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This article from pro-g has a better analysis of the news event.

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/06-12-2006-4221-1.html

2)Nintendo has a proven emulation system on the Gamecube for NES, SNES, and N64. This means old devs don't have to port, they just need to get Nintendo a rom. Zero cost to them.

Live Arcade + MAME...

First, "engineering gut feature" -> "engineering gut feeling". Oops.

Second, it turns out they cut rumble to support the sensors, for obvious reasons.

So, they're cutting a long-standing feature to trade in for a novel feature that (after reading more about it) shows every sign of being half-assed that I'd expect to see. This has the stench of a management decision made against the recommendation of the engineers, and I bet the engineers about went ballistic when they were informed it had to be ready for E3.

I don't know about Japan, but I'm smelling Microsoft/Nintendo for this next generation, and I'm increasingly wondering if it might not be ~3:1 in Nintendo's favor in three years (which is about the earliest I'd say we can "call" the results of this generation). The opening lineup for the Wii may even best the Dreamcast's opening lineup, which was spectacular for the time (as long as you could get your RPG fix somewhere else...).

Well, the point of that is that one of the things that I find entertaining about the Hulk is that he is not subtle and not complex. (Yes, I realize that there have been a few storylines since the 70's that made changes to this formula, but I hadn't kept up with it by then.) This comes through at some points in the game, such as when you hear a police report saying, "Be on the look out for Dr. Bruce Banner, suspect is approximately 12 feet tall, with green skin, suspect is considered armed and dangerous."

Of course, I'm a throwback, I think that if a game isn't fun to play then it is pretty irrelevant whether it has a great storyline or not. (Although I have plowed through a small number of games based on story and not game quality.) The Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is fun to play. It's fun to pick up a city bus and throw it at a helecopter. It's fun to watch the puny humans running in terror and screaming. It's fun to run up the sides of building and jump long distances crushing the concrete under your feet.

As to the cinemas, Ron Perlman does his usual creepy villain voice for Emil Blonsky. The storyline is good enough to drive the storyline forward, and the poor Hulk has plenty of opportunity to be persecuted by General Ross and wreak havoc on the city. Here's a review I find pretty accurate, http://www.pro-g.co.uk/review/221/

So now, here's hoping that the come out with The Tick: Ultimate Destruction next...

Apparently Blizzard sent out a newsletter asking fans if they'd be interested in ports of Starcraft and Diablo. Sounds good to me, although I'd prefer the PSP.

...and they're directed at the politicians who focus on the hot topic of the month instead of the important issues.

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children -- Never gets old, especially when said in that whiny Mrs. Lovejoy voice

An removable hard drive alone as an update will you cost you $100.00.
see http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1307/

Just saw this while reading the page /. linked to. This is official. http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1307/ $299 for core package. $399 for better package.

I'll save you time. Here's Rockstar's statement.

Every single time, Rockstar stated, "altering the game's source code". They never said the content wasn't in there. That was a complete misinterpretation of their statement.

What they said was the equivalent of saying, "We did not distribute porn to kids. The claims that we did were the equivalent of a bunch of guys who broke a window, climbed in to our locked house, raided every drawer and closet, finally found our safe, spent hours cracking it, and finally found the porn that, sure, we owned, but we never made even slightly accessible to kids."

The best you can legitimately claim is that, like most people seem to do, Rockstar told the absolute truth but just the very specific version of it that painted them in the best light.

Unfortunately, a bunch of people who don't understand the difference between accessible [if hidden behind certain secret areas] content and content that's absolutely walled and locked off from any user no matter how they interact with the game short of figuratively breaking and entering with tools unavailable to regular users, misinterpretted that statement.

And now others who apparently don't understand computers (or don't bother to actually read the original statement) come out and make more false assumptions.

This is about comparable to SCO saying "Linux isn't fit for even late night TV" under the grounds its source code is legendarily full of profanities. You don't actually see any of them when you run Linux but, just as inaccurately, SCO can claim they exist and therefore children shouldn't be allowed to use it.

Is this really a direction we want to encourage through our own misunderstandings? Come on slashdot, we're supposed to be more intelligent than that.

the article that the second link references: http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/985/b1205649dd5bee c5c984bb76d506d8bc mentions a sony based network service called "playstation network" [boring i know...], what bothers me is how lax the premise of their network service sounds. im not excited about it at all.

im hoping that its all along the lines of their new going underground ideology. not talking it up; and just springing it on us. xbox live is nice, but it could stand to be better. alot better! and i hope sony realizes that its not to late to at the very least play catchup.

honestly, i think they have a grand plan in mind. why would they pile on the ethernet jacks otherwise?

Two more...
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_sto ry.php?id=120805 http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/153/966/

I'm looking forward to gesture-based gaming in Okami (the "Celestial Brush") for the PS2.

Gamespot and IGN have had some great coverage, but I haven't seen any site do a hands on video like the one I saw at Pro-G. The video is about ten minutes long and looks at movie playback and four games. It also compares the PSP to the DS. It is well worth a watch.

There is a lot of confusion in the discussion. First, Cell won't be used for graphic performance. Nvidia is developing the next generation GPU for PS3. Second, the 250 GFLOPS archived by the 'magic' Cell at 4.7 Ghz can be archive by overclocking the current GeForce FX at 500 Mhz a bit higher. GeForce FS at 500 Mhz already can reach 200 GLOPS. The excitement about Cell is probably the high communication bandwidth it will bring with Rambus technologies. All of these technologies are available today. High bandwidth switching bus has been used in high performance workstation and servers for year. The real contribution of Cell is probably to bring these wonderful to a mass market level with Sony's PS3 launch.