This week I created a bit o' gaming news in my latest NP feature, when an offhand scan I included was picked up by the big boys.

The scan in question was this ad for Disgaea DS, which I found in the latest Nintendo Power and thought was fairly amusing:

My joke was to point out that the ad features a non-existent widescreen DS. Clearly a sub-par Photoshop work, but wouldn't it be funny if Nippon Ichi was privy to secret conversations with Nintendo, was working on a widescreen Disgaea DS game, and then goes ahead and runs an ad for it, accidentally revealing it in Nintendo Power of all places.

I posted that late Sunday night and the next morning it appeared on Kotaku. I think Kotaku picked it up first (which means somebody at Kotaku was reading my stuff on Aeropause, which is pretty cool), just because it was rather early in the EST when they published.

Then it popped up on Eurogamer and N4G, as gaming sites starting grabbing the scan and speculating on the possibilities:

Kotaku later ran the scan again when they published official comment from Nintendo that this was all completely unfounded.

It's good timing more than any actual info. We're all expecting Nintendo to announce a new DS soon, since the original DS is four years old and the Lite two. Widescreen seems like a given, although surely Nintendo has more enhancements in mind than that. Any semblance of verification is hot right now, in the week before E3... where Nintendo just might officially announce it anyway.

Meanwhile, my original article pulled down five digits' worth of pageviews inside of a day, so this was very good for Aeropause, good for me, but perhaps better for Nippon Ichi, since a whole lot more people are suddenly aware of Disgaea coming to DS.