via Digital Spy

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Those waiting for more Grand Theft Auto IV content will have to wait a little bit longer. According to Take-Two's Fiscal Q3 2008 report, the first batch of GTA IV downloadable content will be coming in Q1 of fiscal 2009, instead of the originally planned Q4 of fiscal 2008. In real calendar terms, that means the DLC, which is rumored to include whole new cities, is due between November 1, 2008, and January 31, 2009.

The reason behind the delay, according to Take-Two, was to "provide a better balance in Take-Two's release schedule." The statement specifically mentioned Xbox 360, with no talk of content for the PS3.

Via Joystiq ...

Grand Theft Auto IV sold 8.5 million units between 29th April and 31st May, with shipments to retail now at 11 million, Take-Two said in its latest round of financials, which announced a USD 98.2 million Q2 net profit.

It took Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games just a fortnight to surpass one million units sold in the UK alone, as part of six million sales in its first week on the shelves worldwide - worth USD 500 million according to Take-Two's figures.

However, the publisher also revealed yesterday that the much-anticipated GTA IV downloadable content for Xbox 360 has been put back a bit and will now appear in the company's November-to-January quarter.

Via Eurogamer ...

Forbes recently ran a story focusing on the best-selling US games using updated NPD Group data.

Despite the fact that the data Forbes looked at went back 15 years, all of the titles on the list were released after 2001 - perhaps not so surprising when you consider that the best-selling console of all-time (the PS2) was released in 2000.

Three titles from last year - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, both from Activision, and EA's Madden NFL 2008 - have now made the Top Ten list, no doubt bolstered by their release on multiple platforms.

The Top Ten best-selling titles in the US based upon units sold are:

* 1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (9.43 million)
* 2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (8.2 million)
* 3. Madden NFL 2007 (7.7 million)
* 4. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (7.3 million)
* 5. Madden NFL 2006 (6.65 million)
* 6. Halo 2 (6.6 million)
* 7. Madden NFL 2008 (6.56 million)
* 8. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (6.25 million)
* 9. Grand Theft Auto III (6.2 million)
* 10. Madden NFL 2005 (6.1 million)

Via gamesindustry.biz ...

via Torch

Yet another revision, supporting both Phat and Slims!

that's what appears to be the changelog after reading the release thread. if i'm wrong, please correct me

mad props to Torch over at QJ

Download via comments
use great caution when installing. refer to readme
if you do not trust your memory, i would recommend installing
UPMS with utilities (google it) for flash0 usb access without granting XMB access ...

The Homebrew Channel has been updated!

Beta 8 changes include:
-bug-fixes
-increased sd-card reading speeds
-icons are now listed alphabetically
-wiimote rumble support

To download, simply run HBC 0.7 on your Wii and it will automatically update.

The Homebrew Channel is a homebrew application loader by Team Twiizers which allows users to load homebrew applications without having to run the Twilight Hack every time. Once installed, users can access the channel from the Wii Menu just like any other Wii channel. It is currently capable of running dol or elf homebrew applications from an SD card, a USB Gecko, and TCP, or using Wiiload. It is also capable of downloading online updates for itself.

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RetroEmu Coding Competition - Summer 2008 :

RetroEmu.Com

RetroEmu is proud to announce it's first ever coding competition!.

To celebrate our grand opening we are offering some fantastic prizes to give away to the winners of our Summer coding competition.

These marvelous prizes include :

1st Place : Nintendo Wii Console + Wii Sports or 2GB Asus EEE PC (CELM-900M).



2nd Place : 2GB iPod Shuffle + $100US via PayPal.



3rd Place : Indiana Jones collection DVD or $50US paid by PayPal.



All prizes are brand new and sealed and bought exclusively for this competition.

How To Enter :

To enter this fantastic coding competition all you need to do is have knowledge of programming/coding in any language.

You can pick from the following category's for your entry :

Games
Emulator

You can enter right now! The competition starts today and ends August 31st 2008 at 23:59 GMT.

