In a recent interview with Wired magazine, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said there will be no new Mario titles for the GameCube.

Miyamoto said the as-yet-unveiled controller for Nintendo's Revolution console will be so revolutionary that the next Mario game will be impossible to re-create on the GameCube.

According to Merrill Lynch Japan Securities, Sony is set to lose around $100 per PlayStation 3 console, even with a $400 price tag.

Analysts believe that production costs is around $500 (per console), with key components (Cell Processor, RSX and BD ROM drive) averaging over $100 each to make. Merrill Lynch claims that SCE is likely to sell the PS3 at $399 in the US and $410 in Japan, figures that project a loss of around $1.2 billion in the first year the machine is on sale.

By the time the PlayStation 3 launches, Microsoft may have had a year with its Xbox 360 on sale, probably at $299.

PlayStation 3, SCE chief Ken Kutaragi said "Whether consumers think a product is expensive or inexpensive depends on the balance between its appeal and price. Our goal for PlayStation 3 is for consumers to think to themselves, 'I will work more hours to buy one.' We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else."

Kutaragi continued, "Nintendo was selling its 16-bit machine for $114 and we sold the first PlayStation for $364. The press said that it was too expensive, but it was a huge hit. The story is the same with the PlayStation Portable from last year. The Game Boy Advance is a handheld gaming machine, and it costs $91. The PSP had cost $229. But people queued up overnight to buy it, and it sold out on launch day. It depends whether people want it and naturally I'm confident that the PS3 is a product that people will definitely want."

Japanese Magazine, Toyo Keizai, predicts that Sony will sell the PlayStation 3 for 44,800 yen ($399). The console will cost 54,000 yen ($494) to manufacture in its initial year of release.

According to the latest issue of Famitsu, Microsoft Japan will be making an announcement in July during which it will reveal new third-party publishers and game titles for the Xbox 360 aimed at the Japanese market. A representative from the company told the magazine that "there could be some major surprises" at the conference. More

According to Japan's weekly Toyo Keizai, Konami president Michihiro Ishizuka revealed plans to support Nintendo Revolution, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 next-generation home consoles.

Michihiro Ishizuka told Toyo Keizai that it plans to release one or two flagship titles for each system.

Metal Gear Solid 4 will be one of Sony's PS3 flagship games. Konami plans on creating new properties for the Xbox 360.

Konami also went on the record saying multiplatform games were not out of the question.

Shigeru Miyamoto creator of Super Mario Bro believes much of the appeal of gaming is letting players break the rules.

Miyamoto says games provide wonderful freedom. "Games allow people to do things they normally don't or cannot do," he says. "Society as a whole and our experiences are gradually being more and more dictated to us. But video games really open that up, allowing players control of their own experience."

The Nintendo Revolution is a small, sleek, mysterious obelisk, the size of three standard DVD cases stacked together. It continues Nintendo's heritage of simplicity and sets the benchmark for the gaming industry's overall approach to industrial design.

Developers of the Microsoft Xbox 360 made it reminiscent of a personal computer, slimmed down their previous design and optimized it for a vertical orientation. They are adding significant amounts of new wireless, networking and multimedia functions.

Three generations of Sony PlayStation design present parallels to the world of personal computers. Ten years ago, the first PlayStation's gray and subdued form derived from the original business orientation of personal computers. Even though it was an entertainment device, the first PlayStation was optimized for function. The PlayStation 2 of five years ago offered thin, vented, black, angular lines. It conveyed power and speed. The new PlayStation 3 presents itself as the cross-section of an aircraft wing.

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Killzone PlayStation 3 is a military first person shooter that builds upon the graphical and gaming excellence seen on PlayStation 2. A non-linear, intense cinematic gameplay experience that combines elements from multiple gaming genres, Killzone PlayStation 3 thrusts players deeper into the conflict between the ISA and Helghast.

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Samsung's new RAZR-like SCH-V740 handset is available now in Korea.

