Author: kevin

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Nolan Bushnell, the original founder of Atari and the classic game, Pong, is planning on opening a restaurant chain for 20-somethings focusing on bringing together food and electronic entertainment.

Bushnell already hasd experience in the restaurant/entertainment business, as he also founded the ‘Chuck E. Cheese’s’ restaurant chain for pre-teens.

This new venture, called uWink, will be using table-top game machines, presumably so you eat while you play…

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth service was launched today, but the service is worlds away from what you can find at Google Earth.

I tried browsing around several places, but the map scrolling is clunky and slow, several tiles fail to load, and when I zoom in on areas in California they don’t have any aerial photos of the areas I was looking at.

This service is pretty poor compared to TerraServer that they used to run, despite that it’s satellite imagery was black and white. I guess it’s early days, but Google Earth is still the ultimate in this area.

Market research company Strategy Analytics are forecasting that the PS3 will have 61% market share of the next generation console market by 2012, despote the fact that Microsoft will be releasing the XBox360 some six months earlier, and in time for Christmas 2005.

Both Microsoft and Sony will be making a loss on their new consoles in an attempt to reach an attractive price point, but the PS3 is expected to be the more expensive of the two new consoles, possibly starting at around $400.

Despite not being released until Spring 2006 and being more expensive than the XBox360, which rumours say will be released in November 2005, Strategy Analytics still think the PS3 will gain the major share of the market.