With all the big announcements coming out of E3, you might have thought that Nintendo was totally abandoning its home territory for the lucrative North American and European gaming markets. That's definitely not the case.

Today, the company made a flury of announcements over in Japan, giving a sneak peak at its Wii and DS lineups for the summer months.

Wii Sports Resort leads the way with a Japanese release finalized at June 25. Yes, they're getting it before us by just a bit! The game will come bundled with Wii Motion Plus, all for the standard Wii game price of 4,800 yen.

Nintendo Japan opened an attractive official site for the game today showing videos for many of the events. The site should be navigatable even without Japanese language ability, so definitely check it out.

The official site details a campaign that could induce heated jealousy in anyone not based in Japan. From June 15 through August 31, those who pick up Wii Sports Resort and register the game's serial number at Club Nintendo will be entered in a drawing for a blue Wiimote/Nunchuck set. Nintendo will be giving away just 5,000 of these, meaning you can expect to pay quite the premium on Ebay.



A limited edition Wiimote color!
The Wii Motion Plus accessory is due for solo release simultaneously with Resort. It will sell for 1,500 yen.

So why release a solo Wii Motion Plus if the device is already being bundled with Resort? As with the US, Japan will be getting some third party Wii Motion Plus games as well.

Surprisingly, Electronic Arts was the first third party in Japan to share release details for a Wii Motion Plus game. That game is none-other-than EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. The cartoony baseball game will hit Japan on July 2. A US release is planned for June 8.

Following closely behind Grand Slam Tennis will be a Japanese-born title, Batting Revolution from Alpha Unit. This "real batting game" sports a license from Nippon Professional Baseball and features 36 players from twelve pro Japanese baseball teams. Wii Motion Plus will be used for increased batting precision. Japanese players can expect Batting Revolution on July 16 at 3,990 yen.

Battle Revolution
Nintendo's summer plans extend beyond Wii Motion Plus. In fact, one of the summer's biggest Wii games won't use the device.

We previously shared details on Monster Hunter 3's Japanese release, which is set for August 1. Today, Capcom provided final pricing information for the game's online component.

As with Monster Hunter G, players will have to pay to play online here. Payment takes the form of time-limited Hunting Tickets, purchased with WiiPoints. A 30 day ticket will go for 800 WiiPoints, with 60 and 90 days costing respectively 1,500 and 2,000 WiiPoints. Capcom will also be giving players a 20 day free trial period, similar to what they did with Monster Hunter G.

Monster Hunter 3 and the Wii itself will be part of additional hardware bundles. We were so excited about these, in fact, that we reported on them earlier in the day. Be sure and check up our writeup on the black Wii and Monster Hunter hardware bundles.

On the DS front, there's only one thing that needs to be said: Dragon Quest IX. A July 11 date for the game was shared months ago (well, when the original March release date was postponed). Today, Nintendo revealed that it will be supporting the release through a new DSi color -- the red unit that we detailed earlier.


This is just a standard DSi hardware package, with the same set of included items and the same 18,900 yen price point. For the record, this will be the sixth DSi color for Japan.

The other big DS news for the day comes through somewhat of a stealth announcement from Nintendo. Remember Chibi Robo? You know, the charming house-cleaning robot who longs to make his family -- be it on GameCube, DS, or Wii through the New Play Control series -- happy? It appears that he's returning to the DS!

A new Chibi Robo game appeared out of nowhere today on Nintendo's Japanese DS release schedule. It's titled "Okaeri! Chibi Robo! Happy Richie Dai Souji," which roughly translates to "Welcome Home! Chibi Robo! Happy Richie Big Cleaning." Aside from a July 23 Japanese release date, that's all we know at the moment! But we'll be sure and fill you in once we've tracked down some details.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/991/991544p1.html ...

With all the big announcements coming out of E3, you might have thought that Nintendo was totally abandoning its home territory for the lucrative North American and European gaming markets. That's definitely not the case.

Today, the company made a flury of announcements over in Japan, giving a sneak peak at its Wii and DS lineups for the summer months.

Wii Sports Resort leads the way with a Japanese release finalized at June 25. Yes, they're getting it before us by just a bit! The game will come bundled with Wii Motion Plus, all for the standard Wii game price of 4,800 yen.

Nintendo Japan opened an attractive official site for the game today showing videos for many of the events. The site should be navigatable even without Japanese language ability, so definitely check it out.

The official site details a campaign that could induce heated jealousy in anyone not based in Japan. From June 15 through August 31, those who pick up Wii Sports Resort and register the game's serial number at Club Nintendo will be entered in a drawing for a blue Wiimote/Nunchuck set. Nintendo will be giving away just 5,000 of these, meaning you can expect to pay quite the premium on Ebay.



A limited edition Wiimote color!
The Wii Motion Plus accessory is due for solo release simultaneously with Resort. It will sell for 1,500 yen.

So why release a solo Wii Motion Plus if the device is already being bundled with Resort? As with the US, Japan will be getting some third party Wii Motion Plus games as well.

Surprisingly, Electronic Arts was the first third party in Japan to share release details for a Wii Motion Plus game. That game is none-other-than EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. The cartoony baseball game will hit Japan on July 2. A US release is planned for June 8.

Following closely behind Grand Slam Tennis will be a Japanese-born title, Batting Revolution from Alpha Unit. This "real batting game" sports a license from Nippon Professional Baseball and features 36 players from twelve pro Japanese baseball teams. Wii Motion Plus will be used for increased batting precision. Japanese players can expect Batting Revolution on July 16 at 3,990 yen.

