Disappointing

In what might be the most obvious news report EVER in the history of humankind: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=new&aid=3008

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has given the first official indication that sales of the N-Gage game deck are not living up to expectations, but says that the platform must be given until November 2005 to prove itself.

Go, plastic taco, go!

Meanwhile…

USA military embarks on yet another stupid gaming project so they can be “hip” and “cool”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3507531.stm

The US Army is building a second version of Earth on computer to help it prepare for conflicts around the world.
The detailed simulation will be drawn from a real-world terrain database and will be drawn to the same scale as the original.

Seriously how the hell do you simulate an entire planet accurately enough for the data to have of any real life military application. Make the entire world population play the game?!?!