<strong>Why you won't get another SEGA console...</strong> <img src="/images/General.jpg" alt="General" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - October 5 2005 - 11:25 AM ]</font>

<P align=center><IMG alt="Better then a Nintendog?" hspace=0 src="/uploads/news_images/05_10_05_03.jpg" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG alt="More 'Hip' then the average dog!" hspace=2 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/news_images/05_10_05_04.gif" align=right border=1>It's aparently been around for a while now, but i think i'm safe to say that if you weren't around in Japan at the time, you wouldn't know about this amazing looking... animal type of thing that's brought to you by SEGA Toys Japan! An animal that listens to your music when you do, and then dances to it... something you probabily don't do all the time! Amazingly known as the iDog (How do they come up with it?), you can plug your dog upto some music from your Mp3 Player/iPod and it'll dance, nod it head, waggle its ears and tail, and dance like you could only wish! It also lights up and displays loads of different light sequences in time to the beats of the music.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If ever there was a reason as to why SEGA never made a Dreamcast 2... well this has to be it! I mean look at it, not only is he much greater in design, but he loves the <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM> soundtrack as much as the next person! Dreamcast? Pffft, </FONT><A href="http://www.idog-segatoys.com/"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">i want an iDog</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">! At only 4,000 Yen, it's a bargain!</FONT></P>

i believe that i read somewhere that there is a way to be red ring rico, flowen, and possibly others. am i on about nothing or is this possible?

<strong>Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Details</strong> <img src="/images/Gamecube.jpg" alt="Gamecube" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - October 5 2005 - 9:21 AM ]</font>

<P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG style="WIDTH: 99px; HEIGHT: 104px" height=126 alt="Easy, Safe, &amp; Free - Nintendo's Japanese Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Motto!" hspace=2 src="/uploads/news_images/05_10_05_02.gif" width=125 align=left border=0>Nintendo of Japan have today been holding a massive press conference where the highlights of the day come in the form of details concerning the Nintendo DS' Wi-Fi Online System which is due to launch in a few weeks time!</FONT></P><P><FONT face=Arial>To take your Nintendo DS online, you'll need to do so in one of the ways set out below:</FONT></P><UL><LI><FONT face=Arial><IMG style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 73px" alt="The Nintendo DS USB Wi-Fi Adapter" hspace=2 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/news_images/05_10_05_01.gif" align=right border=0>Adapt an existing Wi-Fi&nbsp;Router is you use one for your home computers internet networks&nbsp;using the Nintendo DS' details.</FONT></LI><LI><FONT face=Arial>Buy a Nintendo DS USB Wi-Fi Adapter that plugs into a spare USB port of any computer and shares the internet connection it has with your Nintendo DS console wirelessly. In Europe these will cost £30 or €55.</FONT></LI><LI><FONT face=Arial>Take your Nintendo DS upto any of Nintendo's specially installed Wireless Access Points (Of which upto 1000 are to be ready for Japanese launch! Europe TBA - Expect many in retail stores)</FONT></LI><LI><FONT face=Arial>Take your Nintendo DS upto a 'FreeSpot' Access Point (Japan only - Another 3000 already installed!)</FONT></LI></UL><P><FONT face=Arial>Which ever way you do it, to play Nintendo's Nintendo DS games online won't set you back a penny, as it's a completely free service. 3rd party publishers however MAY decide to charge an online gameplay fee, but it's a their discretion only (E.g. <EM>Tony Hawks Pro Skater: American Wasteland</EM>s Publisher is Activision and not Nintendo).</FONT></P><P align=center><IMG alt="Sonic Rushing into your Nintendo DS!" hspace=0 src="/uploads/news_images/hg_03_06_05_16.jpg" align=baseline border=1></P><P><FONT face=Arial>While i'm here though i may aswell talk online games, and while the only certain games that are currently announced to support the Nintendo DS' Online gameplay is <EM>Animal Crossing: Wild Worlds</EM> (Japanese Release Date: November 23rd, Europe: TBA 2006), <EM>Mario Kart DS</EM> (Japanese Release Date: December 8th, European Release Date: <STRONG>DELAYED</STRONG> 25th November), and <EM>Tony Hawks: AW</EM> (European Release Date: 28th October), an interview with Sonic Team's main man Yuji Naka revealed that <EM>Sonic Rush</EM> will also use the Nintendo DS Wi-Fi service! Unfortunately you won't be able to play against one another online, but the Wi-Fi service will cross over with the Nintendo DS' Download Play to allow Sonic Team to hold official competitions which will be downloadable! While SEGA announced that they'd be supporting the Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Online System at E3 earlier this year, lets hope that's not the only thing they have planned to use the online play.</FONT></P>

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars...0040207597

A patent for a device suspiciously close to the Revolution controller methinks. Oh sony......

