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Al-Quran for PSP v1.4 - now in French

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2008-04-19 21:04:21 by Sally B. in PSP Updates
Homebrew developer momochi zabuza 's has updated Al-Quran for the PlayStation Portable, the homebrewed Islamic religious reference archive compiled for the Sony handheld (previous update here The main change for this release is the addition of the French translation of Al-Quran, letting French speakers enjoy the vast resource of Islam and...
 
Tags: quran, al-quran, psp, french translation, analog stick control, sony psp, french speakers enjoy, muslim literature, readme file
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Greenpeace's Al-Hajj Talks Green Consoles

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2008-04-09 16:00:10 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
This Alistair Wallis-penned interview ran late last week on Gamasutra, and is notable because I think it's one of the first times someone has followed up with the organization and quizzed them in more details on their skewering of game hardware companies for not being sufficiently 'green International activist organization Greenpeace recently...
 
Tags: game console manufacturers, game console, game console industry, industry, mobile industry, global industry, laptop industry, aviation industry, console industry
 
 
 
 
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Bienvenue à Montréal!

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2008-05-27 13:51:08 by Erin in the play girlz gaming blog
Reporting from Montréal this week where, thankfully, Im staying in a rather anglo-centric area so that I dont insult/torment French culture with my mutilated Franglais. Although my reasons for being here are non-gaming, it certainly hasnt stopped me from scouring my area around Saint-Catherine and Guy for information Im happy to report that...
 
Tags: insulttorment french culture, video game culture, video games, montral, games, randomly overheard, game development, short walk, utiii reference
 
 
 
 
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RPS Interview: Al Lowe

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2008-02-06 12:32:50 by John Walker in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
Anyone who grew up with games in the late 80s and 90s will be so very familiar with the name Al Lowe. Famous, infamous, certainly notorious, he was the creator of Leisure Suit Larry , a series of daft, entertaining, and ever-so-slightly naughty adventure games from Sierra. Lowes credits go far beyond Larry, working on stories and coding for many...
 
Tags: games, police quest games, lowe, larry, original larry, naughty adventure games, leisure suit larry, magna cum laude, loveless lounge lizard
 
 
 
 
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GDC 08: Creating an Industry: Ralph Baer & Al Alcorn

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2008-02-21 18:33:18 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
If you have to read instructions than it's a bad game." -Al Alcorn, GDC 2008 As one of the biggest retro videogame fans on the planet, that quote from a rainy Wednesday afternoon session with literal creator of the videogame Ralph Baer and inventor of Pong Al Alcorn meant the world to me. And kind of changed my life a little bit Sitting in a...
 
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Al Alcorn on the birth of Atari and holographic gaming - IGN interview

2008-03-11 08:29:24 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
Al Alcorn is one of the most important figures from the earliest days of the videogame industry. Not only was he there at the birth of Atari, alongside Nolan Bushnell, but he was the engineer who built Pong the second coin-operated videogame machine and the game that kicked off an industry. He was also integral to the creation of the Atari VCS...
 
Tags: atari, videogame industry, industry, atari vcs, alcorn, alongside nolan bushnell, company, birth, incredibly successful
 
 
 
 
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Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis (PS2) - Review

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2008-06-01 03:42:53 by masem in Masem's Gaming Blog
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis is a spiritual sequel to the Atelier Iris series of role-playing games from Gust and publisehed by NIS for the PlayStation 2. The games focus besides the usual combat is that of alchemy, using easily-obtained ingredients in new recipes to make more powerful items and battle equipment. The game plays much like...
 
Tags: atelier iris, atelier iris series, game plays, game, game continues, perfect game, character, character growth, character quests
 
 
 
 
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Game|Life The Video, #5: Ralph Baer, Al Alcorn

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2008-03-12 16:46:33 by Chris Kohler in Wired: Game|Life
 
In this week's episode of Game|Life The Video, we are graced by the presence of two of the men who got the videogame industry rolling. We talk with Ralph Baer, inventor of the first home game system Odyssey, and Al Alcorn, designer of that seminal arcade game Pong Then, Chris Baker returns as we talk over our feelings about God of War: Chains of...
 
Tags: video, ralph baer, chris baker returns, pong creators discuss, video editor, olympus, olympus sweet, videogame industry, chains
 
 
 
 
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Details on New Xbox Experience, Avatars, Netflix, Primetime, et al

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2008-07-14 00:00:00 by Christopher Grant in Joystiq
Filed under: Features , Microsoft Xbox 360 , E3 click to enlarge Immediately following this morning's press conference , we got a chance to sit down with Xbox VP of Strategy and Business Development, Shane Kim, to pick his brain about the new Dashboard (called the "New Xbox Experience") and its various components, like the Netflix integration,...
 
Tags: netflix, xbox, xbox experience, netflix service, avatars, netflix integration, xbox live, netflix subscriber, deliver avatars
 
 
 
 
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Star Trek Online: Team Profile: Al Rivera

2008-09-09 16:17:17 by Editor in