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by Published on December 11th, 2009 00:15
Nintendo released New Super Mario Bros. Wii in Japan last week, giving the console its biggest first-week software sales in the country to date, more than 950,000 copies sold, according to Media Create.
That puts it ahead of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, ahead of Mario Kart Wii, and ahead of everything else released in Japan this week. While two new PSP games—Phantasy Star Portable 2 and Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus—scored second and third place with impressive numbers, their sales couldn't come close to the newest of New Super Mario Bros.
And speaking of New Super Mario Bros., the Nintendo DS original is still represented well on this week's chart, managing to score 24th place this week, many years after its initial debut.
As for the new games, Assassin's Creed II managed a top ten showing, as did PokePark for the Wii. In danger of slipping from Media Create's top thirty is poor old Dragon Quest IX. Hang in there, DQ!
01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 953,000 / NEW
02. Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP) - 287,000 / NEW
03. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus (PSP) - 223,000 / NEW
04. Sengoku Musou 3 (Wii) - 121,000 / NEW
05. Layton Kyouju to Majin no Fue (DS) - 85,000 / 392,000
06. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 75,000 / 1,822,000
07. PokePark Wii: Pikachu no Daibouken (Wii) - 64,000 / NEW
08. Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (DS) - 63,000 / 3,153,000
09. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 52,000 / 1,044,000
10. Assassin's Creed II (PS3) - 49,000 / NEW
11. Tokimeki Memorial 4 (PSP)
12. Power Pro-Kun Pocket 12 (DS)
13. Inazuma Eleven 2: Fire / Blizzard (DS)
14. Metal Fight Beyblade: Bakutan Cyber Pegasus (DS)
15. Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes W (Wii)
16. Assassin's Creed II (Xbox 360)
17. Momotarou Dentetsu 2010 Senkoku Ishin no Hero Daisyuugou ! No Ken (Wii)
18. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
19. Stitch! Ohana to Rhythm de Daibouken (DS)
20. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii Dodoon to 2 Yome! (Wii)
21. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS)
22. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (PS3)
23. Kaiju Busters (DS)
24. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
25. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii)
26. J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J (PSP)
27. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
28. Tamagotchi no Narikiri Channeru (DS)
29. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (The Best) (PSP)
30. Dragon Quest IX (DS)
http://kotaku.com/5423484/new-super-...new-of-the-new ...by Published on December 11th, 2009 00:14
Media review aggregator Metacritic has released a list of the top games and consoles of 2009, with the PlayStation 3 coming out on top of the site's first annual Game Platform Power Ranking.
The Game Platform Power Ranking isn't just about the average review score of games across the various platforms. Metacritic takes into account the number of titles scored a 90 or higher when calculating the winner, which explains how the PlayStation 3 came out on top, despite PC titles having an average score of 72.5 to the PS3's 72.0.
As you can see in the chart, the Xbox 360 takes third place, followed by the Sony PSP. Nintendo's two platforms take up the rear, perhaps as result of having more games released than any other console platform.
So the PlayStation 3 is the top console, what are the top games?
The PlayStation 3 tops the chart again, with the first three positions taken up with PS3 titles. In fact, of the three titles in the list that are platform exclusives, two of those belong to the PlayStation 3 - number one Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and the God of War Collection, with Xbox 360 racer Forza Motorsport 3 being the third.
Not one game in the top 10 best reviewed games for the year is for the Nintendo Wii, with only a lone DS game - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - joining the five PS3 and four Xbox 360 titles.
Going over all of the statistics, it looks like a matter of quality over quantity for the PlayStation 3. It's good to see the sun shining on Sony's black box, isn't it?
You can check out the full lists and breakdowns by platform over at Metacritic.
http://features.metacritic.com/featu...games-of-2009/
http://kotaku.com/5423709/metacritic...atform-of-2009 ...by Published on December 11th, 2009 00:13
Having been presented for its first year of public existence as a social platform, PlayStation Home is about to be pushed in a new way: As a social gaming platform.
"We have developed a forum for developers to come in and develop 3D social games," Buser told Kotaku during a Sony Playstation 3 showcase in New York. The goal is to spawn the development in Home of what Buser calls "mini-MMOs."
