The GP2X Store have just posted that they have the special edition Treamcast back in stock for those interested.

Heres more info on what a Treamcast is:

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It would be no understatement to say that Star Wars is one of the most loved franchises on the planet. Everyone working on the N-Gage project is a huge fan of the Star Wars universe, so we were absolutely thrilled when we heard that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed™ was coming to the N-Gage platform.

In the game, you'll play as Darth Vader's apprentice during the Clone Wars, a period of Star Wars history that takes place between Episodes III and IV.

To learn more, particularly about the N-Gage version, we spoke with Haden Blackman, Project Lead, LucasArts, and Henri Roth, Creative Director of Universomo, the development studio tasked with creating the mobile version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.



FORCE UNLEASHED QUESTIONS

N-Gage.com: In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the player takes on the role of an apprentice to Darth Vader. Why is he called just 'the secret apprentice'? Is his actual name revealed during the game?
Blackman: He’s a “secret apprentice” because Darth Vader is training him in complete isolation to one day help him overthrow the Emperor. No one can know that the Apprentice exists -- if the Emperor discovered his existence, he would kill both Vader and the Apprentice.

What is the Secret Apprentice's mission? What is he trying to do?
Blackman: Early on, the Apprentice is aiding Vader on his quest to purge the galaxy of the remaining Jedi. But, he’s really being trained to one day stand beside Vader against the Emperor. However, the story goes through several twists and turns, so the Apprentice’s goals at the end of the game are not necessarily the same as they are at the beginning.

What is Emperor Palpatine's Order 66 and how does that affect the game?
Blackman: Order 66 was the order Palpatine issued to wipe out the Jedi in Episode III. Since that time, the Jedi have been on the run or in hiding. It’s part of Darth Vader’s job to hunt down any of these survivors.

http://www.n-gage.com/community/news_StarWars.html ...

A survey released today by Hill & Knowlton finds 60 percent of adult Americans agreeing that the government should regulate the sale of mature videogames. A small majority of respondents (51 percent) said the government should regulate mature media in general. This would seem to reveal that adults are more worried about videogames than they are other media such as movies or music.

Of those surveyed with children in their household, 54 percent believe violent or mature content will affect a child's behavior.

Survey respondents who identify as gamers are split on whether or not the government should regulate violent content in games, with 44 percent saying yes to regulation and 47 percent saying no. As to whether or not the sale of M-rated games should be regulated, 55 percent said yes.

"While the industry is reinventing itself by broadening the content and the category, society still tends to view gamers as one-dimensional," said Joe Paluska, Director, Hill & Knowlton's Worldwide Technology Practice. "The industry's reputation centers on mature content due to the sensational nature of the content and subsequent publicity. As a result, our survey suggests that there's an appetite for more government oversight even among the maturing Atari Generation who now have children."

The survey was conducted between September 17 and 19, 2007, and polled 1,147 adults.

Update:
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has released a statement to GameDaily condemning Hill & Knowlton's survey. There is apparently more to this study than the researcher is letting on. Hill & Knowlton originally contacted the ESA with the results last summer as part of some sort of business proposal. The data released today is incomplete, the ESA says.

Here follows the complete statement from the ESA:

"Today, Hill & Knowlton released the findings of research it conducted on the American public's views about the computer and video game industry. According to the agency's findings, a majority of respondents believe that the government should regulate the sale of mature content video games.


We understand that parents have concerns about mature content getting into the hands of children and we are working to help make sure that does not happen. To achieve this important goal, the ESA strongly supports a variety of efforts aimed at educating parents and retailers and allowing them to control mature content. We support the ESRB, which is the nation's leading rating system working to educate and empower parents with game information. We have also worked within the industry to ensure that password protected, robust parental controls are included in all new video game consoles sold. In addition, we work with retailers to encourage the enforcement of policies that prohibit the sale of mature games to minors.

