Games! Games! Games!

My nephew's understanding of this war has been dictated by action movies and video games that are often larger than life, as evidenced by his questions. "Grandpa, were you ever ambushed? Did you shoot many guys? Did you blow anybody up?" The answers he received did not satisfy his views of the glories of war.

Our thumbs and backs hurt like crazy. We know the reason. We just sat on our asses for 14 hours and played video games. Of course they hurt. We gingerly nurse our wounds over the next couple of days. We play trace amounts of GBA like an accident victim learning to walk again.

The three developers of the Cell processor are preparing to release full chip specifications and software libraries in an effort to rally the open-source community around the device that powers the Sony Playstation 3. With the outlook for the multicore chip's use beyond Sony's internal systems cloudy at best, the partners are hoping to spark its uptake in applications ranging from HDTVs to supercomputers.

Listening to the call, i still have some questions and comments. Overall, i think shanda is a very successful company that is going to be challenged to grow its revenues and metrics at a rate necessary to justify its current valuation. Call me crazy, or worse, but I think the market will correct its view of Shanda's valuation. Here are some of those questions/comments:

It is worth noting that despite Mikami's comments in the past, Capcom has decided to port this title to the PS2. The game will feature some new cutscenes and extras. However, it also will not be released until the end of 2005 and likely will not look quite as impressive. Personally, I think it's worth it to forget waiting, grab your GameCube and play it right now.

Finally a XBox RPG that won’t disappoint - check out Fable and see how your in-game actions cause you to become good or evil. I don’t see any upcoming xbox games that can beat this great xbox game.

Via defense review, another use of video-game controllers for military purposes (see for the ps2 pad that controls missiles): a remote-controlled throwable robot for which the controller was copped from a PlayStation 2 gamepad (according to popsci).

Quoted from article: Have you ever wondered why Nintendo Power doesn’t include demo discs for subscribers? The people at the magazine would love to do it, but NCL won’t let them. Would you believe that all third-party games must be tested at both NOA and NCL, even for a U.S.-only release? This drawn-out process may be part of the reason that the GameCube version of multiplatform games is usually last to be developed and last to be released.

Over the past year, I’ve heard about people making money in Online games. Basically, they would utilize real world skills like trend spotting, design, and actual gameplay to amass things of value within online games.

Now, I read an article that actually confirms what I’ve heard… people making as much as $100K per year playing in the MMO RPG (massively multiplayer online - Role Playing Game)

It is always really cool to see video games consoles past and present to compare the technology but this article takes a slightly diffrent approach. Wonder why sholder bottons came to be? Why the X-Box controller is so freaking HUGE?

Microsoft's J Allard was asked his opinions on the Playstation 3 hardware. His response was quite contrary to reports heard from other Microsoft employees:

Q: What do you think about Sony’s hardware?

A: In the end, it’s basically a wash. I look at it and say it’s a wash. You can make the case for us, you can make the case for them. We’ll publish a bunch of details so you guys can all speculate but it’s basically a wash.

Interesting, so with all the advantages outlined here, in reality it's only a wash? One might interpret this to mean Mr. Allard is downplaying it to a wash, when in fact all signs point to Sony having the strong upper hand in the hardware department.

The new tiny Game Boy Micro that Nintendo announced at E3 2005 might come bundled with Play-Yan mp3 and mp4 extension.

Seems everyone was hoping that the Xbox 360 was running some sort of Linux variant as the Apple crowd is ready to claim victory in that a lot of game development was done on a G5. Well you can settle down it's not Linux.. [www.windowsfordevices.com]

It will come as no surprise to regular readers that the Nintendo Revolution is the one I have my eye on. I was going to write an article on each console giving my first impressions of their designs, but decided it wasn’t really justified; all three are much of a muchness, frankly. The Xbox 360, though a clear improvement on the design disgrace of its predecessor is still aiming itself squarely at the hardcore online gamer and has a launch title list comprised mostly of sequels and other assorted tedium. The Playstation 3 appears to be another...

Microsoft is way down there at a meager 23%, while Nintendo continues their steady decline at 12%. What's clear is that more gamers want the PS3 than the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution combined.

A Vice President of Microsoft told TheStreet.com that the Xbox 360 should retail for around $300, although a final decision has not been made (one should be made in two months). Microsoft is expected to take a hit on the Xbox 360 and then recoup the money from software sales.

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Two Hollywood unions, SAG and AFTRA, are looking towards a possible strike against video game manufacturers. While most of the members are hardly household names, video games have increasingly been using mainstream talent to provide recognizable voiceovers in their storylines. And big-money video games are all the rage, responsible for wooing people away from the failing box office and unimpressive television line-ups. The problem is that Hollywood expects what Hollywood provides: costly contracts that include residual profit sharing. In essense,...

