We all knew this was coming when nintendo announced Twilight princess wouldn,´t be out for another 6 months at least. Several sources have confirmed that the game, while it´ll still be released for the cube, will be able to use the capabilities of the revolution controller when the console is launched.

With this added functions we´ll be able to use the sword, walk, etc using the freestyle controller. I´d like to see some other weapons making use of the controller, how about the bow? that would be really fun.

I´m starting to wonder if TP will come packed in 2 or more discs, i mean, with over 80 hours of gameplay, really nice graphics and revolution funcionality it would be possible.

Gamecube

• United States
  • Chaos Field
• Japan
  • Need for Speed Most Wanted

Nintendo DS

• Japan
  • Arashi no Yoruni
  • Bouken-Ou Beet: Vandal vs. Busters
  • Onegai My Melody: Yume no Kuni no Daibouken
  • Shanghai
  • Tao: Mamono no Tou to Mahou no Tamago

Game boy advance / Game Boy Micro

• Japan
  • Animal Yokochou
  • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
  • Hudson Collection Vol. 1: Bomberman Collection
  • Hudson Collection Vol. 2: Lode Runner Collection
  • Hudson Collection Vol. 3: Action Collection
  • Hudson Collection Vol. 4: Nazotoki Collection
  • Ochainu no Bouken Jima

So, Mr. Miyamoto said they still have a few extra surprises for the revolution and we know we´ll find everything about them in the next E3. But of course we´ll never stop speculating on what this secret might be about.

Ther´s been a lot of buzz lately about “Displacement mapping” a patent filled by Nintendo wich basically aims to use this technology to make wonderful graphics using as little resources from the processor as possible. This would mean that even if the revolution has lower tchnical specs that it´s 2 rivals it will still be able to compete in terms of graphics.

By giving cool graphics with a low polygon count Nintendo would be able to offer the console and the games at low costs and these would still look really good.

Of course these are just rumors but sounds pretty interesting doesn´t it?

Here´s a good article about displacemnt mapping, check it out.

A mario face built from hundreds of little DS consoles. This is oficially my new favourite nintendo related wallpaper. Edge made a collection of GB, PSP and DS wallpapers and in my humble opinion all of the are pretty damn cool. You have to check them out.

Link: Edge wallpapers
via: british gaming blog

Namco finally announced the name of their upcoming ‘tales of’ series RPG title for the DS, the game will be called Tales of the tempest The picture on your right shows a character who was also revealed by the company.

Ok, so he´s 15, he´s 1.65 meters long and he has that weird metal yu gi-oh meets beyblade thing on his arm. Hopefully, he will not be the main character.

Namco opened a mini-site (actually, it should be called a nano-site) for the game and let me tell you if you´ve been waiting for some info on this game like i have, you´ll be dissapointed, there´s not too much to see.

Really slow week in releases and the rest of the year won´t see many more titles for the Nintendo consoles. Posting might be slower than usual as well since there´s not a lot of news to talk about.

Gamecube

• United States
  • Chaos Field
• Europe
  • Dora The Explorer: Journey To The Purple Planet
• Japan
  • Chicken Little
  • Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 12 Ketteiban
  • Konjiki no Gashbell: Go! Go! Mamono Fight!!
  • Shadow the Hedgehog

Nintendo DS

Game boy advance / Game Boy Micro

• United States
  • Final Fantasy IV Advance
  • Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku I & II
  • Pocket Dogs
• Europe
  • Crazy Frog Racer
  • Street Racing Syndicate
• Japan
  • Chicken Little
  • Final Fantasy IV Advance
  • Final Fantasy IV Advance (w/GameBoy Micro)

Source: gamefaqs

I really enjoyed the first Baten Kaitos, hopefully the sequel will be even better. Jeux France has some scans taken from a japanese mag featuring some in-game screenshots as well as some of the artwork.

The events of this sequel will take place 20 years after the original Baten Kaitos so don´t expect to see a lot of the original characters but we might see some familiar faces showing up every now and then.

Baten Kaitos 2 will be released on February 23, 2006 in Japan. I have no idea when it is coming out in the States and Europe.

Check out the scans here.

ign has more revolution goodies for us, this time it isn´t new tough, but it is a really cool Java applet where you can check out the nintendo revolution controller in.depth.

You can use your mouse to move, rotate, zoom or change the color of the controller. You can also measure it with a really nice tool.

The applet takes a while to load and it might slow down your pc a bit but it´s worth it. Follow the link to visit the site.

Link: Revolution controller: Touch it

Left: a Gamecube.

Right: A Xbox 360 power supply

I wouldn´t like being hit with one of those huge monsters.

via: infendo

Just yesterday we were talinkg about some early revolution specs that ign was able to get from developers and today they are giving us even more information.

According to the article the developers are working only with the CPU´s and GPU´s documentation and they haven´t seen them working yet since IBM and ATI are still working on them. From the info they have,it is possible to guess some tech specs altough this might not be exact number at the end of the day. Here´s what the developers are sayin about the revolution:

“Basically, take a GameCube, double the clock rate of the CPU and GPU and you’re done.”

“Our guys experimented with it and think they’ll be able to get about twice the performance as GameCube.”

The article also reveals that revolution discs might be able to store up to 4.7GBs of data on a single layer or 8.5GBs when double-layered on a single-side.

With these numbers, developers are speculating about the initial price tag wich could be around $149 with $99 not being a crazy possibiliy.

Link: ign