Battle Revolution
Nintendo's summer plans extend beyond Wii Motion Plus. In fact, one of the summer's biggest Wii games won't use the device.

We previously shared details on Monster Hunter 3's Japanese release, which is set for August 1. Today, Capcom provided final pricing information for the game's online component.

As with Monster Hunter G, players will have to pay to play online here. Payment takes the form of time-limited Hunting Tickets, purchased with WiiPoints. A 30 day ticket will go for 800 WiiPoints, with 60 and 90 days costing respectively 1,500 and 2,000 WiiPoints. Capcom will also be giving players a 20 day free trial period, similar to what they did with Monster Hunter G.

Monster Hunter 3 and the Wii itself will be part of additional hardware bundles. We were so excited about these, in fact, that we reported on them earlier in the day. Be sure and check up our writeup on the black Wii and Monster Hunter hardware bundles.

On the DS front, there's only one thing that needs to be said: Dragon Quest IX. A July 11 date for the game was shared months ago (well, when the original March release date was postponed). Today, Nintendo revealed that it will be supporting the release through a new DSi color -- the red unit that we detailed earlier.


This is just a standard DSi hardware package, with the same set of included items and the same 18,900 yen price point. For the record, this will be the sixth DSi color for Japan.

The other big DS news for the day comes through somewhat of a stealth announcement from Nintendo. Remember Chibi Robo? You know, the charming house-cleaning robot who longs to make his family -- be it on GameCube, DS, or Wii through the New Play Control series -- happy? It appears that he's returning to the DS!

A new Chibi Robo game appeared out of nowhere today on Nintendo's Japanese DS release schedule. It's titled "Okaeri! Chibi Robo! Happy Richie Dai Souji," which roughly translates to "Welcome Home! Chibi Robo! Happy Richie Big Cleaning." Aside from a July 23 Japanese release date, that's all we know at the moment! But we'll be sure and fill you in once we've tracked down some details.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/991/991544p1.html ...

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and Zelda and one of the key creative driving forces behind Nintendo, has said he is 'not worried' by the motion controllers introduced by Sony and Microsoft at this year's E3.

'The fact that both of those companies are looking at getting the gamer off the couch, taking advantage of motion control, and getting them to control the game by moving their body shows that they have looked at what we have done with Wii' the Nintendo star told BBC News, "And now they are moving in the same direction. To that end we are very flattered.'

Nintendo unveiled the Wii's motion controller at 2005's Tokyo Game Show, a device that has since changed the face of the industry as it has helped push the Wii console into previously untapped markets.

At a pre-E3 conference, Microsoft unveiled its own take on motion control with Project Natal, an ambitious device that uses a camera and advanced recognition technology that has impressed all who have tried it.

Sony soon followed suit with its Motion Controller, shown off at its conference on Tuesday in an impressive display that highlighted the device's true 1:1 motion sensing capabilities.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/991/991470p1.html ...

At Konami's E3 2009 press conference, the company showed off the latest Dance Dance Revolution games coming out this year, and the new features involved.

The trailer and demo showed many of the features we've come to expect on the Wii, like Mii support, but it also showed that the game uses the Wii Balance Board.

The Balance Board is shown as an optional feature. The gameplay will be based on shifting your weight on the board, not stepping on and off of it. So more of a hula simulation, or perhaps Fat Joe's signature dance move, the "lean back".

DDR is on the E3 show floor, so we'll make sure to check it out, and report any extra info we find.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/991/991113p1.html ...

Issue 61 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. This month features even more new authors and more articles in what is perhaps their largest issue yet. Highlights from the June 2009 issue includes:

Laughing Pixels (Tom Zjaba's VG comics)
High Score Monthly (NEW)
Lunch with Paul Zimmerman
RTM Idiocy - Blissful Ignorance and Dangerous Knowlege
Apple ][ Incider - Computer Baseball (revisited)
The Thrill Of Defeat - ZX81 Games that Mostly Rock
Videological Dig - The Doom phenomenon
NES'Cade - Arkanoid
CCAG 2009 Show Report - from Cleveland Ohio
Who Am I - Name the classic programmer
How Phantasy Star II Taught Me to Spell
How I discovered THE SECRET of Missile Command

http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/ ...

Carphone Warehouse a authorized iPhone distributor in the UK is gearing up for the change. Get this! Carphone warehouse is a huge organisation which is one of Apple's official sales-partner. The screenshot below is their inventory system which shows placeholders for both 16GB and 32GB iPhones in both white and black.

Now we all don't know for sure what is coming out next and Carphone Warehouse's system should not be treated as a confirmation of new iPhones specifications. You decide for yourself! Looks pretty good to me! Looks like the first undeniable proof we have or is this speculation?

Coupled with Best Buy’s recently-released internal memorandum notifying employees of expected low inventory of the current iPhone 3G, as well as a similar advisory issued by Brightpoint, an iPhone distributor in Australia, retail signs are aligned in pointing to new iPhone disclosures early next week at Apple's annual developers conference.

How exciting! I can't wait!

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-...b-iphones.html ...

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Sony has released Final Fantasy 7 on the UK/European Playstation store with a price tag of £7.99 and weighs in as a 1.29GB (1326MB) download. I've not yet downloaded it fully at this time but for anyone who has, please share your thoughts on how it performs via comments below. ...

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- language editor for english-texts
- some automatic patches (including the td-mod)

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