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Why just take photos with your Nintendo DSi™ system when you can have access to a virtual photo booth? Sparkle Snapshots™, a new Nintendo DSiWare™ application, lets you customize pictures with fun extras like fancy frames and stamps. On the other hand, if you’re more of a fan of Nordic pillaging and/or dragons, you’re going to want to check out this week’s Nintendo DSiWare offerings of both Viking Invasion and Battle of Giants: Dragons – Bronze Edition.

Three fun WiiWare™ games are added to the ever-growing library, including Carnival King, which turns your TV into a carnival midway. And the Virtual Console™ delivers its usual quality classics, including Fighting Street®, a port of the original arcade version of STREET FIGHTER.

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**ROCK BAND MEDIA ALERT** ROCK BAND ADDS TO ITS CATALOG OF TOP ARTISTS WITH MORE NIRVANA AND FOO FIGHTERS
Also, tracks from Bullet for My Valentine and System of a Down for Rock Band Unplugged!

Guildford, UK. – Oct. 30, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a three pack of tracks from Nirvana, a four pack of tracks from Foo Fighters and a single from Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store and the LEGO Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system and Wii™. Tracks from Bullet for My Valentine and System of a Down will be available for download next week for Rock Band Unplugged on PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system.

Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 System and Wii
Nirvana released their debut album, Bleach, in 1989 on Sub Pop Records, and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this platinum-selling album, Sub Pop will release a special edition of the album, featuring a complete and previously unreleased live concert recorded in 1990 in Portland, Oregon. The anniversary edition of Bleach will be released the same day and date as “Nirvana Bleach Pack,” which includes “About a Girl,” “Blew” and “School.”

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2-In-1 Solitaire (DSiWare) – 61%
A Boy and His Blob (Wii) – 80%
ArtStyle: Intersect (DSiWare) – 85%
DJ Hero (Wii) – 88%
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii) – 70%
Ghostbusters (Wii) – 73%
Ju-On: The Grudge (Wii) – 51%
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS) – 69%
Learning with the PooYoos – Episode 1 (WiiWare) – 65%
Magnetis (WiiWare) – 73%
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii) – 85%
MySims Camera (DSiWare) – 68%
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 96%
Sexy Poker (WiiWare) – 11%
Spaceball: Revolution (WiiWare) – 78%
Spore Hero (Wii) – 75%
Super Star Wars Trilogy (Wii VC) – 86%
Tales of Monkey Island – Chapter 3 (WiiWare) – 82%
Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 91%
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (Wii) – 83%
You, Me, and the Cubes (Wii) – 80%
Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam (DSiWare) – 57%

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Famitsu’s hardware numbers have come in a little bit later than usual this week. But here are the sales from October 19th to October 25th.

DSi – 44,000
PSP – 40,000
PS3 – 31,000
Wii – 25,000
DS Lite – 3,700
Xbox 360 – 2,800
PS2 – 2,600

For comparison’s sake, here’s how Media Create ranked the systems a few days ago:

DSi 42,199
PSP 32,865
PS3 29,977
Wii 25,917
DS Lite 6,550
Xbox 360 4,470
PS2 1,951

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AiRace: Tunnel (DSi) – E
Dragon Master (DS) – E
Ragnarok DS (DS) – E10+
Windy X Windam (DS) – T
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Wii) – E
Arcade Shooting Gallery (Wii) – E10+
Castle of Magic (DSi) – E
Bejeweled Twist (DSI) – E
Bookworm (DSi) – E
Hospital Havoc (DSi) – E10+
Disney The Princess and the Frog (Wii/DS) – E
Dragon’s Lair (DSi) – E10+
Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll (Wii) – E
Rec Room Games (Wii) – E

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Course: Dry Dry Ruins
Objective: Obtain the best time
Tournament date: 11/1 – 11/10

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This information comes from Denise Kaigler, NOA’s vice president of corporate affairs…

“When Wii launched back in 2006, the household saturation of HDTVs was much lower than it is now. Nintendo didn’t include HD capability back then because that would have been a cost that everyone had to pay, whether or not they had an HDTV. There’s something not very fair about that. As Mr. Iwata has said a number of times, we have no current plans to launch an HD version of Wii, but HD is one of the things we’re keeping in mind for the future.

I think questions and concerns like these might be unique to the medium of video games. No one rates books by the design on their covers. And no one would suggest the most engrossing movie is the one with the most special effects. Certainly these elements can draw your eye, but in the end we judge a book or a movie on the way it makes us feel, whether we’re laughing, shedding a tear or shouting with excitement when the bad guy gets what’s coming to him.

No matter what new technologies are developed or how video games look, in the end gamers will decide if it’s a good title based on the experience. Ultimately, pretty pictures don’t matter. It’s all about the game play. Just think of the pixels of the original Legend of Zelda or Super Mario Bros. Those games hold up years later, and no one would say they’re on the cutting edge of graphics. Even modern games like Super Mario Galaxy and Punch-Out!! play so well that you’re not thinking about TV specs or cables – you’re just having fun playing a game. And that’s the way it should be. That’s one of the reasons Wii Sports and Wii Fit are among the most influential games of this console generation: They deliver fun experiences that go well beyond the way the games look. For the most part when gamers look back and recall their game play-experiences, they remember the new interfaces and the fun they had playing with other people, not the graphics or the type of TV they played on. It’s always about play, not pixels and polygons.”

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