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mindless4210 writes "The new Nokia N-Gage, shown at E3, looks promising, but Nokia better be prepared to compete with Sony and Nintendo. Nokia is betting the N-Gage's wireless communication abilities will set it apart and allow multiplayer gaming to move away from computers and living-room consoles and into consumers' pockets." Reader harikiri writes "According to the BBC, the much-maligned Infinium Labs has showcased their Phantom console at E3. Apparently Infinium have made agreements with AMD and Nvidia to provide the processor and graphics controller. The specs seem very respectable: a 2.5GHz AMD processor, 256MB RAM and a 40GB HDD." Reader Ipingforpong writes "E3, probably the most well known video game trade show was assaulted by the U.S. Army in a promotion for America's Army. Soldiers rappelled out of a real Blackhawk helicopter with real rifles and rushed the show."
There's also the yearly return of ever delicious boothbabes.
And since my company PlayLogicGames also exhibited it's line-up on the show, thought I'd say hi.
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E3, probably the most well known video game trade show was assaulted by the U.S. Army in a promotion for America's Army. Soldiers rappelled out of a real Blackhawk helicopter with real rifles and rushed the show.
They performed the same stunt, last year, right as I was about to cross the street to walk in. A guy in full green camoflage, green and black facepaint and carrying a machine gun walked up to me and told me to please stand back for a few minutes. Applying my rule of never arguing with people holding real machineguns, I did as he asked.
Sadly, given my never argue rule, I never did get to ask why the in God's name the US Army thought it was intelligent to wear GREEN camoflage in Los Angeles of all places. Concrete gray mixed with a dirty smog brown, perhaps. Green though...?
I guess the Army finally listened to Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam:
We've got a special man in the audience today right now. Its Mr. Leo. He's a fashion consultant for the Army. 'Why thank you Adrian. I'm just very happy to be here. I want to tell you something. You know, this whole camoflague thing for me doesn't work very well.' Why is that? 'Well you...because you go into the jungle I can't see you. You know, its like wearing stripes and plaid. For me, I want to do something different. If you go into the jungle, make a statement. If you're going to fight, clash.
Innovation: How long before someone releases yet another PC-in-a-home-theater-acceptable-box that can combine the functionality of all the other boxes?
All we need is a single damned box that can work as a DVR, play games on a Microsoft OS, purchase new games over the Internet, and play against other people over the Internet as well.
Whoever can come up with ONE SINGLE DEVICE that can do all these things will be rich! Perhaps we can call it the "Plethora of Consoles" (PC). It'll be like nothing else!
Listen, I'm just impressed and very very surprised that it turned out to be an actual system rather than a VC scam.
Ouch... brutal. In all honesty, marketing a TI calculator as a game system would probably have sold more copies. =)
-Vendal Thornheart
Well, as an anonymous coward I shall post a random figure of 39,193 in the first week of its release in Belarus. I shall provide no links in regards to evidence. I am a Nokia fanboi.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
What's Fallujah like this time of year?
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
... and I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but doesn't the Phantom console look like the Deluxe George Foreman grill?
If it grills my hot dogs while I'm fragging people, well, then the only thing left is a cupholder in the lap pad.
Maybe they had the right idea all along....
[Dennis Leary]Naaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!![/Dennis Leary]
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I guess there will always be a few people who enjoy talking into a taco.
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I thought it was the video games that were violent!
... and, so began, the legend of the Five-point Atkins Exploding Heart Technique!
That's only because emacs uses more resources than an N-Gage game :)
English is easier said than done.
Yeah, that's the new version of "America's Army" that they are going to have Rockstar Games design for them. Grand Theft Auto: Baghdad. Rape a female prisoner, get extra health. :P
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Let me guess, at the end of a map, a talking shrub comes and says "I'm sorry Mario, but Osama bin Laden is in another castle. Go invade another country"?
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