The first real music teacher on Nintendo DS

Meet the 1st Music teacher on your NDS in this trailer!

Discover:

- How through 21 lessons you’ll be able to play and read music while having fun.
- The different modes: terminology, chords…
- The mini games to work out your musical ear, rhythm …
- All the songs you’ll be able to perform after playing this game.

- Learning how to play music is now possible on your Nintendo DS!

Watch the trailer

FEATURES

Music remains a major frustration for most of us. Only the bravest and those who could stand those boring and tough music lessons are now able to play music and live that unique experience. For the rest, you can still try to touch that feeling by playing a rhythm based video game and shaking a plastic guitar … but it will never be (sound) the same.

BUT now with “MUSIC”, a new edutainment game for the Nintendo DS coming out in April 09, you could learn and play music in a FUN and EASY WAY!
“MUSIC” brings a serious music learning method on DS developed by Shiro Tsuji a famous Japanese music teacher.

Learning music at all ages is now possible on DS!!!

Game features

• Smoothly learn the basics of the music theory with 21 lessons.

• Monitor your progresses and learning curve with 18 quick tests.

• Work out your musicality and skills across a series of fun mini games designed to practice your sense of rhythm, your memory, your musical ear…

• Practice what you’ve learnt on virtual instruments (the piano, the drum…).

• Plan your learning and practicing through your coach calendar.

Genre: Edutainment/ music
Platform: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Nobilis
Pegi : 3+

Dead Rising Chop Till You Drop Web episode Number 3

Dead Rising Chop Till You Drop Web video number 3

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Rock Band 2 on PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2 this March and April in UK

Electronic Arts, Harmonix and MTV announce that Rock Band 2 will be released in the UK for Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Wii fans in the next two months.

The game's instruments costs will also be cut in the UK.

PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 Rock Band 2 will be available on 27th March, while a Nintendo Wii game will have to wait until 24th April.

Out for Xbox 360 since last year, and all formats in the US since then - but an exclusivity arrangement with Microsoft has kept it off rival consoles in Europe.

The game will sell for £49.99 on PlayStation 3, £39.99 on Nintendo Wii and £29.99 on PlayStation 2.

The prices of instruments will also be reduced drums to £49.99, guitars £39.99 - full instrument edition set down to £89.99.

Also new official software and hardware bundles at £119.99 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and £109.99 for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii.

Nintendo stop sales on R4 cartridges in Japan

Last year more 50 different games companies in Japan had teamed up with Nintendo to take the makers of the popular R4 Revolution cartridge for the DS to court. 

Today those companies made their first major blow, making it illegal to sell the R4 in Japan.

The R4 Revolution cartridge is by no means unique, but is one of the most popular homebrew devices available for the Nintendo DS. It's a Slot-1 MicroSD card adaptor which allows DS gamers to boot their own software on the DS. It can also be used to play downloaded 'copied' games, with Nintendo claiming it loses more than $975 million USD to piracy every year.

The mass lawsuit includes a total of 54 companies who claim they've been affected by the sale of the R4, including the likes of Capcom.

Today the Tokyo District Court found enough cause to block all legal sales of the the R4 across Japan, with further punishments still possible as the court case continues.

The block imposed by the court probably won't have all that much impact however, as Nintendo has already pressured the majority of game retailers into taking the R4 off their shelves according to Kotaku.

Source: Bit-Tech

Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack available on iTunes

The launch of the extended Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack experience starting today exclusively on the iTunes store in the US and iTunes store in Europe.

The first release is a collection of six original tracks produced exclusively for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned by elite underground hip-hop DJ and record producer Statik Selektah, featuring some of the most respected names in the genre.

Coming soon to the iTunes store, the second release features highlight tracks from from the overall soundtrack and gives listeners a taste of the updated genres that now play across Liberty City's airwaves via this new episode. Stay tuned for information on tracklist and release date.

Note that all of the new songs added to the Liberty City radio dial via the Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned soundtrack can be seamlessly purchased and downloaded online through the in-game ZiT function. Simply tag songs you like on your in-game cell phone to create a custom playlist which will automatically be uploaded to your Social Club profile. A simple click-through to iTunes from there will pull up your custom playlist for purchase.

Also check out the Grand Theft Auto IV destination page on iTunes with each in-game radio station's playlist, exclusive albums and more, all accessible at www.itunes.com/gtaiv.

GTA Chinatown Wars Nintendo DS first HD video game trailer released

Rockstar have released the first story trailer detailing the main plot of the game.

You will play as Huang Lee, who is on a typical mission to revenge his father's death and, in true Asian style, to restore the honor of his family by punishing those who dared to mock it. But his trip won't be easy, as the criminals found in the Chinatown neighborhood are extremely dangerous and will make a lot of trouble for him. The gameplay fragments in between the classic GTA-style artwork show a lot of fun things like running around while explosions happen at every step, in a very arcade manner as even Rockstar Leeds have said.

