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The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass = Friggin Zelda DS!

Today Nintendo announced a new Zelda title for the DS! It’s called The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, and it looks friggin’ sweet!

I’m really glad they decided to make an actual new game instead of doing a port from The Ocarina of Time or something. The game looks to be in the same style of Windwaker. So far, the video shows the gameplay utilizing the Nintendo DS’ stylus quite a bit. You can draw on the map, use the stylus to solve puzzles and chart a course for your boat.

I think it’s definitely a good time to be a Nintendo fan. Download the video here.

Tetris DS = In Stores!

Whoa, Tetris DS is out! How’d I miss that one!? I should really get it, considering it got like, super awesome scores from everyone in the world. Unlike Tetris Worlds.

This one has a bunch of new modes, and apparently they’re good. I’m up for some Tetris action, so I think I’ll be getting this game shortly (and playing it longly (ha!)). In other news, nested parentheses are kind of bad in writing (but okay in scheme (and ML)).

I need a good “staple” game for my Nintendo DS that just stays in the system forever while I keep playing it. Tetris always hung out in my original Game Boy, so it seems like a good idea for Tetris DS to hang out in my DS. Although I wish they’d treat it like a retro version and sell it for $20 or something. That would be awesome.

Cooking Mama DS Demo Video

Over at Kotaku, there’s a live demo of the Nintendo DS game, Cooking Mama. I think this game is geared towards girls; It’s a cooking simulator.

In the demo, we see the various stages of cooking a hamburger steak. The onions get sliced and diced, the pan is buttered, the onions are fried, the hamburger is kneaded, and finally the hamburger gets fried in the pan. There’s also a final step with the Hamburger being decorated with side veggies (and a Japanese toothpick flag!).

I dunno about this game. I mean, we already have a freakin’ surgery game! How can cooking be more compelling than that? I could be wrong, of course. We’ll just have to see if this wacky game makes it to the US. Either that, or you could import it…

Eurotech’s WWPC Runs Linux on Your Wrist!

Eurotech’s WWPC wristwatch runs a Linux desktop environment! I’ve got a Fossil Abacus that runs Palm OS, but this watch seems to blow it away! From the article:

According to Eurotech, the WWPC integrates everything users expect of a PC, in a versatile, ergonomic form factor that supports a variety of wrist sizes. It can be worn over or under work clothes, and has flexible left- or right-handed straps that enclose dual 2-cell Li-polymer rechargable batteries. Claimed battery life is six hours in “fully operational” mode, or eight hours under normal circumstances.

It actually seems a bit hefty for a wristwatch, but so does my Abacus. I’d still wear it! What with the whole six hour battery life thing, I’m thinking this isn’t meant for use as a watch, but a computer that you wear while you’re using it.

While I’m waiting for this to hit the market, I guess I could always just duct tape my Dell Axim to my forearm…

Happy Pi Day, Bitches!

Today is Pi Day, or 3-14, so in honor of such an occasion, I’m eating pie. Also on my schedule is memorizing more digits of pi. Sadly enough, even though I’m a Computer Science major, I only know pi up to 3.14159. Yeah, I know, how can I call myself a nerd?

Luckily for me, there’s the Pi Trainer. It lets you guess pi, tells you how many digits you got right, and gives you 5 more digits to remember. This process continues until you memorize all of pi, or give up. I chose the latter. It’s a good way to spend your Pi Day. Holy shit, that rhymed!