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Poll: Japanese People Thought Dragon Quest IX Would Have WiFi

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | This Saturday Dragon Quest IX is going on sale in Japan. Apparently, there are already 2 million pre-orders. Some of those folks might be in for a surprise! More »

Treasure Troves – Augmented Reality DS WiFi Game

10:20AM Stuart Houghton | Gamasutra had a pleasant chat with Aspyr Software’s Justin Leingang in which the publisher/developer revealed some details about their new game Treasure Troves, which uses local wifi signals to generate in-game objects. More »

New Spectrobes 2 Creature DLC Available

5:30AM Stuart Houghton | Staff at Disney Interactive Japan & Jupiter Corp hand picked their ‘favourite’ new creatures for the wholly un-Pokemon-like monster egg archaeology game Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals. Each of the eggs will be available for download at a cost of one point each. Interestingly (to me, anyway – feel free to form your own opinions) the option of using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to download content is itself an unlockable ability within the game. That list of downloadable Spectrobe beasties in full, after the jump. More »

T-Mobile Get Charitable With PSP Hotspots

3:55PM Luke Plunkett | This is easy. Buy a PSP. Or take your existing PSP, either or. Make sure you’re running the latest firmware update. Get yourself to the nearest T-Mobile hotspot. Flick your little WLAN button to “on”. Jump online via “Use Wireless HotSpot”. And that’s it. You’ve now got six months of free T-Mobile hotspot use. Easy. Harder part is finding somebody to then play against, and neither myself nor T-Mobile can help you with that one. Complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service for your PSP® system [PlayStation.Blog] More »