Archive for May 1st, 2008
This day, Newsweek’s videogame blog Level Up drops the exclusive first information on Rubik’s World, an upcoming Wii and Nintendo DS title based on Ernő Rubik’s classic puzzles.
Set to hit Nintendo’s consoles this fall, Rubik’s World is being billed as an “otherworldly game” that’ll show players what the inside of a Rubik’s Cube looks like. Set up as a collection of puzzle games, the game will tests players by having them construct 3D objects, navigating through mazes and most interestingly, creating their own soundtracks. Both versions will have surprising on the internet social features, like a message board of some sort of the Wii.
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Poor Clover studios. Its critically acclaimed Okami never sold well, the studio got dissolved, and now, to add insult to injury, Capcom had decided not to credit the developers in its beloved adventure game’s Wii port, effectively severing ties between Clover and its creation.
“I feel dejected, and not only because my own name has been erased from my creation,” confessed Okami director Hideki Kamiya on his blog.”Of course we have pride in our work and we want to scream ‘We made this!’ from the top of our lungs. But more than that, the fact that they cut the entire staff is utterly deplorable.”
Capcom’s excuse is that the Clover logo was contained on the credits, which were part of a pre-rendered cutscene. That’s an incredibly lame excuse as far as I’m concerned. I know Capcom seems to have trouble with removing logos from images, as the watermark nonsense proved, but come on. The people who actually made the game deserve credit.
source Destructoid
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Mario Kart Wii has finally launched around the world, and Nintendo has announced today that they’ll be kicking off the first worldwide tournaments.
Available via the in-game Mario Kart Channel, the first tournament has racers competing for the fastest time on the Mario Circuit. You’ll also be able to attempt to break records as often as you like throughout the duration of the tournament, so if you blow it once, never fear. The ideal time will then be recorded and added to the worldwide ranking, and the player with the fastest time will win … bragging rights?
Since finishing my review, I’ve to be honest — I haven’t really been playing a lot of Mario Kart Wii. Something about an Eastern European dude and his cousin. But I may fire up my Wii to participate, although I don’t have a snow balls chance in hell of winning.
Is anyone here confident enough in their skills that they’re willing to begin speaking smack right now?
source Destructoid
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Today, Newsweek’s videogame blog Level Up drops the exclusive first information on Rubik’s World, an upcoming Wii and Nintendo DS title based on Ernő Rubik’s classic puzzles.
Set to hit Nintendo’s consoles this fall, Rubik’s World is being billed as an “otherworldly game” that will show players what the inside of a Rubik’s Cube looks like. Set up as a collection of puzzle games, the game will tests players by having them construct 3D objects, navigating through mazes and most interestingly, creating their own soundtracks. Both versions will have surprising on the web social features, like a message board of some sort of the Wii.
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Asda has announced Britain's lowest priced PAYG (Pay As You Go) mobile phones deal, selling handsets for £5! Apparently it's a “no strings” deal so you can buy just the device, without needing to purchase an credit (although clearly you'd need some to make calls…..). Over 50,000 of the handset will be available at stores across the UK while stocks last, and there are a choice of four:
- Sagem My212x
- Sagem My220x
- Sagem My150x
- Nokia 1112
(The PAYG tariffs come from Virgin, T-Mobile and Orange)
News, as if any were needed, that the commoditisation of mobile devices has reached astronomic levels…
[Via: Scenta.co.uk]
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 Veveo™ Inc., has announced an “extraordinary” new web video experience for Sony Ericsson Mobile phone owners. Through the SE video-enabled mobile/web portal, customers will have access to over 150m (!) web videos via vtap - which is an apparently very special mobile web video service. vtap allows rapid search and viewing of web videos from sites such as YouTube™, DailyMotion™, and MySpace™ - all using their existing data services.
The intelligence of the vtap solution starts checking videos on input of the first character of text string in to the search area, making results quicker to appear. There’s also grouping of video results together in to folders, allowing dynamic menus of results to be generated.
vtap also maintains an indes of more than 150m web videos which are constantly updated - having set up a profile you can collect, organise, and share video as you like.
vtap has been optimised for a selection of Sony Ericsson’s handsets:
The service is available immediately for Sony Ericsson Java Platform 8 (JP8) enabled handsets models: Z770i, K850i, W910i, K660i, W890i, Z750i and Sony Ericsson’s JP7 models: W880i, K810i, T650i, K530i, W580i, K770i, W660i. The service will support English, French, Italian, German and Spanish languages.
Comment: Hmmm, interesting - it will be great to hear feedback from any IntoMobile readers that have one of the above handsets, and happen to try it. My personal experience of working with Mobile Video is that converting (or “transcoding” as we like to say) it can be extremely challenging, especially from some of the more advanced web video formats….
[Via: businesswire.com]
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This time it is a restart test. dv1000 with XP versus Powerbook Running Tiger.
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 Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia to direct a motion picture made with Mobile phone video footage from “everyday people”, in what he is apparently calling the “democratization of film”. The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts - an “assignment” will be announced on the internet for each act, adn then people will have 4 weeks to create their submission.
The central thread (theme) will apparently be based around the way music tells the story of humanity, and different media can be submitted - text, music, video, or images - which you can check out at http://www.nokiaproductions.com.
Nokia will choose 25 submissions, and people will then vote on the internet for the Top 10, of which Spike himself will choose the winners.The final, complete, film will premiere later in the year in LA.
[Via: Reuters UK]
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 StarHub recently announced that it has now officially launched Singapore's first nation-wide LBS (location-based service) for mobile advertising. For advertisers, the fit is obvious - send marketing/promo messages (SMS) to subscribers when they are in contextually relevant location. For customers, they get appropriate messages to what they’re doing, both on a where and when basis.
For the launch, WTS Travel & Tours, (a massive player in travel industry there) will be using the service to inform customers of promos and deals. Other advertisers and merchants will be going live shortly, apparently.
Comment: given the defined (and restricted) geographical area an Island occupies, this is a great place to try out Mobile services - there's a reason why O2 deployed 3G first on the Isle of Man for example! Everyone has got to be happy with targeted Ads, but having them contextualised for location is a neat spin on things - I can't wait for the first set of stats showing the service uptake and conversion in to buyers from those clicking through - bring me the stats!
[Via: hardwarezone.com]
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 Damn good, that's how good.
HTC is really pulling out all the stops with their upcoming upgraded handsets. HTC's still unannounced Diamond, Raphael, and Titanium handsets are going to hit the scene to much fanfare and we're hoping to see at least one of these devices on May 6th.
Packed full of features and oozing sexiness, the new HTC Touch devices are poised to give the smartphone market some serious competition.
So, just how good will the handsets be? Let's find out.
 HTC Touch Pro
Otherwise known as the HTC Raphael, the HTC Touch Pro will apparently take HTC's sliding QWERTY keyboard form-factor to new levels. The 2.8-inch glossy VGA touchscreen display is the main aesthetic draw on the HTC Touch Pro, but that doesn't mean the goodies end there. Here's the feature-set:
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
- 256MB ROM / 128MB RAM
- Qualcomm MSM 7201A @ 528MHz
- 7.2MB HSDPA / HSUPA (rev A EVDO for CDMA versions)
- 2.8″ VGA (480
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