Place all your Entry's/Submissions in THIS FORUM (click here) please.

Due to our site being focused on "Retro" we want your entry's to be inspired/focused on "Retro" things or "Retro" gaming. So if your planning on entering a game into the competition, we want it to be based on something "Retro" or based around "Retro" gaming.

Now this doesn't mean it has to be all 2d and pixelated sprites. You can make something 3D if you would like. As long as it is based on something "Retro" its fine by us. Same goes for emulators. If you plan on entering a emulator, your only restriction is your target console. Your emulator cannot be based on any console that is in the 7th generation.

The below list will show you what category each console is listed under :

1st > 7th Generation Consoles List

What do you mean by "Retro"?

By this we mean either any retro games : circa 1970 > 1999 or any event from that time frame. Use your imagination, a 1970's flower power game is one example I guess.

Rules :

1. Deadline is August 31st 2008 at 23:59 GMT.

2. Submission is by posting in the Competition Subforum - Click here ] at RetroEmu.com.

3. You MUST post your entry at RetroEmu first (including the file). You may post about your entry on other sites but you MUST post a link back to your submission post on this site.

4. Judges are Zack and hardhat, and will send out prizes two weeks after the final deadline.

5. Prizes are: 1st place - Nintendo Wii Console + Wii Sports Or 2GB Asus EEE PC (CELM-900M) 2nd place - 2GB iPod Shuffle + $100US paid by PayPal, 3rd place - Indiana Jones collection DVD Or $50US paid by PayPal.

6. You can post and update your competition entry as much as you like, from now until August 31st 2008 at 23:59 GMT.

7. Your entry/submission MUST include the RetroEmu.com splash screen at the beginning/start up of your game/emulator. You can find the splash images at the bottom of this post or HERE

8. You can choose between the following target platforms for your game/emulator entry/submission : Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, NDS, PS3, Wii, PSP, Ubuntu Linux.

9. You may enter an updated version of your emulator/game, but it MUST have significant changes done from the previous version.

10. Both open source and closed source submissions are allowed.

11. Breaking the rules excludes you from the competition.

12. The submission deadline will not move, so don't ask for a change.

13. The judges decisions are final, so don't say that they are unfair.

14. The judges will take into consideration user votes upon judging.

15. There is no restriction on sprite/content, you may use commercial sprites if you wish.

16. There is no restriction on programming language used. However you must include all needed runtime's, images etc with your entry in order to run your game/emulator.

17. Implementation of the Splash screen counts for a 5% judging bonus, so be creative. (i.e Special effects on splash screen).

18. You MUST include a screenshot with your entry/submission.

19. Have fun and enjoy the competition!

Splash Images :

Here are the splash Images that you MUST have displayed at the start/beginning of your game/emulator entry/submission.

Note : You may NOT make your own variations of these images, you be as creative as you like your implementation of it though. For your entry to be accepted you must use one of the following images. ...

via IGN

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Hi All,

fMSX is a famous emulator of the MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers.
It runs MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ software on many different platforms including Windows and Unix.
See http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/ for further informations.

It has been first written by Marat Fayzullin, and later Vincent van Dam ported it on SDL.

GP2X-MSX is a port on GP2X of the version 2.7.0.40 of fMSX-SDL from Vincent van Dam that
i had previously ported to PSP.

What's new in this version ?

- Speed improvements
- Add gzipped disk file support, reduce disk file size from 700k to 50k !
(you may gzip original dsk file using www.7-zip.org)
- A thumbnail image is now displayed in the file requester
while selecting any file with the same name of a previously
saved game (rom, disk, keyboard, settings).
It might be very helpful to recognize that game later if you
have thousand different games on your disk and rom folders !
- In the emulator menu you can go directly to keyboard and settings
menu using the L-Trigger key.
- The virtual keyboard is now usable in the file requester menu to
choose the first letter of the game you search !


How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.

It's distributed under Marat Fayzullin's license for the original MSX part, and under GNU license for all the GP2X part.

You can download it here :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/

Enjoy,

Zx. ...