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Lost Winds comes to iOS and Android

Jason Oliveira — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:13:59 +0000

Lost Winds was one of the first titles out the gates when WiiWare launched back in May of 2008. The game itself is known as one of the better titles available on the service and even got a sequel in Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodies ;however, being a WiiWare exclusive has kept the series out of many people’s hands due to the stigma that comes with the normally poor quality of software available on the service. Frontier Development seems to seek to change that by releasing Lost Winds on both iOS and Android later this year. The game will have touch screen controls to replace the Wiimote as well as a virtual joypad for character movement. No word yet on an exact release date or pricing yet but expect the game in the app store soon.

I’m not so sure how I feel about the game working with a virtual joypad but if they implement it right this game could be great for the platform. I was a big fan of the series on WiiWare and I would high suggest checking it out if you havent already.

Nintendo’s Weather Forecast: No Rainfall in the Near Future

Andrej — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:20:36 +0000

Nintendo made an official announcement today regarding Operation Rainfall (see our previous story here), the fan campaign striving to persuade Nintendo into releasing three Wii-games in the US that so far are only available in Japan: Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower. Their response? From the official Operation Rainfall blog:

“We promised an update, so here it is,” NOA announced on its official Facebook page. “We never say ‘never,’ but we can confirm that there are no plans to bring these three games (Xenoblade aka Monado, The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower) to the Americas at this time.”

Here’s a protip for you, Nintendo: If you really want people to believe that you’ll cater to the hardcore-crowd with the Wii U, I’d suggest you start right now. If you already have three hardcore games lined up, where’s the harm in releasing them to people who are a) obviously eager and willing to pay for them and b) allegedly the group of gamers you want to win back?

Hitting Shelves (June 28)

Ty Brown — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:35:16 +0000

Take a look at all the games hitting store shelves tomorrow after the jump, anything that interests you?

UFC Personal Trainer-Wii, Xbox 360, PS3
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition-Xbox 360, PS3 (Physical Copy)
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3-Xbox 360, PS3
Storm: Frontline Nation-PC
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D-3DS
Sniper: Ghost Warrior-PS3

This release week is pretty much underwhelming. It is nice to see the 3DS get another game but Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition perplexes me. How many people are going to actually buy a physical copy of this game? I assume most fans have already downloaded the extra content which came out a few weeks ago. I suppose this is a good buy for someone who hasn’t already bought a copy of Super Street Fighter IV, but other than that audience I don’t see it selling like hotcakes. Of course this is Street Fighter so I am most likely completely wrong.

Operation Rainfall Gets First Reaction From Nintendo

Andrej — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:14:57 +0000

With the 2011 release schedule for Wii being pretty much anemic, fans decided to take matters into their own hands. Thus, Operation Rainfall was born, a campaign to get Nintendo of America to release Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower, all games that have been available (and successful) in Japan but not considered for a release in the US.

While the first course of action was supposed to be a letter-writing campaign, some fans decided to take a different route: They started preordering Xenoblade on Amazon under it’s old title Monado. And lookie here: It’s on the top spot of Amazon’s “Bestsellers in Video Games” list.

Now as Kotaku reports, Nintendo of America reacted to the stunt on their official Facebook page by saying “Hey fans, we appreciate your enthusiasm. Look for more updates to come soon!”. While this doesn’t have to mean much, at least the campaign caught their attention.

So, if you feel like actually playing some games on your Wii again instead of using it as a doorstop, join the fight and preorder your copy of Xenoblade today.

Dragon Quest X Possible for the Wii U

Vincent — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:58:49 +0000

Ever since it was announced, fans have been anticipating the release of Dragon Quest X for the Wii. It’s been long since it was announced and we haven’t seen much in the way of an actual game but it may already have plans for Wii U compatibility.

During a meeting Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada was asked about the release of DQX on the Wii after Nintendo’s big Wii U announcement at E3. He responded by claiming that they are currently looking into the possibility of making the game compatible for both consoles in some way.

What kind of support Dragon Quest X could have for the Wii U is obviously unknown. It could add enhanced support, which seems difficult using two different dev kits, or it could just flat-out play on the system via backward compatibility. Maybe Square will finally give some hard details on the title at TGS 2011 in September.

Info on Maps and Modes in Nintendo’s Upcoming “Fortune Street”

Andrej — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:48:52 +0000

One of the more unexpected announcements at E3 was Nintendo’s decision to bring it’s long-running Itadaki Street franchise overseas, under the name of Fortune Street. While it was already shown that the game will feature both characters from the Mario and Dragonquest universe, 4Gamer now has some more details.

The article mentions two maps (boards?) to be featured in the game: Alefgard from the original Dragonquest, and Mario’s Circuit from the Mario Kart franchise. A new easy mode will also be added to the game, reducing some of it’s complexity and allowing people that’ve never played an installment in the series to get the hang of it quicker. Seeing as how the franchise is basically an expanded version of Monopoly, this is definitely a good thing.

Retro Platform Adventure ‘La Mulana’ Hits WiiWare Japan

Andrej — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:34:07 +0000

The retro-style platformer adventure game La Mulana has been released on WiiWare in Japan today. For those of you who don’t know, La Mulana was a game originally released for Windows PCs in 2005 that tried to emulate the graphical style of old MSX games. You took control of a whip-wielding archeologist, exploring caves, fighting enemies and seeking items in the vein of Metroid or Castlevania. While the WiiWare re-release ditches the low resolution and 16-bit color palette typical for old MSX games in favor of shiny new graphics, the gameplay is to stay intact, including the “NES-hard” difficulty. While no US release date has been confirmed as of yet, chances are good that Nintendo will bring this little retro gem overseas. I for one can’t wait.

