Heres a start of a new mini feature for the site to see which is the best for PSP from game types to cases and much more. First off its the turn of Footie or soccer depending on where you live in the world, heres the contenders(thanks to Lik Sang for graphics/descriptions)

FIFA Soccer

Boasting unprecedented visual and audio features, a deep selection of advanced controls, and more than 350 official team and league licenses, FIFA Soccer delivers console quality to the PSP. Battle your way through Season and Tournament play, or replay famous games as you fight your way out of preset match situations in the Challenges mode. With Mid-Season Scenario and wireless capabilities, FIFA Soccer is the only complete, authentic, and intelligent soccer experience for the PSP.



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World Tour Soccer

Fans of the extremely popular World Tour Soccer franchise can now take the global game on go and play a match anytime, anywhere with World Tour Soccer for the PSP handheld entertainment system. Featuring 128 club teams, 86 international teams, nine international classic teams from the past, nine classic club teams from the past, seven league all-star teams, six international super teams and eight different stadiums, World Tour Soccer for the PSP provides gamers with the ultimate soccer experience. Supporting up to two players via wireless multiplayer connectivity, gamers can compete against the Artificial Intelligence (AI) or go head-to-head against another player. World Tour Soccer for the PSP features several gameplay modes including Quick Game, Exhibition Match, Challenge Mode and Cups Mode. By featuring the tightest, most realistic soccer action for a handheld to date, World Tour Soccer for the PSP is easy to pick up and play, but challenging enough for the biggest soccer fan by offering the accessibility of intuitive controls coupled with the depth and complexity of the real sport.



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Winning Eleven 9 Ubiquitous Evolution

The first handheld iteration of Konami's top sports title, this PSP version of Winning Eleven (known as Pro Evolution Soccer in Europe) will feature the utter realism, intuitive play and fast-paced action of the ever-popular series. The handheld version will also be almost identical in terms of available clubs and international sides, with 57 national sides lining up alongside 136 club teams. The highly-competitive multi-player aspects of the game are highlighted using the hardware's wireless systems. Challenge rival players (via an ad-hoc wireless connection) to games, with all data related to match results ? goals for, goals against, wins, etc ? retained in a running tally. Solo players can also hone their skills within six different leagues and a host of cup tournaments, and the PSP game can also be linked to the PlayStation 2 version for data exchange of created teams for play on either version or for trade with friends.



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So there you have it 3 games for PSP although one is 2 weeks from release, which game do you like and which do you dislike, which is the best true footie game for the PSP ? ...

CDFinder is the perfect software solution to organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of your digital media assets. If you work in a large network, or alone, CDFinder will quickly find your files. If you are looking for a powerful disk cataloging tool for the Apple Macintosh, The Search Is Over! (If you run Windows, no reason for despair: CDWinder for Windows is for you!)

CDFinder catalogs your photos, audio files, or any other data files."

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or newer, Tiger compatible

- Catalogue any data disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, iPod, server volume, Audio-CD, and more
- Networkable: Share your valuable data in your network (requires a Business License)
- Cross-platform: with CDWinder for Windows!
- Powerful Find functions, and offline browsing
- Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside CDFinder
- Protect your investment by importing your existing Disk Recall, DiskWizard, FindIt, Disk Tracker 1.x, Catalogue and CatFinder catalog files
- Reads MP3 and AAC (iTunes) audio meta data (AIFF and WAVE, too)!
- Catalogue your photo data, with EXIF, IPTC meta data, and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo info
- Fast and easy to use, see screen shots
- Export or print catalog data
- Handle really large amounts of data (some are limited to only 2000 or 4000 files!)
- Look inside ZIP (Panther, Tiger!), TAR, .rar, StuffIt (up to 6.5.1), and other archive files
- Multiple languages: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch
- Free email support
- More at their homepage http://www.cdfinder.de/ ...

CDFinder is the perfect software solution to organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of your digital media assets. If you work in a large network, or alone, CDFinder will quickly find your files. If you are looking for a powerful disk cataloging tool for the Apple Macintosh, The Search Is Over! (If you run Windows, no reason for despair: CDWinder for Windows is for you!)

CDFinder catalogs your photos, audio files, or any other data files."

