Dovoto posted this:

I was lucky enough to beta test the firmware upgrade today. It was a success and my ugly passthrough is no longer required to boot from the GBA slot!!! Great work loopy and darkfader. Hopefully firmware will move out of beta soon. ...

The results from the first ever GOAT Store Banner Contest are in, and there are great banners galore!

“When it came time to pick the best of the bunch, that task proved impossible,” stated Dan Loosen of the GOAT Store, LLC. “We just decided that instead of trying to judge, everyone was a winner in our books!”

All of the winning banner submissions should have already received notification via email of their winning status. If you have not received notification, please contact Dan Loosen at [email protected] for instructions on claiming your prize as a game tester.

All of the banner submissions can be viewed at http://www.goatstore.com/goatbanners.php. All of the button submissions can be viewed at http://www.goatstore.com/goatbuttons.php. . All of the banners and buttons may be used by GOAT Store Affiliates or anyone that wants to link to the GOAT Store site. For more information on the GOAT Store, LLC Affiliate Program, please go to http://www.goatstore.com/affiliate_info.php ...

SomeOne has ported two new freeware games to the UIQ platform.

Dynamate is an orginal puzzler by Jonas Norberg where you have to match R,G,B balls with eachother.

Tickypip is a NetWalk clone by Christian Hammond released under GPL. Tickypip is every network administrator's worst nightmares brought to your PDA. You must complete every level by connecting all computers to the main server. The network, however, is horribly fractured, and it may take some creativity and patience to solve some puzzles.

Check out Tickypip and Dynamate. ...

Skeezixs Atari ST emulator for the Tapwave Zodiac and Pocket PCs has had a great new release, heres whats new:

Disables auto-off while the emu is running; handy for in slow-moving games (like Civilization load-time).. careful if you walk away from PDA, but for Treo 600 and such with short auto-offs, this is handy and necessary (device gets funky when it wakes up

Zodiac folks will be interested in the Insert Disk menu items will now show the known disk descriptions (just like the main disk picker). Handy as heck for multidisk games.

Download Here ...

A project to try and expand the way we think about the devices we have in our homes already. I hope to deliver the potential for a new market, specifically software to help teaching and learning in the primary school classroom.

This is e-Learning with the GameBoy Advance.
http://www.hiash.com/portfolio/gba/ ...

Nintendo has confirmed that sales of the DS handheld console in North America are rapidly approaching the 2 million unit mark - and is planning to launch a new Electric Blue version of the hardware there in June.

However, there's been no indication as yet from Nintendo of Europe about when new DS hardware varieties will arrive on these shores, with a spokesman confirming to GamesIndustry.biz this afternoon that there are "no plans at present, and no announcements have been made" regarding the Electric Blue model.

The numbers from North America mean that the DS, which launched before Christmas, has sold around twice as many units in the territory as the PlayStation Portable, which launched in late March with an initial shipment of a million units.

Nintendo will undoubtedly be hoping that with the arrival of a new colour, it will be able to replicate its recent sales success in Japan, where the launch of two new varieties of DS hardware spurred the console to overtake week to week sales of the PSP for the first time since the start of the year.

The firm is also lauding the launch of two key software titles for the DS in June, with Kirby Canvas Curse arriving on June 13th, followed by the eagerly awaited Meteos - the latest title from Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguichi's Q Entertainment studio - on June 27th. ...

Technology firm Broadcom has announced that it is to provide wireless networking technology for Nintendo's forthcoming Revolution console - preliminary details of which are expected to be revealed at E3 next month.

The company is one of the market leaders in both Wi-Fi networking and Bluetooth systems, and it's possible that its technology will be used both to connect the Revolution to networks and to connect wireless controllers to the console itself.

"The depth and breadth of Broadcom's wireless expertise will enable Nintendo to deliver the industry's most innovative gaming solutions," enthused Genyo Takeda, senior managing director of Nintendo's research and development division. "By integrating Broadcom wireless solutions into our next-generation systems, we can provide the high performance gaming and connectivity capabilities that will delight users of Revolution."

Nintendo has previously confirmed that Revolution will offer wireless networking - with president Satoru Iwata indicating to an audience at the Game Developer's Conference last month in San Francisco that the online gaming service set to be rolled out for the Nintendo DS later this year is a clear pointer to where the company plans to go with Revolution.

That online service is expected to make its public debut at E3 in Los Angeles next month, where Nintendo has also promised an early glimpse at Revolution - although just how much of the console will be revealed is subject to speculation, with reports from Japan suggesting that Nintendo will choose to talk software rather than revealing the hardware. ...

The next-generation Nintendo console, codenamed Revolution, may not be shown at this year's E3. Eurogamer reports that the Japanese console maker is going to keep the console under wraps to keep the features of the new system out of the limelight a little while longer. From the article: "Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata is worried about rivals nicking all his best ideas at this early stage. That's how revolutionary the new console is, apparently... and also the exact same line Nintendo used to avoid showing Mario 128 at a previous E3." ...

News From Lik Sang

It's soon that time of the year again... E3 Expo is just a month away from us and you can already see the whole industry warming up for the largest video game convention on earth (the Tokyo Game Show people will beg to differ but hell we'll state the same about them in September anyway, to make sure all parties are happy). Xbox 360 on MTV, PlayStation 3 live on the 18th, Nintendo Revolution this, next Gameboy that, it's going to be memorable year, for an industry at crossroads once again. Back to real life, not all of us have entrance tickets and flight arrangements, and even those who do are not guaranteed full access behind the VIP curtains for special interviews and personalized presentations of megahits to come. Not to mention those nextgen systems being shown only at special press conferences with strict screening process at entrance. So, if you want to see the whole thing as an insider, from the first day till the last, game by game, A to Z, frontline and backstage, there is only one way for this: NextGenVideos' E3 ACCESS.

For the fifth year in a row, Lik Sang is teaming up with these fine people to deliver to hardcore gamers worldwide this high-quality 4-DVD-Set boasting over 13 hours of exclusive content. IGN GameSpy are also co-sponsor of this baby, while it is granted official support by the ESA, the organization behind this whole E3 event. Preorders are now taken for US$ 19.99 only, delivery date being expected to be some time in June or at the latest in the first week of July, after long post-editting sessions and mass-production of the DVD sets have taken place. As with past editions of the DVD, this year's effort will be REGION FREE.!

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