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Resident Evil Mercenaries VS Brings The Fight To The iPhone
Capcom releases its first online iPhone game in Resident Evil Mercenaries VS, in which players battle zombies and human opponents as Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield or Albert Wesker. It’s on sale now in the iTunes App Store for $3.99
Ford Lets You Have LAN Tailgate Parties
LAN parties on the go could be coming to Ford vehicles this year, the company announced at CES today.
Poll: Japanese People Thought Dragon Quest IX Would Have WiFi
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!
Treasure Troves – Augmented Reality DS WiFi Game
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.
New Spectrobes 2 Creature DLC Available
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.
T-Mobile Get Charitable With PSP Hotspots
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]
