Cinescape is reporting that the DOA movie has a director, and surprisingly it's Hong Kong action director Cory Yuen, who has made some good action movies. So maybe now it'll be more than just a movie about a bunch of busty women fighting and playing volleyball, it'll be a movie about a bunch of busty women fighting and playing volleyball well and with style. :D Hahaha, but seriously, if he's given enough freedom it could actually be a pretty decent movie.

Quote:Matt responds: Variety originally reported the news and we ran a story on it too back in January. Since then, Zide/Perry's rights to the movie have expired and as far as I know the company has not re-optioned them. What this really means is that the company is not working on a Metroid movie any longer. Sorry.

So... who got it? Nobody is talking about it? Yeesh.

Quote:Rare mentioned they will release at least three new Xbox titles in US by December 2004, the three game titles will also appear on GameBoy Advance.

Quote:Earlier today, Namco Hometek Inc. announced that their GameCube exclusive RPG, Tales of Symphonia, will be coming to the West sometime this summer. The game has already seen its release in Japan for nearly a year now, however Namco held mum for any official expected US showing. Despite this, the news may not come as a surprise to many, since most gamers had still anticipated this move anyhow. For those waiting for an official statement, here it is.

Tales of Symphonia continues Namco's popular "Tales of" RPG series, however the developer/publisher will be taking steps into new territory, by immersing the franchise into full 3D for the first time. The game lets you roam the world as Lloyd Irving, as you meet friends and battle foes. With beautiful cel-shaded visuals, a unique battle system that supports four players, and an expected 80 hour game time, Tales of Symphonia is shaping up to be an epic RPG. It certainly helps that it's a GameCube exclusive title.

As stated, Tales of Symphonia is slated for a Summer 2004 release. Below are the new screenshots we promised.

Nintendojo has posted what may be leaked DS specs, translated by Nathan Heckle, who goes to my local university.

Quote:It would appear that through a leaked "Nitro" document we may very well have before us the technical specs for Nintendo's DS, which basically confirms it to be a portable Nintendo 64. While still an unsubstantiated rumor, the file appears to be legit. Click the image below for a look at the full sized document.


NITRO Function Summary


CPU Core

Main Processor: ARM946E-S (67 MHz)

Cache: 8 kilobytes for instructions, 4 kilobytes for data

TCM: 32 kilobytes for instructions, 16 kilobytes for data

Sub Processor: ARM7TDMI (33 MHz)


Memory

Main Memory: 4 megabytes (8 megabytes in the debugger)

ARM9/ARM7 Shared: 38 kilobytes (16 kilobytes x 2)

ARM7 Internal Work RAM: 64 kilobytes

VRAM: 656 kilobytes

LCD

Screen Size: 256 x 192, RGB pixels, two screens

Number of Colors: 262,144 (18-bit color)


2D Graphics Engine (A, B)

Backgrounds: Up to 4 layers

Objects: Up to 128 sprites


3D Graphics Engine

Coordinate Conversion Ability: Up to 4 million vertices/second

Polygon Drawing Ability: Up to 120,000 polygons/second

Pixel Drawing Ability: Up to 30 million pixels/second


Sound

16-channel ADPCM/PCM (Up to 8 channels of PSG can be established)

Microphone Input

Wireless Communication

Original protocol based on IEEE802.11

Input Device

Touch-panel

Digital-pad, A, B, R, L, Start, Select (X and Y are under examination)

Power Control

Can deal with sleep mode (wakeup is possible at a chosen time interval or due to wireless reception), 2D engine, rendering engine, geometry engine, and the LCD's power control.

There you have it; make of it what you will. Major props to Nintendojo contributor Nathan Heckel for his translation of the text.

Congratulations on passing 20,000 posts! Approximately 93% of them were pointless but even still! You officially have no life whatsoever! Hooray!

http://cube.ign.com/articles/496/496698p1.html

Quote:DICE 2004: Nintendo Still Skeptical of Online
Latest comments from NOA on the subject.
March 04, 2004 - At a DICE held roundtable in Las Vegas, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan commented on online gaming and what it means to Nintendo. The figurehead reiterated Nintendo's stance on the developing gameplay mechanic as something that lacks a profitable model and hasn't appealed to a wide enough audience.

"I think from where we stand it looks to us that it's going to be fairly niche for a long time," said Kaplan on online gaming. "I think some of our interests instead lie in building community on the wireless play front as opposed to the online one."

Kaplan, on a panel with executives from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and THQ was the only person to question the future of online games. The three other publishers all have online games in development.

No not that other discussion, at least not mostly...

Anyway, I know many people say that Oracles follow up LA, but based on the games that's impossible! Just play them. While the LInks look similar he's a whole lot younger in Oracles than in LA... and the LA one is identical to the one in the LttP manual... the only thing I don't know is what the LOZ/AoL Link looks like. Could anyone help there? :) If that also looks like the LttP Link then LA could be after several games... OoT/MM? I don't know. You'd need to accept that Link doesn't leave for years because as of MM that Link is still young and the LA Link is older. LttP makes the most sense, really. I know it's not a definite but it's about as certain a maybe as you can get. :)

So the question is then when is Oracles? I know it's some generic time but it'd be nice to pin it down a bit more because everything else fits... but Oracles? It's a quite young Link, but he's not the WW Link for sure and he can't be the LttP Link because that one's too old when he starts out his quest much less after it's over... OoT/MM? I don't know. It could be. Link looks kind of similar and is also young. And in the intro he's on a horse... again I don't know what the Zelda 1/2 Links look like. I'd need the game manuals I think, to rule that in or out. But I'd bet he'd be too old... though it could go in between the games or something? But you need to factor in how the Triforce is there, in the castle, at the time. I don't know when it was for sure... but between the horse and the age I'm kind of leaning towards OoT/MM...

So why did I bring this up again? Well I was looking through my GB manuals (and the new LttP one) and noticed how LttP Link is the same as the one in the LA intro (and similar to the older Link in OoT, you know...) and then checked Oracles and noted the age and if you believe that the theory that OoA/S comes either after LA or after LttP are all impossible.

Old news? Maybe, I don't remember. But I wanted to say it anyway. :)

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