Conspiracy Entertainment has extended its worldwide exclusive licensing agreement with Discovery Licensing, Inc. for the “Jeff Corwin Experience” to add the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS platforms. Thecompanies also agreed to extend this agreement until December 2006.
The popular “Jeff Corwin Experience” TV program airs on the Animal Planet, a network owned by Discovery Communications. Animal Planet has grown to become television’s leading broad-based, family-friendly, entertainment network and now reaches over 85 million homes in the United States and 126 million homes in 70 other countries around the world.
“We are pleased to play a part in bringing quality educational content to PSP and DS users,” said Sirus Ahmadi, President and CEO of Conspiracy Entertainment. “We are hopeful that the popularity of the ‘Jeff Corwin Experience’ will entice young gamers to learn about wildlife in a manner that is both fun and educational.”
Conspiracy Entertainment recently announced that it was approved as Nintendo DS and Sony PSP platform publishers for the North American Territory, which are both handheld platforms. “Once we were approved as platform publishers, we didn’t waste any time. One of our goals is to become a leading supplier of content for these platforms,” said Keith Tanaka, CFO of Conspiracy Entertainment. “We are very excited about this handheld gaming opportunity and will continue to aggressively pursue this market.”
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.