- Dimension: 98(L) x 51(W) x 14.5(H) (in mm)
- Weight: 98g
- Main Screen: 262K color TFT LCD 2.2" (240x320)
- Sub Screen: 1.07" 65K Color TFT LCD (96x96)
- Color: Crystal Silver / Black
- Network: CDMA
- Data: EV-DO (Up to 2.4Mbps)
- Memory: 123MB (can be used as a USB portable drive)
- 1.3 megapixel camera
- Bluetooth (Stereo headset support)
- Video On Demand / Music On Demand
- File viewer for MS Office File / PDF / JPG / txt
- Mobile Printing
- MP3 Player
- GPS

The Speecys-FC robot is the first fuel cell powered walking robot. Speecys-FC is 50cm tall and weighs 4.2kg. The robot sports a 16l hydrogen absorption cylinder - uses 1l of hydrogen every 2 minutes. Price $24,000.

More details and photos on ASCII (Japanese). via i4u

Archos's AV700 100 GB Mobile Digital Media Player is available on Amazon for Pre-order. - Price: $749.99

The MM-8300 by SANYO features a built-in media player and offers customers access to 19 channels of high-quality video and audio on demand through the Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Service. With this optional service, customers can keep informed with live news from FOX News Channel Live or stay on top of the hottest music with Music Choice. They can also entertain themselves or their kids with classic "Looney Tunes" cartoons or preview what movies are coming out from major motion-picture studios Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Pictures.

MacDailyNews has scored new images of what's purported to be the Motorola ROKR Apple iTunes phone. Brief text titles, "ROKR: Kick "A" Music for the Masses - [Apple Logo] Apple - Seamless Mobility 1.0," accompanied the images. no comment from Apple or Motorola. I think this is a horrible ugly mess. Maybe if it comes in white, I might be convinced of the beauty

Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a new version of its iTunes music store software that includes radio podcasting capabilities.

With iTunes 4.9 you can now browse, find, sample and subscribe to thousands of free podcasts - radio shows delivered over the Internet to your computer - then sync them to your iPod and listen anytime, anywhere writes Apple. The podcast directory will include podcasts from the likes of the BBC, Engadget, ABC News and ESPN. Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of applications, said Apple is trying to simplify how people listen to podcasts.

"Why did we get in on it? Podcasts are different than individual songs. There's been a lot of buzz going on, and we wanted to make it easier to listen to podcasts," Cue said.

Apple also merged the traditional white iPod line to contain two models of the music player, a 20-gigabyte version for $299 and a 60-gigabyte version for $399. Both will include color screens and can be used for viewing digital photos. Apple will no longer sell the 30-gigabyte version of the iPod photo.

Scottish game designer David Jones (creator of the first Grand Theft Auto) has announced that All Points Bulletin (APB), (his new multiplayer online role-playing game set in "a highly volatile world filled with dramatic car chases, shootouts, busts, escapes, and arrests") will be available for Microsoft's next-gen console, the Xbox 360 in 2008, around one year after the PC version ships. "We are confident APB will take full advantage of Xbox 360's impressive capabilities," said Webzen CEO Nam Ju Kim. The game will be Webzen's second for the 360, after the postapocalyptic shooter Huxley reports GameSpot

Touted as a mini-supercomputer, Sony's next generation console called the PlayStation 3 or PS3 runs on Sony, Toshiba and IBM's Cell processor and features NVIDIA's RSX graphics processor.

Rumor # 1- According Spong, Sony is planning on making the PlayStation 3 'talk' to the Microsoft's Xbox 360, though exactly what they are planning wasn't explained."

Rumor # 2 - Microsoft is said to be considering making their next generation Xbox 360 connectable with the two rival firms' portable machines, the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS. Based on company Statements made last week Microsoft has developed technology to allow its next-generation video game console, Xbox 360, to be connected online with portable game machines of rival firms. Users of the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) and the Nintendo DS will be able to connect their machines with the Xbox 360 and play Microsoft's games over the Internet, Microsoft officials said

With that said if the Microsoft rumor is true ( that rumor was first) , it would make sense for Sony to have the PlayStation 3 do something similar.

