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Handheld Gaming To Be Bigger Than Console: Enterbrain

July 23rd 2008 07:11

Enterbrain, the most respected publisher and foremost authority on market trends in Japan, has stated that handheld gaming will replace consoles as the number one platform for gaming in the future.

Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Enterbrain, stated that "Compared to console gaming, where you have to sit in front of the TV for a long time, handheld gaming is more suitable for today’s busy lifestyle. Handheld gaming was only a supporting player in the past, but I expect it to take the main role in the future gaming world."

So in the view of the foremost marketing mind in Japan we will be more inclined to play the latest releases on a portable device rather than at home... With our big screens... and our surround sound... and beer. maybe this is why western games have never quite taken off in Japan, I think we may have different opinions on what is a great gaming experience.

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Sony To Miss Out On Spore Origins

July 17th 2008 23:29

EA, the publisher who shot to number one on the sales charts with nothing more than a Creature Creator design tool, has announced Spore across a multitude of mobile platforms except for Sony, with no other console version planned except the Wii.

The PSP of late have ungone something of a resurgence. Although still critisised for it's lack of quality gaming titles, its PS3 sharing functions and hackability have kept it surviving in the face of the ridiculously popular DS. But to keep in the race, it needs to have at least the same big titles as the other portable devices. Unfortunately is will not be getting Spore to add to it's library.

EA is set to hit us with Spore in September, initially on the PC and Mac. More limited versions will be available for the Nintendo DS, iPod Touch and Apple iPhone and a slew of other mobile phones. Spore creator Will Wright recently has also revealed that a Wii version is being developed and you can be sure that the 360 and PS3 will not let themselves miss out on the action.

This generation of PSP lacks a touch-sensitive or tilt-control interface, but it is at least as good as your average mobile phone. And when you combine that with it's wi-fi connectivity, relationship with the PS3 and its storage space, you would think that it would be ideally suited to this community based game. Perhaps EA knows that there will be a future version of the PSP that incorporates touch screen and tilt features and is waiting for that time? Or is it the closed Sony gaming network that has put them off, as speculated elsewhere?

Check out the video of the iPhone version below.

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iPhone A Handheld Dreamcast

July 17th 2008 00:40

For everyone who still wishes that the Dreamcast console was around today, SEGA of America president Simon Jeffery has compared the power of the iPhone to that of yesteryears games machine.

SEGA's first title, Super Monkey Ball, has been released and is available to all of the phones users, with the promise of more to come on what he calls a "potentially major new platform for gaming".

Could we one day see the Deamcast back catalogue appear on the iPhone?

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Star Wars Battlefront III Appears On Amazon

July 8th 2008 23:54

Not too long from now, at a Media and Business Summit not all that far away, LucasArts may be announcing a new game in the Star Wars Battlefront series. Online shopping megalith Amazon.com has added listings for Star Wars Battlefront III ... for no less than six platforms. The game is available for pre-order and has what we can only imagine is a tentative March 15, 2009 release date.

A new game in the series is hardly surprising; after all, Battlefront is the best selling Star Wars video game franchise of all time. Reports of it being in development also popped up following LucasArts' recent layoffs, though the company would not comment on it or any other unannounced titles at the time.

Amazon has Battlefront III slated for availability on PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, PSP, and DS. If this holds true, it would certainly debunk an old rumor that the game might only hit Xbox 360. Now there's the matter of a developer. With Pandemic – the studio responsible for the first two games – now owned by EA, and internal development slowing down at LucasArts, a new hope must arise. Our best guess at the moment is the rebel forces at Rebellion, the UK-based studio responsible for the generally well received Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron on PSP.

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Wii Super Smash Bros - For Girl Gamers?

June 30th 2008 03:43

There has been a new commerical on Australian TV showing four dazzlingly white toothed, good looking 'Friends' completely immersed in the new Wii game Super Smash Bros Brawl

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176 Games By Christmas - Are There too Many

June 30th 2008 02:02

From the list of upcoming titles I was able to obtain we will see another 176 titles hitting the shelves between now and christmas. I was able to narrow it down to 19 titles that I would like to own, which suggested to me that there are too many games being released

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The Ultimate Device - 360 And Zune Combined

June 26th 2008 04:19

There is a world that the people of T3 magazine live in. It's a world with a pimped out computer, fully licensed version of Adobe Photoshop and, if you've seen any of their magazines, hundreds of scantily clad woman. Woman brandishing electronic devices in a way that makes me both frightened and excited... but mainly frightened

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