Nintendo DS Named Best Selling Console Ever, Spanks Other Systems
Hey, it may be a little guy (with its iddle-widdle screen and adorable itsy-bitsy buttons), but the Nintendo DS packs quite the punch. After tabulating the sales figures for 2010, Nintendo recently announced that the Wii had sold 34 million consoles since its launch. Impressive, you say. Very impressive. But the Nintendo DS trounces the Wii's moment of glory with nearly 50 million clamshells sold ...
Musician Arman Bohn has created his newest music video with a decidedly fun piece of technology: the Nintendo DSi.
To create the video for his song "Brain Games," Bohn drew images in the DSi's 'Flipnote Studio' program, and then exported them to 'After Effects' for editing and animation. In the video, anthropomorphic letters and numbers cavort as they watch Bohn perform on a TV monitor, ...
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
Though the Flowlab skateboard's arced, 14-wheel design makes us think of broken ankles and nasty road rash, the novel board will give you concrete-carving skills far ...
This October, game developer 5th Cell will release a brand new edition of the hyperactive word puzzle game 'Scribblenauts' for Nintendo DS. As Kotaku reports, the company released a trailer for 'Super Scribblenauts' at E3 yesterday, and promised "deeper levels," sharper controls, and, of course, "shiny new words." As any fan of the original knows, 'Scribblenauts' is unequivocally one of the most ...
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More than any other console or hand held currently available, the Nintendo DS has proven itself as a video game system with universal appeal. Even the Nintendo Wii has had trouble satisfying hardcore gamers, whereas the DS's game library is filled with current-gen classics for gamers of any ...
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The DSi XL is the latest in Nintendo's DS line -- a line that is now four models deep, each one incrementally better than the one before it. The XL is, as its name might imply, a bigger version of the DSi; the screen is about an inch bigger than that of its sibling (4.3-inch diagonal, as opposed to the DSi's 3.25 inches), and the console itself is accordingly bigger and heavier. ...
It's one thing to do a tech review the day a product comes out. But it can take a while to learn the ins and outs -- and discover the all the bugs -- in a new gadget. With that in mind, we're launching a new series called '28 Days Later,' wherein we'll put tech of all types through four weeks of abuse to see if that new gizmo lives up to its early hype. We kick it off with a long-term view of the ...
Each year the biggest and best in the video game industry gather in Los Angeles to show off their wares destined for release in the coming months and years. We're at the show, and here's the biggest and best of what happened on day two, as the pre-show events wrap and the show itself kicks off.
Sony Makes PSPgo Official There were a number of leaks of "secret" information ahead of the ...
Love 'Dance Dance Revolution' and 'Britney's Dance Beat" but wish you weren't limited to getting down in your living room? Well, neither do we (at least publicly), but Nintendo, with support from Beyoncé, has announced the upcoming release of the dance game 'Rhythm Nation' for its DSi handheld. Commercials for the new game, set to hit shelves April 5th, will feature Beyoncé, who ...
According to the good chaps over at Joystiq (and, you know, Nintendo), you can get your grubby mitts all over the DSi in North America come April 5th. The system will launch for $169.99, will include all the goodies you've been reading about -- like those dual cameras and downloadable content called DSiWare (starting at the totally mysterious price point of 200 DSi Points). The handhelds will ...









