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Fanswag: MySims Kingdom goes to ...

by Joystiq Staff { Nov 14th 2008 at 11:00PM }

Our latest giveaway has concluded, meaning it's high time we selected our winner. Via random drawing, the individuals selected to get our copies of MySims Kingdom is:

ProfWho, who would stop "Disney sequels like Snow White 12."
kjell1979, who would "declare war on Canada." That's not very nice!

Congrats to our winners and better luck next time to all of you. Keep your eyes on Wii Fanboy. We'll be starting up another giveaway soon.

Fanswag: MySims Kingdom goes to ...

by Joystiq Staff { Nov 14th 2008 at 11:00PM }

Our latest giveaway has concluded, meaning it's high time we selected our winner. Via random drawing, the individual selected to get our copy of MySims Kingdom is:

ShadowGirl, who would hire some skilled lawyers to iron out the winning of her kingdom. How thorough!

Congrats to our winner and better luck next time to all of you. Keep your eyes on DS Fanboy. We'll be starting up another giveaway soon.

Fanswag: MySims Kingdom

by David Hinkle { Nov 5th 2008 at 10:00AM }

Here we are again, dear readers, with another edition of our fanswag giveaway. Up for grabs this week is a copy of MySims Kingdom ($30) for the DS. What do you have to do to get your hands on this? Well, why don't you tell us what the first order of business would be if you suddenly won your own kingdom? Would you throw a killer bash in your castle? Would you sell off the land and retire to a beach somewhere? Would you run through your fields naked?

Leave a comment between now and Tuesday, November 11th at 11:59PM ET, to be entered into the giveaway. You can leave one comment per day from now until the final day. We'll select a winner the next day via random drawing.

There are a few things you should know before entering. Entrants must be current and legal residents of the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec) and at least 18 years of age or older. Read up on the rest of the official rules right here. Good luck!

We're giving away a free copy of the game on the Wii, as well. Feel free to enter both giveaways!

Gallery: MySims Kingdom

Fanswag: MySims Kingdom

by David Hinkle { Nov 5th 2008 at 9:00AM }

Here we are again, dear readers, with another edition of our fanswag giveaway. Up for grabs this week are two copies of MySims Kingdom ($50) for the Wii. What do you have to do to get your hands on this? Well, why don't you tell us what the first order of business would be if you suddenly won your own kingdom? Would you throw a killer bash in your castle? Would you sell off the land and retire to a beach somewhere? Would you run through your fields naked?

Leave a comment between now and Tuesday, November 11th at 11:59PM ET, to be entered into the giveaway. You can leave one comment per day from now until the final day. We'll select a winner the next day via random drawing.

There are a few things you should know before entering. Entrants must be current and legal residents of the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec) and at least 18 years of age or older. Read up on the rest of the official rules right here. Good luck!

We're giving away a free copy of the game on the DS, as well. Feel free to enter both giveaways!

DS releases for the week of October 26th

by Alisha Karabinus { Oct 27th 2008 at 11:50AM }

There's a ridiculous amount of cuteness available for the DS this week, and while cuteness is certainly a staple among DS games, the combination of Ninjatown and MySims Kingdom may just be enough to destroy the universe. If we're still here come Wednesday, it means we survived. Importers might want to pay particular attention this week to the Japanese releases, too, but of course, with Play Asia's current sale -- 15% off everything in stock through Halloween -- it's a good time to import anyway. Might as well rack up on those Japanese DS games before the DSi comes along to spoil the import party.

Bella Sara
Go Diego Go!: Great Dinosaur Rescue
Master of the Monster Lair
Monster Jam: Urban Assault
My Baby Boy
MySims Kingdom
Ninjatown
Petz Rescue: Ocean Patrol
Petz Rescue: Wildlife Vet
Rubik's World
Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Mummy
Shrek's Carnival Craze
Smart Boy's Winter Wonderland
Theresia
Tornado
Travel Games for Dummies
The Wonder Pets!: Save the Animals!
Zenses: Ocean
Zenses: Rainforest

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Retail and download releases for the week of October 27th

by David Hinkle { Oct 27th 2008 at 8:58AM }

You've been waiting patiently and finally Guitar Hero: World Tour releases to retail this week. It's a good week if you're looking for some new retail disc games to play. Also, if you're looking for some fun to be had from downloading WiiWare and Virtual Console titles. As well as the game shown above, past the break you'll find a long list of new experiences to enjoy on your Wii.

Tell us, what are you planning on picking up this week?

Gallery: Guitar Hero World Tour

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MySims Kingdom: glowsticks and crabs

by Alisha Karabinus { Oct 23rd 2008 at 9:54AM }

Fantastic settings bring a lot of things to mind, and sure, one of them can be crabs. It helps when they're cute little red crabs, as briefly seen in the above trailer for MySims Kingdom. Of course the crabs are cute; it's MySims, and that's the primary point of the new franchise (also, you build).

But there's something else here we don't expect to see in the typical fantasy setting, and that's glowsticks. And dance floors. Okay, there are several things that seem a little out of place, but it's MySims, and we're gonna go with it. The mini-rave is probably just on one of the themed islands you can explore in the forthcoming game, but knowing that doesn't make the dancing any less jarring when it appears out of nowhere in the trailer!

Nintendo Channel: won't you take us to Ninjatown?

by JC Fletcher { Oct 20th 2008 at 3:00PM }

The Nintendo Channel has been great recently about giving Wii/DS owners the chance to try out quirky DS strategy games. Well, great in that there have been two. A few weeks ago, a Lock's Quest demo hit the channel (and we do hope you checked it out!) This week, SouthPeak's super-adorable tower defense game Ninjatown is featured.