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or newer, Tiger compatible

- Catalogue any data disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, iPod, server volume, Audio-CD, and more
- Networkable: Share your valuable data in your network (requires a Business License)
- Cross-platform: with CDWinder for Windows!
- Powerful Find functions, and offline browsing
- Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside CDFinder
- Protect your investment by importing your existing Disk Recall, DiskWizard, FindIt, Disk Tracker 1.x, Catalogue and CatFinder catalog files
- Reads MP3 and AAC (iTunes) audio meta data (AIFF and WAVE, too)!
- Catalogue your photo data, with EXIF, IPTC meta data, and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo info
- Fast and easy to use, see screen shots
- Export or print catalog data
- Handle really large amounts of data (some are limited to only 2000 or 4000 files!)
- Look inside ZIP (Panther, Tiger!), TAR, .rar, StuffIt (up to 6.5.1), and other archive files
- Multiple languages: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch
- Free email support
- More at their homepage http://www.cdfinder.de/ ...

The Business has learned that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has persuaded Orange to develop a mobile phone, the SPV C550, which will double as a Microsoft music player. Consumers will keep their music on a computer and transfer it to their mobiles. The music phone will go on sale in HMV’s flagship stores next month. HMV is using Microsoft software to run its digital music internet download service, HMV Digital Jukebox, which can be accessed by the phones.

Microsoft spokesman Jason Langridge said: “The mobile digital music market is about to take off. Porting digital music on to mobile phones represents a massive opportunity for Microsoft. While Apple has sold about 10m iPods worldwide to date, a quarter of the world’s population own mobile phones, which Microsoft software can turn into digital music players.”

Gates has timed the launch to coincide with his arch-rival Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs’ long-awaited unveiling of an iTunes phone, expected this week. Jobs is expected to launch the Motorola iTunes phone, which incorporates the technology of the world’s most successful digital music player, the iPod, into a mobile, at Apple’s annual product show in San Francisco. According to industry sources, the phone will run on the Cingular mobile network in the US and on O2’s UK mobile network.

According to Roger Entner, a US analyst working for telecoms research company Ovum: “Despite their secretive approach to product strategy, it is known that Apple, Motorola and Cingular are planning to announce the new iTunes phone at Macworld in San Francisco this week.”

Despite Apple’s refusal to comment on the existence of an iTunes phone, Motorola has won US FCC approval for the device, the E970. The phone is designed to function in all big markets and will work across any of the world’s main cellular bandwidths.

Microsoft plans to topple Apple’s iTunes from its position as the world’s best-selling digital music service and make Windows Media Audio the industry standard. The Microsoft-powered phone will do everything that an iPod can but will be incompatible with Apple’s products.

In Silicon Valley, the fight between Gates and Jobs for digital music dominance is seen at the latest battle in a war that has been raging between the two businessmen for 25 years.

But while Gates and Jobs go toe-to-toe next week, UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, head of Virgin Group, is in the wings. Virgin plans to release music phones, but only when it is certain Gates and Jobs have ironed out the bugs. Sources within the company say there will not be a sufficient range of reliable handsets until the middle of 2006. Last week Virgin unveiled its own internet music service, Virgin Digital. ...

The Business has learned that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has persuaded Orange to develop a mobile phone, the SPV C550, which will double as a Microsoft music player. Consumers will keep their music on a computer and transfer it to their mobiles. The music phone will go on sale in HMV’s flagship stores next month. HMV is using Microsoft software to run its digital music internet download service, HMV Digital Jukebox, which can be accessed by the phones.

Microsoft spokesman Jason Langridge said: “The mobile digital music market is about to take off. Porting digital music on to mobile phones represents a massive opportunity for Microsoft. While Apple has sold about 10m iPods worldwide to date, a quarter of the world’s population own mobile phones, which Microsoft software can turn into digital music players.”

Gates has timed the launch to coincide with his arch-rival Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs’ long-awaited unveiling of an iTunes phone, expected this week. Jobs is expected to launch the Motorola iTunes phone, which incorporates the technology of the world’s most successful digital music player, the iPod, into a mobile, at Apple’s annual product show in San Francisco. According to industry sources, the phone will run on the Cingular mobile network in the US and on O2’s UK mobile network.

According to Roger Entner, a US analyst working for telecoms research company Ovum: “Despite their secretive approach to product strategy, it is known that Apple, Motorola and Cingular are planning to announce the new iTunes phone at Macworld in San Francisco this week.”

