BAZIXBAZIX, the company that is about to launch the 1 Chip MSX device has launched it's Retrogaming Website Woomb.net which is an English counterpart of a popular Japanese online retrogaming platfor called 'Amusement center' Finally a gaming platform also available in European territories. Woomb focuses on gameplay, guality and fun factor according to the website. Games originally released on the old home computers and consoles can now be played on ordinary Windows PC's with aid of a 'Launcher program', which probably will feature emulation technology. As BAZIX acquired the liscenses of the MSX system, this platform is the first to have games made available for through Woomb.

I have some info that's sure to please many folks here at Armchair Arcade: Midway is offering ten classic games playable for free right in your browser. These conversions use Macromedia Shockwave to very good effect--there's even support for joysticks. The games are Bubbles, Defender, Joust II, Rampage, Robotron, Satan's Hollow, Sinistar, Spyhunter, and Tapper.

In an interview with USA Today, Nintendo bobo Reginald Fils-Aime stated that there will not be any subscription fee to online gaming with the Nintendo Wii. If this is in fact true the new console will have a big advantage over Xbox 360 live where online gaming is only possible for paying Gold-members which sets you back 50 bucks a year.

If you have invested into EA sports titles, challenge this:
starting August 1st, EA will drop online functionality on 11 games according to ArsTechnica. The list consists mainly of sportsgames like NBA Live 2005, NHL 2005 and FIFA Soccer 2005 – most of these titles are about 20 months old. But also games not even a year old have their internet functionality flushed down the drain – Total Club Manager’06 being a fine example of that. The decision affects pc, xbox and ps2 titles. EA makes an exception for the PS2 version of Need for Speed Underground 2, but PC and Xbox owners are left out in the cold.

PSPEr... well sort of anyways. The Flash player that is contained in the latest firmware is compatible with two of our flash games on the site: Pac Man and Tetris. They are executed very slowly but are somewhat playable. Any of you PSP-owners, give it a try. So it is possible to get something homebrew running op on the PSP. Just create a webpage with a compatible flash file and the PSP will play that. There's a c64 emulator out there for flash9. The state of the PSP's flash support will not allow such things - but it does start me thinking.

The Xbox360 live service hasn’t had a significant update since release time and this made accessing the increasing content more and more troublesome. A major update is necessary, and this is just what M$ is going to do. A major xbox-360-update that will be released shortly will include 3 major changes according to Kotaku gaming.

The South Korean mrs Kim Hee-Jung is currently drafting a law that should protect the South Korean youth from spending too much time playing online games. If the bill is passed, parents will be able to easily set a time-limit on the games their children play. Software developers will have to implement this capability in the games they create and will run the risk of having to pay huge fines if they don't. Mrs Kim Hee-Jung will present her bill to the South Korean parliament next month.