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Word has it that the DS Lite is already selling in North America at some Target and Walmart stores.

Information can be found at this blog and also in these forums.

Im tempted to swing by some local stores on the way home from work to see if I can sweet talk my way into scoring one…
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I just wanted to put up a post letting you all know that U* 24 has been delayed until next week.
I stated a new job this week — and ive been working 15 hour days. As much as I love podcasting my needs for sleep and food have taken precedent over scouring the web [...]

Welcome to this very very special E3 Edition of Uncompressed. Tony and Thom were joined by Alex Petraglia (notd665 to you Shackers out there) of Modern Savant and Primotech fame who was kind enough to join us and share his opinions on all the cool stuff he got to see at this year’s E3. [...]

Curmudgeon Gamer put together some really neat graphs showing the relative prices of every game console from the Atari 2600 days to the announced price of the Playstation 3.

History of Console Prices (or: $500 ain’t the worst…)

Anton Struyk is working on something he’s calling “Freetar”. Check it out:

Awesome.
It’s not ready for download yet, but I’m going to be keeping my eye out for it.
http://antonstruyk.com/freetar/

I ran across this post on Shacknews today and thought it was pretty cool. It’s a list of homebrew applications that let you do some pretty neat stuff on your PSPs.
Shacknews PSP Homebrew Post by ki11_viru5.
I wish the darn price would drop more — I want one! =)

The line to get a chance to play Wii

Word is the wait was/is about 6 hours… Who had any idea the Wii would be so popular? Oh yeah, Nintendo.

Ok, so lately this site has been looking like it’s being run by a bunch of Nintendo fanboys. While I think I can safely say that both Thom and I enjoy products from Nintendo, I would argue that both of us are just gaming fans in general — with no brand allegiance — and in [...]

According to this Wired.com article, Sony just isnt making the showing at E3 that they had wanted to.
From the article…
“I think that (Microsoft) have their heads on straight….They’ve made a much truer gaming system than Sony has. They’re not trying to define the next generation of media content. That’s Sony’s aim — again,” said [...]

May 11, 2006
Nintendo News
Nintendo Names New Characters in Smash Bros. Game for Wii Console
A brawl at Nintendo’s booth last night left dozens of gamers stunned - and wanting more.
Nintendo unveiled a spectacular video of Super Smash Bros.® Brawl for the company’s upcoming Wii console. The amazing footage also revealed a variety of new Nintendo characters [...]