Despite Apple’s refusal to comment on the existence of an iTunes phone, Motorola has won US FCC approval for the device, the E970. The phone is designed to function in all big markets and will work across any of the world’s main cellular bandwidths.

Microsoft plans to topple Apple’s iTunes from its position as the world’s best-selling digital music service and make Windows Media Audio the industry standard. The Microsoft-powered phone will do everything that an iPod can but will be incompatible with Apple’s products.

In Silicon Valley, the fight between Gates and Jobs for digital music dominance is seen at the latest battle in a war that has been raging between the two businessmen for 25 years.

But while Gates and Jobs go toe-to-toe next week, UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, head of Virgin Group, is in the wings. Virgin plans to release music phones, but only when it is certain Gates and Jobs have ironed out the bugs. Sources within the company say there will not be a sufficient range of reliable handsets until the middle of 2006. Last week Virgin unveiled its own internet music service, Virgin Digital. ...

Resident Evil 5 was announced a month ago with a trailer showing impressive graphics. The game was announced for the Xbox 360 and Playstation3, but not Nintendo's next generation console, Revolution. Since Resident Evil 4 was a huge succes on the Nintendo GameCube, most analists expected that an announcement for RE5 for Revolution would follow when Nintendo brought more concrete details about the new console.

This article on Cubed3 seems to confirm this. Below is a snippet.

"…As they will most likely be for the impending release of Resident Evil: Deadly Silence, which was briefly revealed in Famitsu via some sketchy images and later by the official Capcom website. Reaction to the game so far has appeared mixed, with the idea of RE DS being positive, but the current graphical quality not impressing at all due to it looking much more rough than the gorgeous N64 port of Resident Evil 2 – and with the DS being reportedly more powerful than the N64, the angry bandwagon is rapidly overflowing. However, I learned at that night Capcom is working the original RE into a fully-3D format, with first-person shooting sections from RE4 on the GameCube. Now do you see why it all looks a little rough around the edges at this early stage? This game is going to BIG, with players having to wipe the touch-screen with their fingers to clear away blood that has splashed in your face! Capcom and Nintendo are as close as ever, which is why it was also confirmed that what a few of us had suspected is true – Resident Evil 5 has yet to be announced for the Revolution purely because details of the system are not publicly available. There will be good news on this front, worry ye not!"

Seems very likely indeed. Fingers crossed, Nintendo fans. ...

Here is an interview between Shigeru Miyamoto and a Japanese woman on the radio. This is a straight French to English translationi, so it is pretty rough:


And when it is thought that that failed to pass to the trap door! Miyamoto was expressed with the radio Japanese woman; between two songs, of appearance surprised, during an emission on the video games of 10 min which informs beautiful Nintendo , a few days ago.

It is new and it is on Puissance Nintendo in first. It is regretted just that the Master remains still a little too discrete and that it appears only in this type of media to be expressed so naturally. Even if the secrecies prove kept still well on the various projects of big N and that the dad of Mario cannot reveal some too much. Normal.

No frustration, just a lack of shivers It is not well on step in this type of interventions that will be revealed crusty official infos. However, it is always a pleasure of intending to speak the Master with his communicative enthusiasm. The remarks of Shigeru Miyamoto were reccueillis originally by Onomatop� then Frederic, thank you with them to share these remarks with us all!




Organizer: Miyamoto San, hello. Thank you to return in our emission. You one are accustomed and we thank you. First of all, that would like to say to your fans today?
Miyamoto San: The question is very vast. H� well, I hope that they are well, that they have fun with our plays. It will be the case I think with our new creations. We sought new things, new directions. Simpler, more direct.

You find that the plays of today are too complicated?
I am made take a little with my own trap in this question since it is me which designed the lever of Nintendo GameCube! The ways of playing do not depend inevitably on the lever used. A complicated lever can accomodate a play very simple and instinctive to play. Mario Sunshine uses all the buttons but remains one of the plays most pleasant and easy to handle. I will like to leave in this kind concept: accessibility. Nintendo always works in this direction there.

You thus say that the lever of Game Cube is too complex?
Do not make me say what I did not say (to laugh). I did not say that it was too complex, I think just that one can still improve it. And also ways of playing and the lever. But Mario sunshine is well adapted for the lever of the gamecube. The young people have fun much with this play, tous.les.jours in the world.