Below is the trailer so you can all enjoy it. Don't forget to select High Quality from the menu of the YouTube player.

Miami Law video game on Nintendo DS this June

Hudson Entertainment to Lay Down Miami Law for Nintendo DS

Intense Action-Adventure Game Will Transform Players into Crime-Solvers

Nintendo DS owners will be challenged to help save the world with their fingertips in the upcoming game, Miami Law, set to be published by Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm of HUDSON SOFT. Scheduled for release in June 2009, Miami Law contains explosive action, as well as crime-scene investigation, which players will use interchangeably to help save the city of Miami.

“Miami Law has a great mix of up-tempo action and mind-challenging forensic investigation that players will absolutely love,” said Mike Pepe, Director of Marketing at Hudson Entertainment.“The unique game design will turn the DS into both an action-adventure experience and a crime scene lab all-in-one.”

Miami Law is an action-adventure game packed with all of the ingredients of a prime-time TV show: an intricate storyline with a shadowy terrorist conspiracy, furious shoot-outs in abandoned warehouses, challenging crime-scene detective work and more. Players will have many opportunities to choose their path and change the story– either as the intense Law Martin from the Miami PD or the brainy Sara Starling from the FBI. Players will be presented with different challenges depending on which character they pick– playing as Sara will feature a puzzle-based, mystery solving element, whereas playing with Law will thrust the player into the action, often into car chases or shoot-outs where taking out the bad guys is the only way to get results. Unlockable extras, including Texas Hold‘Em Poker and Sudoku, are included to take the pressure off players when the tension gets thick.

Load more promotions for Xbox Live Gold subscribers

Microsoft are upping the anti with more benefits for Xbox Live Gold subscribers as reported on Electric Pig/Ars Technica...

Microsoft is upping the incentives to hand over your credit card details and subscribe to its Xbox LIVE Gold service with a weekly sales promotion for Xbox LIVE Arcade titles. The superb time-shifting platform puzzler, Braid, will be the first to get the discount treatment, being offered to paying subscribers for 800 Microsoft points (£6.80) instead of the usual 1200 (£10.20).

Each deal of the week aims to add more value to the £39.99 per year service, which already counts early demos and trailers, Netflix access (in the US only), and the chance to play multiplayer games online as a lure to Xbox 360 owners.

Future promotions won’t just include Xbox LIVE Arcade titles; game add-ons, Xbox Originals and ‘other great content’ will be available as well.

Even so, faced with the free alternatives provided by Wii’s Nintendo WiFi Connection and PS3’s PlayStation Network, coaxing players into paying for a multiplayer service is going to be an increasingly tall order in the coming months.

Xbox 360 outsells Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3 in Japan last week

Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold more consoles than Sony and Nintendo in japan, last week, for the first time in five months.

Star Ocean - The Last Hope from the blockbuster video game series from Square Enix's helped push sales.

• Xbox 360 -21,013
  
• Nintendo Wii - 16,900 
  
• PlayStation 3 - 15,927

"Star Ocean: The Last Hope", which is designed for the Xbox 360, went on sale on Feb. 19 in Japan, and is estimated to have sold 173,850 units by Feb. 22, becoming the top-selling game software in the country last week, the research firm said.

Wolfire - Black Shades action packed video game on iPhone and iPod Touch

The classic action-packed title is now mobile.

Wolfire released its classic first person shooter Black Shades for the iPhone today. Fans can find it on the app store for only 99 cents.

Black Shades is an intense first-person-shooter game about a bodyguard protecting a VIP from an onslaught of assassins. Originally created by Wolfire's lead programmer David Rosen (while he was was still in high school) Black Shades has been ported to iPhone by Henry Kropf with support from the rest of the Wolfire team.

Features:

• Use seven different weapons to take down the assassins, or use your bare hands to disarm them!
• Slow down time to line up the perfect headshot for instant kills!
• Use the shotgun to blast the heads off of hordes of zombies!
• Zoom in with the scoped rifle to take out enemy snipers!
• Watch enemies fall to the ground with realistic physics!

"It sounds impossible, but Black Shades actually manages to turn the generally plodding, infuriating task of the escort mission into something challenging, fun, and strangely replayable. And before you say anything, yes: the graphics do suck, and no, it isn't a big deal." -Destructoid.com

"The game does a great job of making you feel like a psychic bodyguard with very basic graphics and simple game mechanics, and that’s really something. It’s so satisfying when you catch an assassin rushing in with a knife, only to plug him with your gun… or when you spy a sniper across the street, and knock over the VIP as a bullet whizzes over his head." - Tigsource.com

For more information check out the Wolfire Blog

and the Black Shades iPhone launch page