Those of you who own Nintendo Wiis may like to know that Nintendo’s answer to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network titles goes live today. Called WiiWare, the offerings are smaller, downloadable games (and applications) that currently range from $5 to $15. Formerly, Nintendo has focused on the Wii’s Virtual Console downloads—ports of old Nintendo titles. The difference here is that WiiWare’s content is all original and generally focused at the small developer. Six games are available starting today. They’re listed after the jump.

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written by Jose Castillo

From Engadget:

After hitting delays already, we can’t say that this was the PlayStation Home press release we’ve been expecting. Nevertheless, Sony just announced that it is expanding the closed PlayStation Home beta to more users in “Fall 2008.” Kazuo Hirai, prez and ringmaster of Sony Computer Entertainment, said, “We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a bit longer, but we have come to the conclusion that we need more time to refine the service.” Come on Mr Hirai, you can say it, PlayStation Home is delayed. See, that’s wasn’t so hard.

Oh boy, another delay. I wonder how I can join this “private beta” in Fall 2008. If you know anything about this or any other details, email me or use our contact form.

written by Jose Castillo

From Engadget:

It’s April 15th which means one thing: PS3 firmware 2.30 is due. Right on cue, Sony made good on the new PlayStation Store and DTS-HD Master Audio sound reproduction sure to make audiophile-types lean in for a listen. The Store is acting a bit sluggish at the moment, something that’s likely to get sorted once the rolling update is completed. Nevertheless, users are claiming easier navigation and richer experience. So whatcha looking at — get out of here kid, there’s on-line updating to be done.

Users are currently reporting that images in the store are not loading, this is due to the fact that the store is not online like it was before, expect all images and the store to be running at 100% within 24 hours. Also, “Home”, the virtual world of PS3, should be making its way to users within a couple of weeks from now, this coming from inside sources in Sony. Happy Upgradings!!!

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From Engadget:

It’s no secret that we’ve been drooling over all the hot limited-edition Metal Gear Solid 4 swag that Sony and Konami are dishing out in Japan, but it looks like a select few in this country will be able to score the baddest of them all: the gunmetal gray PS3 / MGS4 bundle with matching DualShock 3. Yep, it’s coming Stateside on June 12th like the rest of the MGS4 editions and the standard 80GB PS3 / MGS4 bundle, but you’d better get in line now, because we’re told it’s going to be extremely limited in availability, and we’re calling one. We can do that, right? Say yes.

This looks awesome. I am getting myself a PS3 for my birthday upcoming in May and this one looks nice. Not sure I want to wait till June just for this though, we can only wait and see. How about that GTAIV PS3 combo in Europe? Post up some comments!!

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Gameloft announced that they will bring 15 of their games to the iPhone platform. Gameloft, as you may already know, has released some iPod games on iTunes already. Pocket Gamer has a mock up of what one of the games may look like.

Interestingly, this screenshot was shown off in Gameloft’s keynote speech in the days leading up to the iPhone SDK announcement. Gameloft produces some big-name games for other mobile platforms, including: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Rayman, Might and Magic, and Prince of Persia.

[via MacRumors]

written by Jose Castillo