Sony announces PSP ship date, March 24… and GT4 someday…
Sony has announced that the PSP will ship in North America March 24, carrying a “value pack” price of $249 U.S./$299 CND. The value pack includes all the things you’d expect to see in a base price,...
View ArticlePossible GT4 problems?
joystiq has a post up with a lot of comments regarding possible GT4 problems. It seems a number of people are having disk read errors and screen jitters. My copy is scheduled to be delivered today, and...
View ArticleGT4 first impressions
All the finger crossing worked — my copy of Gran Turismo 4 (GT4) loaded up just fine. It almost hung at one point, and the DVD drive made some nasty noises before one of the replays, but the game kept...
View ArticleFree goes a long way
I read through some of the XBox 360 announcements last week, and the one bit that really caught my attention was that all XBox 360 owners will get free weekend access to XBox Live. That’s a killer...
View ArticleAnd now the PS3…
Sony has now announced the PS3, and as expected, it’s processing power dwarfs the new XBox. These two consoles are touting technical specs that you simply cannot get in a desktop PC for anything near...
View ArticlePS3 launch videos
If you haven’t seen the Playstation 3 press videos yet (and you’re interested), this torrent has some pretty decent videos. I read a few articles that expressed concern over whether these are...
View ArticleAustin Game Conference
I’ll be at Austin Game Conference tomorrow and Friday (Oct. 27-28 2005), primarily in the Mobile and Wireless Design track. I’ve been to Game Developer Conference a few times, but this will be my first...
View ArticleXBox 360 sales below target
Joystiq is reporting that XBox 360 sales were below projections in November, coming “80,000 [units] shy of the company’s 400,000 expected.” What I find interesting here is that it matches my (and the...
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Preferans, PyDict, and s60-compat for PyS60
Some of this will be more useful for those Russian-speaking Python hackers out there, but http://amigo12.boom.ru/ (English) has some excellent examples of robust and unique mobile applications written...
View ArticleNumbers stations…
I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this before today: “Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast people reading streams of numbers, words, or letters...
View Article“Scientists say video games can reshape education”
Having just recently picked up a copy of Big Brain Academy for the DS Lite, this article comes as no surprise: “Not playing around: Scientists say video games can reshape education.” “The theory is...
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