I am playing a playstation 2 game called "Project Eden." Believe it or not, there are adult women who enjoy video games. I believe this game is considered a survior horror game. I control a team of four people who are a part of a city in the future. There are different levels of the city that are basically built on top of each other. The top of the city is where most of the people live. The lower levels consist of factories, the homeless and gangs. My team has to investigate the violence in a meat factory where some technicians...

Given this level of interest, PSP is in a good position to challenge the other devices in the portable gaming domain, especially devices from Nintendo, the current market leader. Gameboy Advanced and Gameboy DS, both from Nintendo, scored only a combined 33% among U.S. Internet users with purchase plans for a portable gaming device. Nokia N-Gage lags far behind with only 4% of future planned purchases.

Online ‘emulation’ is a new area now being explored. The idea is that you simply play the game in your browser through a Java applet or Flash application. These might not always strictly be emulated programs but many remakes are feature perfect with the originals. The graphics, sounds, and game play remain intact. One excellent place to look for online games is Every Video Game (http://www.everyvideogame.com). While the site does not in fact contain ‘every video game’ it does have a very large list of old games from the arcades, GameBoy,...

Microsoft finally sheepishly admitted—after months and months of hedging—that the XBOX 360 will be somewhat backwards compatible. This is undoubtedly to counter today’s announcements that not only will the PS3 be fully backwards compatible (which everyone expected) with PS1 and PS2 titles, the Nintendo Revolution will be as well. Nintendo’s backwards compatibility kicks the asses of all the competitors. Not only will the Revolution play the last generation of Nintendo Console games, it will playall the generations: the...

So I did compare the xbox360 and they do look pretty even, although I think the ps3 is a little better because blu ray can hold like 40 or 50 gigs or something like that. And has just about every type or wireless controller support you can think of, including 7 bluetooth. Going to have support for different memory cards including compact flash (are they finally realizing people don’t want to use their proprietary memory sticks? (although there’s slots for those, too)) and a removable 2.5″ hard drive (size wasn’t specified,...

The Xbox 360 may be able to recreate the laws of physics, but it can’t change the laws of logic: dedicated gaming machines aren’t likely to be purchased by consumers who don’t have a serious interest in games. There’s even an argument that the next generation of consoles may provide slower growth than in the past. After all, at least the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 need scarce high-definition TVs to demonstrate their full superiority over their predecessors, and rumored higher console and game price titles may delay mass market...

We returned from Chicago late last night so I'm just getting around to posting. On Friday we went to see the Game On exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. It was fanfriggintastic!! The exhibit was pretty damned comprehensive. There was most everything from what is believed to be the first "console" that played pong like games (1968) to the Sony PSP (2005) and the greatest part?? It was interactive. There were old arcade games and consoles ripe for the picking. Unfortunately, the handheld games were off limits (so the NEo Geo pocket...

This richly bitchy summary of the highs and lows of E3 is an excellent piece of cutting-to-the-quick. Although, I don't quite get why Okami can already be considered so great, I think for the most part he's really getting the main points, particularly on his Worst Of list.

The next generation of consoles excites me, and I plan on owning all of them. Sony and Microsoft's entries are both vying to be your all-in-one entertainment centre are cool, but I'm just as excited (if not more) by Nintendo's completely different approach. Access to their entire game backlog from N64 and earlier? Most excellent. There are so many N64 games I desperately want to play, yet never had the opportunity to do so. I can see myself spending many hours playing, of all things, Pokemon Stadium.

Console specifications are a lot like statistics in that you can really change perceptions by paying special attention in selecting what you measure and how you go about measuring it. Microsoft may have been the first manufacturer to announce its next-generation console, but in order to gain that advantage Microsoft also had to reveal its console specs first--giving a fat target-list for Sony's marketing team. Do you really think that Sony would have even mentioned the 51-billion-dot-product-operations per second number during the PS3 press conference...

Would you like to view RSS feeds on your PSP? You might want to check out MioMediaBox for PSP v1.11.

Finally, the Playstation 3 will support outputting to dual screens, either as a way of providing panoramic output, or of displaying additional information. Now, while the photo makes it look quite useful, remember that the PC has supported muyltiple outputs for years, and no game developers (or users) have really taken advantage of that.

This also means that it will be mandatory to purchase new, recompiled versions of Xbox 1 titles in order for them to run on an Xbox 360, which is indeed a disappointment. And infact, Sony and Nintendo themselves have already confirmed that their next-generation gaming consoles (PlayStation 3 and The Revolution) will be perfectly backwards compatible with their older PlayStation 2 and GameCube titles. It's unfortunate to be true for both Microsoft fans and Microsoft themself, only time will tell.

