Demos and better organisation inside
We got our first glimpse of the 3DS's Shop Channel today courtesy of a Nintendo investors' meeting, and it looks like it'll offer a far better experience than its predecessors on DSi and Wii.
But more before Christmas
It's the announcement we all knew was coming: Xbox's general manager for UK and Ireland has confirmed every Kinect sensor for November 10th is spoken for, but has promised there will be more stock on the way before Christmas comes around.
Four titles inbound for Movers
Today is one of the biggest release days of the calendar across all formats, so it's no surprise that PlayStation Move is also receiving a bumper crop of titles, with a stack of motion controlled games making their way to retailers across Europe.
If you want to survive
If you've managed to score an early copy of any Kinect launch game, don't put it in your 360 console just yet: it will update your 360 to the new Kinect-enabled dashboard, but you won't be able to connect to Live without downloading another update. The problem with that is the newest update doesn't exist on the servers yet – for obvious reasons – so you'll be stuck in a never-ending loop of misery.
#FF today for the mighty quartet: @nintendolife, @movemodo, @kinectaku and @segafusion! The best line-up of gaming sites ever (me, biased?!)
Sequel with a twist!
We promised you the exclusive on Goodbye Galaxy Games' new title and here it is: Flipper 2 is on the way to DSiWare!
The third part of the Nintendo Life world domination plan is available now: KINECTaku launched yesterday and has already received a rapturous reception (mostly from me).
I was busy preparing content before the site went live, so I’ve got around 7,500 words on there already. In total for October I’ve so far written 62,829 words, or thereabouts.
Last month I wrote the equivalent of The Great Gatsby; this month I’ve even surpassed that. Next year, when I’m writing for four websites, I’ll probably be churning out Great Expectations every month or so.
On the whole I’m rather pleased with how my writing’s going. Movemodo perhaps hasn’t had the huge impact I was expecting but it’s very early days yet, and looking to the future it’s a very real possibility I could be writing for three big sites, or even just one massive one.
Sometime next month I’ll hit a milestone: 500,000 words written across Twitter, my blog and all three gaming sites since I opened this place about five years ago. At this rate I’ll likely hit 1,000,000 in about a year’s time, which is simultaneously cheering and frightening. I’m writing at a pretty fast pace these days, and I’m obviously proud that I’m actually writing, just like I always wanted to.
I hope you enjoy reading KINECTaku (or you can call it Kinectaku, I’m easy!) and the rest of my work too.
Swing, slash, parry!
Tomorrow Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest finally completes its trip to Mt. Doom – well, Europe – so it's the perfect time to find out how the game's Move controls work in practice.
Sonic Free Riders is coasting on a wave of trailers at the moment: the first trailer was outdone by this incredible Japanese advert, and now Sega has put together a new video showing off the weapons you'll be using to destroy Sonic's chirpy mates.
Another Nintendo Life venture launches!
Two months ago we launched Movemodo for PlayStation Move news and reviews, and now it's time to launch the next phase of our plan for world domination: KINECTaku!
My name is James Newton, and this is my website - a collection of my writings about
videogames, music and all my other thoughts.