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Donkey Kong’s coming to 3DS in the form of a refitted version of 2010 Wii game Donkey Kong Country Returns.According to Satoru Iwata, who revealed the game during today’s Nintendo Direct, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D has been “rebuilt from the ground up for 3DS” – though details on exactly what that means beyond 3D graphics were scant. It is, however, the first time Donkey Kong has fronted a game on Nintendo’s latest handheld.
Apple's iWatch will be so beautiful you'll want to cry. And it will keep time faultlessly by running out of power at exactly 4pm.
When I was a child I remember watching a charming animated film about hedgehogs.
Scientists were worried at how many of the little beasts were being run over, so they genetically engineered larger ones. Over time, they needed to make hedgehogs bigger and bigger, until eventually the spiny mammals were six foot tall and a danger to humans.
By this point, cars had begun using hover technology that made them glide one foot above the road. The scientists decided they needed to engineer hedgehogs that were, well, about their original size…
And so we come to Apple's much-rumoured new iWatch.
Lazy journalists like me are very fond of trotting out the observation that phones have cannibalised watches, with their stinky straps and their pathetic tiny faces (the watches, not the journalists).
Thanks to smartphones, no one wears stupid watches any more apart from Roger Federer.
But now it appears that Apple has had this amazing idea. What if, instead of the hassle of reaching into your pocket to get out your iPhone every five minutes, you had some kind of wrist-based device that could perform simple functions and alerts?
You could even tell the time with it.
I'm excited to see how this whole iWatch thing might pan out. Here's how I think it could go.
First Apple will prepare the way for iWatch by suing anyone who infringes their IP. Its lawyers will go aggressively after the BBC's SpringWatch programme, and Bill Oddie will spend the whole of 2014 in a high security Californian penal institution.
When iWatch ships, it will come in a beautiful box that is the work of 27 packaging engineers. The lid will sigh as you remove it.
You will take out the smooth and curved glass product (no physical buttons) and notice that the screen is blank. This is because your iWatch will not tell the time until you have registered and synced it with your iTunes account.
But be warned, iWatch will only sync with the the latest versions of MacOS. If your computer needs an upgrade you can buy one for £89. If your Mac is too old to support Mountain Lion you can buy a new laptop from just £699.
OK, so you've upgraded and synced. You are now ready to start telling the time!
The first thing you'll notice is that the iWatch doesn't have a minute hand.
Or numbers.
This is because minute hands and numbers are ugly and disrupt the majestic sweep of the hour hand. In time, you get used to it, like the Apple mouse without a right click or the phone with no removable battery.
Next step is to attach the strap. However, there isn't one. The good news is that you can buy a colourful magnetic strap at the Apple store for just £39.99.
This is an excellent investment, and will last you six months, after which time the iWatch 2 will come with a new connector that will not support the old strap. However, you will be able to buy an adaptor for £29.99.
The iWatch will work splendidly via Bluetooth with your other iOS devices. It will ping when you get a call, text or email. You can use it to control your music.
However, there may be some teething problems with telling the time. Be careful not to touch it on the left hand side or it may switch to local time in Peru.
Of course, some irrational consumers will object to the beauty and exclusivity of the iWatch. They'll look for alternatives that are more open and customisable. And ugly-looking.
Good news, Google and Microsoft are waiting in the wings.
The first Android watches will arrive in 2014. They'll be OK looking at cheap. But they will also be attacked by malware, and the time will get ****ed up. All over the world Galaxy S-Watch users will turn up for meetings at 3am.
Then Microsoft will re-enter the market (I say re-enter because MS already tried to kickstart the sector with SPOT watches, just as it was first into tablets. Oh, the tragedy of Microsoft).
The first M-Watch will be octagonal and half an inch thick. Its face will be blank and you will need a software licence to download compatible hands.
Occasionally, someone will ask you if you have the time and you will reply: "It's just coming up to 404 Error."
In the years to come, the market will mature and people will buy multiple devices using multiple smart watches. And rather like remote controls today, we'll find these devices piling up. And how we'll laugh as Granddad tries to turn on the Mozilla fridge with his Bada watch.
