Inside The Briefcase: Update: The One With the 3DS, Batman, and Necromorphs

A quick update as I am being very much swamped with homework lately. Today we hear news of the Nintendo 3DS with the official release date of March 27, 2011. The official price tag is $249.99. Pretty reasonable as no one here wanted to pay more than $300 for a portable system. Back when the PSP came out it was also $250 so compare it to that in some way. I kinda wish I could go back in time now and save that money for a 3DS, but alas here we are…Here’s a list of games that will be available by June (not counting all of the new downloadable 3DS store and GameBoy Virtual Games):

Pilotwings Resort
nintendogs + cats
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
Madden NFL Football
The Sims 3
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Ridge Racer 3D
Dual Pen Sports
Super Monkey Ball 3D
Thor: God of Thunder
CRUSH 3D
BUST-A-MOVE UNIVERSE
Samurai Warriors Chronicles
Dead or Alive Dimensions
Asphalt 3D
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D
Rayman 3D
Rabbids Travel in Time

It’s a good list, but I will all I would get is Resident Evil, Super Street Fighter IV and probably Pilotwings. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart, and Starfox 64 is what I’ll be queuing for. Have any you’re most interested in for the new system?

Here’s a look at the software working on the system including (surprisingly) multi-tasking! It already sounds better than an iPhone or iTouch. I keed Steve Jobs. Or do I? Online play will supposedly be easier since the friend code will be revamped and DSi purchases can be transferred to the 3DS. I don’t have a DSi but I kinda felt like they would allow that anyway. Also if you look around YouTube, there are already videos popping up of Zelda: OoT, Kid Icarus, and Dead or Alive Dimensions gameplay.

More or less shortly after the major 3DS news today, 2 new actors where announced for the new The Dark Knight Rises movie. Those two are Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy. Their roles are Catwoman and Bane. Immediately after I was skeptical, but then I saw this comparison:

Ok, yeah I can see it. But with Tom Hardy (he was from Inception), also apparently has been a wrestler before:

I just don’t know. We’ll have to see what badassery Christopher Nolan has for us this time around though.

As a last minute thing, some new photos have popped up from the new X-Men: First Class which are slightly better from the last one. Now with more Kevin Bacon:

I lied, there's only one picture with Kevin Bacon. There are also reportedly some problems going on set, but hopefully it won’t be all bad. At least the photos look better.

Video of the Day:

Now on to the Necromorphs part. EA is doing a kinda sad, but brilliant ad campaign where they place moms from different areas of US and show clips of Dead Space 2 on monitors in front of them. They were horrified. Except for this mom in particular. Prepare to be more creeped out than the game: