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Daydream Believer: OnLive

Posted by Erik "wordsmythe" Hanson –
It's interesting how quickly countervailing opinions become prevailing opinions these days. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that the Internet is so good at challenging every belief I would care to share (and a few that I should probably keep to myself).

Half-Life 2 Code Thief Found?

Posted by Julian "Spunior" Dasgupta –
Last week the German police arrested the creator of the Sasser worm.

Zodiac Now Shipping

Posted by Allen "Pyroman[FO]" Cook –
In order to move that Oprah abomination off the page I thought I'd throw up a little post about the Tapwave Zodiac which is shipping today. The Tapwave Zodiac is a PDA/Gaming device based on the Palm OS. It's a PDA designed for gaming, not the other way around. It can do email, web, SMS, addresses, music, videos, photos and gaming all on the same device.

An N-Gaging SunHerald Article

Posted by Julian "Spunior" Dasgupta –
The SunHerald put up an article on Nokia's attempt to provide a portable gaming system. While the idea behind the system isn't that bad, its technical realization contains a number of flaws the author points out.Read on...

Rockin' 8 Bits

Posted by Sway –
I wanted to take a second to point you to an article on msnbc.com about an 8-bit music event that took place in NYC. The artists featured at the event have taken the buzzy chirpy sound we remember so well and used it to create fresh new music. Thre's even a picture of one of the artists, Bitshifter, using a GBA basically as his turntables, selecting and mixing on the fly.

Phantom Beta News

Posted by Julian "Spunior" Dasgupta –
Infinium Labs sent out a press release featuring some information on the mystery that is the Phantom. The beta test application phase has come to an end. About 40,000 people are said to be in the race for the 300 slots available. 'Winners' will be notified around November 15th.

AnandTech Reviews Athlon64

Posted by Allen "Pyroman[FO]" Cook –
I thought a hardware article would be a nice change of pace today, so I found a review of the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX over at AnandTech. The review goes into detail about AMD's latest processors and then provides benchmarks under 32-bit Windows so we can know what kind of performance to expect.

Sony PSP Bits

Posted by Julian "Spunior" Dasgupta –
The German news magazine Der Spiegel posted an interview with Sony's Phil Harrison. He's talking about PS2 online gaming and the appeal of EyeToy among other things, but also drops some more information on their upcoming PSP system. Asked about what they're going to do about the dominance of Nintendo's GBA he responds that they're going for a different target audience.

Phantomized

Posted by Julian "Spunior" Dasgupta –
CNN Technology took a closer look at Infinium Labs' mysterious console system and also got ahold of David Frederick, chief marketing officer at the company. Frederick commented on the key concept behind the system and certain rumours.Read more for the full article!

Phantom Console: I'm so confused

Posted by Allen "Pyroman[FO]" Cook –
Newsforge has this bit on the new Phantom console made by Infinium Labs. The whole thing in a nutshell is best described by NewsForge Let's start by saying the console is real, not vaporware. I've seen a working prototype in action.

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