PlayStation Home has primarily been shaped as a social space up until now, enabling online-connected PS3 users to interact with each other in virtual movie theaters, courtyards, malls, houses and game-themed spaces. Users in Home chat together, dance together and flirt together — any quick visit to Home will verify that that last activity is quite popular.
Some of the spaces in Home have allowed PS3 users to play. There is a hedge maze in one space, a poker table in another. Ratchet & Clank's Home space includes a scavenger hunt and shooting game (pictured above); Uncharted 2's has a multiplayer modification of Risk. Those latter spaces, Buser said, are hints of where this could be going.
You would go to Home not just to hang out, but to play 3D "casual" games.
Buser had no mini-MMOs quite ready to announce yet, but was confident that the gaming expansion of Home is underway. The service turns one year old tomorrow, but Buser was cagey about how, if at all, that anniversary would be celebrated. Time, if not to launch mini-MMOs, to drop the "beta" tag from the project's status? Not something he could talk about now, he said.
http://kotaku.com/5423761/playstatio...on-the-service ...by Published on December 11th, 2009 00:12
As widely expected, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 moved over 6 million copies in the U.S. last month on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, making the first-person shooter November's best selling video game.
Settling for third, behind the two versions of Modern Warfare 2, was Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which managed 1.39 million copies. Nintendo's latest Mario adventure for the Wii did so with five fewer days on U.S. store shelves.
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II came closest to reaching New Super Mario Bros. Wii, with 794,700 units on the 360, 448,400 on the PS3. Combined, Assassin's Creed II came even closer, with 1,243,100 copies sold across both platforms.
The Xbox 360 and Wii tied for the number of top ten games appearing on each platform. The Xbox 360 scored top showings with Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, with Wii bestsellers Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort continuing to score big figures.
The full top ten, according to the NPD Group is as follows.
01. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) - 4,200,000
02. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) - 1,870,000
03. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 1,390,000
04. Assassin's Creed II (Xbox 360) - 794,700
05. Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) - 744,000
06. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 720,200
07. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 679,000
08. Assassin's Creed II (PS3) - 448,400
09. Dragon Age: Origins (Xbox 360) - 362,100
10. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 315,000
Total software sales were a relatively healthy $1.406B, down just 3.1% from the November prior. Thanks, Modern Warfare 2.
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has achieved the top spot for first-month sales of any game at the title level," says Anita Frazier, NPD analyst. "Halo 3 previously held the spot when it sold 3.3 million units in September '07 in 12 days at retail. MW2 bested Halo 3's daily sales rate by 16% in its 19 days at retail in November.""
"While this year's top-selling item bested last year's by 283%, it couldn't make up for softness elsewhere. The top 50 games this year sold 5% less units than did the top 50 last year."
http://kotaku.com/5423781/npd-modern...on-in-november ...by Published on December 10th, 2009 21:46
News via pegasus2000
We're working hardly....
In the next Nanodesktop 0.5 a new professional support for SDL library (called ndSDL) will
be included.
The new technology is fully compliant with the code coming from x86 world: it supports
SDL, SDLGfx, SDLNet, SDLMixer, SDLTTF, and SDL Image, with hardware acceleration
and full integration with Nanodesktop environment.
Some weeks after the next release, in Italy a new initiative will start: the Nanodesktop
Games Initiative. Several games have been already ported from the x86 world with few
rows of code (thanks to the advanced emulation technology provided by ndSDL) and
they will be made freely available to the people.
The next ndPython, instead, shall integrate the PyGame library. In this way, you can
execute all games that in x86 world are developed in Python.
(PyGame library)
ndPython shall integrate also the numpy library, that shall make it compatible with
several Python scientifical applications.
Nanodesktop 0.5 will integrate also a set of video codecs for video playing/decoding.
So... stay tuned.by Published on December 10th, 2009 21:44
News via http://www.psp-ita.com/?module=news&...2&view_reply=1
New update from Moscas for his Goblins PSP, utlity-One PC that comes to version 2.5.1.3
Goblins PSP will allow you to make backups of data on your memory stick, load and / or delete your backup UMD, and launch programs like RemoteJoy USBIsolader, upgrade your custom firmware and manage your plugins. This new release does not bring substantive improvements, but the addition of splash-screen for the contest. But with the next update will add new functionality.
