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Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the North American release of Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2, available exclusively for PSP PlayStation Portable). Developed by Clap Hanz, in conjunction with Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Santa Monica Studio, Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 takes the multi-million unit-selling Hot Shots Golf franchise and prepares to deliver another stellar portable golf experience to PSP.

Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 features beautiful new courses and wacky characters, along with hundreds of customization options including clothes, accessories, and equipment. Additionally, the game brings a wide range of exciting multiplayer options including 16-player online tournaments and ad hoc capability for one-on-one or Stroke Mode challenges.

"The Hot Shots Golf franchise has been a perennial winner over the years for PlayStation, and we are very excited to bring the game's quirky golf experience back to PSP," said Jeff Reese, director, software marketing, SCEA. "With greater online capabilities, challenging new courses, and a variety of gameplay modes, Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 is a stimulating portable experience that delivers all the charm and fun the Hot Shots Golf series has to offer."

In addition to brilliant graphics, colorful characters, dramatic camera angles, and realistic golf physics that fans of the series have come to love, Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 features a variety of gameplay modes to satisfy even the most hardcore golfer. Players will have the opportunity to golf on 12 breathtaking courses across tropical islands, vast desert plains, snow-capped mountains, and oceanfront views.

Internet play is available to allow players the opportunity to challenge other Hot Shots across the globe in tournaments of up to 16 players. Additionally, players can tee-off locally with up to eight others via Match Play or go head-to-head in Ad Hoc mode. In single player, fans can engage in Stroke Play mode, offering traditional golf on any available course, as well as Challenge Mode, giving players the opportunity to compete in a regular season filled with tournaments and the ability to unlock various characters and items throughout the game. To improve individual skills, players can access a Training mode to perfect every drive, pitch, and putt before the real challenge. Additionally, a fun and challenging Hole-in-One mini-game is available to test each player's shot-making prowess and enhance their character's overall accuracy.

Character customization includes more than 320 options to personalize characters with a variety of items including clothing, hairstyles, clubs, accessories, and more. Players can also utilize special combinations of clothing and accessories to provide a unique boost to character attributes as well as overall fashion style. Successfully conquering challenges in the game will allow players to further upgrade equipment, allowing for more accurate shots, longer drives, and impeccable control. ...

Updated release from Infantile Paralysiser

Version 1.1 2008/04/14

Various, detailed corrections.
When the IPK file was made, the bug that EXIF information is not turned off was corrected.
The drag & drop of the folder can be done to 'img2ipk.exe'. (auto convert & automatic termination)
The IPK file search was optimized and the start was sped up.
The FAT driver was optimized. The simple check disk was more fast.

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A french quartet of young coders have released WintenDos, heres the translated info:


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The N-Gage application finally came out of beta testing recently and has officially launched for the N81, N95 and N82. The application is free to download from the official N-Gage site, which also has instructions on how to install it, and in the near future it will be built into the firmware of compatible phones.

The public beta testing of the N-Gage app took place earlier this year under the name of "First Access", and it worked surprisingly well for a beta version. There were problems, bugs and various odd design decisions but those were understandable in what was an unfinished product. However, the N-Gage app which is now available is being touted as a finished product, so we are entitled be a little more harsh about any shortcomings it may have.

Hopefully this article will provide some constructive criticism on how to improve what is the gateway to the new N-Gage platform. The software is generally very well designed and has a lot of potential, but it needs some fixing and polishing to convince people that the N-Gage brand stands for quality. The original gen N-Gage did serious damage to the N-Gage name's reputation, so the new generation N-Gage platform has to try extra-hard to make up for that.

Some of the following problems are more serious than others, but they all contribute to the feeling that the N-Gage app isn't working 100% properly. In no particular order:

1) Where are my games, exactly?

One of the big challenges to any online service which sells downloads is how to convince people that their purchase is safe and easily accessible. Purchasers of downloads are often very uneasy about paying for something that doesn't physically exist, so it's very important that they can easily see where their purchases are and how to access them.

The "My Games" section shows which games you have purchased. If you select a game's "Remove" option, for example if you need space on the phone's memory card, the game leaves behind a ghostly version of its icon. When you click on this ghostly version you'd expect it to offer to reinstall the game, but it actually offers to delete all your scores in that game, and there's no option for restoring the game at all. The only way to get the game back is to go to the showroom section and click on the "Download Demo" option, which isn't exactly the most intuitive way of doing things.

Once you've bought a game, it ought to appear on a list of your purchased titles which you'd see every time you log in with your N-Gage username. Clicking on a game's icon in the "My Games" section should automatically launch it if it's installed on the device, or install it if it isn't. It shouldn't be any more complicated than this.

