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Flipboard daily usage higher than ever, triples in two months
Despite losing truckloads of money, iPad magazine The Daily is apparently seeing a lot of traffic, and content aggregation app Flipboard is seeing the same trend. CEO Mike McCue says the company is seeing a huge slope upwards in traffic, with an average of 8 to 9 million "flips" (essentially pageviews), up from 3 to 4 million just a few months ago. That's some solid growth, probably driven both by sales of the iPad 2 and by tablet growth in general. As we've reported before, as more people learn to use tablets, more people (as you'd expect) actually use tablets. Unfortunately, there's no news about how all of that traffic is affecting Flipboard's bottom line. Magazines and content aggregators still haven't quite figured out how to turn all of those user numbers into profit numbers. But there is still some life in content on the iPad, despite all of the issues we seem to be hearing about from traditional magazine and newspaper publishers.
NintendoWare Weekly: Pearl Harbor Trilogy, 101 Shark Pets
The Virtual Console is resting for the holiday, but Nintendo has attempted to compensate for its absence with so much DSiWare. If you like ... browsing the DSi Shop, this is the week for you. Meanwhile, WiiWare has two games, including a WWII air combat game that sounds surprisingly full-featured for WiiWare. %Gallery-96911%
NintendoWare Weekly: Flametail, Lead the Meerkats
The highlight of this week's releases on DSiWare is a stylish, spacefaring puzzle game from Nintendo about incinerating space trash. All the science-fictional manmade junk contrasts nicely with WiiWare's Lead the Meerkats, which simulates the life of a group of meerkats in their natural habitat. We'd find a clever way to tie in this week's Virtual Console releases, but there aren't any. Also, if you haven't downloaded Photo Dojo, you should do so at your earliest convenience. It's free through June 11. %Gallery-94549%
European Nintendo downloads: Phoenix Wright, Discolight
European DS owners had to wait a long time for Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations. In fact, it was released after its sequel, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. The wait wasn't nearly as painful for the WiiWare port of Trials and Tribulations. It's out today, three months after the release of Justice for All. How to celebrate this release? Why not turn your DSi into a virtual disco light show? Because there is an app designed to do precisely that. Why, yes, it is from the same developer as Flashlight! Here's the full rundown of downloadable release this week: Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) Robin Hood: The Return of Richard (WiiWare, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Ferrari GT Evolution (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 800 DSi Points) Discolight (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Flips: More Bloody Horowitz (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Telegraph Crosswords (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
NintendoWare Weekly: Bit.Trip Runner, Looksley's Line Up, Kirby Super Star
It's quite the week for the DSi and Wii as far as downloadables go -- Bit.Trip Runner arrives on WiiWare today and EA, Tecmo Koei and Konami all offer solid titles for DSiWare. Oh, and you can finally get your hands on Looksley's Line Up, the interesting 3D DSiWare game from Nintendo. There's even a new Virtual Console game starring a certain hungry pink blob to check out!
NintendoWare Weekly: Photo Dojo, Earthworm Jim, Phoenix Wright
If you've had the slightest interest in Photo Dojo, Nintendo's weird DSiWare fighting game that uses the camera to make its fighters, you should download it today. If you don't have any interest in that, you should download it today. If you've never heard of Photo Dojo, go ahead and load up the DSi Shop anyway. If you have a DSi, there's basically no reason you shouldn't download Photo Dojo today. It's free for the next month, is what we're saying. %Gallery-86444%
European Nintendo downloads: Final Fantasy, Rytmik, Metal Torrent
If you're in Europe and can somehow tear yourself away from Sin & Punishment: Successor of the Skies today (we're very jealous) you can play the very first Final Fantasy on Virtual Console. And ... Pub Darts! On DSiWare, the standout title is Rytmik, a music creation utility sort of like Korg DS-10, but downloadable. It's joined by another Breakout-style game (with a zen theme!), Nintendo/Arika's shmup Metal Torrent, and another Flips e-book. Final Fantasy (NES, 1 player, 600 Wii Points) Pub Darts (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 600 Wii Points) Rytmik (DSiWare, players, 800 DSi Points) Metal Torrent (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Bounce & Break (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Flips: Silent but Deadly (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
NintendoWare Weekly: Final Fantasy II, Max & the Magic Marker
Sure, you could play Final Fantasy XIII on PS3 and Xbox 360 this week, but you could also buy a Final Fantasy game whose quality isn't under any debate -- partly because it's really good, and partly because Final Fantasy II for SNES was released in 1991 and the debate has pretty much elapsed by now. Or you could bypass that whole Final Fantasy thing and play a cute game about a kid and his amazing drawing ability. %Gallery-86446%
European Nintendo downloads: Mega Man 10, Bit.Trip Void, Dark Void Zero
It's a fantastic day to be in Europe like retro and retro-style downloadable games. Coinciding with that amazing Bit.Trip Runner trailer, its predecessor Bit.Trip Void is now avaiable on WiiWare, along with the authentically NES-style Mega Man 10! There's even a real retro game available on Virtual Console -- a pretty good one, at that. The theme even extends to DSiWare, where you can get Dark Void Zero, a promotional game that outshines the game it was meant to promote. You can play it on the DSi XL, which was released in Europe today! Zaxxon (Arcade, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Bit.Trip Void (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 600 Wii Points) Mega Man 10 (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) Dark Void Zero (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Flips: The Bubonic Boulders (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Globulos Party (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points) Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Real Football 2010 (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points) New English Training: Learn with Tempo - Advanced Edition (not available in the UK) (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
NintendoWare Weekly: Mega Man 10, Fatal Fury Special
[Capcom] Mega Man 10 is up today on the Wii Shop, offering a new 8-bit-style test of your memory, patience, and pure twitch ability. This time, however, it's got easy mode! Imagine being able to tell all your friends you completed Mega Man 10 -- without resorting to the total lie you told about completing Mega Man 9. See all the new Virtual Console, WiiWare, and DSiWare games after the break.
European Nintendo downloads: Monkey Island, Phoenix Wright, Flips
The WiiWare and DSiWare releases in Europe are startlingly uniform this week.All three WiiWare releases cost 1,000 Wii Points each, and all four DSiWare games cost 500 points. Well, we say games, but really we mean three games and an interactive book thing. Terror in Cubicle Four is actually a downloadable e-book -- a first -- pulled from one of EA's Europe-exclusive cartridges. It is, however, a children's book about "something strange going on with the loo in cubicle four of the girl's toilet." If you'd rather read about something else, there's always Phoenix Wright. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) Brain Cadets (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points) Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5 (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) Downtown Texas Hold'em (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points) Flight Control (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points) Flips Terror in Cubicle Four (DSiWare, 1 player, DSi Points) Puzzle to Go Wildlife (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
