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Beat ‘em up that lets you shoot ‘em up — When fisticuffs aren’t enough, add guns to deliver a whole new brand of justice to the mean streets of Tokyo. Pick up a variety of weapons, ranging from handguns to rocket launchers, for intense action on each level.
70’s cop shows have nothing on this — Outrageous style, over-the-top substance, and no holds barred hardboiled police action mix with madcap humor and sharply-written dialogue. Dishing out justice to the seamy underbelly of Tokyo has never been this satisfying.
Multiple characters & endings — This sordid tale of Tokyo’s criminal set unfolds through the eyes of three different cops with unique play styles. Story branches lead to multiple endings that determine whether you’ll get your shot to beat down the ultimate crime boss.

description
Experience the sweet nostalgia of classic coin-op beat ‘em ups, using your fists, guns, and anything else that happens to be lying around to round up and beat down the foolish criminals of Tokyo. Who stands between hope and despair, order and chaos? Enter the Beast Cops, tireless servants of justice. These men and women struggle night and day for the heart of the city. They’re Beast Cops because they will do whatever it takes, pay any price, inflict as much damage as necessary, in order to restore peace and security to the streets of Tokyo.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-37qx.html ...

Atlus pushed Steal Princess back another month rescheduling its release to May 19. Previously, Steal Princess and its blend of isometric puzzle platforming was slated for April 21. Before that the original release date was March 24. To make up for the delays Atlus is packaging a mini-poster with every launch copy of the game.

Looks like Steal Princess is going to be rarer than your usual already hard to get Atlus game too. Tim Pivnicy, Vice President of Sales and Marketing explains, “Beacuse Steal Princess will be available through fewer sales channels and in smaller quantities than other Atlus releases, finding the optimal launch conditions is critical to ensuring that this daring new release avoids getting lost in an already busy April.”

A tipster told us Gamestop canceled his/her pre-order a few weeks ago. It doesn’t look Steal Princess is in Gamestop’s database either. Amazon is still carrying the game, though.

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/04/02...-up-until-may/ ...

More than a year ago, famed Japanese copywriter and creator of Earthbound, Shigesato Itoi interviewed Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, covering a plethora of topics ranging from Nintendo to Iwata’s philosophy on design and a brief history of how the two men met. To date, I still think it is one of the Iwata interviews I’ve read, owing largely to his relationship with Itoi and his website, “Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun.” If you’re an Iwata fan, I would highly recommend reading the piece.

Recently, Yasuhiro Nagata from “Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun” conducted a special edition of the popular “Iwata Asks” series of interviews, with Iwata once again taking the spotlight and being grilled on a number of Nintendo-related matters. Here’s the portion of the interview I found most interesting:

Iwata: I’ve heard complaints—some not entirely bad, such as about having to lug around a bunch of game cartridges, for example— and noticed that, even though we have changed the nature of gaming with the Nintendo DSi, the other Nintendo DS family systems hitherto has represented the same old concept centered around plugging in a single game cartridge.

Also, sometimes when using my cell phone, I’ve thought that adapting this or that service to the DS would make it much more convenient. And, above all, I’ve thought about what should be done so the DS platform will remain vibrant years down the road.

But I wonder if perhaps Nintendo DSi solves all these problems by allowing users to tailor their own unit and walk around with their personalized Nintendo DSi systems.

I’ll admit, that is easily my biggest gripe with the DS at the moment.

Iwata goes on to state that famous Miyamoto quote that a true idea is “something which solves multiple issues at once.” Well, making it possible to load your DS games to an SD card on DSi and carry them all with you would solve the inconvenience issue and might also help offset piracy to an extent. That sounds like a true solution to me.

Question is, does Iwata think so, too?

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/04/02...s-issue-on-ds/ ...

