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You live life in the fast lane and need a mobile that can keep up with trends and manage your busy lifestyle. Meeting your wireless aspirations, the surprisingly slim and artistically designed Motorola L6 delivers a rich, multi-sensory communication experience that keeps you connected. Easily capture and share your adventures with an integrated VGA digital camera, video capture and playback and multimedia photo album creation tools. And when not expressing your artistic side, leverage Bluetooth wireless technology, Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC), and advanced messaging functionality. Explore and uncover a new wireless world with the intuitive, sleek, sensorial Motorola L6. ...

Via Joystiq

Microsoft's Xbox 360 made its South Park debut last night. In one scene (seen here), Stan, Kyle, Butters, and Kenny are all using wired controllers. What up with that?

Could this be a hint? Is Microsoft planning a major Xbox 360 announcement at E3? A revelation that would trump anything that Nintendo or Sony could whip out? A new Xbox 360 model with four — yes, four! — USB ports?

Consider this ... what if Microsoft has already played out wireless? Heck, for that matter, what if the next-gen forerunner has already played out the entire HD era (notice the standard def hookup)? Is the next turn for Microsoft ... the retro era? A mess of tangled wires ... a pile of dusty cartridges ... 2D-pixelated Halo? C'mon, admit it, that would better than any of this Wiimote propaganda or those fourth dimension rumors we've been hearing from the other guys. ...

Via Joystiq

Remember when North America got everything before Australia? Sure, sometimes Japan would get things before North America did, sometimes Europe would get things before North America did, but we could always comfort ourselves knowing that we would always get it before Australia (and, by extension, their neighbors in New Zealand with the adorable accents).

Nintendo has announced that the DS Lite will be released in Australia and New Zealand on June 1st, a full ten days before it hits American shores. Though they'll get their systems sooner, they'll also pay a premium for it. The DS Lite will retail in Australia for $199.95 AUD, $20 more than their DS Phat, and about $153 US, $20 more than our light. You've won this battle Oceania, but you haven't won the war! ...

Via Joystiq

Back before "Fast" Stefan Eriksson was crashing cars and lying to police, he ran a little portable gaming company called Gizmondo. Their scam? Defraud investors by promising them a way into the very attractive, and lucrative, gaming market.

One of their most effective tools was to promise a Gizmondo-exclusive portable Halo title. Gizmondo did have an arrangement with Microsoft Game Studios to produce some titles, including the popular MechAssault series, but Halo was definitely not a part of that arrangement. A former-Gizmondo employee told GameSetWatch that the title had only "a storyline and basic game structure at the very earliest stage of concept" and that it was all done "with a wink and a nudge to extract more cash out of the investors." Isn't that sweet?

It isn't all bad though: the engineers at Gizmondo managed to get code running -- using one of id's open-source game engines -- enabling the Gizmondo's rear-mounted camera to control the "mouselook", allowing for a uniquely precise handheld FPS control scheme. Who knows what could have come of the Gizmondo if the execs weren't busy lining their pockets? ...

Via Gamespot:

TT Games, the developer formed by the merger of Giant Interactive and Traveller's Tales, owes a lot to Lego. The developer's rep has risen ever since the children's building blocks were part of one of last year's surprise hits in Lego Star Wars, which helped Eidos Interactive's parent company, SCi Entertainment, rake in higher than expected cash.

It's not surprising then that TT Games, with its Lego experience, will also be at the helm of Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, which is back in the hand of Star Wars license holder LucasArts.

Eidos isn't abandoning the Lego brand however, and is teaming up once again with TT for an all new game based on the Bionicle brand, a sci-fi extension of Lego toys. The game will be titled Bionicle Heroes, and will be released this fall on the PlayStation 2, PC, Game Boy Advance, DS, and GameCube.

The game will star a young hero who steps out of his normal life and into the Bionicle world. Gamers will have to master the powers and abilities of legendary Bionicle heroes in order to overcome challenges.

Eidos has not yet released rating of pricing information for Bionicle Heroes. ...

Via Gamespot:

CDV Software, a longtime purveyor of PC-based military strategy sims, is starting to think outside of the desktop box--the publisher has announced it is preparing Panzer Tactics DS for the Nintendo DS. The publisher of such games as Codename: Panzers - Phase Two and Blitzkrieg 2 will be bringing the turn-based strategy game to Nintendo's portable later this year.