2) Error messages and other bugs

Almost inevitably when you launch a new application or online service you're going to see error messages pop up now and then, but they seem particularly common on the N-Gage application compared to other phone software. This reviewer has had three separate error messages since installing the release version of the N-Gage app a few days ago.

While reviewing Asphalt 3, the rankings board doesn't seem to exist at all, yet the game and the N-Gage app give you the option of viewing the rankings. Not an awful problem, but yet another feature that doesn't work properly.

Incidentally, if you run into a technical problem on N-Gage, the best thing to do is write down exactly what it says and post about it on the official N-Gage support forums. The people who run N-Gage do read those forums, so that's the most direct way of letting them know about problems.

3) The "Oh no is it about to crash?!" transition screens

One of the most messy-looking things about the new N-Gage app is the way it transitions from the app itself into the game. It rapidly flickers between the phone's wallpaper and the app itself in various screen orientations, then finally manages to calm down and bring up the actual game. It looks very cheap and makes the software feel like it's unfinished and unstable.

This happens every single time we've tried to load a game or visit the app from the game, and the problem was present on the beta version of the N-Gage app many months ago. Quite why this hasn't been fixed yet is unclear. S60 games launch without this problem, and N-Gage games are technically just S60 games, so this shouldn't be difficult to fix.

4) Has it started yet?

Launching the N-Gage app is a slow process, it takes several seconds to actually launch which is taken up by the phone's blank wallpaper. It might be nicer to have it display the N-Gage logo during the start-up, as the blank wallpaper hints at some kind of instability or crash.

This isn't a big problem at all in itself, but together with all the other glitches it adds to the feeling of "is this really going to work?"

5) Where do I log in?

When this writer installed the N-Gage application and tried to log in with an existing username and password... it just wasn't possible. There's no obvious login screen or login option anywhere in the app. N-Gage is an online service now, so there needs ...

Willems Soft / Joyrider Released a new version of his puzzle game blockdude. For those that don't know yet, Blockdude is a puzzle game where you need to be able to reach the exit by moving boxes, it's as simple as that. It is a remake of the Blockman Game from Soleau Software and the TI 83 Blockdude game by brandon sterner. There are 23 levels included. 21 Levels from the orginal blockman game and 2 levels created by me. The game has a built in level editor so you can create new levels on your own and release them as levelpacks. You can also play upto 25 of your own ogg/mod music files, there is skin support and lastly you can reconfigure your external joysticks button mappings !

This is whats new:
- Added support for external joysticks on the cradle
- Added an option to remap the external joystick's button function.
- Added fusion's powers FP_default2 skin

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Online play in Mario Kart Wii is smooth. Only a tiny bit of lag effects twelve player races. However, the world ranking system has issues. A glitch allows players to drive a single lap then wait by the finish line while sitting in reverse. Glancing through the rankings, it looks like Nintendo is actively removing these times off the leaderboards, but you can see the glitch in the video below.



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PlayStation 3 outsold Xbox 360 for the third month in a row, but the Nintendo Wii overshot the combined sales of its rivals, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter.

Ahead of March's NPD Group sales data, due to release this Thursday, Pachter forecast PS3 sales of 365,000 units, edging out sales of 310,000 for Xbox 360.

In a Monday investor note, Pachter predicted that Nintendo will come out on top for yet another month, with Wii sales of 700,000 during March's five-week retail period.

Pachter believes that Wii and DS supply improved during the month, adding that the Wii supply situation has "made forecasting unit sales quite difficult." Pachter said a weak US dollar may have driven Nintendo to give a larger piece of the 1.8 million Wiis produced monthly to Europe at the expense of the US market.

the company likely shipped the U.S. its "'air share' in the month of March, particularly in light of Nintendo's need to support the launch of Super Smash Brothers Brawl."

He said that Wii demand is "expected to outstrip supply well into 2008."

The simExchange virtual stock exchange forecast Wii sales of 593,000, and PS3 and Xbox 360 sales of 301,000 and 296,000, respectively.

Software will also likely the be the big story for March, as Pachter expects console software sales of $850 million, a 47 percent rise at US retail.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Nintendo is expected to be the top game for the month. The title, released on March 9, sold over 1.4 million units in the US in its first week. Pachter believes the title sold 2 million during the entire month.

Other top sellers may include Army of Two, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Major League Baseball 2K8 and catalog titles such as Wii Play, Guitar Hero III and Rock Band. ...

Progress on the upcoming homebrew game for Dreamcast.

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