Recently in Gaming Category

Whilst traveling overseas recently, I spied the Nintendo DS Lite in several shops, and on several big billboards in France, and after some deliberation (approx. 5 seconds worth) I decided to pick one up.

Back home, I found a very cheaply priced copy of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow at Musica. Having played and really enjoyed Aria of Sorrow on the GBA SP, I decided to pick the game up too. After four weeks of not-quite dedicated play I reached 100% soul completion, 100% map completion, and found all the secret items (Chaos Ring, woot) - it was now time to move on.

After a few days of research and bugging people, I decided to get an M3 DS Real cartridge - in the M3 DS Perfect package, which comes with the Real card adapter, a slot-2 rumble pack and an 8MB slot-2 RAM expansion pack, which is a very good deal. The adapter accepts micro SD cards, which means there is plenty of space to handle almost anything you throw at it. Unfortunately M3 have been cutting costs and no longer ship driver CD’s with the package, but they do include a handy piece of paper that asks you to please download the latest drivers, but fails to mention where from. Searching a bit I found the system software at HandheldSources which you must unzip and copy to your micro SD card (into a folder called ‘SYSTEM’). There is more software available at http://www.m3wiki.com/index.php/M3_software, but I haven’t tried any of it out.

Now with the ability to load 3rd-party software on the DS Lite, I went out looking for cool things to try and found out that the completely awesome ScummVM has been ported across!

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Ok.. so what games? Check these highlights out:

• Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3 (holy shit!)
• Day of the Tentacle
• Sierra’s AGI games (King’s Quest, Space Quest, …)

Full list here.

In conclusion, AWESOME!

In possibly one of the most evil moves in recent history PopCap Games has developed a Bejeweled add-on for World of Warcraft. Instead of alt-tabbing and getting a couple things done whilst flying or sitting in long battleground queues, you can now fire up a game of Bejeweled inside WoW and ensure you don't miss any... queue action...

Bejeweled is a highly-addictive and popular "match three" game which is based on the mechanics of lining up three identical pieces on the board (think Tetris, with the pieces already on the board).