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Nintendo "Revolution" Info
Nintendo has given its next home console the
codename of “Revolution.” But officials at
the company are not viewing the device as a
successor to the GameCube. “This won't be a
continuation, but rather something entirely
different,” stated senior managing director
Yoshiro Mori at a recent analyst’s meeting.
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Forgotten Realms no longer forgotten
on Xbox May 29, 2004
Atari announces Forgotten Realms: Demon
Stone to come to Xbox.
Atari and Storm Front studios accounced
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone for the Xbox.
Utilizing the Dungeons and Dragons world
created by Wizards of The Coast the will
immerse players in a fantasy world where
fate rules supreme.
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PlayStation Portable wows consumers
The planned launch of a portable edition of
Sony's hugely popular PlayStation game
console series is eagerly awaited by game
fans and retailers here, but analysts are
more cautious about a product claimed by
Sony to be as revolutionary as its Walkman.
Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled the
PlayStation Portable (PSP) at Electronic
Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, the
world's largest game trade show earlier this
month, although Japanese gamers will have to
wait till the end of the year to get hold of
one.
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Win The Prisoner of Azkaban for PS2
At long last Harry Potter and The Prisoner
of Azkaban is out in cinemas on 31 May!
But as well as the big screen, you can also
experience Harry and friends in another
dimension...
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
on PS2, gamers can play as either Harry, Ron
or Hermione and switch between characters...
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So Much for Dragonball Z
Fox has forgotten all about it.
June 01, 2004 - News about the Dragonball Z
film in pre-production has been impossible
to come by, and now we know why.
DragonballZ.com did some investigating and
found out that the project is dead. Kaput. A
representative of Fox, the studio making the
film, wasn't even aware of Dragonball Z at
first.
"The Dragon Ball Z movie? We don't have
that," said a Fox spokesperson. "I've got a
lot of calls about that, so I called around.
We won't be making that movie."
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VIZ TEAMS WITH READING IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO PROMOTE LITERACY
San Francisco, Calif, June 2, 2004 – VIZ,
LLC, one of the leading publishers and
distributors of manga and anime content for
North American audiences, has announced a
partnership with Reading Is Fundamental,
Inc. (RIF®), the nation’s oldest and largest
children’s and family literacy non-profit
organization, to help promote literacy among
children nationwide.
Founded in 1966, Reading Is Fundamental
prepares and motivates children to read by
providing free books and literacy resources
to students and families who otherwise would
not have adequate access to these materials.
RIF operates through 450,000 volunteers at
25,000 sites nationwide. Beginning this
summer, RIF will make popular VIZ graphic
novels like those in the SHONEN JUMP graphic
novel line, YU-GI-OH! and DRAGON BALL Z,
available through the organization’s
national network of schools, libraries and
year-round reading programs to help children
develop an enthusiasm for reading. This is a
first-of-its kind partnership between RIF
and a leading graphic novel
publisher/distributor.
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Revenge of Pac-Man: Vintage Games Are
Back
IN the early 1980's, when he was 25 and
working on the arcade games Defender and
Robotron 2084, Eugene Jarvis wasn't sure
video games would last. "There was a fear
that everything would just kind of die," he
said recently. Video games were new and
seemingly impermanent, vulnerable to
business convulsions that made him fear that
he was involved in a faddish "digital
Hula-Hoop" and that ever improving graphics
would render early games obsolete. There
were even wild theories that spaceborne
alpha rays could cause arcade machines to
decay.
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Making Magic and money
A lucky few are able to make a living by
practising their hobby. If that hobby
happens to be Magic: The Gathering, that
living can be very comfortable indeed.
For the uninitiated, Magic is a
fantasy-themed card game based on the
Dungeons & Dragons universe. Players try to
annihilate their opponents using cards that
represent various creatures, spells and
artefacts. Magic celebrated its tenth
anniversary last year, and Wizards of the
Coast - the game's Washington-based
developer - has also launched an internet
version called Magic: On-line, which
currently has more than 150,000 registered
users.
The world's elite Magic players compete in
the Magic Pro Tour, where more than $200,000
(U.S.) in prize money is given out over the
course of a single event.
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'Pokemon Channel' (GCN) Review
Pokemon is, without a doubt, one of
Nintendo's most important franchises, so
it's strange that the company has waited so
long to bring its critters to the GameCube.
Its debut is the sort of game you'd see on
an import-only list and think, "Why don't we
get crazy, whacked-out games like that in
the United States?" You'll see why on this
episode of "X-Play" as we tune in to "Pokemon
Channel."
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GAMETABLE
ONLINE, INC. BRINGS CREEPY FREAKS™ TO
INTERNET GAMING
Northampton, MA June 1st, 2004: GameTable
Online, Inc. and WizKids, Inc. reached an
agreement to create the first online
Collectable Miniatures Game (CMG). GameTable
Online will host a digital version of Creepy
Freaks, WizKids’ gross-out 3D strategy game,
on their website. Creepy Freaks has recently
been nominated for “Best Abstract Board
Game” by the acclaimed Origins Awards.
“GameTable Online and WizKids are breaking
new ground by bringing this style of game to
the Internet. Collectable Card Games have
done well online, but this is the first CMG
to go digital,” said Joe Minton, President
of Game Table Online. As with all GameTable
Online games, Creepy Freaks will look and
play exactly like its tabletop counterpart.
Each player will be able to collect, trade,
and build teams from their computer.
Once Creepy Freaks Online is ready for play
later this year, everyone who registers on
GameTable Online will automatically receive
a starter pack and two random figures and
will be able to play for free during their
two week trial period. Once a player joins
the site, they gain more figures by winning
matches, playing lots of games, winning
online tournaments and trading with other
players.
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