A ruling against importer Playables Ltd. in London’s High Court has established a precedent in the UK, banning the import, sales and distribution of flash cart devices, like the infamous R4.

The devices allow for the use of homebrew applications on the DS (which are technically not illegal), but they also allow for the storage and access of licensed software (obviously illegal).

Needless to say, this ruling is a big win for Nintendo, who has been openly opposed to piracy and the use of these devices. According to Gamasutra, the company recently won another case in the Netherlands against 11 online retailers over property infringement.

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A new Metroid: Other M trailer has surfaced, and this one is heavy on character introductions and story presentation.

Most of the trailer contains video from the game’s early cutscenes, but unlike the ones in the demo, this trailer actually gives you the names of the other Galatic Federation soldiers. you are given a bit more background information on Adam and Anthony.

August 31 isn’t that far off!

It was revealed in this week’s Famitsu that Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition is only 10% complete at this time. Even though the game is still at such an early stage, it was confirmed that it will have SSFIV‘s full 35-man(and woman) roster.

Producer Yoshinori Ono was interviewed in the issue and shed some light on the portable adaptation of the successful fighter.

The reason the game was chosen for the 3DS was because, after looking at both the PSP and DS, their team realized that they would not be able to create what they wanted at the level they wanted.

While Ono wouldn’t give any specifics regarding 3D effects, instead only mentioning that they were “experimenting” with it, he did say that it wouldn’t effect competitive play and that the gameplay would remain intact from Super Street Fighter IV.

As for the rest of the game’s features, Ono said that, if there is space, they would like to keep the game as feature-rich as its console cousins, like wireless play. This doesn’t mean that it will be a straight port, however. Ono also said that they would like to include original bonus content, like costumes.

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