Ubisoft and Capy’s high-res port of 2009’s best puzzle-RPG looks to maintain the same solid strategic gameplay but with completely redrawn graphics and, as seen in the debut trailer below, more spectacular spell animations.

IGN’s write up of the game indicates that Capy will be tweaking some of the game’s mechanics as well as taking the multiplayer portion online. We’ll know more about Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes HD when we speak with Capy at GDC later this week.

Sakamoto showed a quick video during his Game Developers Conference session, which he felt was critical to understanding why nearly three million Japanese Nintendo DS owners had purchased the “niche” game. His video showed Mii versions of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime from his copy of Tomodachi Collection engaged in some uncharacteristic behaviour. Reggie wearing a kimino, for example, and Sakamoto turning into the Godzilla-sized “Saka-mojo”, tearing down buildings.

But it was Sakamoto’s proposal to Metroid heroine Samus Aran that was most enjoyable.

The tragic third scene of Sakamoto’s proposal to Samus.

Finally, finally. After a lengthy wait, arcade shooter Ketsui is getting ported to the Xbox 360.

Originally released in arcades in 2003, the game has already been ported to the Nintendo DS and mobile phones. The Xbox 360 port is being done by 5pb., a Tokyo-based entertainment company that has released subpar Cave ports in the past. (Fingers crossed this one is better!)

The Xbox 360 version was originally scheduled for the end of this month in Japan, but it has been pushed back to April.

Curse you, papercraft Wario.

With a plethora of HD video capable portable devices at my fingertips, the Nintendo DS is probably the last handheld I would consider watching streaming video on, but that’s just me. A Netflix survey looks to be testing the non-Fahey consumer population to see if they’d like to give DS video streaming a go.

Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies and & TV episodes on their Nintendo DS. The selection available to instantly watch includes some new releases, lots of classics and TV episodes. There are no advertisements or trailers, and movies start in as little as 30 seconds. You can fast-forward, rewind, and pause or watch again. The movies & TV episodes you instantly watch are included in your Netflix membership at no additional fee.

SO it’s basically the same sort of functionality already available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, only smaller.

Netflix also notes that your DS must be connected to a Wi-Fi network in order to stream content, but that’s for the folks who still believe TV transmissions are magic.

What do you folks think? Would you watch streaming video on your Nintendo DS, or are those screens too tiny for your tastes?

Thanks to Kevin for passing along this story.

This ‘unique partnership’ between Nintendo and Square Enix (usually distributed in Australia by Ubisoft) will see Dragon Quest IX hit stores ‘Winter 2010′.

That means June-August this year, and often points more to the latter part of that window.

Mark the calendars, Dragon Quest lovers. The loose-endpoint countdown has begun.

It’s a good retro game pack for DS. Sonic 1, 2, 3, and Sonic & Knuckles, all tweaked to suit the DS. You can get the vanilla version for $49.95 RRP.

For an extra $20 you can get the pack in a special tin. Along with the tin, you get five Sonic art cards. Yep, that’s pretty well standard ’special edition’ fare. But the cute little 5cm Sonic figurine could send a few people over the top.

If they’d have made that tin a proper little lunchbox, I would so be buying it to send off with my kids to school.

Disney CEO Bob Iger said during a quarterly earnings call that the home of Mickey Mouse will publish fewer games for so-called “high-end” platforms. It may release fewer Disney Interactive Studios titles for Microsoft and Sony’s current-gen platforms, as Disney brand games “seem to perform better on the Wii and DS platforms,” according to a report from Computerworld.

“While we’ll continue to make high-end games,” Iger said during yesterday’s call, “we’ll be very judicious in how many we make and which ones we choose.”

Disney’s current “high-end” console slate includes the racing game Split/Second, Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned and games based on the new Tron film. On the Wii side, there’s Epic Mickey and forthcoming Toy Story game adaptations.

Disney weighs bringing Marvel games to ‘high-end’ consoles [Computerworld]

The company announced that lifetime US sales for the Wii have surpassed 27.2 million units. According to Nintendo, “No other home console has ever sold so many so quickly.”

On the Nintendo DS front, Nintendo claims sales of more than 38.8 million, surpassing lifetime sales of the Game Boy Advance “franchise” – meaning GBA, GBA SP and Game Boy Advance micro combined. The Nintendo DS has managed to do so in a little over five years, toppling the eight and a half year old Game Boy Advance with sales of 3.31 million during the month of December.

Dual screens. Who knew it would work so well?

Capcom has just announced the Mega Man Zero Collection, which is a compilation of all four Game Boy Advance games in the Zero series.

Mega Man Zero was first released back in 2002 and praised for going back to the franchise’s original 2D platforming roots. The Zero Collection will be released on the Nintendo DS on April 22 in Japan and priced at ¥4190 ($50). Details are scant and no word about extra features or graphic updates.

Zero Collection [Capcom via The Mega Man Network]