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The Number One Location For Portable Gaming Is… Home
9:20AM Stuart Houghton | A new survey of portable gamers has revealed that for the most part “portable” can be defined as “will work on the toilet or in bed”. Around 79% of iPhone, DS and PSP owners surveyed by NPD Group said that they use their portable device in the home more than any other location. More »
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Gamer Builds Extremely Ugly Gameboy-Sized NES Portable
5:00AM Mike Fahey | While I’ve long been a supporter of the custom console movement, sometimes I see a project that really makes me wonder what the point is. Take this portable, Gameboy-sized NES, based off of a Super Joy III Nintendo clone. Sure, it’s slightly smaller than the original Gameboy and contains 72 built-in games, but oh my god is it hideous to look at. “But it’s all about the convenience!” you say? I have at least five devices within my reach that are smaller, prettier, and more than capable of tackling an 8-bit Nintendo title should I deem it necessary. More »
LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, LocoRoco 2 …
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, LocoRoco 2 (And More) Dated For Europe – A buncha games have been given European release dates overnight. Which ones? LittleBigPlanet will be out November 5. Resistance 2 will be out November 28. MotorStorm 2 will be out November 7. SingStar Disney on November 7. And LocoRoco 2 on November 21, though that last one comes with a “to be confirmed” sticker. More »
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Rumour Smash Galore: EA Not Interested in Epic, No Sega Portable
7:00AM Owen Good | Often times it’s more work to discover something is crap and shouldn’t be posted than it is to find something that is. But we’ve heard so much noise about a couple things it’s nice to put the rumour smash on two that couldn’t pass the sniff test doused in Chanel No. 5. First, Electronic Arts is not buying Epic Games, OK? Doesn’t matter that EA has tons of money and someone else with a lot of time on his hands has good ideas for what to do with it. “Rubbish,” says Epic Vice President Mark Rein, a guy who’s in position to actually know something substantive about this. More »
Gizmondo 2.0 DEFINITELY Out By Christmas (This Year!)
11:00AM Stuart Houghton | There is absolutely no way this will not happen. Rich Jenkins of Media Power has let a Swedish journalist see the new Gizmondo and confirmed it will be on sale by the end of the year. This year, before you ask. The first Gizmondo was.. not very successful, but the new device – with its NVIDIA graphics and the option of either Windows CE or Google’s Android as an OS is sure to be a winner, right? A games handheld running Android could be a goer – there should be plenty of decent Android ports of around soon, but when was the last time you went out of your way to play a game on Windows CE? Can you even name 3 games that run on that platform? Gizmondo 2 Is Here – Sales Start In November/December [The Nordic Link via MCV] More »
The Wiz – Gamepark’s Successor To The GP2x
6:20AM Kotaku US Edition | Gamepark Holdings has announced its new games handheld – the followup to its (fairly) successful GP2X Like the GP2X, it runs a Linux-based OS, has a GBA-ish form factor and is wide open for homebrew developers to code original games and — always the killer GP2x app — emulation, emulation, emulation. Unlike its ancestor, it has a 533MHZ Arm 9 processor with 3D acceleration, 64MB of Ram and a touchscreen. There is only the one screen, so DS emulation is fairly unlikely, but there are already some touchscreen games and apps in the pipeline as you can see in this ridiculously large picture. Long JPG is loooong. Also new is support for Flash 7.0 which should open up the possibility of playing web-based games that you manage to get on an SD card by whatever means necessary. There is no wifi, which is a shame, but you can’t have everything. The Wiz is available for pre-order now at around $US 179.99 , due out in October. More »
