Konami Ships Yu-Gi-Oh! Double Pack
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today it has
shipped Yu-Gi-Oh! Double Pack for the Nintendo Game Boy®
Advance handheld video game system to retail stores
nationwide. The classic titles Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards
and Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction are combined onto one
GBA cartridge, letting Yu-Gi-Oh! players duel in the
ultimate card dueling tournaments. Based on the popular
animated TV series and TRADING CARD GAME, both chapters are
among the most highly acclaimed games in the long running
Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and will provide hours of portable
gaming fun. Additionally, the game comes packaged with two
exclusive trading cards: Dark Magician Knight and Knight's
Tale.
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XBOX 360 Jesus
This XBOX 360 package has an Image of a man in the
resemblance of Jesus on the back of the packaging.
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Xbox to blame for lack of alien visits
Are you familiar with the Fermi Paradox? The paradox is that
the universe appears to be a hospitable place for extra-terrestial
life to have emerged, and yet... it hasn't. (So far as the
government lets us know, anyway.) If there's not a big
coverup, Geoffrey Miller suggests that we might be able to
blame the Xbox for alien's failure to visit planet Earth.
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Chocolate Xbox 360 controller gets candy console
companion
Well now we've seen a sculpted masterpiece that "takes the
cake" in this nascent art, an entire chocofied Xbox 360
console that's located in Microsoft's European BeNeLux
headquarters, that manages to look both entertaining and
delicious at the same time.
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Book Review: Marked for Death by Matt Forbeck
On January 2006, as a part of its growing line of Eberron-themed
novels, Wizards of the Coast released the second part of
Matt Forbeck's The Lost Mark trilogy. The Road to Death is
the sequel to 2005's Marked for Death and picks up where the
action of the first novel left off.
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Sony: PlayStation 3 Not Delayed
February 20, 2006 - GamesIndustry is reporting that Sony
spokesman Kei Sakaguchi has denied that the PS3 is delayed
and that the PS3 is still on track for a Spring launch in
Japan. Of course, this contradicts another Sony rep stating
that it could miss the launch if key technology is not done
soon (such as all the recent delays to Blu-Ray).
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Sony designs a ringing rodent
Is the mouse phone a cheesy product?
No longer will talking to your mouse bring you strange looks
from workmates and sniggers as you walk past.
Sony has either come up with the ultimate in dual-use
technology, or added to the burgeoning list of pointless
products.
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Sony Unveils HD Camcorder
Sony has announced the HDR-HC3 HDV 1080i Handycam
camcorder, which is 26 percent more compact than its
predecessor.
The HDR-HC3 model features a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens
and Sony's new ClearVid CMOS Sensor technology. This imager
is engineered to boost picture resolution and clarity, to
deliver vivid colors and precise image detail. Combined with
Sony's Enhanced Imaging Processor, it provides new and
fun-to-use functions.
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Will Sony Ericsson unveil a Cyber-Shot K800 mobile
phone?
Fueling rumors that a Cyber-shot Sony Ericsson mobile phone
is in the offering is an image of the said cell phone on the
German blog www.telefon-treff.de. The news is not really
that surprising is it? After the huge success of the Sony
Walkman phones, it sort of follows that Sony will be
following this up with Sony Ericsson camera phones sporting
the Cyber-shot brand.
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Nintendo to launch Pokemon theme park
Japan's Nintendo will launch a travelling amusement park
later this year with rides based on Pokemon characters,
starting in Taiwan, a report said Saturday.
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Here Comes Magnetica
Nintendo announces the stateside release of what's known as
Puzzloop in Japan.
Nintendo of America is on a puzzle kick these days. Along
with the forthcoming releases of Pokemon Trozei and Tetris
DS in March, Nintendo will also perform the publishing
duties on another puzzle game with potential. The company
revealed that it will ship a game called Magnetica to stores
this June.
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Nintendo WiFi over dial-up; works well enough?
A recap of the basic networking necessary to share your
dial-up connection with your wireless Nintendo DS. The
instructions are for Windows, although Mac OS X offers the
same functionality, as does *NIX (although we suspect they
probably won't need the guide). Requirements include: a
computer with a pokey internet connection, a wireless router
or Nintendo's USB WiFi dongle, a DS, and a WiFi compatible
game.
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ABC in Nintendo scare
Never let facts kill a good story
TELLY COMPANY ABC has run a yarn about how children are at
risk from paedophiles because of the Nintendo DS Wireless
connection.
One of its subsidiary news programmes called 'Action News'
claims that paedophiles can use the "wireless internet
connection" on the Nintendo to lure unsuspecting children to
dangerous places.
Er no.
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PRESS RELEASE
Pirates of the South China Seas Releases!
February 23, 2006 (SEATTLE) — WizKids Inc., the industry
leader in collectibles gaming and maker of the HeroClix® and
MechWarrior® collectable miniatures games (CMG), announced
today the release of the newest Pirates expansion: Pirates
of the South China Seas™!
This first Pirates expansion set outside of Europe or the
Americas pushes the storyline across the globe, allowing for
truly worldwide naval battles. “Early Chinese and Korean
seafaring history is so rich and extensive that it was a
pleasure to include it in the ongoing Pirates mythology,”
said Jordan Weisman, WizKids® CEO.
Pirates of the South China Seas delves into the history and
mystery of Asia’s extensive seafaring roots by introducing
the junk and turtle ship designs to the game, as well as the
new Jade Rebellion faction. Additionally, Pirates of the
South China Seas marks the return of constructible ships as
prize support for WizKids’ Approved Play tournament system,
so if you’re interested in picking up some fun, free ships
to add to your collection, head on out to your local game or
hobby store soon!
Some Game Packs are also super-rare “Preview” Packs. These
Packs contain a special sneak peek at the ships and factions
of the upcoming Pirates of Davy Jones’ Curse™ set. They’re
very limited, so those lucky few who find them will be well
rewarded with supercool Pirates booty!
