***This is a re-run of yesterday’s story, only with the headline we should’ve done at the time. Sorry for the error.***

Trip Hawkins is now… selling an Atkins Diet application for the 3 Mobile phone network. At least it’s a better idea than 3DO.

Using Atkins2Go, 3’s customers will be able to look up the carbohydrate values in various foods on their mobile phone, log foods eaten along and track their carbohydrate intake and weight loss over time. Already popular in the United States, Atkins2Go is the first application of its kind developed specifically for the over 20 million people worldwide who embrace the Atkins Nutritional Approach(tm) and are looking for quick and easy mobile applications to support their lifestyles

Trip Hawkins, Chief Executive and Founder of Digital Chocolate said: “Atkins2Go brings more freedom and convenience to mobile users who are conscious of their carb intake as part of a healthy lifestyle. We’re excited that 3 shares our commitment to creating the most easy-to-use, fun applications for today’s mobile lifestyle.”

ABOUT TRIP HAWKINS
He made a rubbish company that made some rubbish games.

3 – Company site – Digital Chocolate and 3 bring Atkins2Go(tm) to mobile in European first

Fans of shooting games well catered for in day-one release schedule:

It’s not just for hardcore gamers, it’s for *everyone* that likes to buy squad-based war games set in realistic environments!

You’re a Star Wars fan. You’ve watched the new trilogy. You will NEVER be able to look at the ice-cool cyborg samurai who vapourises planets again without thinking of Hayden Christensen’s curmudgeonly doughplate grunting out the words “I slaughdered them like animaaals!” Short of Darth Vader shilling mobile phones, could things get any worse?

Oh, wait.

Warning: Dwelling on things like this for too long can make the back of your eyes itch, so be sure to keep a rusty wire hanger around in case you need a REALLY GOOD SCRATCH. We did, and now pictures like this can’t hurt us again. Ever.

He’s… selling an Atkins Diet application for the 3 Mobile phone network. At least it’s a better idea than 3DO.

Using Atkins2Go, 3’s customers will be able to look up the carbohydrate values in various foods on their mobile phone, log foods eaten along and track their carbohydrate intake and weight loss over time. Already popular in the United States, Atkins2Go is the first application of its kind developed specifically for the over 20 million people worldwide who embrace the Atkins Nutritional Approach(tm) and are looking for quick and easy mobile applications to support their lifestyles

Trip Hawkins, Chief Executive and Founder of Digital Chocolate said: “Atkins2Go brings more freedom and convenience to mobile users who are conscious of their carb intake as part of a healthy lifestyle. We’re excited that 3 shares our commitment to creating the most easy-to-use, fun applications for today’s mobile lifestyle.”

ABOUT TRIP HAWKINS
He made a rubbish company that made some rubbish games.

3 – Company site – Digital Chocolate and 3 bring Atkins2Go(tm) to mobile in European first

Hoodies. HOODIES. In Sega’s flagship RPG. Not even camp Japanese snorefests about the love lives of jailbait space elves in the future are safe from being chavved up now.

Yo, the Motavia Crew is challengin’ you to- no, it’s no good. We can’t work under these conditions any more.

The latest bewilderingly detailed update on the progress of Xbox 360 linchgame Gotham 3 is here, and comes with the below grid of Gotham 3 images.

You might be able to find some clues about the game by looking at it for a long time in a methodical manner, like a modern day and internet-based Lieutenant Columbo!

It’s 73 wide and 68 high which makes 4964, then you subtract the 38 blank squares at the bottom right to get 4926, Carol. This has been an enjoyable update to do, as it combines problem solving maths and a game we’re really looking forward to, AND we’re going to make a joke about wanting to die so we look all sensitive.

THE ONLY OTHER GAMES WE WANT TO PLAY BEFORE WE DIE:

Ninja Gaiden Black

Virtua Tennis… whatever it’s called on PSP

Sonic Rush

That Jeff Minter light thing

That really is about it, which means we can die in November.

The time has passed when you even had to have any photoshop talent to take part in an interweb craze. See?

“Show the world we’re not afraid of what happened in London,” they bleat. Let’s see how brave you’d have been if you’d seen half a burning double decker bus full of charred man turning somersaults through the air.

There has to be a better way to hurt strangers than to Google the internet for masturbation sites and make posts on them like “Dipping a cotton bud in toothpaste and inserting it into your urethra will give you the most intense orgasm EVER!!!!!” There just HAS to be.

Sorry, not sex shows. That’s our imagination running wild again. Rich is doing some live MUSIC shows, playing orchestral arrangements of Sonic and highlights from his critically acclaimed Headhunter soundtrack, as part of the Video Games Live concert tour.

Speaking EXCLUSIVELY TO US BECAUSE HE LOVES US MORE THAN ANY OTHER WEB SITE OR PEOPLE, Rich said “I had some Headhunter music played, plus I arranged and orchestrated a suite featuring the music from Sonic the Hedgehog, and put together a Classic Arcade Medley featuring everything from Pong, Tetris, Outrun, Rastan, Donkey Kong etc”.

AND HERE’S RICHARD DOING IT LIVE:

If we’d been there watching this our heads would’ve EXPLODED with joy at Richard Jacques doing the music off Sonic, live. Seriously. They’d still be wiping the brain (and semen) off the seats and probably even the roof.

Crikey, Richard Jacques AND Yuji Naka standing next to each other! This sort of thing shouldn’t be allowed, in case some sort of freak accident (meteorite, explosion, spurned gay serial killer rampage) happens and they both get killed and destroy most of what’s left of what’s good about the games industry.

Look! Elijah Wood is pointing at Richard, because he knows Richard is the more famous and best person! The weasly little shit. He’s not making us jealous. We don’t care. WANKER.

Find out more about Video Games Live here. HINT: Read the forum. There’s a very attractive female organiser you might like to get obsessed about (it’s safe because she lives in America, so when she says she’d rather just be good friends you can reply saying “yes, that’s what I was thinking too, actually, despite what I wrote in that really long email this morning. Long-distance relationships never work”).

Make it look like you care about something other than yourself, dinner and having sex via the medium of plastic!

Friday 15th July 2005… The Entertainment Software Charity (ESC), the computer and video games industry’s official charity, has announced details of its latest fundraising initiative, the launch of four ESC Gamers wristbands, giving the UK’s gamers a chance to express their passion and raise money for young people’s charities.

A must have for all gamers from eight to eighty, the wristbands are inexpensive, make a statement, are socially responsible and help to raise funds for a variety of important charities. More than a mere fashion statement; the ESC wristbands can really make a difference.

ESC CEO Mark Strachan commented: “The ESC wristbands will be the must have item of the late summer and autumn. Many major charitable causes have adopted this method of fundraising. The wristbands give people the opportunity to make a statement and show their support and we are sure that gamers will be wearing their bands with pride.”

Thanks, but we’ll stick with the Handkerchief System of signalling that we like it (a) rough, (b) with no strings, and preferably (c) with a girl who weighs less than we do.

Don’t laugh, that would’ve been you on the left if you’d been born ten years earlier:

Even in the 1970s the poor girls just stood there, looking bored and staring into the middle distance as the Alpha Males competed. If only you could still shut them up by giving them a balloon.

Retro Arcade – a photoset on Flickr