But on the bright side, Nintendo has raised the bar and came up with something nice to look at and clever too. Nintendo announcing the new console called the Nintendo Revolution, so the question is, what happen to the Gamecube? I don't mind the minimalised style of the console, just a nice slick shiny box with blue led glow on the CD rom slot. If is not because they have very limited games available, it definitely will be on my wish list. I don't mind those cutie cuties games from Nintendo, but I just wish they can break the boundaries bit more and away from the old cliched Mario Bros and Zelda. If the Nintendo Revolution doesn't awe you enough, well check out this new little Gameboy Micro by Nintendo too! It's only 0.4inch thick and around 2 inch wide. Well is cute, is pocketsize, but I doubt is playable for the big-thumbers, might end up with Arthritis.

namco are smart and have announced that in addition to a katamari sequel, they are also reworking the original for mobile devices. nokia, despite their expertise in mobile phones, don't get casual / mobile gaming at all. in fact, they might be worse than microsoft. they're equally ignorant of it, but it's more critical to the success of their platform. nokia announced all the new n-gage titles yesterday and there was barely a casual one among the lot. the only casual title is a card full of re-issued classic arcade games. how weak is that? the second...

He's also recommending that more public libraries circulate video games, which I agree is a great idea to help make us more relevant to teens and tweens (and those of us adults who still play games like crazy). I feel like the argument against circulating video games is like the argument against circulating entertainment videos & DVDs--dated and unsupportable. But, that's just my opinion. If anyone knows of a good reason not to circulate video games, please do let me know. I'd be curious to hear it.

The cat’s officially out of the bag, so now I can finally talk about Human Head Studios’ top-secret video game: Prey. For those of you who have been playing PC games forever, you might remember that 3DRealms, the makers of Duke Nukem, promised to come out with one particular game before Duke Nukem Forever. That game was Prey.

• I want to thank Arush, ValuSoft THQ, SCS Software for all their support and help in making The Hunting Unlimited Series PC games the best hunting game by far on the market. Hopefully, there is a HU4 in the works for release in the near future.

I was reading my latest issue of Gamesmaster and came across an article on the next generation of games consoles - the PS3, Nintendo Revolution and Xbox 2. I have to say that what I read wasn't all good, it seems that in their desire to make better consoles with more features Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft may well damage the games industry itself.

Treat as rumour, but the latest leak from Microsoft's camp appears to be the specifications for both the Xbox 2 and its associated, revamped Live service. And it makes for interesting reading...

Two varieties of Xbox Live are proposed, Gold and Silver, with Gold requiring a subscription.

A lot of talk over the new upcoming gaming consoles had been coming across the media and internet over the past several months. I have seen a lot of rumors and some places have even shown fake pictures of what they will look like. None of them have been even close to what the official released pictures look like. They are both white, but playstation has three different colors already to choose from. I am intrested more in the Xbox than the Playstation mainly cause the Playstation controller looks really fucked up. I also have an Xbox now with...

Minutes ago, it was officially announced, that XBOX360 will be compatible with top Xbox games... more to come later.. ;)

My thoughts? They are using the tech they bought from Connectix, and utilizing a virtual machine to play Xbox games.....

A movie and screenshots of the upcoming Formula 1 game for the PlayStation 3 — looks absolutely fantastic!

Fully backward compatible with all Playstation and Playstation 2

Since I am a brand loyalist, and Sony has always treated me right, the PS3 will be sitting on my stand the day it comes out (let’s hope). It has been said that all the PS3 games will be in High Definition which makes me wonder how the hell video games are possibly going to get any better. Here’s only a glimpse into the capability of the PS#:

I may be asking too much of my machinery. Video games are about fun and community. Not sitting your bare ass down on the sterile paper at the doctor’s office. Will the next generation come with a hand sanitizer dispensers in them? Maybe it’ll just excrete from pores in the controller. I don’t want to live in a world where my video game playing isn’t 99.9% germ free.

Let me start off by saying I am not a big Madden fan. I believe the best football game is NCAA Football. Madden, however, is played by everyone I know and my college players from NCAA can be imported into Madden to continue their stellar careers on the pro level. Although Madden itself has many flaws, playing against human players with your favorite team is one of the best experiences I have playing video games. Beating someone with the Niners is always a great experience and next year our team will be much better. I will now explain to you the new features of Madden, that we know, and their impact, as well as rate some of rookie players based on last year’s draft class’ rating.

