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Oil in the Gulf. A cat thrown in a garbage bin. Chilean miners rescued. Prince William engaged. Top Gear driver unmasked. This is a very British view of the 10 biggest news stories of the year, turned into video games.
Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi’s philosophy on what it takes to make a game to Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, who went on to design Wrecking Crew for the NES and, most recently WarioWare: D.I.Y. for the Nintendo DS.
WarioWare: D.I.Y. lets budding young game designers with short attention spans make their own video games. Sure they may last less than 10 seconds, but that’s enough for some. How does professional video game maker Ron Carmel do?
Kotaku was prepared to mock the release of a metronome for the DSi today, surely not the best thing in this week’s offering of DS and Wii downloads. But then we saw the picture for it.
If you plan on picking up WarioWare: D.I.Y. next week – with or without a shiny new Nintendo DSi XL to go along with it – get ready to do some heavy reading, thanks to the game’s bulky instruction booklet.
Nintendo’s upcoming WarioWare: D.I.Y., the first that lets players create their own playable microgames, is tapping a handful of all-star developers to create free downloadable content, including the makers of games like Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metroid and Scribblenauts.
Game programming may come to the masses in the most micro of forms with Nintendo’s upcoming do-it-yourself mini-game collection WarioWare D.I.Y., one of a handful of new titles we got to go hands-on with this week.
Game art? These aren’t traditional screens, because WarioWare D.I.Y. isn’t your typical game.
Nintendo’s DSiWare downloadable service is about to get a new Mario game, as Nintendo has announced Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! for the Nintendo DSi. And it’s coming next Monday.