bit Generations, Animal Crossing movie, and more

The first three bit Generations retro casual games are out now in Japan. Get Dialhex, the puzzle color-dropping game; Dotstream, the Tron-cycle-ish race game; or Boundish, a multimode Pong clone. You can see the “trailer” movie for the whole series over here (click where it says “7.5 MB” to load). In spite of retailing for $17 in yen, they each run $25 at Play-Asia, or $30 from Lik-Sang. If you'd rather wait for a US release, they are already ESRB rated, as the “Digideluxe” series, but a date hasn't been announced yet. Thanks to Benjamin for the notice; see his review here.

For you Animal Crossing fans, there's an anime movie coming out based on the town simulation series. Here's the teaser trailer on YouTube (via lj).

A commercial for Mario Hoops 3-on-3 for DS is also going around. See it here. It seems to use the touch screen excellently, so I hope it holds up in real play. Apparently it was developed by Square-Enix, hence the cactuar cameo you can see as one of the last gameplay shots in the commercial.

Last time I spoke about Contact, it was coming out in July, so I hope you weren't camping out for it: Atlus now says it'll be out in September, but at least they have a page on their site for it now.

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[Michael]

YesAsia.com has the BitGEnerations games for $18.99 each.