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TECH: Wi-fi gets easier; Riddick goes Xbox; ID tags go high tech...
...Sims 2 ($49.99 for PC) hits shelves on Sept. 17, a full nine months after its original due date. Wright's team is also hard at work on a highly cartoonish city-dweller version of The Sims for Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation 2, called The Urbz, which is set to appear before Christmas. In The Urbz, your goal is even more elusive than living a good life. Basically, you're looking to rack up cool points and persuade gangs of punks, rappers or ravers to emulate your style. It's survival of the hippest. Zombie-killing teens need not apply...
...they're not interested," says Alec Saunders, a Windows programmer who recently quit after nine years at the company. Stung by a slowdown in corporate IT spending, Microsoft made a major play for our living rooms and pockets, with mixed results. It sank billions into the video-game business (Xbox and its soon-to-be-announced successor, Xbox 2), the cell-phone business (partnering with longtime ally Intel) and something called smart personal object technology (SPOT), which uses FM-radio bands to deliver sports, weather and stock prices to devices like watches and refrigerator-door magnets for a subscription...
Results have been mixed. With its price slashed from $179 to $149, way below cost, the Xbox is on course to overtake the hallowed Sony PlayStation 2 as the top game system in North America. But Sony holds a strong lead in sales of games, which is where the money is. Microsoft has created three flavors of Windows for cell phones, but none have caught fire. "Windows is just a lot more than a cell phone needs," says Simon Yates, an analyst for Forrester Research. And the clunky SPOT watch--a derisive critic said wearing it is "like having...
When you're a ninja, your job is slicing large evil people into large-evil-people cutlets. Motivation is not a problem. In Ninja Gaiden (Xbox; $49.99), the latest installment in a venerable series that began on the old Nintendo Entertainment System, you play a limber little guy wearing a purple pantsuit who's on some major quest, the point of which is not easy to understand--dragon this, family honor that and so on. Whatever. You won't get bored unless leaping into the air, running along a wall, doing a somersault, tossing three shuriken (ninja throwing stars...