Triple-Academy Award® winners Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have been signed as executive producers of Halo®, the forthcoming feature film based on Microsoft’s hugely popular game for Xbox and Windows PC. The movie will be filmed in Wellington, with the pair providing creative counsel on all aspects of the film through WingNut Films. It will make use of the team’s award-winning production and post-production facilities, including Weta Digital Ltd, Weta Workshop Ltd, Stone Street Studios and Park Road Post, to create the mind-blowing creatures, miniatures and effects Jackson and Walsh are famous for.

Peter Jackson, a gaming fan, said: “I’m excited to bring Halo’s premise, action and settings to the screen with all the specificity and reality today’s technology can provide. I’m a huge fan of the game and look forward to helping it come alive on the cinema screen.”

Jackson’s involvement isn’t the only Kiwi connection to the game, however. One of Halo’s developers is Bungie Studios’ Chris Butcher, who grew up in Kakanui, a small town just outside of Oamaru.

Microsoft New Zealand product marketing manager Tom Hunt, said: “This is an incredible announcement, both for Xbox and for New Zealand. Halo is the most popular game on Xbox and has a massive local following, and the character Master Chief has become a cult figure.

“We can’t wait to see the game brought to life on the big screen, and we can’t imagine anyone better placed to do this than the legendary team of Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.”

Pre-production on Halo will start immediately, with shooting due to begin in May 2006. The film is scheduled to be released by Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox studios in mid-2007. Acclaimed UK novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later) wrote the original feature film adaptation, and a director is to be announced shortly.

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are currently in post-production on Universal Pictures’ King Kong, to be released in December. The console game based on the movie, available on Xbox, is due to be released next month.

What would be a good level to go online

S-Rank weapons, intruiging, although impossible to get offline. I play TOTALLY legit offline mode on X-Box, but I think that may have to change. I have gotten a B, A, and S rank on challenge mode offline before, S-Rank twice, but I would REALLY like to have an S-Rank weapon, probably twin or cards, but this is obviously a problem with the whole offline thing. I recently happened upon 2 VERY nice rares recently, God/Mind and Demon's Calibur +8..............would it be proper attonement to drop those to the void for a friend with online to give me a S-rank Twin or Card? Or would that still be illigit, even though it's really a trade?

ok couldnt think of where to post lol XD
but eh yea i lookin for a new avatar and dunno what to use

so post some pics and hopefully i like 1 or someton x.x


ps.brim NO TOAD ><

<strong>Phantasy Star Online 360? No...</strong> <img src="/images/Xbox.jpg" alt="Xbox" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - October 4 2005 - 10:59 AM ]</font>

<P align=center><IMG style="WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 300px" alt=Xbox360 hspace=0 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/xbox360_banner.png" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer for Microsoft - was recently interviewed by Japanese Gaming Goodness Famitsu about the Xbox360's Xbox Live expectations. On the subject of any new MMORPG's, Bach stated that after <EM>Final Fantasy XI</EM>, which will soon undergo a huge BETA test which it's believed (But not confirmed) that anyone with an Xbox360 &amp; HDD can BETA test, there would be no new Xbox360 MMORPG's in the launch window until at least 2 or 3 years into the systems life due to "the logistics of setting up a new service". Whether or not this means that no-one will be seeing any <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> title on the Xbox360 for a couple of years at least or not depends on your definition of an MMORPG and whether or not you'd class <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> into that category of games. Then again, this statement makes us believe that Microsoft are controlling everything to do with Xbox360 Live Online play, where as we all know SEGA for making their own servers for people to play on. So who knows if this is relevant or not, but i think that he at least knows that there isn't a <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> game in development for the Xbox360 at the moment, otherwise it would have surely been stated here...</FONT></P>