So…let’s image that you have an air hockey table…with no one else to play you. What do you do? These guys know. They made an air hockey table that allows you to play remotely with someone else. It was made to show that they were really bored and had a lot of networking skills. The air hockey table is just like a regular one except the other side is a screen with a live video feed of your opponent and a hidden (and seems to be very) complicated ejecting system.
There are sensors at the middle of the table that detect all the necessary components to air hockey (speed, angle, etc) and tells the launcher where to fire and how fast. Then you can play air hockey over the Internet. These guys were very bored.
Good bye E3! Today, the ESA, which runs E3, has announced that E3 is gonna be D3 (Dead Dead Demo). ESA said that E3 is no more. But to replace E3 is E4 (which stands for E3 Expo). This expo is not gonna be as wild as E3 [rock concerts, mosh pits, etc].
The way that ESA describes it reminds me of a museum, quiet and all. E3 Expo will also have less companies showing off their products.
This is because the ESA is in the red from this year’s no showers to E3 and because Microsoft, THQ, Sony and EA’s are all demanding for more floor space. Making the total cost of E3 to above $70 million dollars.
Basically, the ESA can’t afford to have another E3 next year so they are making a smaller version of E3 calling it E3 Expo which is totally redundant because the title stands for:
Electronic Entertainment Expo Expo.
Oh well.
Australian officials have reported today that the new game, Reservoir Dogs will not release in Australia. The game has been banned from being sold or reviewed in Australia because of the ultra violence. If you thought something like Chronicals of Riddick or Silent Hill 3 or Resident Evil is violent, then you won’t believe how evil the game sounds. According to Australian Rating boards, “Players can take police officers hostage and go on to burn out their eyes with a lit cigar, chop off their fingers with a cigar cutter, and hack off their ears using a scalpel, while [the police officers] plead for their lives and scream in pain”…
Wow. That sounded violent. Watch as every single politician attacks this one. And watch how some stupid parent will buy it and then sue companies that aren’t even involved (reference to the GTA:SA lawsuit where they were suing: Nintendo, and a bunch of other companies that weren’t involved).
Some DS Lite owners have complained that their DS Lite hinge was cracked on the left side. Since than every blog on the internet has been posting about this. Saying that all units are doomed. Well Nintendo has reported that only 0.02% of all DS Lite units have this problem and that owners can get their unit fixed for free without having to pay the original 50 dollar price that was charged because the crack was considered out of warranty. So if your DS Lite has the crack then you can get yours fixed for free.
Remember that you can call Nintendo Support at 1-800-225-3700
This is for hinges that broke themselves and were faulty from the start, and not for hinges that broke due to neglect, abuse or any accident that you may have inflicted on your machine.
PLEASE NOTE: This offer is over two years old, it was available back in 2006. Other users in the comments are mentioning that this offer has expired. We have reason to believe that this is the case.
Toys R Us, the big toy place with over inflated prices is going to allow owners of Animal Crossing: Wild World walk around their store and get advertised to inorder to find the “hidden” DS Download Stations that contain 6 free Mario related items to download. These include stuff from the classic Mario Games with 1-up mushrooms, the ? box and the invincible star.
Download stations will be availible from July 23 to July 29, and should be in every store according to Toys R Us.
Today the pokemon company announced that they will be giving away a 150 “I Love Pikachu” DS Lites (not in stores). These special models are basically the Ceramic White color with images of Pikachu.
To enter you must go to the I Love Pokemon Club Web site and enter (can’t find the right link but I believe this is it) via mobile phone or PC. 100 units go to the PC entrants and 50 to the mobile phone users.
Could be for Japan only.
So Nintendo has given the okay to an animal crossing movie. Which according to my parents (who both say they saw a preview for the movie in English), looks really weird. Yeah, but it gets weirder. Apparently it looks exactly like animal crossing. The trees, the people (except you), the buildings. It’s real creepy.
The movie is set to release on December 16, 2006 in Japan. The American version is also planned to release later.
Ryan Vazquez, a stockholder of Activision stock claims and charges 16 current and former Activision senior executives with improperly adjusting their stock option grants to their own benefit.
Vazquez alleges an array of Activision executives, for changing the dates so they wouldn’t have to pay more for stock that they get when they turned their stock option grants into money. He says that the “extraordinary pattern” he sees in the stock. According to Ryan, the stock surges immediately after the option grants were made, is due to the grants being backdated. Thus he thinks that the executives are doing something fishy.
Chomehounds hasn’t been doing so well. After having server failures and minor other problems, now SEGA has to help users that are reporting that the game is locking up a ton.
SEGA has technical support message boards that are being flooded with complaints about Chromehounds that are diffrent from player to player. After looking around it all seems that they are locking up somewhere, from single-player levels, to online, and even one player reported that it locked up at the menu screen. But here is where you think the game could get so defective that a recall maybe needed: I saw a few posts saying that they started up their XBOX360′s and it instantly crashed and now it won’t recover, no other games are playing with it.
SEGA is having problems reproducing the problem..could SEGA label these problems as: “Oh we are sorry you can’t play the game. Here is a replacement. And if it crashes don’t come to us for help because we don’t believe you at all”?
If you have chromehounds, hope that your system doesn’t explode next time you play.
This morning cartoon network announced that it will be releasing their own MMO game, which has no title as of now and is going to come out some time around spring 2008, is currently being developed by Grigon Entertainment.
The multinational effort on the game is no coincidence–Cartoon Network is targeting a global audience.
We only know about a few characters that will be in the game mainly characters from the shows, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Ben 10, and Codename: Kids Next Door which have been confirmed.
The game, which will be free to download and feature money transfers and gold farming (oh great, teach really young kids to play WoW. Maybe if the game gets popular you will find them selling their “gold” on ebay, there would go profit from WoW gold farmers). What will happen next? Stay tuned to cartoon network as they are revealing info as it’s going on.
Nintendo DS
Clubhouse Games | September 29
Nintendo DS (Opera) Browser | October 6
English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills | October 13
Sudoku Gridmaster | October 27
Magnetica | October 27
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team | November 10
Mario Hoops 3 on 3 | November 10
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 | November 24
Yoshi’s Island 2 | December 2
Harvest Moon DS | Q4 2006
Game Boy Advance
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team | November 10
Nintendo GameCube
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody | Q4 2006
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | Q4 2006
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