Official Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Wallpaper 1024x768

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Here is a official wallpaper for FF Tactics A2 (which is on the Nintendo DS) wallpaper which is 1024x768 in size for all Final Fantasy or DS fans. Enjoy - Grimpuppy

Nintendo DS machine that can take pictures and play music.... coming soon

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd will launch a DS machine that can take pictures and play music, hoping to cement its lead over Sony's PlayStation and encroach into the territory of Apple Inc's iPod and iPhone.

The new model will be launched in Japan on November 1. It is slimmer and has bigger displays than the current model, and will sell for 18,900 yen ($179), up from 16,800 yen for the current model but below the PSP's 19,800 yen.

The Kyoto-based company, locked in a three-way battle with Sony and Microsoft Corp in the global video game industry, plans to launch the new machine, the DSi, outside Japan in 2009.

Nintendo's strategy to broaden the gaming population by offering innovative but easy-to-play games has been a roaring success in recent years as the DS and Wii console have attracted women and the elderly on top of traditional gamers.

White-hot demand for the DS and Wii console, which features a motion-sensing controller that lets players direct on-screen plays by swinging it like a racket, helped the company raise its annual operating profit forecast in August by 23 percent to 650 billion yen ($6.2 billion).

"We are finding ourselves in an unprecedented stage where one of every six people (in Japan) has the DS," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told a news conference on Thursday.

"We will strive not only to appeal to those households without the DS, but to promote a shift to 'one DS per person' from 'one DS per household'."

The new model will be 12 percent thinner than the current machine and come with 17 percent bigger LCD panels.

Nintendo sold 6.94 million units worldwide of the DS in April-June, far out-pacing 3.72 million units of Sony's PSP.

In Japan, however, the PSP outsold the DS by 20 percent in the six months to September, according to game magazine publisher Enterbrain, in a possible sign of slowing momentum for the Nintendo machine.

Mizuho Securities analyst Takeshi Koyama said it is too early to tell how much demand the new DS is likely to stir up because it is unclear at the moment what kind of unique game software and services Nintendo will offer for the new machine.

"There is nothing earth-shattering about it ... We can hold high hopes of it if software titles unique to the new model come out," Koyama said.

"But they did not offer something like that this time around."

Following the announcement, shares in Nintendo, Japan's fifth-most valuable company after Toyota Motor Corp, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp and NTT DoCoMo Inc, ended down 3.7 percent at 39,500 yen.

That was their first close below the 40,000 yen mark in more than 16 months. The benchmark Nikkei average fell 1.9 percent. For the Wii, which have outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo plans to launch highly anticipated music software, "Wii Music," on October 16 in Japan, entering the fast-growing software segment pioneered by Activision Blizzard's "Guitar Hero."
"Wii Music" will let players simulate more than 60 different instruments and is expected to be a promising sales driver for the Wii in the year-end shopping season.
($1=105.74 Yen)
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Michael Watson, Elaine Hardcastle)

Review: The Simpsons Game - Nintendo DS

The Simpsons game at times is fun and at others you just want to swear up a storm at it! The game play is very smooth and very few flaws or glitches are found within gameplay. The Simpsons clips are fun to watch but being on the DS the animation is not the best being a little blocky and slow. Within the game you get a chance to be all the Simpsons... Bart, Homer, Lisa and Marge. The game starts of with Homer dreaming in Chocolate Land. Out of all the Characters the best and strongest is Bart this is because of the many things Bart can do compared to all the other characters. The weakest character is Marge who only powers is the ability to form mobs by shouting through a Megaphone and using Maggie to crawl into small spaces to unlock doors and gates. Prepared to use the stylus stick to play the game as Lisa's special power known as the Buddha Hand is used through out the game making you use the touch screen to move object and lift Lisa to higher places in the game.

The game is filled with stages that are both easy and hard. The toughest stage I found was using homer to out run the Giant Donut Lad... I played this stage over and over trying to learn how to get through to the other end. Another fun thing within the game was that during a certain stage you had to battle it out with certain characters from Futurama including Bender. The sayings and quotes of both the Simpsons and other characters of Springfield can both be funny and annoying. Overall this game was very fun when I was not swearing at the DS. Below is my stats and final score of the game.

Total Play Time Tell Finished: 6 Hours, 46 minutes and 31 seconds. With 97% complete.

Replay Value: Fairly high since after you finsh the game you can play all levels, watch all movie clips, play with Pet Homer and play all the mini arcade games.

Overall Score: 4.25 out of 5

Final Thoughts: I recommend this game to anybody including Simpson's fan. I really don't recommend this game to really young or non hardcore gamers for reason that the game can get really Difficult. Fun game, great colors and great replay value makes this a great game to own on the DS.

Review by: Grimpuppy from Grimpuppy.com

Final Fantasy IV remake set for Nintendo DS

Final Fantasy's most faithful fans have been waiting on to hear more news about the rumored Final Fantasy VII remake for years now, but Square Enix hasn't seen fit to announce such project, they have kept a steady line of Final Fantasy spin-offs and remakes to keep Final Fantasy Fans busy in the meantime.

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