Why await as many time before leaving new a mario? This waiting is frustrating for the players.
Mario is a concept, it always was it since the departure. We always seek new ways of playing, to create something again. We are spirit to prepare something of special for the Mario future, of never considering. You will include/understand, when you see it, that one cannot leave such a play immediately. The new play Mario will surprise much people. Make us confidence. I think that one will open with a new way of having fun. There will be a new character at his sides.

Will Mario 128 leave well on R�volution?
Yes, of course! It is not any more one surprised, but it will be famous, obviously. It will not be the only surprise of the next year. We thought the Revolution compared to this new type of play. It is there for much in the design, like Mario 64 in its time. But we can direct our new console only towards him! We work on expensive under development, very impressive products and pushing the interactivity very far. Plays of a new era.

New deferred Zelda, it is not a very good news for...
... I stop you by saying to you that one needs that you have patience, really! Trust us! It will undoubtedly be the Zelda last such as one connait it today. I am occupied personally as, more as in Wind Waker. I will not invest myself any more as much as in that one. We want to make best Zelda ever left. Richest and more the melancholic person. We really improve it in a few months, much more than in one year one year ago! Because now that very finished, all that we make above is faster to build. Perhaps we have an idea of last minute but...

To defer on Revolution?
Euh... It is announced on GameCube...

In any case, you like to preserve the mystery at Nintendo !
We will give much details soon. We like to make surprises, it is true (laughter). While our players sleep, we are digging us the head on our next concepts. But while they play, and well we play too!

It is what for you the future of the play-video, in 20 years?
The retroone (laughter). The consoles will reach a ceiling with the next generation, there, in a few months. The future will be perhaps the play with multiple possibilities and unlimited data, by Internet. If we do not limit the number of giga of a play - Internet in is able, not theoretical limit, why not imagine a true virtual universe, where all the players would cross? The play only at its beginnings, is compared of it with the cinema. But all the revolutions are not made that ...

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced that top Microsoft and Intel executives will deliver keynote addresses at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., will return to deliver the highly anticipated pre-show keynote address on Wednesday, January 4, 2006, at 6:30 p.m. Paul Otellini, chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel Corp., will deliver his keynote address on Thursday, January 5, 2005 at 4:30 p.m. Both keynotes will take place in the Hilton Theater of the Las Vegas Hilton.

"As the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, the International CES prides itself on bringing the most influential and notable industry visionaries to our conference program," said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA.

"Gates and Otellini lead two of the most significant technology companies in the world and each plays a pivotal role in creating new technologies that define the marketplace and help consumers stay connected, entertained and informed 24/7."

Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. Building on the popularity of its Windows operating system and Office productivity suite, Microsoft focuses on developing technology for the next-generation Internet and on connected devices that meet consumer demands at work, at home and on the move - such as the Media Center PC, Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Portable Media Centers and the MSN network.

In the past, Gates has used the International CES to preview products and technologies such as Xbox, Tablet PC, smart personal object technology (SPOT) watches and Smartphone.

For more than 35 years, Intel technology has enabled the computer and Internet revolution that has helped change the world. Founded to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel has evolved to become the world's largest chip maker, supplying platform-based solutions to meet the unique enterprise, mobile and digital home requirements of customers worldwide.

A 31-year Intel veteran, Otellini became CEO in May after serving as the president and chief operating officer since 2002.

The 2006 International CES focuses on more than 30 product areas from more than 2,500 exhibitors spread throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Sands Expo and Convention Center, the Las Vegas Hilton and the Alexis Park. For more news on CES before, during and after the show, visit www.CESweb.org, the interactive source for CES information. The 2006 International CES runs January 5-8. ...

News from Carcharius:

After not having much spare time to work ok Quake 3 for the last week or so, I’ve managed to put in a few hours this morning.

‘So what’s new?’, I hear you cry... well most of the time was spent trying to sort out a few ‘under the hood’ things. More on that later though.
First, the console now displays, both when loading and in game.
The console can’t be used for entering any commands (not at this time anyway) but at least it can show some information – and it wouldn’t be Quake without a console would it??
The second thing is related to that behind the scenes work. I’ve been trying to get some mods loading, with variable success. The following screenshots are from a mod called Urban Terror. Unfortunately this particular mod isn’t playable – the xbox runs out of memory before the level can load.
I also tried out another mod called Matrix (I don’t have a homepage link, I found it on PlanetQuake) which worked fine. So playing some mods is definitely possible.

Screenshots below (via the comments) ...