Digital downloads seem to be the way of the future, looking at the current landscape of the gaming industry now. Even analysts say that retail will be overtaken by digital distribution in a mere three years' time. Nintendo's big boss, Satoru Iwata, begs to differ, however. To him, digital distribution will sure be a hit -- but not till 20 years later.

The DaedalusX64 dev team has released another round of update for Nintendo 64 emulator for the PSP. The latest alpha revision of DaedalusX64 has implemented various improvements and fixed some minor bugs cased by the previous release.


Download: DaedalusX64 Alpha Revision 441

For this offering of our weekly recap, we see a resurgence of all sorts in the gaming industry. Finally we see a PS3 kicking ass in the sales charts, finally we see another big homebrew breakthrough for the PSP, and finally, it looks like things are definitely looking up for the videogame world in general. It is certainly looking like it's gonna be a happy holidays we're having this year.

The NPD results are out for the month of September, and look at what we have here! A mighty and proud showing of PS3 sales finally taking over the spot beyond the Xbox 360 and the Wii -- for the first time ever. That's not to say that it topped all of the charts, though. A couple hundred thousands more till it successfully topples down the Nintendo DS from its # 1 spot.

Good news guys! Homebrew coder Kreationz and the rest of the DaedalusX64 team have released a new update for the ever-popular Nintendo 64 emulator for the PSP. Notable features of the latest DaedalusX64 revision include some minor bug fixes and various other speed improvements.


Download: DaedalusX64 Alpha Revision 435

The DaedalusX64 team is back to release a new update of the ever-popular Nintendo 64 emulator for the PSP. The latest build of DaedalusX64 has added Clean Scene to fix various rendering glitches and added some more features.


Download: DaedalusX64 Alpha Revision 434

Nintendo's main man in America, Reggie Fils-Aime, is making it known that he's not that much of a fan of the PSP Go, characterizing its concept as problematic. In an article from The Washington Post, it is reported that Fils-Aime described the newest Sony handheld as having a "fundamental concept problem."

Emulator fans rejoice! The DaedalusX64 team is back to release another round of update for the Nintendo 64 emulator for the PSP. The latest alpha build of DaedalusX64 has added some new features and other bug fixes.


Download: DaedalusX64 Alpha Revision 431
Download: DaedalusX64 Alpha Revision 432

We've been so attuned to the hardware sales charts the past couple of weeks, thanks to Media Create, so for a change, let's veer our sights to softwares. For the week of September 14-20, Pokemon Soul Silver and HeartGold take spots number 1 and 2, respectively.

The claws are out -- and from Apple, wouldn't you know! Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing VP main man, is calling out the PSP and the DS, handheld gadgets from Sony and Nintendo respectively, for being overpriced. And not being cool anymore. Kssshhh...