Here's how I think it's going to work

In the next generation of games consoles.

Cross platform games will be the same as they ever were. The Revolution will not be a special case, there will either be a simple port using the quoted "gamecube style controller", or no Revolution port at all (more likely).

Xbox 360 is just going to converge on more and more online military shooters and other fps, along with some reasonable driving games. That is where the demand is on that system, if you follow the charts. There will be the odd thing here and there to point to, like KOTOR. Variety makes sense, and you can throw money at people to do it. Microsoft's forte. Kameo will probably be better than people expect, followed by five more years of nothing from Rare. Even people in a coma will know the Halo 3 release date. Someone will die from being crushed and trapped by an Xbox 360 power supply.

Revolution will, as stated above, play host mainly to standard-controller ports, the odd third party 'wand' game (which will probably be quite good) and be basically the complete gaming opposite of the Xbox 360. Microsoft will continue to not bother challenging Nintendo in any of their accepted 'home turf' in full belief that they will eventually purchase the company outright. Nintendo will release wand-enabled versions of every franchise they have, which will sometimes be good, sometimes bad, and sometimes marketed correctly. Owning one will still be 'gay' and normal people will look at you funny, giving you a strange desire to defend it with concepts like 'pure gameplay' and 'I just prefer the games', even though there won't have been a Nintendo game released for the last three months or so (at any given time), and any example you give will actually only cement their opinion.

PS3 will dominate sales again. Blu-ray will be the only logical choice of HDTV media format, and PS3 will be the only console offering it. Anyone with a PSP will be powerless to resist the Internet media streaming facility. If it isn't out by April, it won't be out until September. The price will be so high that the console will get an air of being a status symbol, and even people who don't play games will buy one, which will be ironic, because the first wave of games will be boring, crap or bizarre. This will be followed by several franchise titles, which will probably get their various version numbers dropped because the numbers are getting embarassingly high. The controller, being basically still the same as the one that came out for PS1 in response to the N64, will suck.

The Video iPod: What you need to know

Interesting stuff about the finer details, the video out isn't particularly good, and they've dropped the remote socket completely by the looks of things. They've dropped firewire data transfer too, which upsets me for some reason :(

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None-organic natural methane production?

New research coauthored by Dudley Herschbach, Baird research professor of science and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, questions that thinking. Published last fall in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study describes how investigators combined three abiotic (non-living) materials -- water (H2O), limestone (CaCO3), and iron oxide (FeO) -- and crushed the mixture together with the same intense pressure found deep below the earth's surface. This process created methane (CH4), the major component of natural gas.

What about the dinosaurs? :(

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iPod with Wi-Fi in the works.

Apple is working on a wi-fi equipped iPod with networking capabilities and the ability to directly interface with Airport Express base stations for streaming of iPod audio -- and even downloading of music from the iTunes Music Store, grabbing Podcasts, et cetera.

I think they're reaching a little with some of the fine details and the guesswork regarding the Vingle thing, sounds a bit retarded. A wi-fi/Airport Express combo would be most welcome though :)

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