New from Divineo China



Video Formats: RM/ RMVB (720 x 576 maximum), AVI (800 x 480 maximum), WMV, DIVX, XVID, ASF, MP4, 3GP, MOV, MPG

Directly Plays Flash Video Formats
- FLV (Compatible with YouTube)
- Built-in High Speed Flash Memory
- 260,000 TFT True Color Display (LCD size: 3.0 inch)
- Built-in T-Flash/Micros Card Slot
- Built-in game
- Built-in high quality speaker

MP3
- Support MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, ACT Music Formats
- Support ID3: The songs' titles and lyrics can be shown on screen (Software Included)
- 7 Playing Modes: Normal, Repeat One, Folder, Repeat Folder, Repeat All, Random, Intro
- 7 presets EQ for your music: Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Soft, Pop, DBB

Support 16 Languages:
- English, Simple Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Turkish
- Inter-changeable animated startup screens
- Icon display function: direct icon display, accompanied with icon/ text

Fm Radio:
- Built-In FM Radio: FM stereo radio
- Support stereo sound radios
- FM Frequency Range: 87-108MHz
- Powerful automatic channel search function
- Powerful FM recording function

E-Book Function:
- Support txt Format files
- Phone book support

Voice Recording:
- High Quality Voice Digital Recording, 3 Recording Mode: Fine REC, Long REC, Long VOX
- Up to 64 hours of high quality WAV format voice recording and up to 288 hours of ACT format voice recording, Recorded Messages can be saved in 9 Folders and 99 Files
- A-B repeater
- Built-in Microphone
- Built-in Speaker

Picture Viewer:
- Built-in Picture Viewer, support JPEG format pictures or JPEG photos downloaded from internet

USB Storage:
- Act as USB Flash Drive (Can store other data file), USB 2.0 high speed transferring, Plug and Play in Windows (no driver required) except Windows 98 or earlier

Others:
- Use rechargeable Li-ion Battery
- Output Frequency: 20 Hz to 20 KHz, MP3 Bit Rate: 8kbps-320kbps
- Fast Forward, Reverse, Skip and Back Track. Sleep mode, auto Power-Off, Power-Saving mode available
- Size: 90 x 50 x 13mm
- Weight: 60.5g
- Audio Connector: 3.5 mm headphone jack ...

New from Divineo China



Video Formats: RM/ RMVB (720 x 576 maximum), AVI (800 x 480 maximum), WMV, DIVX, XVID, ASF, MP4, 3GP, MOV, MPG

Directly Plays Flash Video Formats
- FLV (Compatible with YouTube)
- Built-in High Speed Flash Memory
- 260,000 TFT True Color Display (LCD size: 3.0 inch)
- Built-in T-Flash/Micros Card Slot
- Built-in game
- Built-in high quality speaker

MP3
- Support MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, ACT Music Formats
- Support ID3: The songs' titles and lyrics can be shown on screen (Software Included)
- 7 Playing Modes: Normal, Repeat One, Folder, Repeat Folder, Repeat All, Random, Intro
- 7 presets EQ for your music: Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Soft, Pop, DBB

Support 16 Languages:
- English, Simple Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Turkish
- Inter-changeable animated startup screens
- Icon display function: direct icon display, accompanied with icon/ text

Fm Radio:
- Built-In FM Radio: FM stereo radio
- Support stereo sound radios
- FM Frequency Range: 87-108MHz
- Powerful automatic channel search function
- Powerful FM recording function

E-Book Function:
- Support txt Format files
- Phone book support

Voice Recording:
- High Quality Voice Digital Recording, 3 Recording Mode: Fine REC, Long REC, Long VOX
- Up to 64 hours of high quality WAV format voice recording and up to 288 hours of ACT format voice recording, Recorded Messages can be saved in 9 Folders and 99 Files
- A-B repeater
- Built-in Microphone
- Built-in Speaker

Picture Viewer:
- Built-in Picture Viewer, support JPEG format pictures or JPEG photos downloaded from internet

USB Storage:
- Act as USB Flash Drive (Can store other data file), USB 2.0 high speed transferring, Plug and Play in Windows (no driver required) except Windows 98 or earlier

Others:
- Use rechargeable Li-ion Battery
- Output Frequency: 20 Hz to 20 KHz, MP3 Bit Rate: 8kbps-320kbps
- Fast Forward, Reverse, Skip and Back Track. Sleep mode, auto Power-Off, Power-Saving mode available
- Size: 90 x 50 x 13mm
- Weight: 60.5g
- Audio Connector: 3.5 mm headphone jack ...

