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Dracula – Undead Awakening is an addictive top-down shooter. Players control a grizzled Hunter of the Undead who chooses weapons and abilities, and then battles legions of undead foes including zombies, ghouls, werewolves and more. An arsenal of jaw-dropping powerful weaponry can be unlocked including such as Machine Guns, Buzz-Saws and Flamethrowers. Players can even earn upgrades for their weaponry and unique new perks for their character, all while their gruesome enemies increase in number and ferocity.

Dracula – Undead Awakening is available now. The WiiWare version costs just 1,000 Nintendo Wii points, while the DSiWare version is priced at 500 Nintendo DSi points.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Digital entertainment designer Alien After All has launched the official website of its first video game on Nintendo DSi.   DodoGo! is exclusively available for download from the Nintendo DSi Shop and promises some fun interactive content.

With DodoGo! you don’t just play on Nintendo DSi. To extend the game experience and stimulate the competitive spirit of the players, Alien After All sets new challenges on the game’s official site: www.dodogohome.com. This site enables visitors to follow the current events of the game, to download exclusive gifts, and to participate, whatever their level, in the players’ world classification of DodoGo!

By using the website, players have the opportunity to compete with other players via a system of world classification, or world ranking. Here players can assess their level and measure their progress throughout the adventure. In order to subscribe to the world ranking system, players will need to get their activation code from the Internet Code section of the game’s option menu. They can access the official site of the game from a PC or from their DSi console with the Nintendo DSi browser.

On the site, players need only click on ‘Enter your code’ and follow the instructions given on the screen. Their progression and rank will be registered and shown on the homepage of the official website.  Players will also find exclusive DodoGo! gifts to download from the official website. The music from the game is available in mp3 and is compatible with all current software players.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Nintendo has confirmed the release date and prince of the DSi XL in North America.

Dark Void’s first piece of downloadable content comes in the form of the ever present third person shooter ‘horde mode.’ Pitting players against groups of enemies across ten levels of increasing difficulty seems par for the course, but Dark Void’s flying mechanic should help differentiate it from the loads of other games that follow this formula. Coming on February 10th on the Xbox 360 and the 11th on the PS3, the new DLC will be available for 5 bucks on both platforms.

While some gamers would be excited about this new DLC, I am actually more hyped about getting the soundtrack from the game. Being that the soundtrack was composed by Bear McCreary, the composer behind the soundtrack of Battlestar Galactica, my expectations are rather high for this release. Along with over 80 minutes of the fully orchestrated score from the game, the 8 bit remix of the Theme from Dark Void, featured in Dark Void Zero (The Downloadable neo-retro game for the Nintendo DSi), is also included. Look for the soundtrack to hit store shelves and digital download services on February 9th.

It’s a new month, and love is in the air. Get it? Valentine’s Day? Bah. Forget it. Just check this sweet content for download.

True Swing Golf Express
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points™

For those mid-winter, no green, blues.

Legends of Exidia
Publisher: Gameloft
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points

It’s finally here! Wait.. ahem. Help the princess beat up the demons.

DOWNTOWN TEXAS HOLD’EM
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Players: 1-5
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Simulated Gambling
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points

In case you haven’t found a Texas Hold’Em game you’ve like yet. Here’s another one, just for you.

Move your Brain Rollway Puzzle
Publisher: Assoria
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points

This sounds like something a Psychologist would enjoy. Or a psych major. Hmm..

5 in 1 Solitaire
Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points

Featuring Klondike, Free Cell, Spider, Gaps, and Golf. No, not THAT golf (see above).

On The Portable Podcast, Carter Dotson and Rob LeFebvre discuss Edge being pulled from the App Store, the DSi LL’s sales, the latest releases, poignant moments in handheld games, and mini-reviews of Monkeys in Space and LittleBigPlanet.

Check out some launch pictures of the DSi XL in Japan in addition to some comparison images (DSi XL vs. PSP 3000, DSi XL vs. DSi).

Aardman Animations LTD. has created an animation using Flipnote Studio on the Nintendo DSi. Aardman Animations is the studio you may know from popular stop-motion animated features like Chicken Run, Creature Comforts and the Wallace & Gromit series. They put their animation skills to play on the Nintendo DSi’s free application, Flipnote Studio. It basically works like a flipbook, where you draw out frames using the Stylus. You can also share your creations online.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may not be the last game in the Prime series. With Other M on the way next year, some might have thought that the Prime series had come to an end but, as Nintendo’s Kensuke Tanabe told ONM, the series may still have a future.

Asked whether Samus will ever return to DS, Tanabe (who oversaw Retro Studios’ series for Nintendo) said "We are always planning to make new games in the Metroid Prime series. Depending on the timing and the situation, we cannot deny the possibility of realising it on DS or DSi."

Cnet: It’s the portable gaming debate that will never go away. Can Sony’s all-download, UMD free PSP Go gaming heldheld take down the Nintendo DSi?