Sony's new CEO Howard Stringer said that Sony will cut back on some of its research and development programs in an effort to put more focus on products that the company believes will allow it dominate once again. Stringer emphasized two items that will be key to Sony's business for many years to come: the Cell processor, will be used to power the PlayStation 3 and many Sony's electronics, -- Cell delivers improved, real-time response for entertainment and rich media applications, in many cases 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors. It is expected the Cell microprocessor will become the broadband processor used for industrial applications to the new digital home.

Cell also supports multiple operating systems, such as conventional operating systems (including Linux), real-time operating systems for computer entertainment and consumer electronics applications as well as guest operating systems for specific applications, simultaneously. -- and the Blu-ray disc, hi-def standard format for the PS3. (Sony hopes this will eventually replaces DVD in the marketplace)

"PlayStation is the largest chip eater. Leveraging game applications, we've got the most advanced [Cell] technology, which will give us high competitiveness. The next step is determining what applications we can develop on the Cell processor, for which we are launching a project," said Sony president Ryoji Chubachi

Speaking at a joint event with HD-DVD creator Toshiba in Tokyo, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed Microsoft's commitment to the HD-DVD standard and confirmed that the company is already thinking about future revisions of the Xbox 360 hardware (company may incorporate a HD-DVD drive into the console). The HD-DVD standard currently faces a battle against the competing Blu-Ray next-generation DVD standard, created by Sony reports GamesIndustry.

"The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format," Gates explained. "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else."

Sony's PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray system for both HD movie playback and game storage. Sony and Toshiba have held talks to try and establish a joint format for next-generation DVD, but these collapsed recently after Toshiba refused to accept Blu-Ray - which boasts higher capacity discs but is more expensive to manufacture - as the basis for the joint standard.

Reggie Fils-Aime, chief marketing officer of Nintendo revealed and confirmed quite a bit of information, including hints about the Revolution controller in an interview with Electronic Gaming Monthly.

"As Mr. Iwata said, we're working on our next true Mario platformer for Revolution; we're working on our next Metroid, and we showed snippets of that work. And I'm actually meeting with Michael Kelbaugh to spend some time with him to understand the vision for our next Metroid Prime game. You'll see Zelda. You'll see Smash Bros. And Mr. Iwata certainly wants that to be a wireless Internet-enabled game because we know it would be so much fun for the core gamer.

So absolutely, for Revolution you will see all of our franchises, plus, we've gone on record to say that we are aggressively working on a number of new franchises. And that is something that has been a criticism of the past, you know, "Folks, are you milking Mario and doing too many Mario-type games?" We are hard at work at new franchises and we believe that's going to be critical to the launch of Revolution."

AMD has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation yesterday in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel – including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents. Read More

On Monday, AMD or Advanced Micro Devices introduced the Athlon 64 FX-57, a new CPU for game enthusiasts solidifying AMD's gaming pipeline for the remainder of the year writes thestreet. Available immediately, the Athlon 64 FX-57 is a single-core processor to be applicable to today's 3D games. AMD plans to introduce a dual-core version of the Athlon 64 FX when multi-threaded software hits the market.

The chipmaker's new Athlon 64 FX-57is priced at $1,031. The chip built on 90-nanometer process technology runs at a clock speed of 2.8GHz and includes 1MB of level-two computer memory cache, which helps with rendering graphic-intensive video games like "Half-Life 2" and running labor-intensive applications such as computer-aided design.

In addition to announcing the iPod Color, cutting the price of the 1GB iPod Shuffle, Apple Computer has released iTunes 4.9 with podcasting.

Podcasting. With iTunes 4.9 you can now browse, find, sample and subscribe to thousands of free podcasts - radio shows delivered over the Internet to your computer - then sync them to your iPod and listen anytime, anywhere.

Now that iPod and iPod photo are one and the same, every white iPod boasts a full-color display - ideal for viewing album artwork and playing slideshows - starting at $299. Choose from 20GB or 60GB models and carry up to 15,000 songs or as many as 25,000 photos in your pocket. For Mac or PC. More

Sony has won an injunction to stop online retailer ElectricBirdLand from infringing its trademarks and selling PSPs or Playstation portables. ElectricBirdLand, run by Dan Morelle, has 28 days to prepare a defence and will be back in court on 18 July, according to the BBC. The PSP was supposed to be launched in the UK in March but this has now been pushed back to September. The delay boosted the demand for imported machines.