Limited-time demos returning for this week include Brain Quest Grades 3&4 and 5&6, MySims Kingdom, and Ubisoft's mysterious Battle of Giants: Dinosaurs. It seems to be some kind of touch-screen dinosaur fighting game for kids. We suppose we could actually play it and find out.

Gallery: Ninjatown

Lock's Demo now available on Nintendo Channel

by Chris Greenhough { Sep 29th 2008 at 6:14PM }

The DS demo section of the Nintendo Channel is usually swamped with bland Touch! Generations fare, but it now looks like Nintendo has abandoned that policy to bring us some potentially interesting games to try out. What a novel concept! Top of your "to download" list (if you haven't already bought it) should be Lock's Quest, 5th Cell's ace tower defense/real-time strategy, which reviewers have been throwing superlatives at from every direction (stay tuned for our review later this week).

Spore Creatures is there also, and while it may not have attracted the same loving critical response as Lock's Quest, it still piques our curiosity, simply because it's not the Spore everybody else has been banging the drum for. There's a demo of MySims Kingdom as well, which looks adorable, and an anagrams demo for sdrsorsCwo SD. These all expire October 5th, so don't delay!

Gallery: Lock's Quest

Nintendo Channel update: Helix, baseball, and an old friend

by JC Fletcher { Aug 25th 2008 at 9:17PM }

A second Mario Super Sluggers video has hit the Nintendo Channel today, proving that Nintendo does mention the game ... occasionally. Good thing, since if they're going to promote the game at all, now would be the time! Other new(ish) videos include the official Helix trailer, designed to entice WiiWare fans into shaking along with a skeletal, metallic homunculus, and ... a Defend Your Castle video? Can't forget about "classic" WiiWare, we suppose. Here's the full list of new, very slowly streaming videos:

Mario Super Sluggers Info Video 2
Helix Info Video
Defend Your Castle Info Video 2
Mario Kart Wii: Who's playing Wii today? 4
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play TV Spot
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Video 2
MySims Kingdom Info Video
High School Musical 3: Senior Year! Video
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Info Video
Imagine: Rock Star TV Spot

E308: MySims Kingdom cheerfully strolls into view

by Alisha Karabinus { Jul 16th 2008 at 8:15PM }

MySims Kingdom movie
by dsfanboyalt

There are a lot of things we don't know about MySims Kingdom: its firm release date ("fall" is a big window), its purpose, or why all these little Sim guys are just so freakin' happy all the time. What we do know is that it's just as cute as its predecessor, the kingdom-less MySims, and the debut trailer above proves it. Their Simlish is pretty irresistable, too.

Gallery: MySims Kingdom

E308: EA releases old screens and new screens

by Alisha Karabinus { Jul 15th 2008 at 10:15AM }

Ah, E3 ... a time for news, announcements, and, if you're Electronic Arts, old screenshots for DS games. How disappointed were we to discover nothing new for such games as MySims Kingdom. After all, our home counterpart got lots of new media. We feel so left out.

But the good news is, we've got some new Skate It images, as well as screens from Zubo and the Littlest Pet Shop. Talk about something for everyone!

Skate It

Gallery: Skate It

Zubo

Gallery: Zubo

Littlest Pet Shop

Gallery: Littlest Pet Shop

E308: EA: If it's in the game, it's in these galleries

by JC Fletcher { Jul 15th 2008 at 8:45AM }

During their E3 press conference, EA released assets for a bunch of upcoming games. We showed the new SimAnimals earlier today -- these are the assets from the games we already knew about. More Sim stuff of a sort (SimCity Creator), more animal-related stuff (the utterly terrifying Littlest Pet Shop), and ... other stuff.

We've posted the gallery of the nice-looking MySims Kingdom below. Wait, why does the medieval MySims game have rocket rides? After the break, you can find the rest of the galleries, including Pet Shop, Creator, FaceBreaker KO Party, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It's at least an excuse to break out old EA slogans.

Gallery: MySims Kingdom

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Which kingdom? MySims Kingdom!

by Alisha Karabinus { Jun 4th 2008 at 10:15AM }

Ah, new screens from MySims Kingdom, the game in which you build a town of anthropomorphic critters, dig up fossils, and spend your time fish-- no? Oh, that's Animal Crossing. Right. MySims Kingdom is the WiiWare game in which you take on the role of a young king tasked with rebuilding your father's king-- no? That's a Final Fantasy title? Blast! All these games look alike, and with the new medieval/fantasy theme MySims Kingdom is taking on for the sequel, it's looking a lot like My Life as a King.

In fact, instead of directing you to look at the screenshots (which, surprisingly, look a lot like MySims, which means they're cute, but not terribly fresh!), we've prepared a minigame for you after the break. If you happen to prefer the screens, check 'em out in our gallery below -- and hit up Famitsu, where they recently featured some others.

Gallery: MySims Kingdom

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EA presents Sim City, MySims Kingdom, adorable costume

by JC Fletcher { Jun 2nd 2008 at 11:00AM }

EA held an event in Japan last week to reveal the new Sim City Creator as well as MySims Kingdom. GAME Watch has direct-feed screenshots of both games, which should satisfy any would-be fake city-builder, whether they want to build on the micro- or macro-scale, in the past or in the future. There are also plenty of stills from gameplay demos of both games. Of the two, we find ourselves more drawn to MySims Kingdom, which looks like an RPG town creator, and forces players to think low-tech, with puzzles like gear mechanisms that must be turned by the motion of a nearby river.

However, more than either of the actual games, we were impressed with the MySim costume used at the event. How can we build one of those?