We know that video games can help us learn, but what exactly is it about the games that does it? Is it that fact that we’re in control — for example, the way drivers in a car seem to learn the roads better than passengers? Or is it something else? Paul Wilson of the University of Leicester and Patrick Péruch of Université de la Méditerranée had been working on this problem separately for several years, with mixed results. In 2002 they combined their efforts to try to figure out what matters most for learning in a virtual environment ("The Influence of Interactivity and Attention on Spatial Learning in a Desk-Top Virtual Environment," Current Psychology of Cognition, 2002).

An Israeli-company is first to market with a new system that allows for the introduction of rich media advertising into on-line video games - a prospective $750 million market by 2006 according to Jupiter Research.

Game boxes like the Xbox and Sony PlayStation exist only because the hardware cost of upgrading a PC to the same media level would be prohibitive.

WOW..... Ik moet zeggen dat het design van de Sony Playstation 3 beter is als de Xbox 360.

With all the details released for the next-generatio Xbox you’d think they’ve finally decided on the issue of backward compatibility with current Xbox games, but no matter how you look for the dirt on that you won’t find it anywhere on the spec sheet or product details. So what’s the deal with it? Well according to this article even Microsoft doesn’t know for sure.

On HDBlog.net it seems that the author is starting to see the major benefits of moving over the Xbox 360. One of the main reasons I modded my xbox was for the Media Center capabilities. MS got wise to this and is now including it automatically. Like the Author of the other blog, I wonder where this will take the gaming scene. I think though that by Microsoft doing this they will be pushing the gaming industry forward into supporting more than just games!

Virtually everything you wanted to know about the Xbox 360 has been laid bare for your perverse enjoyment.

: “ Download PSP Web Browser Simulator and start browsing portals and web sites specially created for a Sony Playstation Portable.

PSP Web Browser Simulator is a PC software reusing the Microsoft Internet Explorer componment to render web pages with the same look and feel than on a Sony PSP.

What is interesting is the fact that Bill Gates thinks that Halo would affect the sales of the Sony’s gaming platform. It is quite a long shot to assume that gamers would ignore the highly anticipated Sony PlayStation 3 just because Halo 3 would be available for only Xbox platform. Halo has been extremely profitable venture for Microsoft but compared to PlayStation 3, it would be just a piece of software and die-hard Sony fans would probably ignore the lure from the software giant.

Then went to Michael's house. Played an assortment of GameCube games from 3 to 10. He's gotten better at the various 007 games, but I can still beat him in Soul Calibur and Metal Arms.

Well, this was unexpected, Not wanting to drown in the flood of media coverage over the Xbox 360, Nintendo has revealed some details about their own next-generation console the Revolution. Most interesting is the size of the thing, which will be no thicker than 3 dvd cases and will be slightly longer, the thing can also stand horizontally and vertically and will be backwards compatible with GameCube titles. Wireless and Online functionality will also play a big role with the console, although no details were given. And when should we expect the Revolution?

Nintendo’s World Store in New York is finally open for business, and the 1UP / EGM crew was there to cover the festivities. It sounds like a Nintendo fanboy’s wet dream, with widescreen TV’s playinng GameCube games, a table catered for GBA multiplayer, all the Pokemon goodies you can shake a stick at, and even a museum of past Nintendo consoles and games. That Nintendo museum is something I’d definitely check out if I was in the area.

I wonder if at the age of 16 the Gameboy had a Gamebarmitzvah where everybody brings cheap gifts like batteries or maginifying lenses.

First off, let me begin by saying that it is one of the sexiest pieces of electronic equipment I have ever seen. But that’s just how it looks. Inside the XBox 360 is a veritable monster, a technological beast literally unsurpassed by almost no other system in the entire world. I’ll get into the specifications later, but here’s a general idea of just how powerful the XBox360 is. Two years ago, in 2003, there were no more than 150 computer systems in the world that were as strong as the XBox360 is today, and that number has barely...

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360

1UP has some (almost) unbridled enthusiasm about the Xbox 360 from developers, except for a little trepidation at the prospect of a Microsoft-mandated online component and some other features. Words like “shoehorn” may have been thrown around. Naturally everybody’s really happy with Microsoft since their jobs depend on the 360 doing well but it will be interesting to gauge the general reaction when the PS3 and Revolution are revealed in the coming days.

Thanks to Nintendo’s hardware development partners IBM and ATI, the small system will be packed with power that will enable it to wow players with its graphics. Nintendo’s legions of loyal fans will be happy to learn that Revolution will be backward compatible, playing both Nintendo GameCube 8cm disks along with its own 12cm optical disks in the same self-loading media drive.

