Popular import site Renchi that sells consoles, games, movies and various other things that you can’t get outside of the gaming paradise that is Japan has dropped the price on imports of the DSi, Nintendo’s new handheld. “While many retailers are still selling at a much higher price, our stock level has stablised and we [...]

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After revolutionizing how people listen to music by turning the MP3 player from an often ignored device secondary in popularity to the outdated CD into a powerhouse brand with the iPod they’ve turned their sights on the gaming industry. With the release of the iPhone and the launch of the App Store Greg Joswiak, a [...]

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Rumors are commonplace in the gaming industry. Many turn out to be hoaxes or pure flights of fancy but often the most persistent rumors turn out to be true. Nintendo released the DSi after denying the existence of a redesigned hand held for months. One rumor that had been circulating heavily before today was that [...]

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This morning I was having a discussion about video games with someone I recently inducted into gaming and she asked me a question: “why hasn’t Microsoft made a portable system?”. If I’d had this story already it would have given some backing for my argument.
The DS and the PSP have undoubtedly swallowed so much of [...]

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If you have been a fan of homebrew on the Nintendo DS platform, you better prepare yourself for this one. With the release of the new DSi model also comes the end of homebrew development, or so it seems.
Well, the main tool of homebrew were the flash cards, shaped like a DS game, that you [...]

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Yes, we all know about the camera, the new size, and the built in media player. But, were the rumors floating around that the Nintendo DSi would be region free too good to be true? Apparently so.
Our buds over at CVG have gotten word, from Nintendo themselves, that all software released (that means virtual and [...]

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