Happy Birthday Pokémon
Biggest game franchise in history turns 10
Way back in 1990, Satoshi Tajiri presented a virtually
complete concept for a game inspired by his love of
collecting insects as a child. After a further six years of
intensive development, Nintendo launched two versions of a
new game, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green. At the time, the
company had little idea what it was about to unleash.
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Nintendo Building an iTunes like source for Video
Gamers
Nintendo is looking at launching what its CEO calls "the
iTunes of games." Earlier at the Game Developer's Conference
this week, Nintendo's CEO Satoru Iwata told the press that
it plans to offer an online store of downloadable games.
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Xbox 360 Starts College Tour
If you're like most of us, you don't yet have an Xbox 360.
And if you're like most of us, you want one. While deprived
retailers or a deprived wallet may keep you from planting
one of Microsoft's new consoles in your living room, this
year's Game Live on Xbox College Tour offers a chance to
play regardless.
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Microsoft flashes Xbox 360 camera
Microsoft has been offering teasing glimpses of the new
webcam peripheral for the Xbox 360 at the Games Developers
Conference in San Jose.
While its precise physical appearance remains a mystery –
blurred pictures from the show suggest a slimmer form factor
than the early shot above – leaked details from the brochure
have clarified the spec.
The camera won’t just be for Playstation Eyetoy-style
‘gesture’ gaming. It’ll be able to record 640x480 pixel
video at 30 fps and snap 1.3MP photos, which you can then
send over Xbox Live.
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Xbox.com adds friends management
New function on official Xbox Web site allows gamers to
make, break online friendships away from their consoles.
Microsoft's integration of its consoles and the Web took
another step today, with the announcement of friends
management on My Xbox, the online community based around the
Xbox and Xbox 360. The addition is "only a portion of what
we've got up our sleeves," says My Xbox lead program manager
Clinton Fowler.
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Xbox 360 palm-sized 4GB hard drive from Datel
Datel's 4GB Hard Drive for Xbox 360 is no ordinary hard
drive. It's a portable solution for playing your digital
music tracks or viewing picture files on your new console,
so you can listen to your digital music or view your photo
collection from the comfort of your living room or bedroom.
You can even use your music files as an in-game soundtrack
while playing your latest Xbox 360 games!
This tiny, palm-sized device measures just 4.9 x 5.7 x 2cm,
and weighs less than four ounces.
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Sony say farewell to PlayStation One
With the launch of the PlayStation 3 set for November, Sony
has announced that it is stopping production of the
PlayStation One, the console that started it all off.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Ultimate Masters - World Championship
Tournament 2006
Since it’s arrival in the United States, Yu-Gi-Oh! has
become a mainstay on the Gameboy Advance. You can’t walk
into a store without tripping over at least one or two
variations of the series. The latest edition, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Ultimate Masters - World Championship Tournament 2006, marks
the ninth Yu-Gu-Oh!-themed cartridge to grace retail
shelves. Japan has even more! How can one series sustain
this sort of market saturation? The same way every
collectible card game does. By adding new cards and
improving game play with various rules revisions.
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Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Hands On Preview
TVG goes Super Saiyan in this hands on preview of DBZ's PSP
debut...
Having made an appearance on pretty much every platform
dating back to the Nintendo Famicom (NES) in the early
1990s, the Jump series Dragon Ball Z is set to make its
debut on Sony's PSP on April 21st. Revolving around the
events of the anime movie, Fusion Reborn (or Dragon Ball Z:
Fusion Returns! Goku and Vegeta in Japan), the game looks
set to bring the high tempo, and often bizarre, world of DBZ
to the portable platform with a number of game modes and Ad
Hoc Wi-Fi multiplayer.
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Manga mania: Girls drawn to Japanese comic books
These black-and-white comics, translated from Japanese
bestsellers and meant to be read back to front and right to
left, are a huge hit with American teens and tweens. They
can find manga (pronounced "mahn-ga") in the popular teen
magazine Cosmo Girl, or they wait impatiently for the next
book in a series to be translated and brought to the shelves
of a Barnes & Noble or Waldenbooks.
Cori Kasura, a 13-year-old student who describes herself as
"a very large fan," discovered her first manga two years ago
at the public library.
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College student lives in Wal-Mart for 41 hours
He ate at in-store restaurant, napped in restroom or on lawn
chairs
For spring break, some college students set out for
sun-drenched beaches or cheap European cities. Skyler
Bartels headed for the local Wal-Mart.
Bartels, 20, an aspiring writer and Drake University
sophomore, thought he'd spend a week in a Wal-Mart as a test
of endurance, using it as the premise for a magazine
article. His college adviser liked the idea.
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