Apple computer has quietly cut the price of their unpredictable iPod aka the iPod shuffle. Apple dropped the price of the 1GB iPod shuffle to $129, from $149. Apple

Engadget has scored an image of what could be a mockup for the Apple iTunes phone from Motorola. The ugly mockup was shown during a presentation to analysts from Morgan Stanley in Beijing.

Speaking to Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine, Nintendo VP Reggie Fils-Aime made a very vague, yet juicy comment about the Nintendo Revolution COntroller. Ok, it is not juicy but its vague.

"The thing that I always find surprising, and certainly in the last year I've had wonderful opportunities to spend quality time with a number of our key third-party publishers, is when you sit down and share the innovation with them, just how excited they get," he said. "I saw it firsthand with DS; we're seeing it now with Revolution. The fact that you and your fans haven't seen the controller doesn't mean that no one else has."

Fils-Aime continued, "I mean, again, and Mr. Iwata did this during his presentation - if you just think about it, we're going to have the ability through wireless internet to download all of your great games from NES, SNES, N64. Think about it: Each of those controllers were different. How are you gonna play? That captured some the imagination of what our controller needs to be able to do, and certainly as you get into the meat of that type of innovation with the developers, their eyes truly light up because they start to imagine what's possible with that type of configuration, which is vastly different than a sheer horsepower type of game."

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Last week we published a comment from ATI's Richard Huddy claiming the Xbox 360 would have the edge over the PlayStation 3 thanks to the ATI Xenos chipset used in the 360. At the time we just had one quote, here is the remainder of Huddy's comments. On paper the RSX inside the PlayStation 3 is 50MHz faster than the Xenos. Huddy claims that the unified shader architecture of the Xenos will give Xbox 360 a graphical edge over the PlayStation 3.

In a continuing effort to make sure the Microsoft Xbox 360 is hit in Japan, Microsoft has reportedly signed on another Japanese developer for Xbox 360. 3rd party developer Gargoyle Mechanics is reported to be working on one new game for the system reports IGN.

Gargoyle Mechanics has had a hand in the development of a number of past titles. Members of the company worked on planning, programming and graphics for the first Shenmue on Dreamcast, programming for Zombie Revenge and also ported Capcom's Dino Crisis to the system. Most recently, the company developed Azumi for D3 Publisher.

Motorla has announced the E895, a new handset that delivers a robust suite of intuitive multimedia tools to capture everyday escapades including a 1.3 megapixel camera, video record and playback and optional removable memory.

Sony, Japan has announced the VPL-CX20, a new XGA liquid crystal video projector (2000 lumens and 1.9kg) that is only 52mm thick (full dimensions are 273x210x52mm). Retail price around 1600 EUR. via

cnet asia takes a look at samsung's YP-D1 new audio player. Features of the YP-D1 USB 2.0 and USB hosting, 2GB of memory, MP3, WMA, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, Mpeg4, and JPEG pictures codec support, play some games and take pictures with the 2MP camera, battery life - 20 hours.

If this first rendition of a camera-enabled MP3 player is any indication, we have no doubt that the YP-D1 looks to be a harbinger of good MP3 things coming out of Samsung. Look out for our full-on review coming soon.

Sharp, Japan has announced the HR-MB3S, a new portable audio player with a 4GB HDD. Features include a color screen, MP3, WMA (DRM9) and WAV support, USB2.0 support , built-in li-ion battery (3.7 V , 1100 mAh) allows us to listen to music for 18 continuous hours per battery charge and a 32MB memory buffer to prevent the hard drive from skipping.

Measures 105,5 x 56,5 x 17,4mm & weighs 113 grams.

The suggested retail price 259 Euro. Via DAP

Pantech, has announced the PG-6100 multimedia phone, a new clamshell phone aimed at providing users with an advanced, cutting edge combination of camera and phone technology, while also offering a trendy, innovative look and design.

