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Patlabor, the iconic Japanese anime, will be reborn this year—as a WiFi tower. More »
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Back in November 2011, Air China (China's national airline) launched its in-flight wifi service. Unfortunately it wasn't a real wifi network, users only connected to the in-flight intranet instead of the real internet. More »
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With the North American release of Sony's next generation handheld a mere month away, commenter Yoshi Salcedo is wondering who is going with 3G and who is opting to purchase the less expensive Wifi-only version. We're kinda curious too. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877159&view=rss&microfeed=true Capcom releases its first online iPhone game in Resident Evil Mercenaries VS., in which players battle zombies and human opponents as Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, or Albert Wesker. It's on sale now in the iTunes App Store for $2.99. More »
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The Nintendo 3DS will rely on Wi-Fi connectivity to deliver free downloadable game content and demos, and AT&T will provide more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for just that purpose this summer. More »
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The Friend Code, the bane of every modern Nintendo gamer's existence, is getting a major overhaul with the release of the 3DS, allowing friends to find friends with little to none of the hair-pulling frustration that is currently involved. More »
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Pokémon and Nintendo celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pokémon Gold and Silver by releasing the original secret Pokémon into the wild for a limited time. Here's what you need to do to score Mew. More »
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Have you ever played an online game while flying? More »
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LAN parties on the go could be coming to Ford vehicles this year, the company announced at CES today. More »
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GameStop is taking preorders for the Xbox 360 Wireless N adapter, whose existence was recently confirmed, but for which no launch date was given. It ships Nov. 3, says GameStop. More »
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The 802.11n adapter whose development Microsoft recently confirmed will cost you one benjamin. The existing 802.11g adapter will get a haircut and cost $79.99. That's according to Ars Technica's trusty, and unnamed, "Mole." More »
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An FCC listing last week showed it had reviewed an official 802.11n wireless adapter Microsoft's developing for the 360. A flier in an Italian Gears of War 2 pointed to the same thing. The company has formally confirmed its existence. More »
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When the Zune Store opens up on the 360 later this year, you'll need a 802.11n network in your house if you want to stream HD content. Microsoft's current wi-fi adapter can't do 802.11n. So they need a new one! More »
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That "peddling add-ons" thing may work for most of your stuff, Microsoft, but when it comes to paying $90 for a wi-fi adapter, the argument gets a little shaky. More »
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Gamasutra had a pleasant chat with Aspyr Software's Justin Leingang in which the publisher/developer revealed some details about their new game Treasure Troves, which uses local wifi signals to generate in-game objects. More »
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Staff at Disney Interactive Japan & Jupiter Corp hand picked their 'favourite' new creatures for the wholly un-Pokemon-like monster egg archaeology game Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals. More »
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Today, during a GDC presentation, Nintendo's Takashi Aoyama announced a new expansion to Nintendo's Wi-Fi services called Wii Pay & Play. Aoyama explained that Nintendo will begin "collecting fees for some services [that] will allow us to adapt flexibly." In other words, by subsidizing additional, unnamed service and feature costs to consumers, Nintendo feels they can explore new concepts and channels. More »
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Here's a look at online menu screens Super Smash Bros. Brawl The above green screen shows the Wii connecting to WiFi. The second screen in the gallery below shows "With Friend" (default) and "With Someone." The next one says "Spectator", "Brawl" and "Team Battle." After that, there's a character roster and a list of battle stages. The last image shows where players wait while searching for challengers. More »
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The latest update to the Smash Bros. Dojo! delivers details on the online multiplayer portion of the game and dammit, friend codes are still in effect. Every day I wake up and rush to the PC hoping to read an announcement about them going away, and every morning I die a little inside. Brawl players will be able to link up with their friends via impersonal strings of random numbers to battle it out online, complete with personalized, pre-entered messages mapped to the d-pad for taunting purposes. You can also opt to play random strangers, but without the personalized messages to keep the child predators at bay. Stats aren't kept for battles with strangers either, so you get all the fun of beating up random people with none of the joy of taunting or indeed any proof that the match ever happened at all. Joy! Visit the Dojo yourself for more details and pretty pictures, and remember, "If you think of your opponent as a simple scarecrow, any psychological barriers may melt away." More »
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About 25 percent of the WiFi McDonald's gives away at their restaurants is being sucked up by DS gamers, according to Computer World. More »
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On May 25th, Europe will get its first Wii-enabled Mario Strikers: Charged Football. Multi-player lets four players kick it out in one game. Nintendo WiFi serves online games, and multi-player includes ranked and unranked modes, leader boards and games with people across the world. Sounds a bit like real online multi-player. What's the catch? More »
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Doesn't matter if your Japanese airplane looks like this or not, you won't be able to get your wireless gaming on. The country's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is aiming to ban using wireless functions on portable game devices like the DS and the PSP on the basis that it can interfere with the aircraft's instruments. Passengers are still able to play their portables on the planes. That is, with the wireless function off and when the seatbelt sign is turned on. Thought that was pretty much standard everywhere and has been for a while now. Does this mean before it was perfectly alright to play wireless games on Japanese airplanes?! Brian Ashcraft More »