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on December 10th, 2009 21:38
News via http://www.psp-ita.com/?module=news&...6&view_reply=1
Almost a month after the initial release, the coder ac-Portugal releases the first update for Lua MP3, a player file format. Mp3 developed programming language LUA. This update introduces some new features and fixes some bugs in the first version of the program.
Following the full changelog and the link to download.
Changelog v0.2:
Quote:
- Boot Removed
- If there are no drivers required, the program will ask you to install
- Removed the battery icon and replaced with the percentage
- E 'can access the options in any section of the program
- E 'can increase / decrease the brightness of the screen
- Added scrollbar to the list of music files
- Ability to enable / disable the joystick in the options
- If the HOLD button is activated, the screen will turn off the console
- It 'possible to delete music files from the list by pressing the
- The time and the percentage of battery power are present in every section of the program
- Improved some parts of code
- Warning when the level of battery charge is below 5%
- Single configuration file
- To exit the program, you must now use the key
- Fixed some bugs
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on December 10th, 2009 21:25
News via http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...dpost&p=782718
Hello
The GNU Robbo Team has released GNU Robbo 0.64.
Amongst other improvements, this version adds sound support (with some very nice sound effects) and 19 additional level packs.
Complete ChangeLog (not GP2X specific):-
- Modified some objects to be more similar to Atari Robbo
- Added 19 level packs
- Added preliminary music support
- Added sound and sound-skin support
- Added support for tiled level background images
- Added Oily graphical skin
- Added support for Robbo Millenium objects
- Added Playstation PSP support
- Added Russian translation by Alexander Voikov
- Added an in-game pointer control pad and toolbar
- Added extensive pointer support for menus and game
For more information please visit the official GNU Robbo website.
For now you may download the GP2X package (and source) from the above website, and I will update the project's entry in the archive shortly.
Regards,
Thunor
http://gnurobbo.sourceforge.net/ ...by Published on December 10th, 2009 21:18
Neko Project II Wii 0.1B3 released by SquidMan
Neko Project II Wii is a port of the PC-9801 (PC98) emulator, Neko Project II. It was brought to life by the fantastic progress on the SDL-Wii port by Tantric. Neko Project II was originally written by YUI.
When you start Neko Project II Wii, you will be presented with the main menu. Load a disk and run! USB Keyboards are now supported too!
There are 2 files that are required by Neko Project II Wii. This is the font.bmp file, and the x68kfont.rgb file. They must be placed in SD:/PC98/DATA/ as font.bmp and x68kfont.rgb, respectively. x68kfont.rgb is included in this download, but font.bmp is not, for legal reasons. Floppy and Hard Disk images must be stored in SD:/PC98/ROMS/
To get the last built version, there is a directory on the Neko Project II Wii Git called np2hbc. Copy this to SD:/apps/ and put the files required by Neko Project II Wii on the SD card, and go!
In order to build Neko Project II Wii, you will need the latest devkitPro, LibELM, µSync, and libwiikeyboard.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Neko_Project_II_Wii ...by Published on December 10th, 2009 21:15
LibELM 1.4 released by SquidMan, Normmatt, and yellow.wood.goblin
LibELM is a FAT driver, like libfat. However, LibELM is based on the amazing ELM FatFs driver by ChaN. LibELM has a devoptab so you can use stdio functions (fopen, fread, etc.)! Directories and LFN filenames are supported! Completely usable for everything! 1.3 is the True Final release, if there are any bugs, please report them on the talk page, and I will fix them A.S.A.P.
LibELM is Wii only at the moment, and supports SD card, USB stick, and should support SDGecko, but SDGecko has not been tested. DS support is coming soon.
In order to use LibELM, you must also have µSync linking with your project (unless you disable reentrancy). You must also call uSyncInit() before using LibELM!
Important Notices
1.4 is now out! Many bugs should be fixed, and several new features have been added. Check it out. Requires the latest µSync and has a version header too.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/LibELM ...- Search DCEmu
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