Google’s Android is their new mobile phone platform. While it isn’t the gPhone many had wished for, it is an interesting shift for the cell phone industry. With most major carriers signed up to produce Android handsets, it was already a potentially interesting avenue for game development. Dell just made it more interesting.

Rumors are circulating that Dell will announce a new mobile device running on the Android platform. While Palm and Microsoft have fought it out between one another for the past few years, the last year alone ahs brought two major new competitors to the handheld market in Apple and now Google. What does this mean to gamers? (more…)

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Nintendo has reported a profit of $2.43 billion for the last nine months of 2007. That’s almost double their profits from the previous year. Imagine what the profits might have looked like if they could just have produced enough of the Wii and DS.

The resurgence of Nintendo has been one of the best stories in gaming in years. Here was a company many thought would be out of the hardware industry entirely within a few years. They looked well on their way to being another Sega before the release of the DS. In fact, it was the DS itself that looked like it might send them there. While Sony was prepping its entertainment wunderkind PSP, the DS in comparison looked like a colossal misstep. It couldn’t play video, music, surf the Internet, and the entire system looked like a gimmick. Two screens? Touch capability? A microphone? Wait a second, is this the DS or a cell phone being described?

It may sound goofy, as the PSP has the gee whiz features that cell phone companies have been crowing about for years, but the DS outdid the cell phone manufacturers by a few years. Look at many modern cell phones, the iPhone included, and you will see a move to touch screens and even dual screens. Granted, such phones seem to have a more practical purpose for their second screen (usually hidden on the inside of so-called candy bar phones), but it is difficult to deny the similarities to the DS design. (more…)

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