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Good news, North Americans! Square Enix's real-time strategy RPG Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana will hit stores late summer. Bad news: Wi-Fi battles are a no-go. While it is possible to go proxy with a nearby buddy, the Wi-Fi is actually used to submit scores to a ranking board for weekly missions. That's pretty neat, for like, the 20th century. Brian Ashcraft More »
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The BBC's story focusing on the current state of the handheld wars (with the PSP at about 25 million shipped versus 35 million for the DS at the end of '06, they say) also features a choice quote from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe spokesfella Jonathan Fargher on the PSP's future. He drops word on the forthcoming global implementation of location free player capabilities of the Wi-fi ready, handheld gaming machine. More »
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Best way to show off you've got too much money and time on your hands? Drive around the Google Wi-fi enabled city of Mountain View, California in your Jeep Wrangler Rubicon while playing Uno and Rainbow Six Las Vegas over Xbox Live. The whole set up will allegedly hit you in the wallet for about $4000, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. More »
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If you're looking for a no-strings attached wi-fi hookup, DS Buttons are the way to go. Not unlike the gay hanky code system, but much more clear, they'll help you find like-minded gamers in public looking for a good time. More »
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Let's face it, the Wii is just too pretty for its own good. The thing is actually smaller than the Xbox 360's HD-DVD appendage and it's quiet and it's cute. And that just won't do. Not when you can add this bag-ass honking antenna to the thing to make sure it can pick up WiFi signals from space. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=217652&view=rss&microfeed=true The video explains it best, but if you've ever wondered, "Can I control my MIDI enabled devices with a portable gaming system?" the answer is "Yes." Use your DS(es) as a keyboard, simulated Korg KAOSS effects pad, a MIDI synthesizer and—would you believe it?—so much more. Very cool stuff. Michael McWhertor More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=217442&view=rss&microfeed=true You know, that Pokemon Diamond WiFi chat system seems to work pretty well. Of course, you know it's going to take absolutely no time for the air of camaraderie to devolve into hysterical "FUCK YOU!"/"NO, FUCK YOU AND YOUR PIKACHU!" screaming matches between ten year olds half a world away. Florian Eckhardt More »
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Over at Aeropause, they spotted this worrying paper submitted by Sony to the FCC. In the paper, Sony claims that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules in the PS3 do not transmit simultaneously. This is doubtlessly meant to assuage some sort of FCC requirement. More »
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Although official confirmation of Spore appearing on the Wii has not yet been made, this blurb from game news site DigitalBattle can pretty much be treated as such. More »
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Ashcraft and I are avowed Macheads. While you PC users are ploddingly typing away at your 12 pound Dell, our svelte MacBooks tucked under the crook of our arm cause all women passing by to fall to the ground in epileptic seizures, tearing off their clothes. Yes, we're supermen, and our purchases define us. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=187980&view=rss&microfeed=true God bless the French for the Nouvelle Vague, good wine, Serge Gainsbourg and PSP controlled robots. Big brother site Gizmodo points to this mod that uses the PSP's Wi-Fi capabilities to control a ramshackle robot. Solid proof that the PSP can be used for more than UMD porn. C'est cool! Brian Ashcraft More »
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IT-Media took a nice detail shot of the Playstation Portable Camera during a recent Loco Roco event. It looks like the metal-encased camera will be 1.3 mega-pixels and include a built in microphone. It also looks like, judging by the image, that the thing will jut out in front and behind the portable. I could be wrong about that, it might be that this image is showing some sort of security or display attachment. I sure hope so; I don't need the PSP to be even more awkwardly shaped than it already is. Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=184096&view=rss&microfeed=true Alrighty, you guys have been asking for us to make the Friday Night Lites contest hard, like really hard, to cut down on the number of people who get the answer right. Last time around we managed to reduce the right answers from more than a thousand to about 400. This time I'm trying for single to double digits, mostly because I'm a bastard. More »
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We hope you love entering long strings of arbitrary characters into your Wii when you want to multiplayer because Nintendo has no plans to drop the more obnoxious element of the DS's otherwise excellent WiFi service when they port it over to their new console. From an IGN interview with Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development's general manager, Takahashi Tezuka: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=173327&view=rss&microfeed=true Cubed3 is reporting that the upcoming Bomberman Land DS will include online play, a feature missing from Bomberman DS. If getting bombed with total strangers is your thing, Hudson Soft has a solution that even people in dry counties can enjoy. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=171120&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're not too freaked out by the idea of visiting a site called "The Furrygoat Experience," you can learn how to get your PSP to communicate with an external hard drive via WiFi, giving you access to gigabytes of media while only sacrificing, well, portability. The HD still needs to get juice from the wall, so it's not like you're going to be able to take it on a bus ride, but presumably someone, somewhere is going to be really happy they can do this. More »
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Taking a page from the Nintendo handbook, gaming accessories maker Thrustmaster has announced a new WiFi USB key for the PSP. It's a WiFi adapter that plugs into your computer, hooking players up with wireless internet and online gaming with out requiring a wireless router. The PSP USB key will go on sale this May, booking at $39.99. Ever wonder why some of the best PlayStation Portable products are third party? More »
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