New from Divineo China



Video Formats: RM/ RMVB (720 x 576 maximum), AVI (800 x 480 maximum), WMV, DIVX, XVID, ASF, MP4, 3GP, MOV, MPG

Directly Plays Flash Video Formats
- FLV (Compatible with YouTube)
- Built-in High Speed Flash Memory
- 260,000 TFT True Color Display (LCD size: 3.0 inch)
- Built-in T-Flash/Micros Card Slot
- Built-in game
- Built-in high quality speaker

MP3
- Support MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, ACT Music Formats
- Support ID3: The songs' titles and lyrics can be shown on screen (Software Included)
- 7 Playing Modes: Normal, Repeat One, Folder, Repeat Folder, Repeat All, Random, Intro
- 7 presets EQ for your music: Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Soft, Pop, DBB

Support 16 Languages:
- English, Simple Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Turkish
- Inter-changeable animated startup screens
- Icon display function: direct icon display, accompanied with icon/ text

Fm Radio:
- Built-In FM Radio: FM stereo radio
- Support stereo sound radios
- FM Frequency Range: 87-108MHz
- Powerful automatic channel search function
- Powerful FM recording function

E-Book Function:
- Support txt Format files
- Phone book support

Voice Recording:
- High Quality Voice Digital Recording, 3 Recording Mode: Fine REC, Long REC, Long VOX
- Up to 64 hours of high quality WAV format voice recording and up to 288 hours of ACT format voice recording, Recorded Messages can be saved in 9 Folders and 99 Files
- A-B repeater
- Built-in Microphone
- Built-in Speaker

Picture Viewer:
- Built-in Picture Viewer, support JPEG format pictures or JPEG photos downloaded from internet

USB Storage:
- Act as USB Flash Drive (Can store other data file), USB 2.0 high speed transferring, Plug and Play in Windows (no driver required) except Windows 98 or earlier

Others:
- Use rechargeable Li-ion Battery
- Output Frequency: 20 Hz to 20 KHz, MP3 Bit Rate: 8kbps-320kbps
- Fast Forward, Reverse, Skip and Back Track. Sleep mode, auto Power-Off, Power-Saving mode available
- Size: 90 x 50 x 13mm
- Weight: 60.5g
- Audio Connector: 3.5 mm headphone jack ...

When Apple announced the 3.0 iPhone firmware, they let us all know that MMS would FINALLY be allowed.

Until now, we weren't sure whether videos would be fair game as well in MMS - but the guys over at BGR have given it a try on 3.0, and it looks like its working great.

Good to know.

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-...-delivers.html ...

When Apple announced the 3.0 iPhone firmware, they let us all know that MMS would FINALLY be allowed.

Until now, we weren't sure whether videos would be fair game as well in MMS - but the guys over at BGR have given it a try on 3.0, and it looks like its working great.

Good to know.

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-...-delivers.html ...

Developer Curve has announced a downloadable game called Explodemon, headed for WiiWare, PC, and PlayStation Network this year. Described as a mix of classic platformers like Mario and Mega Man with a modern Halo or Half-Life 2 twist (!), Explodemon will be presented in 2.5D. Curve is apparently a big fan of Super Nintendo-era Japanese platformers. Explodemon himself looks like a super-deformed Iron Man.

The developer previously delivered Buzz! Master Quiz and Buzz! Brain Bender to the PSP. Screenshots of Explodemon have definitely caught our attention and we'll be keeping an eye on this one.



http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/969/969245p1.html ...