Newly released today:



features
Timetable: A planner for classes and other important activities
Alarm Clock
Profile: To customize the DS with personal information
Budget: To keep track of daily finances
Calculator
Diary: A complete agenda for important dates
Friend directory: An address book to keep track of all your friends
Notepad: An easy and quick way to take notes

The new Hello Kitty title presents an easy way to manage modern day lives spent on the go and has all the tools necessary for young Hello Kitty fans to learn time management and get organized. Hello Kitty Daily is ideal for managing busy schedules, storing friends’ contact information, taking notes, keeping track of spending money and even improving efficiency, all with the unique style that Hello Kitty is known for around the world.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-34ap.html ...

If the debut of Animal Crossing: City Folk is any indication, Nintendo has another hit on its hands. City Folk landed at #1, with Wild World For the DS still in the top 30.

City Folk for the Wii was just one of five new debuts claiming half of the top ten, beating out Square Enix's Chrono Trigger DS and The Last Remnant. Another strong Xbox 360 Japanese-style role-playing game that should help Microsoft's fortunes overseas. Former chart-topper Kirby will likely move over 500,000 copies of Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe by the end of the year.

A handful of PlayStation 3 titles show stronger sales legs than their counterparts, potentially a good sign for Sony in Japan. Media Create sales for November 17 to 24 are after the jump.

01. Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii) - 305,000 / NEW
02. Chrono Trigger DS (DS) - 271,000 / NEW
03. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (PSP) - 267,000 / NEW
04. The Last Remnant (Xbox 360) - 102,000 / NEW
05. Saka-Tsuku DS: Touch and Direct (DS) - 72,000 / NEW
06. Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (DS) - 55,000 / 419,000
07. Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (DS) - 25,000 / 209,000
08. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS) - 25,000 / 1,184,000
09. Pokémon Platinum (DS) - 24,000 / 1,941,000
10. Way of the Samurai 3 (PS3) - 20,000 / 101,000

11. Wii Fit (Wii)
12. Tongari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Nichi (DS)
13. Prinny: Ore ga Shujinkou de Iinsuka? (PSP)
14. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (PS3)
15. Koihime Musou (PS2)
16. Otomedius Gorgeous (Xbox 360)
17. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (PSP)
18. Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren DS 2: Sabaku no Majou (DS)
19. DS Nishimura Kyotaro Suspense 2 Shin Tantei Series: Kanezawa kankan gokkan no kyoukoku fukushuu no kage (DS)
20. Ryuusei no Rockman 3: Black Ace (DS)
21. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
22. Wii Music (Wii)
23. Secret Agent Clank (PSP)
24. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)
25. Koisuru Otome to Shugo no Tate: The Shield of AIGIS (PS2)
26. Resistance 2 (PS3)
27. Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kindan no Yami no Delta (PS2)
28. Family Ski World Ski & Snowboard (Wii)
29. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
30. Personal Trainer: Walking (DS)

http://kotaku.com/5099906/animal-cro...nance-in-japan ...

If the debut of Animal Crossing: City Folk is any indication, Nintendo has another hit on its hands. City Folk landed at #1, with Wild World For the DS still in the top 30.

City Folk for the Wii was just one of five new debuts claiming half of the top ten, beating out Square Enix's Chrono Trigger DS and The Last Remnant. Another strong Xbox 360 Japanese-style role-playing game that should help Microsoft's fortunes overseas. Former chart-topper Kirby will likely move over 500,000 copies of Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe by the end of the year.

A handful of PlayStation 3 titles show stronger sales legs than their counterparts, potentially a good sign for Sony in Japan. Media Create sales for November 17 to 24 are after the jump.

01. Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii) - 305,000 / NEW
02. Chrono Trigger DS (DS) - 271,000 / NEW
03. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (PSP) - 267,000 / NEW
04. The Last Remnant (Xbox 360) - 102,000 / NEW
05. Saka-Tsuku DS: Touch and Direct (DS) - 72,000 / NEW
06. Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (DS) - 55,000 / 419,000
07. Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (DS) - 25,000 / 209,000
08. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS) - 25,000 / 1,184,000
09. Pokémon Platinum (DS) - 24,000 / 1,941,000
10. Way of the Samurai 3 (PS3) - 20,000 / 101,000

11. Wii Fit (Wii)
12. Tongari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Nichi (DS)
13. Prinny: Ore ga Shujinkou de Iinsuka? (PSP)
14. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (PS3)
15. Koihime Musou (PS2)
16. Otomedius Gorgeous (Xbox 360)
17. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (PSP)
18. Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren DS 2: Sabaku no Majou (DS)
19. DS Nishimura Kyotaro Suspense 2 Shin Tantei Series: Kanezawa kankan gokkan no kyoukoku fukushuu no kage (DS)
20. Ryuusei no Rockman 3: Black Ace (DS)
21. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
22. Wii Music (Wii)
23. Secret Agent Clank (PSP)
24. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)
25. Koisuru Otome to Shugo no Tate: The Shield of AIGIS (PS2)
26. Resistance 2 (PS3)
27. Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kindan no Yami no Delta (PS2)
28. Family Ski World Ski & Snowboard (Wii)
29. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
30. Personal Trainer: Walking (DS)

http://kotaku.com/5099906/animal-cro...nance-in-japan ...

Monster Games, Minnesota-based developer of Excite Truck for the Wii, are hard at work on another Nintendo-published game, one described as "top-secret." Well, aren't they all top-secret, even if they're Excite Truck 2?

It may not be a direct sequel to the Wii launch title, at least according to an older rumor about Monster Games' development plans, via good ol' Surfer Girl. Locally Grown writes that the development on the game is "so private the designers must darken their monitors when the bottled-water deliveryman enters the office." Certainly not for Excite Truck 2!