Video Games Come To Redbox

Ty Brown — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:31:39 +0000

Back in April of this year the Redbox corporation announced that they would soon be offering video game rentals in their kiosks nationwide. This week that announcement came to fruition. 21,000 out of 27,000 of the popular video renting kiosks now have the latest titles for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Redbox began testing $2-per-day game rentals in 2009, and said that in two years consumers rented more than 1 million games from its 5,000 test locations.

Does this change the way you will be renting games in the future? It might be a nice option for those who don’t use GameFly or those relics called Blockbuster. To find a Redbox nearest to you, click here.

Hey Listen! – Castlevania

Mark — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:30:05 +0000

Give a warm welcome to our newest feature, Hey Listen! In the shows premiere episode Mark will be taking a look at an icon of the video game industry, Castlevania. It’s time to listen up and hear why he thinks a particular song in the series is his favorite. We have MANY other features on the way so keep on checking back for regular updates.

The Daily DL – 05/14/11 – Weekend Wrap Up

Destin — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:45:38 +0000

The top stories this week are Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, StarHawk, and Hitman! That’s right it’s time for your weekly wrap up on The Daily DL.com.

Nintendo dropped the price of their console known as the Wii. (Source: Nintendo) Maybe you’ve heard of it. Now you’ll be able to get the soon to be extremely outdated piece of hardware for the low low price of $150 dollars. Be the laugh of the neighborhood when everyone else is getting the Wii 2, and your cheap ass just got an old outdated dust collector. Hey, at least it comes with Mario Kart… and a steering wheel now. Something else you’ll throw away in six months.

Some Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 artwork was leaked onto the net. (Source: HBG)This included box art, a logo, and some kind of elite stamp with a bunch of guns behind it. These new leaked images that Activision refused to comment on are a great time to introduce my new segment.

I’M CALLING IT.

FAKE. There is no way that Activision would release such crap. Especially that Elite stamp. I mean who in their right mind would do that to the Call of Duty logo. It just looks ugly and that’s why I’m calling it. It’s Fake! Nice try Photoshop nerds.

Moving on, it would seem that Kotaku had an exclusive this Friday looking at Modern Warfare 3. (Source: Kotaku) Anyway, you might remember Kotaku as that website you went to before they let a drawing two chimpanzees made in their feces dictate their re-design. They revealed that Modern Warfare 3 will arrive November 8th, 2011 and will find us fighting wars in New York, Paris, and London. Feel free to hop on by Kotaku to see the full story, and thank them for ruining my new segment. Jerks.

Of course the week wouldn’t be complete without talking a little bit about Sony. This week… almost a month after the outage began Sony sent out a nice letter to the companies that lost millions and millions of dollars due to the outage. (Source: DTOID) They said “we’re sorry” and outlined what they’ll be doing to make it all better. Way to be on the ball, and professional guys. Speaking of being on the ball, Bloomberg said that Sony’s goal was to have PSN back up by the 31st which Sony quickly slapped down. (Source: CVG) A conversation took place where a Sony rep said the following. Whoa whoa whoa. We have no fucking clue when the network is going to be back up oh my god why did you say that we’re so fucked I’m going to get fired. Do you know how pissed Capcom why are you writing this down? Then the transcriber stopped writing. So to recap… the consensus is that Sony still sucks. I’ll keep you updated.

Ohh yeah. OKAY to be fair they did reveal Starhawk this week. (Source: IGN) Starhawk is new the cool looking space shooter that is the sequel to the online only Warhawk. I’ve sworn a lot during this show, and I hate using the word awesome, but the best way to describe how Starhawk is looking, is by saying it’s looking FUCKING AWESOME. Now get your damn online fixed Sony so I can play it. Seriously

There were a few other stories this week I feel I need to hit on, but there short updates so lets do them all as fast as possible. It’s afterburner time. 3… 2… 1…

Street Fighter X Tekken will be in stores by 2012 and no one cares, because the much better sequel will follow 6 month’s later.

A new Assassin’s creed game was released further raping Ezio. But Altair will be in it making it worthwhile.

Someone at 1UP got ripped off buying a green ds lite. In other news, I just made $200 dollars.

Brink came out this week and it sucked… on a planet where an almost 70% average review is SUCKING WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU INTERNET?

Finally, Dark Souls is going to be harder than ever. How hard? Let’s take a look… that boulder killed him that was great and Stop…. decent time, but I think I can do better next week.

finally, my biggest piece of news was all about Hitman. A new Hitman has finally been confirmed after a long wait with an extremely short trailer. The Trailer shows Agent 47 tightining a silencer on his gun, a rattle snake coiling a gun, and a brief glimpse at UPC number. And about that UPC number, I’ve got one more segment for you. I’m callin’ it.

Didn’t see that comin’

So you see a UPC in the new Hitman trailer, you enter it online and guess what. It’s for a dildo bag. (Source: Gamesradar)I did not see that comin’. I wonder what the marketing guys were thinking of. “Hey bob, we need a upc! What Frank? We Need a UPC Bob. Oh yeah, how about this one? Yeah that should work, where did you get it? Oh I just grabbed the first upc I could find on Google. Thanks Frank. People have weird conversations in my head.

Anyway that’s all for this week. I did want to let you know that The Daily DL.com is getting some additional contributors now and holy crap we will soon have content every single day so make sure you’re checking it out. Also, let me know what you think of the new format! Hate it? Love it? Leave a comment and tell me your thoughts.

Until next week, I’m Destin, and that’s a wrap.