For anyone who didn't know, it's live now through the 31st (that is, this weekend). I loved it in their five day free E3 alpha, so I'm definitely going to play it now...
Oh yeah, and if you buy the preorder box in stores ($10) you get a key that lets you access several later weekend events that will be restricted to just people who preordered, the alpha testers (small group), and people let in by website contests and stuff... but this weekend is open to everyone.
If I wasn't lazy I'd link that preview thing I made after the E3 one... ... okay, I went and found it.
Quote:Hello everyone. Well, it's been 86 years since they won their last
championship, but the Boston Red Sox have finally won a World Series! I
made some chocolate chip cookies to celebrate the occasion. Feel free
to swing by Room 218 for cookies and to revel in the end of the dreaded
"Curse of the Bambino".
There's Advance Wars GC (which is looking mighty fine), Touch! Kirby: The Magic Paintbrush (literal translation), some new Mario Kart pics, Animal Crossing which looks really cool with that lower perspective, and some other stuff.
Since most of the good gamesites are blocked at my work... I have to post this news from Spong:
Quote:Not content with today’s Sony-centric blanket online coverage, Nintendo has cleared its throat in front of Famitsu, to announce a brand new DS title. Joining other cast members from Mario’s extended family (Wario, Luigi etc), Princess Peach is the latest character to get her own touch-screen enabled outing. Alas details are pretty scant on the ground at the moment, without even an indication of when it’s due for release.
What we do know, however, is that Super Princess Peach will be a 2D scrolling action game (featuring Princess Peach). She will also be armed with an umbrella with which to attack oncoming enemies. Putting two and two together, we can comfortably suggest that the player will use the stylus to swipe, stab and control the umbrella.
I just want to tell all of you here (and I won't name names.... no wait yes I will: A BLACK FALCON, GREAT RUMBLER, DARK JAGUAR, and any of you other punks who argued with me for months about how wrong my price predictions were) that you guys were WRONG and I was RIGHT (haha, you wrong people must hate me SO much now)!! I knew that Sony would never sell the PSP for over $300, and the official price is just $35 more than the Nintendo DS!!
And 4-6 hours of rechargeable battery life (for games and movies) is not going to kill the system. The DS's battery life is only 6-10 hours long.
Wow, I hope Nintendo wins this battle, but I think they're in deep shit. I seriously hope this doesn't become a clear victory for Sony... but man, with this insignificant price difference and incredibly large difference in terms of power... we can only hope that the general public sees the two screen thing as more than just a gimmick. And Nintendo's flagship title (mario 64) certainly doesn't do anything to dispell that image of gimmick. Wario Ware, XX/XY, and a few other games use the two screens very effectively, but none of Nintendo's big launch games do. :(
Anyone else get it yet? I've only played it for a couple of hours but I love it (surprise surprise)! I got Paper Mario 2 at the same time but I'm having trouble pulling myself away from GTA....
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