Only a couple of years ago, a Sydney suburban EB games store, (Ashfield) told the story. “look at the footage for Nintendo; shrinking” the manager said. ” There's nothing. No new games. No new products”. Sony wishes that were true today. Since then Nintendo has brought out the DS and the Wii……… Ah, the DS, [...]
Ever wonder what Nintendo did before Mario Brothers and Game Boys? The company actually made toys and games – that were pre-digital! Here is a site with pictures of all their games….
Youtube started. Came from nowhere to huge numbers. Free video posting. Revver went further. Put in static ads. Now comes LuLu. You join. Pay a fee then share in the overall fee total at the end of the month depending on how many times your piece of content is viewed by everyone else. The search [...]
We have arranged a boy's teenage birthday party. Easy apparently. All the guys like online massive, multiplayer games. So it's been decided. They'll all sit at various computers around the house, linked by the wifi connection, enter a game (probably Runescape) and play against each other, then team up, form an online gang and play against the rest [...]
Nintendo report that the DS, their portable two screen handheld, has crossed one million wifi users in four months. March 20, Nintendo introduce Metroid Fusion, which adds VOIP to the online game experience. The device had a built in mic. So. Your kid upstairs? Or at the corner hotspot? Playing games, talking, interacting, with the kid in Korea, Nashville and France. Unconsciously. [...]
US retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories hit a record $10.5 bln in 2005 as strong demand from portable gaming gadgets offset weakness in console players, says NPD Group The old record was $10.3 bln in 2002. 6% higher than the $9.9 bln of 2004. Big movers were portables like Nintendo Ds, GameBoy Advance and Sony [...]
Video games sold a record 10.5 billion US dollars in 2005 retail. This was on the back of Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS launch yet Game Boy Advance still held half the portable 1.6 billion dollar market. Consoles struggled last year. But 2006 is the year of Playstation 3, xBox 360 and Nintendo Revolution. All [...]
Mario Kart DS has just been launched by Nintendo. Its has a wifi element to the game. It joins a bunch of others that Nintendo's handheld makes internet ready. So, now the kid upstairs is on the internet with his handheld. He could be with his PlayStation 2. Or his PC. His family Tivo is using a [...]
Feeds and RSS come to phones and PDA. Skookummobile are about to launch to give portability another layer. Their software allows News and blog feeds; viewing pictures and downloading podcasts, including Audible content (with whom they affiliated) to windows enable devices. Feedreader has already launched. They're now targeting another part of the handheld market. It's all about moving away [...]