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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land 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]
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.
Remember the Sega Nomad? The portable Megadrive / Genesis that let you play your favourite cartridges for 15-30 minutes at a time before having to change batteries? Well now Blaze International is releasing a product that has all of the fun of the Sega Nomad without all of that pesky cartridge nonsense. The 16bit Megadrive, releasing this month in the UK, features 20 built-in games, a colour LCD screen, and a TV out so you can hook it up to your PAL television.
The games included aren’t bad for the price. You get Shinobi, Eco the Dolphin, Sonic and Knuckles, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, and several others, all for £29.99 – the price of a DS game. While I would have preferred they sneak a cartridge port on their for good measure, the game selection isn’t bad and the price is right. Hit the jump for the full game list and additional details.