The research released today was conducted by Hill & Knowlton for a proposal the agency made to the ESA this summer, but only a portion of it was released publicly now. Hill & Knowlton's decision to release these findings was both unprofessional and unethical and its timing is questionable. The research was done this summer and only performed in an effort to help Hill & Knowlton win our business. In addition, the release of only part of the findings paints an inaccurate picture of the entertainment software industry. The other research conducted by agency but not released showed:

More than two-thirds of 18-34 year olds currently play video games

Less than 1 in 5 Americans think playing video games is a negative way to spend time with friends and family

More than half of families think that video games are a positive way to spend time together

Educational video games are perceived to provide more learning than TV or DVDs"

http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/839/839793p1.html ...

Early this year I wrote about how the Xbox 360 is a flawed DVD player, complete with pictures of some of the various errors you can expect. I hoped Microsoft would fix it with each major update. So when I looked over the really long and detailed list of Dashboard updates the other day, a few things stuck out at me. One is the nebulous "Improved deinterlacer support for video playback." Could this be the DVD fix I was hoping for?

Nope. I just updated the Xbox 360 in the lab and ran it into a TV using the VGA input at 1080p. With this I used the popular HQV DVD test disc, and the Xbox 360 scored a whopping 40. That's out of 130! Rather than show you the whole scoring chart, let me break it down for you: The 360 passed the Color Bars/Vertical Detail test (nearly everything does), the Picture Detail test, and the horizontal and vertical crawls. That's it. It failed every noise reduction, film mode, jaggies, and cadence detection test there is. In nearly every case, it was a clear failure; not...even...close.

Oh, the hi-def situation isn't much better. HQV makes a hi-def test disc for HD DVD and Blu-ray players, and the 360 scores a zero (out of 100). These tests are much simpler, involving simply de-interlacing 1080i content of both regular and film mode content, and noise reduction. It's like nothing is going on there at all.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...129TX1K0000532 ...

A perhaps slightly overlooked feature of this fall's Xbox 360 update is the fact that Microsoft is now selling Sony BMG music videos on Live for 160 points a pop.

The first wave of videos hitting the U.S. features 40 videos from a diverse sampling of artists including Chris Brown, OutKast, Michael Jackson and Foo Fighters.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/bmg/360-exp...bmg-330095.php ...

Phillip Swann, president of TVPredictions.com, has been making predictions about TV technology issues for several years with an incredible rate of success.
For instance, Swanni was the first to say Voom's satellite TV service would fail; that Apple TV would be a bust; and that Interactive TV programs would never reach a mass audience in the United States.

With 750,000 HD DVD players and nearly 3 million Blu-ray players in homes, many analysts say both high-def disc formats will stay in business in 2008 and the years beyond. But Swann predicts that the Blu-ray forces, led by Sony and HD DVD's backers, led by Toshiba and Microsoft, will reach a compromise on a single format next year. He says the studios will push for a single format because most consumers will not buy high-def DVD players if there are two formats.

http://www.tvpredictions.com/swannitwo120507.htm ...

Speaking to CNet Japan, Wada suggested that only Microsoft is putting the message out to consumers that its next-gen console, Xbox 360, is a games machine. He said that consumers are viewing the Wii as a plaything, while Sony is leaving the public confused as to whether its PS3 is a media-hub or a games console.

"The Wii is the antithesis of the Xbox 360. It's strictly for hardcore gamers. The attachment rate for the Xbox 360 is much higher than for the Wii. People who buy the 360 really like games," he said. "I think the current trend is that most people aren't buying the Wii as a game machine, but as a toy... It seems that Sony isn't sure what it wants to do. Is it making high-end electronics or a game console for gamers? I want them to clearly define their console."

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=8213&Itemid=2 ...

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NullRiver released a new version of Connect360, it's a tool to stream your music, images and videos from your Mac OSX to your Xbox 360 console.
What's fixed/new (since v3.1):
* Added avi/divx support (needs new Dashboard update)

Official Site: http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360 ...

New beta of the PlayStation 2 emulator for PC.

Changelog:

Timing fixes, addressing freezes in games like Kingdom Hearts (eye issue), Grandia 3, Shadow Hearts
VU NaN handling off by default, can be enabled and disabled for testing by making a patch for your game containing "vunanmode=0" or "vunanmode=1" respectively. ...