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Its all coming together, well at least in America

Nintendos detailed plans for its free SpotPass content in other parts of the world and now for Americans at least we know now were theyll be able to get their SpotPass on. Starting from the magical date of June 7th, over 1,000 Best Buy stores in America will get wireless hotspots setup for Nintendo 3DS units. Not only will you be able use the Wi-Fi but there will also be movie trailers and gaming extras to be downloaded.

Exactly what these extras are and if the rest of the world will see such extras remains to be seen. Were hoping to see a similar plan in Australia soon.

Nintendo and Best Buy to Bring Custom Downloadable Content to Nintendo 3DS Owners

Nintendo 3DS Will Connect Automatically to Best Buy Wireless Hot Spots

REDMOND, Wash. & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nintendo and retail partner Best Buy are collaborating to give Nintendo 3DS™ owners customized, automatic wireless access at some 1,000 select Best Buy store locations nationwide beginning June 7. Once connected, the service will provide access to a variety of fun content via the system’s built-in Wi-Fi functionality, including the new SpotPass™ feature. The Best Buy service will also include exclusive offers as well as additional entertainment content such as gaming extras and movie trailers. Nintendo 3DS, which lets people see 3D visuals without the need for special glasses, launched March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99.

“Nintendo 3DS turns the page in portable gaming not just because of the stunning, glasses-free 3D visuals, but also in the way it keeps people connected to their friends, their games and their world,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. “Best Buy provides a firsthand look at the platform with experts to help people understand everything it offers.”

“We want our customers to fully tap into the potential of their Nintendo 3DS device, so we’re pleased to offer free access to special Wi-Fi and SpotPass content in-store,” said Chris Homeister, senior vice president of entertainment for Best Buy. “As a retail partner for SpotPass, this is another way that we’re delivering best-in-class gaming experiences at our stores across the country.”

Remember that Nintendo 3DS features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo3ds.com.

Source: http://www.vooks.net/story-20137-Nintendo-and-Best-Buy-team-up-for-SpotPass-content-in-America.html

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Alvin

Over half of the UK's pensioners feel "silenced and ignored" according to a new study by the Nominet Trust. With 43% unable to recall the last time someone asked their opinion, many are now turning to the internet to have...

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Alvin

Sony boss Howard Stringer is a funny guy.

His comments about the PlayStation Network outage - the result, let's not forget, of the biggest case of compromised customer data the internet has ever seen - made us laugh: a huge, hugely embarrassing and potentially brand-ruining disaster "is a hiccup in the road to a network future."

Is anybody else thinking of The Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? "Tis but a scratch." Your arm's off! "No, it isn't."

I think we should be encouraging this kind of silliness.

Reality distortion

Remember Antennagate, when it turned out that iPhone signal bars dropped if anybody actually touched their phone? Did Steve Jobs stand up on stage, tearing at his turtleneck, apologising for Apple's very existence and begging the press for forgiveness? Of course he didn't.

What Jobs did was this. First, he denied that there was a problem. That went on for quite a while. Then, Jobs called a press conference at which he surprised everyone by pulling out a phone that Apple didn't make.

It was a BlackBerry, and stunned hacks watched in silence as Jobs hurled it to the floor, ground it under his heel and finally held the ruined remains to his ear. "Hello!" he bellowed, while doing a curious jig. "Hello? Hello hello hello hello?"

That's how I remember it, anyway. There was definitely something to do with BlackBerries.

Howard Stringer can't travel back in time and prevent the PSN hack from happening, and he can't stand up and say "I know! We're dicks!" for fear of sending Sony's share price towards the centre of the Earth.

Trapped between a rock and a hard place, Stringer hasn't chosen the rock - but he hasn't chosen the hard place either. No, he's too smart for that. He's opted out completely and gone for a mad place instead.

Let's have more.

Let's have Facebook paying PR firms to place stories that Google is a big bunch of privacy invaders.

Let's have O2 trying to persuade us that burglars stole their network.

And let's have HP pretending that it isn't using Thunderbolt because Thunderbolt is rubbish rather than because Apple got it first.

What do you mean they're doing that already?

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techradar/gaming-news/~3/AkSU-vw_OyE/story01.htm

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Alvin

New studio to finish Project: MyWorld.

A number of key creatives from defunct APB/Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds have resurfaced with a new studio called eeGeo.

According to Develop, one of its first undertakings will be finishing up Project: MyWorld, the ambitious social game announced shortly before APB dragged Realtime under last year.

It apparently picked up the IP and all assets for around �1.1 million � a little less than the �1.26 million GamersFirst allegedly paid for APB.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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