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Put a Tiger in your tank. Or to be more precise a Tiger Telematics Gizmondo in your palm.
The Gizmondo is the latest go anywhere play anything platform that falls neatly between the GameBoy Advance and the N-Gage as it looks to be a games device with pretensions of being a phone but with the graphical muscle to back that up. Nvidia muscle at that with a spanking new 3D capable mobile chipset that should bring the best out of the 2.8" TFT screen.
Other widgets crammed into that frame are Bluetooth, GPRS, MP3 player, a camera, USB support and a bag full of other acronyms to tantalise even the most jaded of jargon junkies. Not the least of which is a GPS unit so that when some one tells you to get lost you can correctly say that you cannot.
And in a move calculated to boost the games portfolio in as prompt a manner as possible, Gizmondo Europe (the Euro subsidiary that actually will market the device), will be the primary beneficiaries of the acquisition of the developer studio Warthog by Tiger Telematics, in a deal valued at just over $1M plus stock.
Finally to end the week and to tie in with the UK launch a fortnight ago, Gizmondo have also announced that they have brokered another deal, this time with Microsoft (whose WinCE.Net acts as the base OS for the Gizmondo itself) to adapt versions of Age of Empires and MechAssault, a move seen as trying to cement the technical advantage that they appear to have.
The Gizmondo is due to be fully released in Europe and North America sometime next year.
Chris Snook
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