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 The Nintendo DS, (sometimes abbreviated NDS or just DS), is a dual-screen portable handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. The name "DS" is short for both Dual Screen and Developer's System, the latter of which refers to the features of the handheld designed to encourage innovative gameplay ideas among developers. Its code name was "Project Nitro". The DS has a horizontal clamshell design, similar to some Game & Watch video games, and the Game Boy Advance SP.
The DS is unique in that it has two screens (almost all game consoles use one screen), the lower of which is a touch screen. Additionally, it features a built-in microphone, and wireless connectivity with other DS users. Nintendo hopes that the new features present in the machine will provoke unique game development, attract developers, appeal to both older gamers and non-gamers alienated by normal input methods.
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Ubisoft Announces Pedometer-Driven My Health Coach DS (Gamasutra) - Ubisoft has announced it will publish My Health Coach: Weight Management for Nintendo DS in summer 2008. The title, which Ubisoft developed in its Montreal studio with the input of both a fitness coach and a nutritionist, includes a special pedometer peripheral that counts users' daily steps. Ubisoft says it designed My Health Coach: Weight Management as an "engaging and fun method to help ...
Empire Announces DS Detective Title Unsolved Crimes (Gamasutra) - UK-based Silverstar Empire Interactive (Big Mutha Truckers, Starsky & Hutch) has announced it will publish crime adventure Unsolved Crimes, in development by Japanese developer Now Production, for Nintendo DS. Empire says it will publish the title worldwide, excepting Asia, in the second half of 2008. Unsolved Crimes will incorporate action gameplay as well as 3D puzzle solving, and the ...
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