According to the article, Monster Games has been hard at work on the unnamed title for two years, as of last month when the article was published. Perhaps Nintendo will have some surprises for us early next year.

http://kotaku.com/5099930/excite-tru...nintendo-title ...

One for USA Folks only :

Another week, another TUD. What's TUD? TELL US DAMMIT. So do that, TELL US DAMMIT. Here's how it works:

We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn't some marketing survey or whatever. It's an emotional investment in you. Yes, we're interested in knowing you, You probably know ****tons about us — more than you even want to, we're sure. But, hey, we'd like to know about you. That way you won't be some faceless blob — and we might feel a tinge of guilt when we ban your ass. Or not, because really we're incapable of human emotion. Smooches.

Question: Did you buy any games or game hardware on Black Friday? If so, what?

http://kotaku.com/5099918/did-you-bu...n-black-friday ...

One for USA Folks only :

Another week, another TUD. What's TUD? TELL US DAMMIT. So do that, TELL US DAMMIT. Here's how it works:

We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn't some marketing survey or whatever. It's an emotional investment in you. Yes, we're interested in knowing you, You probably know ****tons about us — more than you even want to, we're sure. But, hey, we'd like to know about you. That way you won't be some faceless blob — and we might feel a tinge of guilt when we ban your ass. Or not, because really we're incapable of human emotion. Smooches.

Question: Did you buy any games or game hardware on Black Friday? If so, what?

http://kotaku.com/5099918/did-you-bu...n-black-friday ...

This past week, my 360 finally gave up the ghost. It began with an occasional hard freeze, and a day later was freezing every two or three minutes – a tell-tale symptom of impending red rings of death. Unfortunately, my Xbox exhibited all of the symptoms except an actual series of red rings: a problem that, as the Microsoft support agent informed me, meant that my device was no longer covered by the extended warranty. There goes $99. A series of problems sending me e-mails (and later the actual shipping box) have cost me at least a month of playing time ... during the busiest gaming season of the year.

The point is not to complain about my problems per se – I'm hardly the first gamer to have experienced these issues and I'm sure that I won't be the last. But since I haven't been playing, I've had a lot of time to think about the implications of these issues on hardware manufacturers, publishers, developers, and even retailers. Do my problems matter to the businesses that care about me?

By one standard, they clearly aren't as important as I'd like to believe. The 360 hasn't outsold the Wii yet, but it's standing above a respectable 20M units sold despite all of the negative publicity. I paid my $99 grudgingly, but I definitely paid it, and I plan to continue gaming uninterrupted as soon as my box gets shipped back from Redmond. As much as I might grumble, the financial and personal impact hasn't altered my day-to-day behavior significantly.

"I may never get around to playing some perfectly good game simply because of this. "
Of course, this is mainly of interest to Microsoft. The remainder of the players in the gaming industry is probably less pleased: I was planning on purchasing at least 5 games for the 360 this month, including Gears, Fallout, Sonic, Mirror's Edge, and potentially several others. That's $300 in lost revenue for a GameStop to share with the publisher and developer of each of those games, and when you consider the magnitude of the problems experienced by the 360 over the past few years, we're talking about a significant amount of money. At best, I'll get them later (probably at a reduced price); but gaming is a fast-paced industry and the hot game of today is likely to be in the bargain bin next month. I may never get around to playing some perfectly good game simply because of this.

And at the same time, my long-term behavior is likely to change. I didn't buy a 360 at launch out of a fear of this very same problem; in fact, I was reasonably certain that most of the hardware issues had been ironed out by the time I went to my local Best Buy. So when the next Xbox comes out, I'm going to think long and hard about whether or not it's going to make a good investment. And to the extent that I do decide to buy, it's going to be considerably later. This is probably going to ripple down the chain as well; consoles rise and fall based on their publisher support, and to the extent that the consoles launch more slowly than expected, there may very well be a problem.

So what's the answer? I'm not changing much in the near future. I'll still play my 360, and I'll still enjoy it. But there will definitely be an impact on my spending in the future, and I'm less inclined to trust Microsoft for charging me to repair a well-known manufacturing flaw in their already expensive product.

As it happened, I received an e-mail as I typed this, informing me that my 360 had just been received by the support center. Let's be honest here: most of us will be making a purchase decision based on the games that are set for release for a given device, not purely on their technical stability. But manufacturers would be fooling themselves to pretend that each generation represents a clean break with the previous one. Once bitten, twice shy.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/28/co...ten-twice-shy/ ...

skeezix] has got his hands on one of the first Pandora dev kits to make it out the door and took a few photos. This is 1 of the 20 MK2 devboards that were produced. Although, not final it certainly is close to the version they’ll be shipping. Pandora is a Linux based portable game console. The main chip in the clamshell device is a TI OMAP3530. It has OpenGL hardware acceleration and an 800×480 touchscreen. A QWERTY keyboard is included along with analog and digital game controls. WiFi, bluetooth, USB host, TV-out, and dual SDHC card slots round out the package. The team has already presold 4000 devices.

http://hackaday.com/2008/11/28/pando...-unit-unboxed/ ...

skeezix] has got his hands on one of the first Pandora dev kits to make it out the door and took a few photos. This is 1 of the 20 MK2 devboards that were produced. Although, not final it certainly is close to the version they’ll be shipping. Pandora is a Linux based portable game console. The main chip in the clamshell device is a TI OMAP3530. It has OpenGL hardware acceleration and an 800×480 touchscreen. A QWERTY keyboard is included along with analog and digital game controls. WiFi, bluetooth, USB host, TV-out, and dual SDHC card slots round out the package. The team has already presold 4000 devices.

http://hackaday.com/2008/11/28/pando...-unit-unboxed/ ...