I also find it interesting that Microsoft is courting asian game developers. The main reason why I was never interested in the original XBox was that most of the titles looked just like the stuff I can already get for my PC, while all the innovative games seemed to come out for PS2 or Gamecube. The thought that Microsoft might be trying to fix that is intriguing.

Game Girl Advance has up an editorial arguing that, in effect, Microsoft has already won the next round in the console wars by shifting the battlefield. Looking at Gamasutra's rundown on the 360's multimedia and Live components, its easy to see why jane says that the 360 isn't really a console anymore. From the article: "Xbox 360 does not compete with Sony or Nintendo. It is not a gaming console. It is a powerful device to deliver content online and over WiFi. Microsoft's real competition is Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Apple's movie-download service....

This picture from Robert Spychala at www.tastesgood.org shows a Sony Playstation Portable billboard with an large screen that I assume, demonstrates some functions of the PSP or rotates images on the screen. But, you see a Windows error message on screen indicating that this is probably just a PCanywhere setup or something. Anyhow, it's a tad comical, but maybe I find it funnier than you.

I know this is my second Xbox-related post in as many days, but I want to share with you an article in Wired titled “The Xbox Reloaded”. There’s nothing technical about the article, it rather feels like a short biography of the father of the Xbox- J Allard. Choice quote from the article:

In what is probably just an attempt to spike Microsoft’s guns a little, a Sony representative has been quoted as saying that its possible the next generation Sony PlayStation 3 could be released in 2005.

People at work are so busy, either watching movies in the office computer, playing pc games or play station (someone brought one over and hooked it up to the big plasma), chatting online, or reading pocketbooks. Oh well, another day in the life of a yuppie?

Nokia today announced Atari Masterpieces Volumes 1 & 2 for the N-Gage platform. Atari Masterpieces Volume 1 brings eight Atari arcade games for the N-Gage including such classics as Asteroids, Battlezone, Black Widow, Millipede, Missile Command, Red Baron, Lunar Lander and Super Breakout. Atari Masterpieces Volume 1 for the N-Gage is expected to be available worldwide in September 2005 and Volume 2 in December 2005.

Seriously though, this is a pretty awesome time to be someone into digital media and video gaming. This box will revolutionize gaming in the living room, and will sell a whole lot of HDTVs this fall. The irony is there will be a bunch of people go buy Sony HDTVs to play XBOX games, so everyone wins!

Attention all of my friends. Buy a PSP, read this article 8Bit Joystick.com: How to throw a PSP Wifi LAN Party, and let’s do it.

Haciendo que cada día este más cerca el PSP de convertirse en la maquinita hácelo todo preferida por los hackers, ahora lograron correr un emulador de Gameboy en el PSP. No es la primera vez que logran hacer andar una aplicación para PSP desde Memory Stick, pero es hasta el momento el hack más avanzando (demostrando lo que se podria llegar a hacer en el futuro). Sony esta firmando criptográficamente los programas y juegos que pueden ser corridos en la PSP, por lo que hasta el momento para hacer estos hacks necesitas la versión 1.0 del firmware...

Over the years a couple of companies have tried to release 3D stereoscopic glasses that use left and right shutter glasses to give depth to PC games. The results were sometimes impressive, often times frustrating, and it never really took off the way people hoped. Well IGN has some pictures of Sly Cooper 3 being played with those paper glasses and a screen shot showing the trademark red/blue double imaging.

The software giant unveiled the Xbox 360 during a pre-taped MTV broadcast on Thursday night, edging out Sony and Nintendo to become the first to reveal details of a new console.

The idea that shilling for the industry is somehow only unethical if you make a change in a review because Nintendo calls you up and demands it is ludicrous. Part of being a professional reviewer is having credibility. Credibility means that the reader has reasonable confidence that you're not so overwhelmed by the "selfless generosity" of the content producers that your reviews self-redact. Gamespy (and Gamespot, and many other sites who rely on press releases for regular content) self-redact because they know full well which side their bread is...

Finally we have more info on the fabled Nintendo revolution. In the New York Times Perrin Kaplin (Vice president of NoA) has said that the Revolution is “very very sleek” and is no more than three dvd cases in width. It stands horizontally and is apprently smaller than the Mac Mini. It will also beable to use standard DVD media, a hint that it’ll double up as a DVD player and confirmation that the control pads will be wireless.

One thing that remains up in the air is Backwards Compatibility (BC: the ability to play Xbox games you own now on the new Xbox 360 console). Personally having some fairly deep knowledge of emulators and getting consoles to do things they were not designed to do, I have no doubt that Microsoft already has BC up and fully functional, the real drawback is licensing and royalties. nVidia makes the GPU (graphics processing unit) for the current Xbox while ATI will be making the GPU for the Xbox 360. So nVidia would “officially” have to release...

