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| January/February 2006 Issue Quote Of The Whenever: "May your claws be gentle and kind." 02.27 - 03.04 - Happy Birthday to us! - So what are we doing to celebrate? Well, I took about 11 days off, that's what I did. But not to worry. Aside from sales figures, nothing major has really happened. But we will be launching some new stuff soon. Today is the official 8 year anniversary for DMG Ice. I -unfortunately- do not have time to break out the eight gifts tonight, so Tuesday and Wednesday updates will be all about the gifts. Here you go, though! 8 random spaces for the win!
 02.16 - Cat Ear Justice - Hey, do you use Opera or Firefox? Well, those are the only browsers that I really throw any kind of support behind. Anyhow, there was a recent Nintendo DS conference in Japan where they showed off the DS Lite in all its sexiness. They also announced an Opera designed WEB BROWSER for the Nintendo DS. Just so you know, this website is DESIGNED to look its best on portable devices like the Sony PSP, and -now- the Nintendo DS. The Opera web browser was not announced for US release; but we should see more information on the browser at E3 2006. Also anounced were an ONLINE Winning Eleven game, a Calligraphy Trainer, a cooking trainer, a 1-SEG TV Tuner (which is not supported in the USA), and that new Super Mario Bros. will hit in May. So, we finally get a real Super Mario Bros. 5, an online soccer/football game, the ability to check this website ALL THE TIME in hopes we update, and a game that can teach you how to cook for yourself. Top that off with Majesco announcing a Mech Assault game for the Nintendo DS, and you have cake. BAM! Let us take this incredibly loveless article and direct it toward the Sony PSP for a moment. All is not fine in UMD land. Personally, I wish the PSP screen were a little bit better, since the PSP now has the worst screen in the market thanks to the Micro, DS Lite, and the newer GBA SPs. As for movies on the PSP? That, and pictures/internet testing, are all I use my PSP for. Sony cutting back on UMDs is a bit sad; because I am almost tempted to buy some of them. A lot of anime does look good on the PSP UMD format. Go pick up the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex UMD and Samurai Champloo, okay? A bunch of new content heading up soon. The transition between the old and the new computers is well underway. If anyone knows a good "free" image editing solution that is close to Photo Studio 2000, let me know. I prefer to use my older tools; but they become less and less available. No suggesting Gimp or Photoshop. Those are for suckers. Later, everyone! Stay good. 02.14 - Happy Valentine's Day? - Or not. Who cares! The new equipment has arrived, so we are transitioning things at this moment. Here is a link to an editorial I put up a while back, but forgot to link to. I know I should have MORE content for the people and I will. No reason to get all Dick Cheney at me. Well, put down the guns and read some news! The Nintendo DS Lite will hit in March and drop PSPs like they were Whittington. It comes in three colors: Pretentious White, Pale Blue, and Navy Blue. Apparently the Oynx Black color will not be a Japanese launch. The news on the unit is that GBA games stick out a little from it. Nintendo may be considering a revision of their Option Paks for the DS as well. The other interesting piece of news is that Boktai 4 for the Nintendo DS will NOT require you to go outside. Nice. If we could only get Boktai 3 over here in the states already, I would be happy. The first screen shots of Mother 3 have surfaced and it looks like a slightly more stylized version of Mother 2. Which is fine with me. I think that now would be a good time for Nintendo to repent and give us Mother 1 + 2 in the USA. They can even call it Mother in the USA. We do not mind. Fire Emblem did well, you know? Anchor Bay is set to release horror classics Near Dark and The Hill Have Eyes on March 7 on PSP UMD. We will have a review of these soon, so you will know soon enough if you should plunk down the cash from your Valentine's Day Subsidized Dating or not.
02.07 - Those aren't socks - I should never plan things. So, anyhow, here is the latest news and I will have some new content up when I have new content up. New equipment is on its way to help, thankfully. Well the news is that Atlus is bringing Yggdra Union to the USA this Fall. And there will be more news later.
01.30 - Schedules, schedules - Here is the scoop! A new Hbomb article on Tuesday, a new Stephen Kelley article on Wednesday, a new Viral Speak on Thursday, and a bunch of reviews on this Friday. There you go! Right now, please enjoy this restored article in the form of a new (sort of) Philip Rational. as for general news? Apparently, the PSP is finally fixed to play homebrew again. Why not use Communism (google) to find out more on that one. Also, Brain Age: Train Your Brain, and Big Brain Academy are set for April 17, and March 30 respectively. Brain Age: Train Your Bain also includes Sudoku free of charge. Yes. BUY IT.