What a twat.
This is just scratching the surface of the social changes smart watches could bring.
She: "Why do you keep looking at your watch when I'm talking to you? Are you in a hurry?"
He: "No, I think you're great. In fact, I was actually trying to find naked pictures of you on Facebook."
Nintendo has announced plans to broadcast a Nintendo Direct 3DS event tomorrow.
Providing updates on 3DS games "coming soon as well as in the future", it will be streamed on the Nintendo Direct website from 2pm GMT on February 14.The platform holder's most recent Nintendo Direct press conference was jam-packed with exciting Wii U news including plans to show off a new 3D Mario title and Mario Kart Wii U for the first time at E3 in June.
While 3DS hardware sales continue to track ahead of those of its predecessor at a similar point in its lifetime, Nintendo said last month that the almost two-year-old platform is struggling to achieve the desired impact outside of its home nation of Japan, largely due to a lack of hit games.
President Satoru Iwata went on to outline the firm's intention to boost the range of first and third-party software available for the system in a bid to combat the lack of penetration in western markets and transform 3DS from a "device just to play the Mario series [on]".
While the executive felt that many western third-party studios are focused on making games for home consoles, he said "Japanese software developers are eagerly assigning their top teams to develop key titles for Nintendo 3DS. We therefore plan to more actively support the Japanese software developers in distributing their key titles overseas this year. We are also willing to flexibly assist third-party developers in distributing their valuable games overseas."
Fresh rumours concerning the form of the PlayStation 4 controller have been published online.
According to a VG247 source, the controller is "more or less" the same shape as PS3's DualShock, but the Start and Select buttons have been have been moved to accommodate a front touchpad.The report also claims that the L2 and R2 shoulder buttons have been remodelled, and that the previously rumoured 'Share' button doesn't exist.
Edge recently reported: "A new Share button on the controller will, when pressed, launch a new feature that will allow screenshots and video to be distributed online. The PS4 hardware will continually record the most recent 15 minutes of onscreen action (with no processing penalty, claims our source), which users will then be able to edit and broadcast via the Internet."
If the latest rumour turns out to be accurate, the removal of the Share button wouldn't necessarily result in Sony dropping support for the above-mentioned feature.
In January, a senior games studio source working on an upcoming Sony game told CVG that the new system's controller has undergone numerous iterations, few of which resemble the DualShock build that has become synonymous with PlayStation. Versions of the new PS4 pad include biometric sensors on the grips and an LCD touch screen, they said.
Edge has also claimed that the next generation console will launch in Japan and the US by the end of 2013 but will not be released in Europe until "early 2014".
Sony is expected to reveal PlayStation 4 at an event taking place in New York on February 20.
Upbeat Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has said the studio is "more enthusiastic now than ever" for Sony and Microsoft's next-generation offerings. The studio founder said the new consoles will match what the studio is currently capable of doing on high-end PCs."We're more enthusiastic now than ever about the future of high-end platforms," Sweeney toldEdge. "What we're doing on high-end PCs is going to be representative of the future consumer gaming experience and it's going to be awesome," he added.
Dismissing any possible scepticism over the technical gap between current and next-generation machines, Sweeney assures that the improvements will be significant.
"It's going to be a substantial leap over the current generation," he said.
Speaking during a presentation at the Montreal International Game Summit in November 2012, Sweeney cited huge costs developing the Samaritan Unreal Engine 3 tech demo, which took four months to finish with a team of 30 people involved.
Sweeney said he expects development costs "at the start of the next generation" to be around double that of start of the previous generation.
Apple announced today that the price of its entry-level 13-inch 128GB MacBook Pro with Retina display has been cut to $1,499. Meanwhile, the model above (with a new 2.6GHz processor and 256GB of space) has been priced at $1,699. The bigger 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retina display, will also get their processors bumped up to 2.4GHz and 2.7GHz, respectively, while MacBook Air shoppers might want to make their purchase today, as the 256GB 13-inch MacBook Air has also been discounted to $1,399. All the new models (and prices) will be available starting today.
