Believe it or not, but the R4 cards have been labled as “the scourge of Nintendo DS market”. For those of you who don’t exactly know what the R4 is, its a flash cart made for Nintendo DS and Ds Lite systems. You place the ROM’s that you would like to play on a Micro SD card, and place the SD card into the R4 unit, and lastly, place the R4 into your NDS or NDS Lite allowing you to play the games you have at your disposal. Its good for keeping those DS games in one convient location, making it easier to carry every game you have, whether you pay for them or not. But currently, a man named Andrew Mclennan, who is the CEO of Metaforic (which is a company that many other companies use as their safe guard in security) has been looking to make the R4 cards disapear from the world market.

He isn’t the only one either, Nintendo, in 2008, filed a lawsuit in Tokyo District Court in hopes to sever the use of R4. Metaforic itself has a role in Nintendo’s security as well, and is talked about in an article on Gamasutra.com, which is the source located right below. Take a gander if you want to know more about the exclusive interview with Andrew Mclennan on Gamesutra.

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Even if you’re just a young squirt, you will feel old when you read this next sentence. In order to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of Pokemon Gold and Silver versions (GBC), Nintendo is in the works of producing remakes for them. Yes, it’s been 10 years. The games will be called Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

The Gameboy Color Pokemon games, Gold and Silver, were some of the most popular and most renowned titles in the Gameboy Color library. Just the same, those games were also some of the most popular among Pokemon fans in general. So it seems fitting as we’re coming up on the 10th year anniversary of these games for Nintendo to remake these titles with modern technology and give the Pokemon Franchise a facelift from the past.

The details are few and far between at this point, but the fine folks at GBATemp have come up with some very nice scanned images of an issue of CoroCoro, a Japanese magezine. I highly encourage anyone who is interested to check out the scans on their website. The following “release hints” listed below are stolen directly from GBATemp.

• Japanese release date is September 11th, 2009
• Pre-orders start on July 20th, same date as the new movie
• It is hinted at that the Kanto region will be available
• New wi-fi features included, “building on what was established with Diamond and Pearl, and Platinum.”
• The player can choose either a male or female character. However, the female character is NOT the female from Crystal version. She’s a completely new character.
• There will apparently be a skateboard involved? It’s speculated that it may be an addition to the bicycle or possibly replace it (not likely)
• The PokeGear has been redesigned
• There appears to be some sort of Pichu event in Ilex Forest.

Stay tuned to find out more about Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver as it comes in.

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Competing with MoonShell 2.0 is a task that the EZ-Flash team are trying to overcome. This is yet another pre-alpha release of the 2.0 kernel which is very similar to MoonShell 2.0. Read/ write speeds are pretty nice for users testing out these cards so far, but many people are having problems as well. Many people are receiving 2mb read/ writes which is nice for the savestates and such. Only time and testing will prove whether this flash cart is a true hit or miss, but for now, it seems like a worthy flash cart, especially considering that it is a Pre-Alpha release for the new kernel.

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No images, no teasers or trailers or even hints about the type of gameplay have been released. One lone account on Twitter is convincing thousands of people though.

The game, as the unidentified tipster says, is slated to be called, “Metarl Gear Solid + Oxide”. This may seem a little unbelievable coming from some random Twitter account, and it might all just be hype, but this particular Twitter account has been “tweeting” a lot of E3-specific information. He’s gone as far as letting people know what games different companies will bring to E3 and even some hardware too. The Twitter account is “GameFork“; you can click the name to check the account to see for yourself. The bigger question on the table is, “what does this mean in the future?”

The Metal Gear Solid franchise has nearly been exclusively sold on Playstation consoles. Fans of the PS3 in particular have made sure to mention that the “PS3 is better because it has games like Metal Gear Solid” and other titles. It appears, however, that Metal Gear Solid just MIGHT get a chance in the spotlight on the Xbox 360 in the future. The upcoming gaming convention, E3, will let us know if this guy is just a hoax or the real deal. Now it’s a matter of time.

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Recently, and not so recently, there has been some loose talk about a new gamefor the PSP called,

Undead Knights.

From what has been said around the net, the game has a very simple form of gameplay. You turn knights into zombies, they attack other knights, and you get one massive undead military force that is seemingly unstoppable. Depending on what type of enemy you convert to your forces, they retain the abilities from when they were your enemy. Even though its said that there isn’t much of a tactical point to the zombies, it doesn’t seem necessary considering, them being zombies and having a one track mind.

Even though the game was talked about late last year, it seems revolutionary for a PSP title, and IGN.com has an exclusive interview with the producer of the game, Kohei Shibata. Click the source below to delve deeper into Undead Knights.

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Horror is difficult to get across on a portable. After all, if things get too unnerving, you simply toss the system aside and breathe easy. That said, Playlogic is the latest to try its hand at fright on the go, announcing plans to again port Obscure: The Aftermath to yet another platform the PSP.

Set to ship in North America this September, the sequel to 2005’s Obscure looks to offer much of the same B-movie shock value as it has on other platforms, just on a smaller screen. Still, our previous time with the teen horror romp was more annoying than scary, and we doubt being able to play it while waiting for the bus will be enough to make our hair stand on end.