01.26 - I liked the part where Ken got his ASS KICKED - I'm not talking about that Street Fighter II animated movie either! Unless you just woke up and we are the first news place you check; which SHOULD be true for a lot of you. Wink. Wink. Nintendo announced a re-design of the Nintendo DS. This new design is called Nintendo DS Lite. Here is the official press release from Nintendo of Japan. I find it pretty funny that Lik Sang broke NDA on this one, then Nintendo pushed the announcement back one week to spite them. The best part about this? The day before this was announced, the head of Nintendo of Europe said that "There will not be a DS redesign debut at E3." Of course, this meant they would push it out earlier, huh? Well, here is what you need to know.
Well, this is good news for Nintendo, it is BAD NEWS for Sony. Even the older -decidely larger- Nintendo DS is beating the PSP EVEN with a shortage going on! Check out the Media Create Japanese hardware sales for the week of January 16 to 22.
Well, Nintendo managed to sell almost TWICE the amount of hardware during a shortage than Sony did without a shortage. This redesign is a bit bitter for Sony. Maybe they should go ahead and redesign the PSP? I mean, soon it will THE portable system with the worst, darkest, and least active screen. There is a LOT that can be done to redesign Sony's clunker. Maybe we will see a redesign for the PSP at E3? BEcause they will need it if Nintendo unveils the Game Boy Evolution at E3. The Game Cube almost outsold the Micro that sales week and sales of the Xbox 360 have been fairly steady. I think that a break out title may put it as high as FIVE digits. Wow. Lex Luther must be happy over this. People, the Xbox 360 is full of KRYPTONITE. KRYPTONITE! But all of that does not matter. There is an awesome new Nintendo DS unit coming out after all!
01.25 - Stature Wise - Some interesting newsity today. First the good news! Nintendo announced over 3 million users on their Nintendo Wifi service. Considering they only have three games that use the service, this is really good news. Especially since it took Xbox Live nearly an entire YEAR to get to that number. The bad news is that Capcom has finally given Mega Man Anniversary Collection for Game Boy Advance the axe. Sadly, it looks like the game will go the way of the DinoSaur or some other Dead Sauropod. Who knows what DaStarDly Scheme contributed to the DiSturbing anD Sad DemiSe of the game. I should get those fixed. Well, that's it for now! Later! 01.24 - Dropping the ball. - Looking forward to attempting to update at least once every day for a while as I get rid of excess content in my IN box. Here is a brand new "controversial" Philip Rational column from yours truly!
01.23 - Welcome back! - Welcome to DMG Ice.com for this year of 2006. First off, an apology for the lack of updates since Christmas. This long hiatus has been used to recover from colds, work on various side-projects, design and compile new content, and learn to snake very well in Mario Kart DS. Today is also the birthday of Sarah Tomase, one of our columnists. Congratulations, Sarah! You are now one year closer to death! Whoo! Now we shall go to the newsity that we missed in our short hiatus. Nintendo announced that March 20th, 2006 will be the day that I may begin kicking ass in Metroid Prime Hunters, and taking names in Tetris DS. Tetris DS will be a Nintendo developed version of Tetris with ten player battles, online play, and other features that have not been mentioned yet. Aside from that wonderful bit of news, the rest of the news is less gripping. Sales data is a bit of a mess right now. During the Christmas season, the Nintendo DS had sales of over 200,000, 400,000, and 500,000 units per week. This caused the Nintendo DS to sell out drastically, this meant Nintendo of Japan even had to pull part of their US stock of Nintendo DS units to repackage and ship them for sale in Japan. It also means that the other handheld has a chance to catch up. Here are the latest Media Create sales statistics for Japan from January 9, 2006 to January 15, 2006. PSP = 57,686 DS = 54,284 PS2 = 39,076 GBASP = 9,982 GBM = 6,341 Xbox360 = 6,107 GC = 5,465 GBA = 233 Xbox = 11 Expect the PSP to be on the top of the chart for another week or so, while Nintendo works on shipping more DS units. The next large batch of DS units is expected in early February. The PSP barely outsold a system that is nearly impossible to find in Japan! Neat. In the USA, we are still waiting on NPD stats for December. While not the most accurate, they are better than nothing. A blog known as Mercury News has been reporting that the PSP outsold the DS in the USA by 1 Million units. Which it attributes to two sources: Mercury News, and a report from the NPD which ISN'T OUT YET. I think I can claim Penn & Teller on this until the NPD releases the real data in EARLY FEBRUARY. Famitsu compiled a list of the best selling games of 2005. The top of the list is actually ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLD for the DS, followed by Gran Turismo 4 for the PS2. Don't feel bad, Sony zombies! It's not like GT4 was outsold by POKEMON EMERALD in the United States of America according to NPD TRSTS data. Oh, wait a moment. IT WAS. Well, that about wraps it up. I have a ton of reviews to post up in the next update as well as a long awaited Viral Speak! |
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