Cing are the developers of famous titles like Little King’s Story, Trace Memory, Monster Rancher, and the Wii and DS versions of Hotel Dusk.

I don’t like it when I hear that developer companies need to close down. It’s even worse when they are good at what they do. Cing will be closing their doors because of debt that they are unable to pay. The debt is small but amounts to $2.9 million that they obviously just can’t pay.

The DS version of Hotel Dusk has made it out to Japan and we don’t know if the bankruptcy will stop it from coming to the rest of us?

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This story is not for the faint in heart but for those can hold the tears carry on reading. A 3 year old girl was killed in a Wii accident. Apparently her father left his gun on the living room table, they had had a Wii remote gun before and the little girl picked up the gun and shot herself. She was rushed to the hospital instantly but declared dead that same night.

An update on the story: “The gun is apparently a .380 caliber semi automatic handgun. The stepfather claims he was asleep at the time of the incident, according to authorities. The stepfather also claims the child's mother was in the room with the child at the time of the incident. The mother has told authorities the girl might have thought she was playing with a Nintendo Wii controller that resembled a gun. According to the stepfather, the gun was out because he had heard a prowler and gotten the gun out earlier that evening. He then left the gun on the table in the living room.”

I have some doubts on the story. Firstly, can a three year old girl pick up a gun like that and even pivot it towards herself? Secondly if she thought it was a Wii Gun would she not shoot the TV? At first I was shocked at the story and do still feel sorry for the little girl but I don’t like what the facts are pointing to? You make up your own mind or share it in the comments.

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Nintendo have filed a patent application for a new kind of cartridge, which appears to be very similar to a Nintendo DS cartridge or perhaps a Nintendo DS-like cartridge.

The cartridge seems to protrude / stick out a little more than a regular DS cartridge, but a little less than a developer cart use to design games.

This could on the other hand just be one of the many patents that Nintendo release and decide not to use, the Nintendo phone jumps to mind! The documentation specifically states; “the broken lines showing of an electronic game machine is for illustrative purposes only.”

Is this a new hand-held console cartridge, just a DS add on such as a gyro system or maybe just an idea that will not materialize?

Only time will tell, let’s hope that it will be sooner rather than later.

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Glory of Heracles is a DS title published by Nintendo and developed by Paon, and is due for a European PAL release in Q2 of 2010, it was released in Japan in May 2008 and more recently in North America in January 2010.

What has brought this title into the lime-light as of late isn't the fact that two big names in the gaming industry , Kazushige Nojima (Final Fantasy) and Yoshitaka Hirota (DK Jungle Climber) worked on the title but rather the box art!!!!

Yes that’s right it seems that we are heading back to the Super Nintendo days of Mortal Kombat with black blood and watered down fatalities (Okay maybe not as bad as that!).

In the original version of  "Glory of Heracles"  the box art we are exposed  to a little of the character "Leucos' " rear cheek, not even enough to turn heads or make you think twice but in the reprint we see that she is totally covered up.

Whether you think the censorship is unnecessary or a just cause at least we know the Nintendo's good old family values are essentially here to stay!

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The following quote comes from "Activision Blizzard Benelux" PR Manager, Martijn Kroonstuiver:
"...I'm pretty sure you'll be amazed by at least one specific title."

We haven’t seen much from Activision on the Wii as of late nor have we heard any rumours of “the next big title”.
Could we be looking at yet another Tony Hawk rehash (rather focus on a new Kelly Slater/ Matt Hoffman title, pleeease), yet another Guitar Hero (I’m holding thumbs for a Megadeth version!) , Call of duty is always on the cards as the Modern Warfare series has been well received on the Wii or will we all be  pleasantly surprised with something totally new?

For now we have very little to go on but hopefully a title will be announced that will make us want to snap up a good 3^rd party gem for the Wii!

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We know that Xbox 720 and PS4 is not coming any time soon because both companies are expanding the life of their console with new motion controllers. Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s “Arc” (that’s what it’s currently called) will come into the market with new games that should give the console a second, for some third, wind. Set aside some of the reviews that Project Natal has delay issues, I’ve also heard that the third party titles look very good with no delay. 4 years is what Michael Pachter the famous Wedbuch Morgan analyst says. I think it might be even longer.

With the great talk of the Wii HD, I personally think it’s going to be 2 years before it comes out. From the rumours that happened in the beginning of this year about the new N console, I was excited too at the prospect of a new Wii console with better graphics, which is oddly all that people want changed with the Wii. Then the interview Cammie Dunaway happen at the Nintendo Media Summit last week and there was no hint or even a suggestion that the new console would be released, only a plain statement to explain the rumours, “Of course Nintendo will be working on the next one...”. I was expecting a grin and a “watch the Nintendo news at E3”, but nothing! Which brings me to the conclusion that we are not going to see a new console this year and it might only be announced at next year’s E3 which means it will be expected a year from there.

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