The pink and white 3DS XL was released in North America over the holidays as a limited edition, first sold online, then briefly through retailers. Just in time for Valentine's Day, when the color pink overruns stores nationwide, Nintendo is bringing the pink 3DS XL back.
According to a post on the company's Facebook page, it'l be out this week "at stores coast to coast." It would probably look really nice with a bouquet of roses. Just saying.
Some video game thieves are smart, some are sassy, and some just don't know when to quit - as is the case with 34 year-old William Gooden, who attempted to stroll out of a St. Louis Kmart with 19 games shoved down his pants. Classy.As reported by kmov.com, Gooden's haul was worth approximately $500, which means each game was only worth about $26. Allegedly they were for "Xbox and PlayStation," though the report didn't get more specific than that.Bridgeton Police Department Captain Masati said Gooden is being held at a Missouri correctional facility waiting to serve a five-year sentence for a prior offense.Now seriously, those must have been some pants!
Next generation consoles are unlikely to feature backwards compatibility with current-gen titles, and will focus on deep cross-device connectivity. That's according to EA's chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who has spoken out on what gamers can expect from Sony and Microsoft's next offerings."We have internally, but no one externally has really seen what the look and feel will be like on the new consoles. So I'll reserve judgement other than to say that I think people are going to be pretty excited," he said, speaking during a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco today, reports Gamasutra.
While trying to remain unspecific, Jorgensen did go on to reveal more significant hints as to what to expect from the new machines.
"An important thing to remember is that next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible," he said, discussing the transition of EA's anual sports games to the new platforms. "And if you [play] multiplayer on a game, you'll most likely not be able to play with someone on a different generation," he added.
Hinting at a potential late 2013 release for the new consoles, which EA is referring to as 'gen-four', Jorgensen went on to say, "If you're a FIFA player and, and the soccer season's starting in August, and all your friends are playing FIFA, you're going to want to be on the same box that they're on. So if they all go out and buy a gen-four box if it comes out at Christmas, then you'll most likely do it. If they all hold on and continue to play on third-generation, you'll probably not see that box purchase until after the soccer season's over."
Jorgensen also spoke about the new console's focus on deep connectivity with devices such as tablets and phones.
"I do think once again without describing the new consoles, you've got to assume they're going to be highly integrated into the living room and the house, and there will be a lot of capability for interaction," he said, citing significant "connectivity potential".
Jorgensen went on, "I think as well you're going to see a lot more integration between tablets, phones, and the consoles over time. You're going to see people playing on glass at the same time they're playing on the console. And there's going to be some exciting innovations around that.
"And I think it's going to be an extension of moving from what's in the living room to what's outside the house. Even though it might not be playing on the console, it's connected to the console in some way."
Sony Computer Entertainment looks set to officially unveil the PlayStation 4 at an event set for February 20 at 6pm EST, where it says gamers will "see the future".
The used games market can be "critical" to major retail outlets, and good retail health is important to the games industry as a whole. So said EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, who acknowledged the 'benefits' of the used games business at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco today."It's one of these classic double-edged swords," he said, reports Gamasutra. "In one way the used game business has been critical for the health of the retail channel, and having a healthy retail channel is an important thing for us."
Jorgensen said that the industry "will probably never be 100 percent digital" do to "bandwidths constraints" and the limitations of in-home storage, pointing to the continued importance of high street retail channels.
"Would we like to sell everything at full price and not have a used game market? Sure," he added, "But I think the used game market's a little like any other kind of market where it creates liquidity. The fact is, that liquidity benefits us in some fashion. So if someone goes in and trades in a game, there's a good chance they're going to buy another one of our games. And so if there's a liquid market, I think that that's not a bad thing at all."
A recent Edge report claimed that Microsoft's next Xbox will require an internet connection to function, and will block the use of second-hand games - a move which US retailer GameStop has condemned.
"I can't really comment on where the next generation boxes are going to be relative to used games," said Jorgensen during the Q&A. "I will say that the trend in the business is to have that always-on connectivity and connect with a customer, and to the extent that the software identifies a certain customer is going to create some issues going down the road in the used game market."
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