PG-6100 features include:
2.0M CMOS Camera
MP3 Player
Bluetooth
External Memory
Dimensions: 80 x 47 x 24.9mm
Weight: Under 100g
Display: 1.9' 260K TFT(Internal) / 1.1' 260K OLED(External)
Intenna
Video Recording
IrDA
MP3 Ring tones/64 Polyphonic
SMS/EMS/MMS
WAP 2.0/JAVA

Pricing & availability:

The PG-6100 will be available for purchase in Russia from the end of June and later in Asia. The expected retail price is USD 370-400. via PhoneMag

Engadget has scored an exclusive image of the Motorola Franklin aka the Motorola RAZRberry! The very sexy device touted as Motorola's BlackBerry Killer will have quad-band GPRS/EDGE, 128MB flash and 64MB RAM memory, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera, MiniSD slot, 2.4-inch 320 x 240 65k color screen, and will run Windows Mobile 5.0. The Motorola Franklin aka RAZRberry measures 112 x 64 x 11.5mm (4.4 x 2.5 x 0.45-inches) and weighs 115g.

I want one. Now

The folks at GameSpot tackle all the steamy Nintendo Revolution Rumors, crushing many dreams along the way. Just about every Nintendo Revolution rumor floating around is bogus. Nintendo has no comment.

Rumor # 1 - A patent (Patent 6,908,388) for the Revolution's gyroscopic, LCD-touch-screen-enabled controller has been uncovered. Started at Games Radar

"The controller for Nintendo's upcoming Revolution console will feature gyroscopic, tilt-sensitive technology, an LCD touch screen, and a greatly reduced number of face buttons, according to documentation on the US patent website," read the Games Radar initial story.

Bad News : The drawings filed with the patent clearly show a pre-SP GBA, hooked up to a GameCube.

The Good News : Patent 6,908,388 could show some technology that might appear in the Revolution's controller.

Rumor # 2 : Pictures of the Nintendo Revolution controller have been leaked.

"It's totally fake," said GameSpot Tokyo correspondent Hirohiko Niizumi. "Whoever doctored it up apparently didn't have much understanding of Japanese."

Rumor # 3 : A leaked teaser poster for the Nintendo Revolution reveals it will launch in March 2006. This is the only rumor that GameSpot leaves open. Like the date is oh so important, ok maybe it is. In the words of Game Spot : We'll see in the coming months.

US magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly is claiming that there is a new Final Fantasy VII in the works at Square Enix for PlayStation 3 or PS3

EGM offers no source for its rumour claim, though this would seem an easy fix to the dual problem of delivering an early-lifecycle RPG ( Role-Playing games) to the PlayStation 3 and desire more FFVII writes Spong

ATI released its Q3 financials, with sales up 8% or $39 million to $530 million. The company lost $400,000 compared to a $50 million profit last year reports DSrevolution.

"It was a challenging quarter for ATI, particularly within our PC business where we came in well below our expectations for both revenue and gross margin," said ATI's Chief Executive, David Orton.

With increasing competion in the PC market, particularly with Nvdia, ATI is looking to Microsoft's XBox 360, due to be released late this year, and the Nintendo Revolution, due sometime in 2006, will be "significant for revenue".

ATI admitted that delays in either console could cause problems for the company, though each machine is "currently on schedule".

"It is accurate that at this time we will not support high-definition [on Revolution]." - Perrin Kaplan, vice president of corporate affairs, Nintendo of America

So 1080up.org has started a little group to counter Nintendo's plan. If you'd like to see HD on the Revolution, please head to the Take Action! page

French publication MacBidouille claims to have received a media alert to a Apple Computer event. According to Apple Insider a similar message was presented to the publication just prior the Oct., 2004 Apple music event that saw the launch of the iPod photo.

According to the web report, Apple is asking the media to prepare for new product announcements on or before the first Thursday in July.

Industry sources believe the event may very likely coincide with the planned high-profile launch of iTunes 4.9 with Podcasting support.

Sources tell AppleInsider that the event could also play host to new iPod offerings, which may include second-generation iPod shuffles and possibly fifth-generation iPods.

