Seeing how Nintendo’s latest handheld is region-locked to Japan , I’ll need to wait for its North American launch just like anyone else on this side of the Pacific.

Another bumper crop of damn fine gaming crafts and goings-on, brought to you by the power of the entire planet’s obsession with Nintendo.

—-Nintendo of America Inc.:

LOS ANGELES—-D3Publisher , a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today announced that Cradle of Rome for Nintendo DSâ„¢ has shipped to retail stores across North America.

Need for Speed returns to its roots with hokey cutscenes, wild cop chases, and solid racing action.

SAN MATEO, CA and CANTON, MA — (Marketwire) — 11/19/08 — TikGames (San Mateo, Calif.) and Creat Studios (Canton, Mass.) today announced a partnership between the two companies to deliver next-generation console games for download on the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.

Georgia Tech’s parallel processing code for PlayStation 3’s Cell processor makes mountains of random numbers to improve Value-at-Risk and other important algorithms

Stunning game play coupled with solid Blu-ray playback make the PlayStation 3 the best game console you can get.

There’s general agreement that Sony stumbled out of the gate with the PlayStation 3.

National Geographic travels to far-off corners of the world to capture images of the emaciated child with flies around his head, but poverty is not exotic and it’s not foreign; it’s right here at home.