Whoa, hang a second. The DS has been around for five years? Strange as it sounds, it’s true – the DS launched in the US on November 21, 2004 to almost immediate success, and is well on its way to outselling every other major gaming platform in history. Current numbers put the DS (and its various incarnations) at nearly 115 million units sold worldwide, a runaway lead over Sony’s estimated 60 million PSPs ... » Read More

16 Dec 2008

2008's most impressive DS games

DS Feature | Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Reflection is customary at the end of the year. Where were we? What happened? What games did we love? And as we stared down at our copies of Club Penguin and Personal Trainer: Cooking, our thoughts turned to: What were the DS games that actually tried this year? ... » Read More

6 Feb 2008

The Top 7... Assassins

DS Feature | Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

On some level, roughly 95 percent of games have always been about assassination: go to point A and kill prominent entity B, fighting your way through goons C through Z to get there. Most games tend to come up with a morally justifiable pretext for all the violence, but more and more, we're seeing games that drop the act and let you be what you've secretly known yourself to be all along: a remorseless killing machine bent on destroying your targets. ... » Read More

15 Jan 2008

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword interview

DS Feature | Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Jan 15, 2008 There's a great deal of hyperbole in the games industry. People will frequently make impossible claims like "Game X will haunt you for years to come" or "Game Y will change the way you view the world," but those statements just aren't true. In the case of this game, however, we can safely make a statement along those lines and mean every single word: There is no other DS game, action or otherwise, that can compare to the technical prowess of Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword. Its smooth, ... » Read More

12 Apr 2007

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword Revealed

DS Feature | Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

In our interview with Tomonobu Itagaki, we discuss Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword's story, how the fast-paced action game works on the DS and whether or not all that action will give your hand cramps. When Team Ninja revealed a DS version of Ninja Gaiden was in the works, we thought it was a joke. But it wasn't quite April 1. Then we saw scans of a Japanese mag that confirmed this was no joke. How would it work on DS? Wouldn't all that fast-paced gameplay make it impossible to play? How would ... » Read More

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