Built on hexagon-based maps, the game's campaign mode will take players through a series of 30 historically based missions from actual World War II battles. The missions get tougher throughout the three different campaigns, but so do the player's troops. Troops that survive emerge as experienced veterans, and players can also gain access to new types of units along the way.

Panzer Tactics DS will take advantage of the system's hardware, giving players the option to control the game with the D pad and buttons or with the touch screen. It will also make use of the system's wireless capabilities for multiplayer matches accommodating up to four players.

The game is being developed by Sproing, whose past credits include Iron Soldier 3, Beyond Normandy: Assignment Berlin, and the downloadable AIDS prevention game Catch the Sperm 2. CDV expects to release the game in the fourth quarter of the year. ...

Via Gamespot

THQ gave its quarterly earnings report today, and the analysts' conference call that followed saw the publisher detail some of its plans going forward. On multiple occasions in the course of the call, THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell spoke about developing for the Nintendo Wii, touching on a number of topics including THQ's first reactions to its Wii games.

"We showed in a press event recently a SpongeBob game using the Nintendo Wii and Wii controller," Farrell said, "and standing there watching very jaded game journalists hoot and holler on a SpongeBob game was actually quite relieving. One of the things we like about that platform is the development costs...on the Wii are nowhere near what they are on the PS3 and Xbox 360. That's something that's quite encouraging. As you probably know, our portfolio maps very, very well to what we think the Wii demographic is going to be."

Currently the publisher has announced Wii games based on the Nickelodeon shows SpongeBob SquarePants and Avatar: The Last Airbender, as well as one for Pixar Animation Studios' upcoming film Cars.

Farrell also talked about developing for the Wii as opposed to the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, noting that it was far less expensive making games for Nintendo's console. Farrell prefaced his comments by noting that he wasn't "a development professional," but he said the development environment for the Wii was similar to the GameCube's.

"[The Wii] wasn't a whole new programming environment," Farrell said. "So we had a lot of tools and tech that work in that environment. So those costs--and again, I hate these broad generalizations--but they could be as little as a third of the high-end next-gen titles... Maybe the range is a quarter to a half." ...

Divineo UK have posted several new items for the Xbox 360:

GAME 360 FACE



Get your Game Face on! Personalize your Xbox 360 with the GameFace customizable faceplate and skin kit. This two piece faceplate houses personalized templates placed between a high-grade clear polycarbonate front plate and a stylized base plate. Download the easy to use design software at www.nyko.com and instantly create faceplates using your favorite game characters, images, photos, patterns and more. Print the final creations on the 15 blank templates using any home printer or try one of the 6 pre-printed designs also included in the kit. The templates fit snugly between the faceplate pieces and snap into place on the front of the Xbox 360. With the GameFace 360, you get everything you need to make up to 16 custom faceplates right away all from the comfort of home.

*RED* 360 FacePlate



An entry price Xbox 360 Metallic Face Plate. RED color!

*WHITE* 360 FacePlate



An entry price Xbox 360 Face Plate. Pearl white color!

*BLACK* 360 FacePlate



An entry price Xbox 360 Face Plate. Black color!

*BLUE* 360 FacePlate



An entry price Xbox 360 Face Plate. Blue color!

XCM 360 Deluxe Chrome Plate



A limited edition DELUXE CHROME color of Xbox 360 faceplate by XCM. Includes the eject button and the DVD bezel.


All for sale at Divineo UK ...

News from Divineo USA

Theses drives are NEW, directly from Thomson. The price is a bit higher than the refurbished, but the quality is there.



The Xbox console has been around for sometime now, and more and more of the DVD Rom uinits are failing. Finally we have managed to source a secure limited stock of Brand New Thomson XBox DVD Drive units. If your machine is having problem reading disks, or coming up with the infamous "Dirty Disk" error, all you need to do is replace the old drive with this brand new official replacement Thomson XBox DVD Drive. And, as a bonus, fitting is very simple. (Like fiting a pc drive) Note: You will need your own front tray bevel from the front of the old drive, as these units do not include that.

Buy at Divineo USA ...