units, additional maps and the introduction of the ‘direct-fire’ feature,” according to developer Relic Entertainment’s own Tarrnie Williams.