Microsoft is said to be considering making their next generation Xbox 360 connectable with the two rival firms' portable machines, the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS. Based on company Statements made last week Microsoft has developed technology to allow its next-generation video game console, Xbox 360, to be connected online with portable game machines of rival firms. Users of the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) and the Nintendo DS will be able to connect their machines with the Xbox 360 and play Microsoft's games over the Internet, Microsoft officials said reports Tech News World.

According to Nintendo, the Revolution controller will be a large part of what will distance Revolution from other next-generation consoles, including Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation 3. Documentation on the US patent website, shows Nintendo's new console will feature gyroscopic, tilt-sensitive technology, an LCD touch screen, and a reduced number of face buttons. The Patent

ATI touts the power of the Xbox 360 GPU , and reveals the Xbox 360 GPU is far more powerful than the GPU for Revolution. At the ELSPA International Games Summit, ATI's Richard Huddy said: "[The GPU will have] 256 Gigabytes per second of render bandwidth... fifty times the power of the original Xbox." Huddy went on to say that the Xbox 360 would have, "Five times more [power] than any other next generation console."

In other news ATi is also providing the GPU for Nintendo's next-generation console, Revolution.

The olympus DS-330 Digital Voice Recorder is an advanced digital audio device that's both easy to use and easy to carry. This PC downloadable and Mac compatible recorder offers over five hours recording time, five folders for file management, and comes with a docking station for quick and simple file downloading to a computer.

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This may or may not be a leaked ad for the Nintendo Revolution. The ad takes a stab at Microsoft's Xbox console and reveals the next generation Nintendo console, called Nintendo Revolution or Nintendo revo will be released March 2006.

DAP is reporting that iRiver's sexy new u10 portable media player will be probably come in 2GB & 6GB models.

iRiver U10 Refresh
The new iRiver U10 portable media player is operable with just one thumb. iRiver calls its new user interface D-Click. The buttons are on the borders of the screen. Only the border area is touch sensitive. The iRiver U10 supports MP4 video, Macromedia Flash, MP3, WMA, OGG and ASF music playback. The U10 has a 2.2" QVGA (320x240) TFT screen. The iRiver U10 also features FM-Tuner, Voice recorder, Photo album, txt viewer, direct encoding and games. The U10 will have wireless remote control. The iRiver U10 will come in 512MB and 1GB storage configurations.

Cingular Wireless, is considering selling a Motorola Inc. cell phone that can play music using Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music service.

"Motorola and Apple have been talking to Cingular about it using the iTunes phone," according to one of the sources, who asked not to be named.

Apple and Motorola said last summer they were working on bringing the popular iTunes service to mobile phones but Motorola has delayed unveiling its iTunes device so far amid analyst speculation about a lack of interest from operators reports Reuters.

The Samsung Digimax i50 MP3 is a new compact 5.0 megapixel camera, measuring 3.5 x 2.4 x 0.7-inches. Features include a 2.5-inch display, 50MB of internal memory, ( Memory can be expanded through SD/MMC),images are captured in JPG (EXIF 2.2) format, videos with audio are captured at 640x480, and at 30fps.

Just a Theory - While checking out Nintendo's Japanese site, I realized that Nintendo's Revolution console information is under a folder called Revo. This could lend credence to the rumor that the system will be called revo or it could be where the person got the idea to start the rumor. Since I just wasted some space, enjoy Nintendo revo or revolution eye candy.

In an interview published in the current issue of Famitsu, Japanese Xbox boss Yoshihiro Maruyama said he expects that Japan will see a "good lineup" of titles at launch for the Xbox 360 --somewhere in the double-digit range. He added that seven or eight will be Japanese-developed games. One of the major impediments to the growth of the Xbox installed base in Japan was the low number of games geared specifically toward Japanese gamers, available at launch and during the console's ongoing life span reports GameSpot

Walmart is offering the Tyco 1:6 Scale Batman Begins "Tumbler" Batmobile R/C Vehicle for $99. The detailed radio-controlled model of the "The Tumbler" from the blockbuster movie Batman Begins features Turbo engine sounds, flashing lights, adjustable air brakes and dynamic suspension. via GadgetMadness