News: Various DS tidbits

October 05, 2005, 03:14 AM

by chazumaru, via various -
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Besides the Square announcements Tim just posted, Famitsu Online (and Famitsu Magazine via some evil scans) have revealed plenty of new games for the DS.

The major news is certainly Capcom's Gyakuten Saiban 4, about which very little is known yet except that it will be released in 2006. A few games that were left with an uncertain future have been confirmed for a 2006 release as well, such as Brownie Brown's Magical Vacation, Squenix's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle and Konami's Bokutai and Winning Eleven. Konami hasn't shown anything about these two games yet (they were also teasing with a Winning Eleven Mobile for japanese cellphones at TGS) but gave away first screens of PawaPuroKun Pocket 8 and already announced a new DS game in the Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania) series.

In other news: Koei showed first screens for the DS versions of Shin Sangoku Musou, Sangokushi and Daikoukai Jidai. From Software is producing Tenchu DS. Namco has a new Tales game planned for DS. Nintendo announced a direct sequel to their popular DS Brain Training game titled Motto Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training (or "Once again work your brain with Adults' DS Training") as well as the graphic adventure game Defect Hacker developed by RED, and Sakaguchi's new simulation-RPG ASH.

And speaking of Nintendo, here is a witty interpretation of "Mario 64". Mario Pepper Band, Mario de Ouji, Mario Kidd and Mario IIIsei are personal favorites.

[update!] GameWatch has put up a lot of screenshots from the Nintendo DS Conference 2005, where most of those games were presented alongside others.