Archive for May, 2004
New Sega Handheld rumors not true.
Well sorry to say that’s just the way the ball bounces. As you know Sega was recently taken over by Pachinko dealers Sammy. This lead to many people thinking that
1) Sega would use the less-then-stellar atomiswave hardware to launch a new handheld console
2) Sammy and SNK NEO GEO would team up to release [...]
Forty Companies to get OQO Taste Test
OQO, Inc., annouced at CeBit that they have hand-selected a round-up of 40 companies to trial-run the OQO uPC system. We suspect that these include companies in the health, travel, and logistics industries as the system seems best-suited for such. We still aren’t too sure as to how it will fit in the Gaming [...]
Nokia N-Gage QD Ships Half-Assed
A lot of N-Gage news buzzing around today. Mostly, that their system has shipped in Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific…but not in the Americas or Japan. This is a disappointment as the recent interview with Nokia’s Nada Usina had Nokia grin-toothing the fact that they were the first to ever pull-off a completely global launch [...]
Rare NOT Coming To the DS
Despite what we may have reported earlier, Microsoft has debunked any rumors or comments about Rare developing for the DS. This news comes at the same time that Spong.com received a giant question mark from Nintendo of Japan on the subject.
GBA Classic NES Series Website Goes Live
Thanks to GamerFeed for informing us that the Classic NES Series site for GBA has now gone live. Wallpapers, original background MIDIs, screenshots, and little-known facts about games fill this site with all the love of the 80’s classics. A must see for the day.
Nokia’s In It To Win
GameDaily has an exclusive interview with Nada Usina, Director of Entertainment at Nokia, in which we find out that one of Nokia’s main efforts with the N-Gage was to educate and innovate how the industry thinks about gaming.
Nokia has been an innovator, whether it’s been mobile phone technology or in other areas, and it’s not [...]
Why the PSP will fail ">Why the PSP will fail
Wow,
I’m sure this guy isn’t biased at all in his editorial, I mean sure he owns a site called the ipodlounge and seems a little pissed that Sony wants to take on the ipod with it’s PSP, but really, I’m sure that has NOTHING to do with his article. It’s a good read either [...]
Nokia N-Gage QD pics for CE-Bit
Just wanted to post some new pics of the N-Gage QD that were taken at CeBIT this year. Thanks to the good folks over at engadget for the photos. All I can say is that it seems to be a real improvement over the previous N-Gage which was mostly known in my circles for it’s [...]
T-Shirt Tuesday: Tees for the Hardcore Gamer; Shoryuken.
Welcome to one of our New Features: T-Shirt Tuesday. Each week we’ll try to pick out a gamer shirt that truly represents. Now there is no need to work hard to prove your inner-d0rk. Don this weeks Gamer Tee with pride and smile as you take all you’re onlookers hitpoints in jealousy.
This Weeks Tee:
The Shoryuken [...]
