Archive for April, 2006

Those crazy Swedes!

So for those of you that have been playing along you know that Sweedish game CEO Stephan Erikson of Gizmondo has been having a tough time lately. But now according to the boys over the Console Conspiracy he is getting his precious cars taken away and is being held on 5 million dollar bail. Head [...]


Win a UMPC From Microsoft

Only 4 days left to write and tell Microsoft why you’d love to be a happy new owner of a UMPC. If you do tell them, and they like what you say, you can win a Samsung UMPC and a Slingbox! So get those old rusty essay skills dusted off and get to writing!

UMPC Contest [...]


mario.nintendo.com

Need more evidence that New Super Mario Bros is going to be THE definitive Super Mario Bros game? How about Nintendo releasing the NSMB Official Site at mario.nintendo.com? This could have been a portal for all things Mario. Mario Tennis and Mario Kart fans could have made this their daily Mario fix. But in a [...]


PSP corepack only $159 w/Dell Coupon

For all of you who have been patiently, ever so, waiting for a price drop before you buy a PSP, now is your rare opportunity. Guess what, Dell sells them. I know, “That’s crazy!” And Dell has coupons too. “More Crazy!” PSPWorld will tell you how to use your chump change and a coupon to [...]


AOL and Nintendo are hosting an E3 Revolution Contest!

Nintendo and AOL are tag teaming to offer one lucky gamer the chance to be the first person (of general public stance, that is) to play the actual Revolution with the actual Revolution controller during E3. That winner will also win a Nintendo DS (I dare say it may be Lite) with Super Mario [...]


Rent-A-Coder: Game Studio Edition

Hey you with your brilliant idea to make another Sudoku game for the PSP: Do you really have what it takes to think up an award winning game? Do you think your GTA clone with EBGames employees instead of hookers worth publishing? Do you just want to make a game full of really bad engrish?
No, [...]


DS Lite is Blue for Brain Age.

DS Fanboy is reporting that Brain Age + the english word “blue” + Japanese DS Lite system do not mix well together.
The word Blue is crital to the game At least I’m assuming it is by the tone of the post. My unopened Brain Age sits in my closet as I wait to “give” it [...]


SOTW: PSP Garden

Our friends at our favorite gadgets site just relaunched PSPGarden.com as a forum. Discuss your games, showcase your UMDs, and delve into PSP rumors as this forum is about to quickly populate. Discussion of the black ninja PSP arts are highly encouraged.
And just to kick things off, they’re having a competition for some PSP goodies [...]


TetrisDS is no Tetris Classic. It’s broken!

As far as TetrisDS goes, old school gamers need not apply. Tetris Classic mode is not the classic we remember, as Mike from the-inbetween demonstrates. Sure it still has all those multi-player modes making it worth the buy, but don’t throw out your gameboy Tetris just yet. In TetrisDS there is not a “chaos theory” [...]


Portagame Upgraded. No Spam In Effect. Future of Portagame detailed.

We’ve been having a bit of a spam problem here on Portagame, and today I’m proud to announce that our comment spam issues are 99% fixed. We have upgraded to a more recent version of b2evolution (not the latest, but a more recent stable version than what we had) and installed several spam blocking plugins. [...]