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Ubisoft is pulling DS game Mind Quiz off the market due to comments in the game which have been labelled as offensive.

Poor performance sees the player labelled in a manner derogatory to the disabled.

Ubisoft has blamed the Japanese development team for the error and its own slack quality assurance.

"As soon as we were made aware of the issue we stopped distribution of the product and are now working with retailers to pull the game off the market," a spokesperson told the BBC.

"The game was developed in Japan, and we unfortunately did not pick up on the offending word in our quality assurance," said the publisher.

The offensive blunder emerged when a woman contacted BBC Radio Ulster to complain about the game.

The woman's three-year-old son had suffered from brain damage before passing away just before last Christmas. ...

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I'm sure you all remember my program, PSPComic, for reading comic books on the PSP. Took long enough to release this latest version, didn't I? This version has lots of slow stuff in it! Yay!

Changelog:

v0.9.8 Beta (2007-06-28)
- [Feature] Menu now shows name and current page of opened comic book
- [Feature] When zooming, the image is centered on the same place, instead of resetting to one of the corners
- [Feature] Added full view mode
- [Feature] Added option to load bookmark upon loading comic book
- [Feature] Alpha-transparent PNGs now display properly
- [Feature] The comics folder is now created if it is not initially present
- [Feature] Jump to page menu now shows the names of the pages
- [Feature] Really glitchy precaching. Use at your own risk! It must be enabled manually by editing the config.xml file
- [Feature] Zoom box. Hold Triangle to activate a box that shows a zoomed in region of the page. Very slow currently
- [Feature] Holding a button for several seconds now cancels the action before it is taken
- [Feature] Battery meter now refreshes every couple dozen seconds instead of just when a different option is selected
- [Bugfix] Fixed several bugs relating to zooming
- Sped up resampling
- The menu no longer shows the open comic book in the background. This is to save memory.
- Scrolling menus no longer flicker
- Some other stuff I forgot
- And many more minor changes...

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This is pretty lengthy so I just posted the first 3 paragraphs.

After years of allowing children (let's be honest: allowing boys) to blow up spaceships, steal cars, and basically shoot anything that moves, the good folks at Microsoft who make the Xbox 360 video-game console have decided to go after a new market: moms.

That's right. Recent media reports said Microsoft plans to create a whole new set of games that will appeal to families. In addition, the company wants to make the family games that it already offers easier to find, placing them on prime retail space in place of war or sci-fi-type games. (Don't worry, boys, you'll still be able to get "Gears of War," Microsoft's best-selling game at the moment.) Microsoft may even cut the price on its game console before the holidays. Such a move is hard to even think about in June, but that's how marketing folks see the calendar.

Why the shift? Because nothing focuses the mind of a business executive like the success of a rival - in this case, Nintendo. But it's not just the wireless Wii that has vaulted Nintendo to the top of the gaming world. It's the decision that Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made about going after new markets.

Source: http://www.kotatv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6723648

Mabye Microsoft should advertise Viva Pinata a bit more, like showing an ad for it after the show is over or something. ...

We'll try and bring a full review to see the comparision with the WiiFree Easy Connect.

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Source: http://au.gamespot.com/news/6173349....stnews;title;0

Last week, Nintendo Australia was shouting from the rooftops about the success of the Wii down under, with the console becoming the fastest to reach 100,000 units sold down under. Now Sony Computer Entertainment Australia (SCEA) has gone on the offensive, with managing director Michael Ephraim saying the PlayStation 3 has been the number one selling next-gen console in the country since its launch, outselling the Wii and the Xbox 360 almost every week.

In an interview with GameSpot AU, Ephraim quoted figures from data trackers GfK Australia, which show that the PS3 has sold more than 50,000 units since it was launched on March 23. In comparison, the Wii has sold 100,000 units since its launch on December 7, 2006. "Based on GfK since launch, PS3 has been the number one next-gen console, outselling Wii and Xbox 360 every week, except for last week," Ephraim said.