Source: PSP Fanboy

Looks like the list of the PSN just goes on and on as the weeks go by. This week there are a lot of Playable Content, and really good add-ons too!

Playable Content

• Qore May 2009 edition ($2.99 or $24.99 for yearly subscription)
• Puzzle Quest: Galactrix full game ($19.99)
• Savage Moon demo (free)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine demo (free)
• Bowling PS1 game ($5.99)
• R-Type Delta PS1 game ($5.99)
• Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage PS1 game ($5.99)

Add-on Content

• Buzz! Quiz TV Rock Legends pack ($7.99)
• LittleBigPlanet Norse Mythology pack ($2.99)
• Disgaea 3 content (continued)
• Need For Speed Undercover Boss Car Bundle ($4.99)
• Need For Speed Undercover Challenge Series expansion (free)
• Guitar Hero World Tour Ferret/Metal Blade track pack (free)
• Rock Band DLC (continued)
• Sonic Unleashed Mazuri Adventure pack ($2.99)
• Street Fighter IV Alternate Costume pack ($12.49)
• Tom Clancy’s HAWX US Eagles pack ($4.99)
• Trivial Pursuit TV pack ($4.99)
• Wheelman Free Street Showdown pack (free)
• Wheelman Premium Street Showdown pack ($4.99)

Disgaea 3 DLC

• Gig character ($2.99)
• Revya character ($1.99)
• Soul Nomad character pack ($3.99)
• Raspberyl Chapter 1 expansion ($2.99)
• Raspberyl Chapter 2 expansion ($2.99)
• Raspberyl Chapter 3 expansion ($2.99)
• Raspberyl Chapter 4 expansion ($2.99)
• Raspberyl Chapters 1-4 expansion ($11.99)

Rock Band DLC

Franz Ferdinand 3-pack ($5.49)

• “Do You Want To” ($1.99)
• “Lucid Dreams” ($1.99)
• “Take Me Out” ($1.99)

Individual Songs ($1.99 ea.)

• “Smooth Criminal” Alien Ant Farm
• “Blue Sky” Allman Brothers
• “Midnight Rider” Allman Brothers
• “Drain the Blood” Distillers
• “Naked Eye” Luscious Jackson
• “Idealistic Types” Prong
• “The Banishment” Prong

Videos

• Pulse 5/7 edition
• inFamous Power Trip trailer
• Killzone 2 Steel and Titanium pack video
• Patapon 2 Build Up Your Army trailer
• SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 announcement trailer
• Alpha Protocol Gameplay Walkthrough video 1
• Magic Ball Booster Pack trailer
• Mahjong Tiles Booster Pack trailer
• Tekken 6 Editor’s Day 2009 trailer
• Speedway TV Spot
• The Making of Speedway

Themes and Wallpapers

• Disgaea 3 Gig theme ($0.99)
• Disgaea 3 Raspberyl and Sapphire theme ($0.99)
• Anime MBM theme 2 ($1.49)
• Bunnies Pinups theme 2 ($1.49)
• Metal Battalions Maidens theme 2 ($1.49)
• NASCAR/Sprint Cup Series Monsters theme (free)

PSP Content

• Bowling PS1 game ($5.99)
• R-Type Delta PS1 game ($5.99)
• Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage PS1 game ($5.99)
• Patapon 2 full game ($19.99)
• Pursuit Force full game ($22.99)
• SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 3 announcement trailer
• Pulse 5/7 edition
• Patapon 2 Build Up Your Army trailer

Square Enix producer Yoshinore Kitase has told VideoGamers.com that Square Enix has “no plan” to release a disc-based demo for Final Fantasy XIII in the States. The demo, bundled with certain copies of the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, thrust PS3 to the top of the Japanese sales charts, and became the best-selling anime Blu-ray in Japan. While including a demo with the upcoming US release of the movie seems like a no-brainer, Kitase explained that a PS3-exclusive demo would be unfair to the Western audience that’s also expecting an Xbox 360 demo. “We are going to carry on with the project alongside the Xbox version, so we really can’t just make it available only for the PS3,” he explained.

Kitase then noted that the company “would like to check” on the possibility of a downloadable demo. We’re certain the logistics behind delivering a 5GB demo to the PSN/XBL masses will be quite difficult to figure out.

Source: PS3 Fanboy

Remember VidZone? You probably don’t, seeing as we haven’t heard anything about the music video service for the PS3 since it was announced at the Leipzig Game Convention last year. It’s not dead, though. The service is ready to go live this summer in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Australia.

VidZone will be a completely free, though ad-supported, way of watching music videos on demand. It will allow you to create playlists of streaming videos either from your PS3 itself or from your PSP via remote play. The service will feature “thousands of music videos and live concert videos, as well as behind the scenes, interviews and making of footage.”

There’s no word on how often the service will be updated, but we would hope that more content is added on a fairly regular basis. VidZone is Europe and Australia exclusive, with seemingly no plans to bring it to the US.

Source: Sony Fanboy

This Thursday, May 6, is the release date for the digital release of Patapon 2. It’s also the day on which you can show off your love for Patapon clothing within Home. They’ll be available from the Threads store in the mall, free or not, we don’t know yet. Acting as walking billboards is one thing, without having to pay for the pleasure.

Check it out this Thursday on your local PS Home store.

Source: PSP Fanboy