Ok, so after a couple of weeks of feeling bored of Smackdown vs. Raw (PS2), I decided to check out Gamespot's review of WWE Day of Reckoning for GameCube. Matt Owens, one of the Games Zone reviewers, talked a lot about how great DoR is, and I finally couldn't resist the temptation. Also, the Gamespot reviewers gave DoR a higher score than Smackdown vs. Raw, which was SHOCKING to me at first. Really, I just got sick of the glitz and glamour of SD vs. Raw, which is shocking because I really loved "Here Comes the Pain",...

Finally, I'm still thinking about what to get Diana for her 7th birthday, which is coming up on the 18th, and I can't think of anything new that she doesn't have or want. Maybe a video game, but I have already bought her all of the Sonic games for GameCube and the only thing on her mind is the new Zelda game for GameCube, which comes out fall 2005. Well, that's all for now.

I just finished the book. And I would recommend it as highly as Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Blink, and Pink's A Whole New Mind. Johnson challenged some of my own presumptions - and caused me to question some of the decisions Imbi and I have made regarding video games, TV and our children.

While video games are mostly known for their intricate action sequences, the accompanying music has also developed a profile of its own. Now, the AOL Radio Network has created a station dedicated to the genre, broadcasting action music from games like Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metroid Prime, and Final Fantasy. That will add to a selection of over 200 AOL Radio stations, which 175 programmed by the AOL staff. The new station could also tie in music from an increasingly long list of bands, all of which have gained incredible amounts of exposure by integrating into a popular game title. Meanwhile, the upcoming Xbox is expected to lean more heavily onto personal playlists to accompany game action, with a very limited number of titles already carrying the capability. That will be part of a device that will serve as an entertainment center, per recent comments from Bill Gates.

There's no 3D power coming from this game just the DS's spriting power however like always Nintendo seems to fit the design very well with the game so not having 3D is not a bad thing. This is definitely one of those games where the gameplay is absolutely unique and you are unable to do this on any other system then the DS. Nintendo is finally showing developers some examples of how to put the DS's touch screen to good use.

Sony no tiene mucho que perder, la PS2 va a seguir vendiendo mas alla del lanzamiento de juegos buenos o malos. PERO el esfuerzo este anio va a estar en la PSP. Como puede ser que una consola mucho mas cara y poderosa compita con el Nintendo DS y no le gane? Sony hara todo lo posible para demostrar su superioridad y le intentara robarle el show a Nintendo.

Wouldn’t you know it, Nintendo’s finally announced their plans to bring the DS to the wonderful world of the Internet (which we happen to know a thing or two about). We’re not entirely sure how “broken” the WiFi is on the Nintendo DS as is, but perhaps partly due to buckling under the pressure of the PSP’s online gameplay features and partly due to, you know, listening to customers, Ninny got IGN to build a gaming network for their first wireless online-enabled title, Animal Crossing DS (due November).

These are shots from an unknown game which is to be released either for the upcoming X-BOX 360, or PlayStation 3 consoles.

Yes I have been playing this game for so long, so it is about time I put down the controller and write something about it. As a matter of fact, I created a new category just for this addictive game because there are so many things to discuss and discover. The main objective of this category is to give out tips on how to adjust your formation, attack / defense strategy, players’ development, shooting patterns, free kick pattern, settings and many more. Another reason for creating this category is to make sure more people realize that FIFA soccer...

Since most of my evenings involve a video game of some sort, I thought it best to possibly give reviews or certain things I like about the games I'm currently playing. There's a reason I own an Xbox, GameCube, and PS2 but I haven't quite figured out why yet. My girlfriend would say it's to avoid saving money to move out of the house and start a family but I disagree.

Los Angeles-based Vivendi Universal Games and fast food giant McDonalds have partnered to offer entertainment titles from Vivendi in Happy Meals and Might Kids Meals. McDonalds will offer electronic handheld video games based on Vivendi's popular Crash and Spyro properties. Vivendi's Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon are characters for PlayStation 2 and Xbox systems. The companies said that

Last item: I’ve been looking high and low for the Logitech PSP case. I’ve looked EVERYWHERE, even dragging Heidi and my Mom to both malls by my parents’ place to see if they had it in stock. Sold out everywhere. Sounds good for the PSP, right? Wrong. Every store that carries PSPs still has them in stock. The Best Buy in West Hartford has a pallet of them sitting there. That’s just the stores that carry the PSP, by the way. No PSPs in Target (carries the PS2, the XBox, and the Gamecube) or Sears or a few other places...