"Since March 23, PS3 has been the number one-selling next-gen console in Australia, and this is GfK figures. We've now sold 50,000--and we're very excited about the fact that it's being sold in retailers that are gaming retailers as a gaming device and other things, but as you'll notice it's now being sold in Harvey Norman consumer electronic stores as a Blu-ray player."

Australia's next-gen console sales figures seem to be in marked contrast to Japan's, with figures from May showing that the Wii outsold the PS3 by five units to one. ...

Nerverball is a free Monkey Ball game clone: Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.

Also Nerverputt game is incluyed, it is a pretty mini-golf game: A hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game using the physics and graphics of Neverball.

For now, it is a preliminar stage and it have a lot of bugs, as memory leaks (hangs after play a lot of stages) or musics lost sometimes.


Download Discjuggler image HERE.


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Just a reminder that MOSS still wants to hear your opinion on which platform RAIDEN IV should be released. The Dreamcast is one option in their poll so if you want it, go cast your vote now:

RAIDEN IV on Dreamcast?

In case your Japanese isn't that good, icepick from Dreamcast-Scene.com translated all questions to English:

Please cooperate for better product development!
Your opinion and comments will be useful for future development.

Name (Nickname is OK):
(text field)

Sex:
(_) Male (_) Female

E-Mail address (alphanumeric character/no kanji?):
(text field)

E-Mail address again to verify:
(text field)

May we send to you the latest information on Raiden or general company news to your E-mail address?
(_) Yes please
(_) No thank you

Prefecture:
(drop-down select box) (note: select the last option, on the bottom, if you are outside Japan)

If outside Japan, please tell us the name of your country:
(text field) (they might prefer the name of the country in Japanese, but if you can't look it up then maybe any language is fine. I'll probably say "United States," for example.)

Age:
(_) 9 or younger (_) 10-14 (_) 15-19
(_) 20-24 (_) 25-29 (_) 30-34
(_) 35-39 (_) 40-44 (_) 45-49

Any comments or requests with regard to the Raiden series?
(text field)

* If possible, please fill out the following questionaire for Raiden IV:

Which of the following do you appeal to in Raiden IV? (select all that apply):
[_] View of the world
[_] Game system
[_] Game balance
[_] Graphics
[_] Mech design
[_] Sound
[_] Game difficulty
[_] Scoring system
[_] Fan of previous Raiden games
[_] Other:
(text field)

Is there anything that you did not like about Raiden IV? (select all that apply):
[_] View of the world
[_] Game system
[_] Game balance
[_] Graphics
[_] Mech design
[_] Sound
[_] Game difficulty
[_] Scoring system
[_] Other:
(text field)

Were you able to play Raiden IV in an arcade?
(_) I have played it
(_) I have not played it yet
(_) I am waiting for a home port
(_) I have no plans to play it

How often do you visit a game center/arcade per month?
(_) Hardly ever (_) 1 time (_) 2-3 times
(_) 4-5 times (_) 6-7 times (_) 8-9 times
(_) 10 times or more

If Raiden IV is ported to a home console, which would you prefer? (select all that apply):
[_] PlayStation 2 [_] PlayStation 3 [_] Xbox 360
[_] Dreamcast (!) [_] Wii [_] Nintendo DS
[_] PSP [_] PC [_] Portable application (?)
[_] Other:
(text field)

Which cellular phone/service do you have?
(_) NTT-DoCoMo
(_) Vodafone (SoftBank)
(_) au (KDDI)
(_) Other:
(text field)

Thank you for the cooperation.

[Submit] (button) [Reset] (button)

[About the handling of personal information] (link)


It took me only three minutes and most questions are optional anyway. Go and vote now! =P


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Well, I just used my PSP to download the latest Network Update and it was 3.51. So it looks like SONY may have patched the Lumines exploit. There is no confirmation yet but I think we all know what that means. Lets hope people have finally gotten wiser and don't all flock to upgrade to 3.51 just because it is something new.

I'm sure we will all await to hear from Team C+D on decryption.

So does 3.51 once and for all spell the end for downgraders? Please post your thoughts. ...