New commercial DS game released.



Crash Bandicoot Festival is the latest episode in the Crash Bandicoot game series. This new episode which commemorates the 10 years of Crash Bandicoot is a paty game featuring dozens of mini-games to enjoy with your friends thanks to the NDS wireless capabilities.

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New commercial DS game released.



Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi 2 is the second game from Bandai, featuring the Tamagotchi from days of yore.

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New commercial DS game released.



Probably one of the first games announced for the Nintendo DS, Jinsei Game was cancelled by Atlus during its developpement process but finally made it to the Nintendo DS. Jinsei Game DS is based on the internationally successful Jinsei Game series and lets players compete in a virtual version of the board game.

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New horse racing game for the PSP released.



This PSP edition of Parity Bit's famous horse racing game features quick-play options and uses the PSP's wireless capabilities

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New action game for the Xbox 360 released:



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New baseball game for the Xbox360 released



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Time to talk GP2X again, as manufacturer Gamepark Holdings has announced a truly grand competition for all developers out there who are keen to leave their mark on the brilliant, portable media-wonder. Besides the official effort, the homebrew community dedicated to the GP2X has been busy staging contests well. Reason enough for us to to bring you the gist on these and top it all off with recent developments concerning all things GP2X.

The successor to the popular GP32, the GP2X does it all, only better: it plays games, movies, music, lets you view your photos plus you can read Ebooks on it. Powered by just two AA batteries, it accomplishes all this on the go (the system sports a large 320x240 backlit screen) or connected to your TV screen, by using the TV-Out Cable. Think big screen Quake, emulated classics or watch your MPEG, MPEG4, AVI, DivX, XVid movies, without the need to re-encode: the GP2X scaling chip will resize them to fit the screen! The free Linux OS allows for all sorts of games, utilities, media players, applications and a myriad of emulators for a huge number of platforms including Sega Master System, Game Gear, NES, SNES, GameBoy Color, NeoGeo MVS, Arcade (MAME), Atari ST, Atari 7800, Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, BBC Micro, Spectrum, Genesis/Megadrive, NeoGeo Pocket, Wonderswan, Commodore 64, Colecovision, TI 99/4A, Chip-8 and more.

A powerful hardware consisting of two 200Mhz CPUs with 64MB RAM and 64MB of NAND memory plus upgradable firmware makes sure you've got plenty to play with, even more so if you feel like programming your own games and software for it - the Software Developer Kit (SDK) comes included. A beautifully designed system in and out, the technically improved MK2 version of the GP2X is the handheld of choice for all games and media enhusiasts, who enjoy open source environment and love the option of bridging the gap between mere user and full-fledged software creator. The GP2X is in stock and ships for only US$ 179.90. ...

Via Eurogamer

The creator of the DS music composer Electroplankton has come up with a new harebrained scheme that could be the best thing to happen to music since the stylophone.

Together with Yamaha, Toshio Iwai is developing the Tenori-On - which translates as "palmtop sound". It's a big square thingy, basically, containing a 16 by 16 grid of LED buttons. Each time you press a button, it'll light up and play a sound - and if you keep pressing it, the sound will repeat.

"I want to handle both light and sound simultaneously and pleasantly," Iwai states on the Tenori-On website. Don't we all.

"I have, in collaboration with Yamaha, been developing Tenori-On with particular attention being given to the beauty of the light and sounds, the ease of performance, and as a musical instrument for the future, the design and quality of the product as a whole."

Apparently Tenori-On is still in development, but it's in good enough shape for Iwai to use in his musical performances. ...

Via Eurogamer

Rockstar shed a tiny bit more light on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories this week, revealing that it will cost $49.99 in the US and £34.99 in the UK, and releasing the box artwork for both territories.

The game's due out on PSP in October (17th in the US and 20th in Europe), but Rockstar's been pretty tight-lipped about it so far, other than to say the game will feature "a new storyline, new missions and gameplay" - the same line it took with the PSP's Liberty City Stories, of course.

The UK box art suggests that at least a couple of familiar characters will be returning - again aping the style of LCS, which was set before the storyline of Grand Theft Auto III, and featured turns from younger versions of characters like Donald Love.

UK box artwork.
Indeed, there are plenty of parallels between LCS and VCS - the concept, the release timing, the developer (Rockstar Leeds) - and this has led to suggestions that it will follow its predecessor onto PlayStation 2 after a spell of PSP exclusivity.

Rockstar hasn't answered our questions about that yet. If it follows the LCS pattern though, expect VCS to retail at full price on PSP and reappear later for a budget-like figure on PS2. Indeed, Rockstar billed LCS on PS2 as a chance for the larger PS2 installed base to play the game for the first time, so unless PSP sales go up by about 80 million in the next 12 months we'd be very surprised by its continued absence from PS2 shelves.

Particularly, of course, since Grand Theft Auto IV is still over a year away, and on next- rather than current-gen formats, and therefore unlikely to see its sales cannibalised by the earlier release of a PS2 VCS.

We'll let you know more about Vice City Stories when they write it down for us on big cardboard signs and wave it in front of our faces so we don't have to move much. ...