Rhythm Tengoku Heaven is a simple and infectious rhythm game that anyone can play. If you can tap your finger in time to music, you’ll get the hang of Rhythm Heaven in no time! Players hold their Nintendo DS system sideways like a book and tap their stylus on the touch screen to the rhythm of the music. Players tap, slide or flick the stylus to hit the right beat. Rhythm Heaven features catchy tunes, charming characters and a wide variety of rhythm games. Well-known Japanese music producer TSUNKU♂ helped direct Rhythm Heaven and composed the music for it. Be sure to hit the jump for screens and a quick teaser video.

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Ever wonder what the whole hubbub is about the Mother universe? Why the fans are so crazy about the characters and story, and why so many people are upset that the game wasn’t released in English? Could it possibly be the fact that there was a trailer at E3 many years ago showing the game on the Nintendo 64. It doesn’t matter now anyway…

Here is a trailer for Mother 3 with 85% of the games text fan translated. There is two more videos that follow this one and showcase part of the game play of Chapter 1 of Mother 3. if you like what you are seeing and want some more hit the jump for the other videos. On a side note, why is it that Nintendo has ignored the Mother/Earthbound fan base? They have even gone to mention that the fans are the most dedicated fans they have with all their planned Phone calls, various petitions, and fan art mailing. So why are they left as cameo combatants in Smash Bros?

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Today, while I was checking the latest news update on the Mother 3 Translation project, I happened to notice a very unusually snippet of information. Hit the jump to find out what it could be.

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We’ve enjoyed the fruits of Nintendo’s labors in the West for over 20 years, but there are still some games we haven’t been able to play. Here are the Top 3 Game Series that Nintendo still hasn’t released outside of Japan.
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I’m currently playing Super Mario Advance 4 (SMB3), which is great, but I wish I could play it on my TV.

In my effort to consolidate consoles and still play every Nintendo game in 2006, I hastily got rid of my black GameCube after Wii launched. I’m now regretting it–I want a Game Boy Player.

In any case, how much you wanna bet the next DS will feature a Virtual Handheld that sells back catalog Game Boy titles just like Virtual Console does for home games? Wait for it…

Lots of hot stuff coming out this week.  Check out the massive list of releases for this week:

DS
Bratz 4 Real
Build-A-Bear
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
Enchanted
Horse Life
Hot Wheels: Beat That
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
LifeSigns: Surgical Unit
My French Coach
My Spanish Coach
My Word Coach
Ontamarama
Panzer Tactics DS
Puzzle de Harvest Moon
World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets
Indy 500
Left Brain Right Brain
My Pet Dolphin
Showtime Championship Boxing

GBA
The Bee Game

Wii
Bee Movie Game
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Game Party
Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2008
Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
My Word Coach
Octomania

No fewer than 28 games are released for Nintendo systems this week, including two titles for the GBA!

DS
Cars Mater-National
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Ratatouille Food Frenzy
Barbie as The Island Princess
Bee Movie Game
Ben 10: Protector of Earth
Napoleon Dynamite
O.M.G. 26 - Our Mini Games
Panzer Tactics DS
Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys
Super Collapse 3
The Simpsons Game
Dementium: The Ward
Dr. Suess: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Garfield Gets Real
Ed, Edd & Eddy: Scam of the Century

GBA
Barbie as The Island Princess
Enchanted

Wii
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Battalion Wars 2
Barbie as The Island Princess
Ben 10: Protector of Earth
Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey
High School Musical: Sing It!
Hooked! Real Motion Fishing
Showtime Championship Boxing
The Simpsons Game
Manhunt 2

Less than two months till Christmas and my wallet is already empty … how about yours?

[photo by rnair]

Big week of releases for Nintendo systems.  As far as I’m concerned, the holiday shopping season starts today.

Wii
NBA Live 08
Popx3
Crash of the Titans
Dave Mirra BMX Challenge
Ninjabread Man
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
MLB Power Pros

DS
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol
Holly Hobbie & Friends
Master Jin Jin’s IQ Challenge
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night

GBA
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night

The new DS outings for Zelda and Chibi-Robo are definite must-haves for my collection.  Anyone getting some new games this week?

A huge release list, coming right at ya!

GBA
Puppy Luv: Spa & Resort

DS
7 Wonders
AniMates
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Backyard Basketball
Digimon World: Dawn
Digimon World: Dusk
Jewel Quest: Expeditions
Master Jin Jin’s IQ Challenge
MySims
Namco Museum DS
Nancy Drew: Deadly Secret of Olde World Park
Puppy Luv: Spa & Resort
Sonic Rush Adventure

Wii
Anubis II
Cosmic Family
Fishing Master
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
MySims

GBA?  What’s that?  Buying anything this week or are you just waiting till Halo 3?

Good ol’ James Kochalka is whipping up a new Disney show theme song with the music built around Nanoloop for the Game Boy. Other artists have created all sorts of music using similar methods. What are some of your favorites?

Ever since the release of the DS in 2004, Nintendo has pretty much abandoned software support for the GBA. Not that it was a bad choice since Nintendo still went on to sell a total of 80.02 million GBAs within 6 years. It’s gone through a number of holidays, always a top seller for video games and just toys in general. The future of the GBA didn’t look bright when Miyamoto and company were asked about it at E3. (more…)

Some interesting/sad news from Nintendo today. GameIndustry BIZ tells it like it is, or might be:

“It’s hard to say in the future if we will ever bring back the Game Boy trademark,” he told GameDaily BIZ. Harrison also informed us that Nintendo’s WiiWare service could actually still launch this year. When the announcement was first made, Nintendo made it seem like we wouldn’t see anything until early 2008, but Harrison isn’t ruling out 2007 entirely. “It may not take until 2008. I’ve seen a couple of ideas that have already been generated even before we went public [with WiiWare]. Whether those are going to be ready or not, I don’t really know,” he said. “It really depends on the developers. If they have their games ready and they’re of an appropriate quality, then there’s nothing to stop them from launching before the end of the year. It’s just the fact that we only recently gave out the development tools and the development specifications, so most people haven’t even started yet.”

Hear that? Get going developers! No sleep. No eat. No significant others. Just cold, lonely development. First to market gets the kingdom and the glory, and the lamentations of their women! And they can scream “w00t frist!” like so many of the Internet’s finest citizens do every day.

On the Game Boy front I’ve always secretly hoped that the next iteration of Nintendo’s hand held strategy would borrow a page from the retro book and revive the Game Boy trademark in a completely redesigned shell. All the bells and whistles but with those tell-tale letters a lot of us saw when we opened a small rectangular present at Christmas time in 1989. Sounds like it’s not slated to happen, but I can dream.

[Thanks, John!]

Here are the new releases for all Nintendo systems in North America this week:

GBA:
Deal Or No Deal

Nintendo and other game publishers follow up the great buzz generated at E3 last week by releasing practically nothing this week.  This holds true for other systems, with NCAA Football 08 being the hottest release on any other console this week.  A little disappointing, I guess .. but with so many new games coming out by the end of this year, do you think it’s time for a little break?

Here are the new releases for all Nintendo systems in North America this week:

DS
Chicken Shoot
Vegas Casino High 5!

GBA
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In other news, EU/UK finally gets Elite Beat Agents while Japan gets (*takes big breath*) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors this week!

Buying anything?

I almost didn’t bother posting this:

Wii:
- Chicken Shoot

DS:
- Platinum Sudoku
- Turn It Around
- Vegas Casino High 5!

Game Boy Advance:
- Horsez

Are you buying any of these or will you just wait for them to hit the clearance bin?  Neither?