Our coverage begins on Tuesday, May 17, when we'll break early news about Nintendo's key products right after the press event concludes. Check back here for the latest announcements on the Legend of Zelda for Nintendo GameCube; news about Nintendo handhelds -- Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance -- and the first word about Nintendo's upcoming home console: Nintendo Revolution.

GameGossip have got their hands on some screenshots from the latest game in Electronic Arts SSX series. The new game is called SSX On Tour and is being developed by EA Canada for the Xbox, PS2 and GameCube.

Other cities and states have special taxes on prepared food, and some have tried "snack taxes." In New York, Assemblyman Felix Ortiz has proposed a 1 percent tax on junk food, video games and TV commercials to fund anti-obesity programs.

At the end of 2004, the installed base for consoles in the United States was approximately 90 million units (if we look at the cumulative sales of the Xbox, PS1, PS2 and Gamecube). The installed base of PCs in U.S. homes at the end of 2004 was approximately 110-120 million.

W00t! These guys used a killer laser galvo system to play MAME arcade games not on your VGA monitor, not on your TV, but on your wall! Apparently there is an add on to the regular MAME32 that will output vector values for use with vector monitors. As I guess vector monitors were in short supply they used lasers. The laser control system was not scratch built (darn!) and they didn’t build the lasers either (crap!) so to do this yourself I’d guess that your going to have to spend some bucks. But hey, the final result is oh soooo sweeet!

This is crazy, I’d get one but I doubt this will ever come out, here are some concept photos of a portable Gamecube.

Then check out this site, which is just chock full of vintage arcade games. Brings back memories of my days as a vidiot. No Missile Command, though. The bastards.

TBS has announced that it will be launching a new network that will provide video games on demand as well as orginal programming. Games will be rolled out each week from the existing 1000 titles from 17 publishers that Turner has access to. Program content looks like it will be similar to that of G4TechTV in the form of gamer info, but it may have a more interesting bent similar to content on Cartoon Networks "Adult Swim".

Analysts Wedbush Morgan have called it first: the PS3 will grab 55 per cent of the next generation console sales by 2010, Microsoft's next Xbox will get 35 per cent and Nintendo's "Revolution" will get 10 per cent (each plus or minus five per cent) writes sister blog Games Digest. This is according to their report which states their belief that the launch of the next Xbox this year will not significantly kick-start the next console war, with that only happening after PS3 and Revolution's arrival in 2007.

People go on and on about Halo 2 and Kingdom Hearts and whatever video game is the most recent and flashy. But my passion lies back in a golden age, a time of 8- and 16-bit games on the Nintendo and Super Nintendo consoles. Fortunately, there are fabulous little applications that allow me to play these classic gems such as Mega Man, Star Ocean, Earthbound, Super Star Kirby, and, of course, Super Mario Bros. Yes, the graphics are pixelated and rough, and you don't have the same complex control combinations to master, but the sheer gameplay is just...

Mark McDonald of 1up.com writes about his trip to Nintendo Headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. Among other things he interviews Koji Kondo, the composer of much of the music for Nintendo’s games, including Mario and Zelda. A must read for a Nintendo fanboy like me.

Not only will the Xbox 2 be backwards compatible with the Xbox, so you can play your old games on your new console, but according to the latest rumour, Xbox and Xbox 2 owners will be able to play each other across Xbox Live on certain games. The rumour, sweeping the Internet, comes quoting an online questionnaire supposedly from Microsoft, saying: "Xbox Live is an online gaming service that works across both the current Xbox system and the future Xbox 2. You will be able to play online and compete against others across both consoles. If you...

Beatbox.Tv, originators of online beatboxing tutorials, is currently offering video downloads of the most sought after Beatbox tutorials and video clips for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP).

ZDNet reports that the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) lacks some serious wireless security as users will need to lower the security settings of their home ...

“Another step forward in the race to crack open the PSP: ps2nfo.com user Paradox worked out how to get a dump from a UMD disc, and has released the ISO files for several PSP games (Wipeout: Pure US, Ridge Racers Japanese, and Vampire Chronicles: The Chaos Tower Japanese). Also of note, UMD discs use the standard ISO9669 format, so the released ISOs can be burned to regular CDs or DVDs. Know that the games are not yet playable in this format, but it’s a big step forward now that all the reverse engineers out there can get their hands on this stuff.”

There’s plenty of interesting reading in this interview with Bill Gates, including talk of the XBox sequel being launched this year, the future of the Windows Mobile platform, and the possibility of Microsoft attempting to compete with Sony’s PSP. You can read part one here: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000440041962/ with part 2 being posted sometime later today.

heavy.com has just announced a partnership with Sony and will expand it’s already popular website to include PSP downloads. The service, names H2G or Heavy 2 Go, will eventually bring heavy.com’s entire library of thousands of hours of animation and live-action video shorts available for free download on the PSP. These “PSP Packs” will be brought our regularly in the coming months.

