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Nintendo has officially confirmed that "10 to 12" Nintendo DS titles will be released "in the first 30 days of system availability", with "20 to 25" set to be released by the end of Q1 2005.

Having witnessed the lid blown on its bubbling saucepan of Nintendo DS announcements yesterday afternoon, Nintendo has subsequently confirmed the reports - with president Satoru Iwata telling the press about the wireless download "Game Sharing" functionality, downloadable demos, and plans for Pokémon movie integration.

Although Nintendo didn't give it the sort of billing that its Cube counterpart received at E3 in May, game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has nevertheless confirmed that the company is working on a Zelda title for the Nintendo DS handheld, and that the game will follow on from the Four Swords GBA multiplayer title.

Another key speaker at Nintendo's DS shindig this week was Square Enix's Akitoshi Kawazu, who took the stage alongside Shigeru Miyamoto to discuss plans for Final Fantasy III, Crystal Chronicles, and even the possibility of porting mobile titles.

Nintendo is still refusing to confirm which of the dozen or so DS titles due out in the 35-day "launch window" will appear alongside the console on store shelves in America on November 21st.

THQ is developing at least six different games for Nintendo DS, the publisher announced late last week, including a pair of Pixar properties, a sprinkling of Nickelodeon and a launch title called Ping Pals.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour, The Urbz: Sims in the City and Madden NFL 2005 will all be available alongside the Nintendo DS hardware from November 21st in the USA, publisher Electronic Arts announced on Monday.

Konami will release a Ganbare Goemon (Legend of the Mystical Ninja) title for the Nintendo DS in Japan next April, according to an update on Nintendo's Japanese DS software website this week.

Capcom's Viewtiful Joe title for the Nintendo DS was conceived mainly because Clover Studios "simply wanted to make a game on the DS because it is a fun piece of hardware," the developer has revealed.

Electronic Arts has delayed the release of the Nintendo DS version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 by nearly a month, although the uber-publisher still plans to release Madden NFL 2005 and The Urbz: Sims In The City as launch titles.

Questions over whether Microsoft-owned studio Rare is working on titles for the Nintendo DS platform have been raised again by a throwaway comment made by a member of the firm's handheld team in an interview.

Ignition Entertainment has secured the European and North Americans to publish a Nintendo DS puzzle game called Zoo Keeper, which has been developed by SUCCESS Corporation, although unsurprisingly there's no word on when we'll get to play with it over here.

Ever wanted to watch TV on your Nintendo DS? The chances are you haven't, because you don't even own a Nintendo DS, and even if you did you probably can't think of too many scenarios where Countdown would take precedent over Super Mario 64. We can't.

Sometimes, when you buy an expensive piece of consumer electronics, something happens to take the shine off it. Dead pixels certainly come under that heading. Ostensibly a difficult-to-avoid manufacturing risk specific to LCD screens, dead pixels are just that: pixels which don't work. They can be quite frustrating.

You may not be able to Touch! yet, but you can See! and Hear! that Ubisoft is planning to have three games on the shelves alongside the Nintendo DS in Europe next... year. (Yes, there are still no specifics on when in the mythical first quarter we'll get our grubby styluses on it.)

The price point and release date for the forthcoming Nintendo DS handheld console in Europe won't be unveiled until early in the New Year, according to comments made by Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton last night.

New hardware is always fun. More than half of our lives spent as aficionados of gaming technology can't erode the fact that we love unwrapping new toys almost as much as we love playing with them. The carefully designed packaging builds the anticipation; the smell of a freshly manufactured piece of kit is as exciting as the smell of money to a gambler. The feel of a device in our hands for the first time, as all our expectations and misconceptions materialise or evaporate in the blink of an eyelid.

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The first sales figures from Nintendo's latest hardware launch are expected to be announced today, with half a million units of the Nintendo DS handheld sold in North America in the launch week.

The upcoming software line-up for the Nintendo DS has been bolstered today by the addition of two key titles from Namco's Monolith studio, promising two major RPGs for the platform in the future.

The American version of Namco's Nintendo DS puzzle game Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits lacks a pair of fairly significant features that made it into the Japanese version, according to US reports that emerged late on Friday, despite both versions hitting store shelves in their respective regions within days of one another.

The latest entry to the handheld console market, the Nintendo DS, is enjoying global sales figures broadly in line with its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance, with over a million units sold worldwide so far.

Given that we're lucky enough to have been playing the game independently and all approached the game from a variety of perspectives and prior knowledge, we've decided to turn the question of Mario's worth over to the other members of our reviewing panel to see what they made of Nintendo's flagship DS release.

Sony's forthcoming PlayStation Portable handheld will fail to attract newcomers to gaming, according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, whose comments come as shipment targets for the DS are raised once again.

Atari is planning to release a compilation of ten classic arcade games for the Nintendo DS, the publisher announced this week, and expects to ship them under the banner of Atari Retro Classics as soon as March 15th in the USA. As with all things DS, there's no firm European release date at this time.

Nintendo has announced plans to release a multimedia adapter for its Game Boy Advance SP and Nintendo DS handhelds within the next few months in Japan, extending both systems' functionality to cover MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio playback.

SEGA has revealed that its Nintendo DS title Feel the Magic: XY-XX will launch alongside the handheld hardware in Europe in Q1 2005.

Nintendo's newly announced console is likely to cost under £100 (€148) at launch, according to an analyst estimate, while further details of the dual screen device's hardware configuration continue to emerge.

Just like you, I was surprised and intrigued when I arose this morning and found a Nintendo press release blinking in my inbox. Indeed, I had fully anticipated the speculation surrounding the Big N's "mystery product" to last us all the way to the E3 trade convention in Los Angeles this May, and perhaps even beyond. To have it unmasked out of the blue on a cold January morning feels rather anti-climactic, even if it is in keeping with Nintendo's penchant for low-key revelations. Remember the GBA SP's unveiling after a year of speculation?