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  Nintendo has confirmed that its President, Satoru Iwata will give a keynote speech at the upcoming Games Developers Conference (GDC) in February. Although there’s no agenda attached with the keynote, we cannot rule out the fact that Iwata might reveal plans for Wii 2. Wii revolutionized the gaming console industry in 2006 by bringing [...]

  Using simple web programming languages to create a webOS application is cool but it sure is a challenge when developers have to create a graphic intensive game. Palm is now trying to resolve this by releasing the first beta of Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). The PDK will allow game developers to create games in [...]

  Wii’s GPU (AMD) and CPU (IBM) suppliers had announced about their 50 million milestone, thus it was about time for Nintendo to officially acknowledge the same for the console. At the GDC yesterday, Nintendo announced that their global Wii shipment has surpassed 50 million units making it the fastest selling console in the gaming [...]

  UPDATE 2: HBC and DVDX 3.4 works but the Twilight Hack is dead. Via HackMii UPDATE: Homebrew seekers are not recommended to update at this moment. Via Wiibrew As promised last year, Wii finally gets expanded storage via SD cards. By updating to the latest v4.0 firmware, which by the way is available now, [...]

  This is the best looking Xbox 360 we have come across after the Dark Knight. The blue tinted version was unveiled at the Games Developers Conference today and will be available only to developers. In addition to the looks, these consoles are equipped with double the memory (1GB) as compared to the current retailed [...]

  You may find this as an exaggerated statement but ARM, who is bully on its Mali line of processors is dead serious. According Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, Xbox like graphics is very much possible in mobile phones and he says it may take till later 2009 to fulfill his promise. The [...]