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Here's Russel Beattie's portable gaming collection....

I'm glad I'm not into portable gaming... my pockets aren't deep enough.

This is really funny. True and funny.

"20 things gamers want from the seventh generation of game consoles "

Example:

3. Don't bullshit me about your graphics

How, in 2005, can there still be gamers taken in by EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS of games that are obviously taken from cutscenes and have NO connection with what the actual game will look like? I blame the developers formerly known as Square for this. They're the ones who ran their entire ad campaign for Final Fantasy VIII with shots like this:

...for a game that looked like this:

Now, that was a great game and the actual game looked fine for its time. But stop treating us like morons.

Link: http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html

Source: http://www.hellogamer.com/2005/05/24/a-gamers-manifesto/

Will Wright got his start with SimCity and is now most widely known for The Sims.

Forget everything you love or hate about The Sims and watch Will Wright's Game Developer's Conference demo of his next game in progress, Spore. This demo is actual game play, not amazing pre-rendered graphics with no game play (*cough* PS3 *cough*).

You start with a micro-organism in a pool of water and build it up to a sentient civilization that spans galaxies. You "evolve" your organisms with a Lego-simplistic interface that could be a game in itself.

It's an hour long, and the premise is how to let gamers create their own content.

Here are some clips from the video:

VIDEO: http://www.pqhp.com/cmp/gdctv/

The video requires "registration" but you just need to give a realistic-looking email address.

Source: GamingSteve.com (More about Spore)