"Less than one year after successfully launching NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) at a mass-market price, Nintendo of America Inc. is dropping the MSRP to $149.95, effective Tuesday, May 21, 2002.
To date, Nintendo has shipped more than 4.5 million systems worldwide and its hit title, Super Smash Bros.(TM) Melee, has topped the 2.5 million mark.
Today's announcement comes as the $27 billion interactive entertainment industry gathers in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) to…
I just found this topic on slashdot.org so I had to check it out..
"In short, if you are already signed up for and use Hotmail, Microsoft has given itself the right to share your e-mail address and other data with outside companies -- even if you explicitly told Microsoft not to do so when you signed up.
If you have an active Hotmail account, go to www.hotmail.com. When the home page comes up, click on ``Options,'' followed by ``Personal Profile.''
Look for the boxes at the bottom, under a…
This might be an interest for you art lovers.. It kinda gave me a shock when I read it.
"A hoard of stolen art worth more than $1.4bn (?960m) has been destroyed - by the mother of a French art thief.
Mireille Breitwieser cut up the works, including canvases by Antoine Watteau and Peter Bruegel, after the arrest of her son Stephane for stealing a bugle from a museum in Lucerne, Switzerland."
Read the article HERE...
An interesting article yesterday over at SMH.COM.AU about the Australian game industry..
"This year, investment in Australia by the big US and European games publishers - Electronic Arts, Infogrames, and Vivendi Corporation's Universal Interactive, the top three - will be well over $50 million and this, industry experts say, is only the start.
Companies such as Infogrames Melbourne House, Blue Tongue, Tantalus and other smaller houses now command about 50 per cent of what has become an…
I guess it was highly anticipated that Sony will drop the prices on their consoles after Microsoft and Gamecube did theirs. Well the news is in that Sony has done just that. Hopefully the reductions will apply to here in OZ real soon. (the prices below are in US dollars btw.. $199 US = $365 AUS)
"Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. announced that effective immediately, its leading PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system will be available to consumers for $199, a more than 30 percent…
While Photoshop is the king of image editing, it just wasn't made for drawing/editing on the pixel level. That's what Promotion is for! Designed similarly to Deluxe Paint on the Amiga, it's the ideal tool for you 2D artists out there developing graphics/animation for GameBoy Advance or mobile phones.. Download the trial and check it out!
Sydney developers Strategic Studies Group have a new release. Taken from their website which explains it more accurately than I ever could:
"Strategic Studies Group has announced Decisive Battles of World War II: Korsun Pocket the long awaited sequel to The Ardennes Offensive in the Decisive Battles system. The game will be released in the second half of 2002 through Matrix Games. Korsun Pocket uses a greatly improved version of the Ardennes Offensive engine to recreate the desperate German…
Irrational Games (the guys behind Freedom Force) has posted a couple of days ago on their website that they are hiring. They're aiming to fill several positions at their Canberra studio. The new positions are Senior and Lead Programmers and a Writer, for Irrational Games' upcoming product line. MORE INFO HERE...