I’ll update this list as I find more PSP video sites. Another option is to record television programs and DVDs straight from your TV, with no computer intervention required. If this sounds interesting to you, head on over to Lik-Sang to read more about the VRX02 Direct Recorder coming from RockRidgeSound in July. It’s available only as an import for $179, but it sounds very promising.

Katamari Damacy is one of my very favorite games on the PS2 platform, so I was extremely excited to hear about a sequel coming this year to the PS2 (9/20) and the Nintendo DS (date TBA). 1Up.com has a four page feature article on the sequel with exclusive video, screenshots, and information about new features like a cooperative mode and enhancd multiplayer. You can read it at http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3140041&did=1.

M$ is planning to launch the Xbox 2 right on the heals of when Sony launches their PS3. According to the article Sony's PlayStation 2 had a 20-month jump on Microsoft's Xbox, which launched in November, 2001, and rode that lead to a 69% market share. M$ is not about to let that happen again.

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Engadget is running a contest which pits the best PSP hack against the best Nintendo DS hack. Here are links to some of the more intriguing entries:

Yeah, we’re ringing the bells, but before we go any further we gotta warn you up front: this tool only works with Japanese PSPs, for now. But if you’ve got one or can get your mitts on one, you can use this Elf to PBP convertor tool to run code compiled for the PSP. The elf2pbp software converts the compiled code into a PBP file that can be executed from a memory stick when placed in a subdirectory of PSP/GAME. The other catch is that your Japanese PSP cannot be flashed to version 1.5. Yeah, lots of caveats on this one but still —...

We finally decided to get the Nintendo GameCube for the girls. I must admit that the only reason why we got them the game was because of this really cool and fun game that came with conga drums called Donkey Konga. The game has little icons drifting from right to left of the screen, and you have to hit the drum according to the color. There are 2 drums, and yellow and red represent left and right drums, while a white icon indicates that you have to clap when you see it. It’s pretty cool and gets pretty crazy the more...

Here’s a run-down on a few XBox games I’ve picked up recently.

CA Assemblyman Leland Yee is trying to pass a bill to make the sale and rental of M-rated games to minors illegal.

the article states: "Clearly the video game industry is not concerned with the welfare of our children," California Assemblyman Leland Yee.

The digital home is looming, with Xbox 2 as the central hub … for now it’s just media and entertainment … what about adding home automation as well … hybrids can do many things, and enable new business models … e.g. by adding and offering additional services … business models that must still be designed and/or evaluated …

PC Magazine’s resident village idiot / shock jock writer / authoritative games journalist (take your pic) has an article predicting the collapse of the videogame industry, citing that the next-generation of the Playstation 3 / Xbox 360 / Revolution will be the last because of lack of originality and innovation in the industry. He even goes on to slam Nintendo’s Iwata, who is actually trying to innovate and provide fresh ideas to their games, by saying that his ideas are nothing more than tired rehashes not worthy of being classified...

The Legend of Zelda + the Nintendo GameCube = One sweet looking game. As a Zelda fan since childhood, I am (metaphorically, of course) drooling with anticipation.

I have a friend that has been playing som arcade games lately. I was extremely bored one day, and kind of burned out on the usual games I play (SOF2, C&C:ZH, Q3), so I decicded to give the good old arcade games a try.

I don't know If this is the real new logo of the XBOX 2 but it looks very similar to a the logo of a dutch baby strallers company called Bugaboo.

Why call the Xbox 360 and not Xbox 2 i here you say? Well its probably due to the fact they dont want to sound outdated. I mean Microsoft are revolutionary right? So why limit themselves to linear arithmatic increases 1 , 2 , 3 why not skip 359 straight to 360. I think the name rocks and the console will be awesome. Playstation will once again be dominated simply by the power of the Xbox machines.

"Nintendo released their successor to the popular Game Boy Advance called the Nintendo DS (stands for dual screen) on November 21, 2004. With its dual screen and compatibility with those older GBA games, the DS was an instant success. But even with the strong demand, the games are the ones that make the difference. But what's available for this new device?

The Rev. Ralph Bagley is on a very 21st-century sort of mission: introducing the word of God into what he calls the ‘’dark Satanic arena'’ of the video-game business. But he has an old-fashioned calling to back it up. ‘’I've always just loved video games,'’ he says. ‘’I was one of the guys playing Pong. When I became a Christian in 1992, I still wanted to play, but it was hard when the best-quality games out there were Doom, Quake – Satanic stuff, you know? Stuff that if I went to church on Sunday...