Day: March 12, 2007

“According to their web site, Orions uses a powerful particle engine for animation. Now, I have no idea what this means, and I suspect that you don’t either; and it really doesn’t matter. What does matter is that the animation in this game is crisp, smooth, and exceptionally well drawn. Unlike many graphically-rich games, however, Orions does not rely on the graphics and animation to tell the story. In fact, this is a game which would probably be just as interesting and enjoyable with minimal animation and graphics. Orions does not need these graphics, however, it certainly uses them well and benefits from their presence in the game.” Read more here:

“PaintBall 2, by Greek developers CrazySoft, is a puzzle game which revolves around trying to clear coloured spheres from the playing area by painting a row of three or more the same colour. Your paint colour changes after each move and your paint supply (or “life”) is limited. When you run out of paint, the game ends.If a row of same-coloured spheres is next to one of the pipes that surround the grid, the pipe sucks it away so that more spheres can fall into the playing area from above. When a row disappears, you get more paint and your score goes up, with a longer row giving you even more paint and points.An added twist is the concept of “hot pipes”, where pipes that are used a lot start to glow red and give you bonus points and paint. There are also other extras, such as wobbling spheres (which you have to suck away as quicky as possible for bonus points) and letter spheres (which give you a mega-bonus when you spell out the entire word “paintball”).This review was written using a Nokia E61, and uses the S60 3rd Edition version. Please note the S60 3rd version is only for models with 240×320 or 320×240 screens, other resolutions aren’t supported. There’s also a UIQ3 version of PaintBall 2.” Read more here:

“The communicator codenamed HTC Panda hasn’t been officially introduced yet, but first bits of information have already leaked into the Net. The device will come in a conventional-looking candy-bar form-factor based on Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition AKU 3.5. The brightest spots on its spec sheet include a 3,5-inch display, tri-band conncetivity and lack of EDGE data, however the last two points might result from the unofficial nature of the information we are presenting you with. It’s expected that HTC Panda will be released under the name of HTC P6300.Specifications for HTC Panda (HTC P6300):
Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition AKU 3.5 operating system
GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS
3,5-inch display with QVGA (240×320 pixels) resolution
1,9 Mpix autofocus-enabled camera
Samsung SC32442 CPU running at 400 MHz
64 Mb of RAM and 256 Mb of flash-memory
Memory expansion slot for MMC, SD, SDIO cards
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0, USB 1.1
1300 mAh Li-Pol battery
Dimensions – 129x70x18 mm
Weight – 160 grams” via mobile-review.com