Habbo Hotel is a virtual five star Hotel. You can hang out with friends, meet hundreds of people, create your own room and decorate it however you like and yes, you can even bounce around on a bright red rubber ball!

It's completely free to 'check in' and once you've registered, you can chill with your friends, meet new ones or take part in a wide variety of activities and competitions. Habbo has been designed for 14 to 20 year olds in the UK, but everyone's welcome!

Sulake can stand to make significant money off porting Habbo to cell phones. The company plans to work with handset manufacturers, to preinstall the mobile community, carriers, to boost mobile portal traffic, and other entertainment brands to distribute content wirelessly. A Habbo-themed handset could even be in order–Habbo MVNO? It's such a good idea that combined with the success of the Internet site, a company exec said Sulake is planning an IPO at the end of next year.

One reason Habbo Hotel will likely be so successful on the mobile, is because its virtual-only animations and avatars, exclude some of the real-world problems associated with a MySpace-style social network. It's the same thing with Cyworld, Korea's mostly virtual world, which has also been successful on mobile.

Putting together the required silicon to offer an Xbox experience on a handheld will be a difficult task for whoever designs this portable console, not because of a technology barrier, but because of prices. With the Nintendo DS costing as low as $129.99, and the Sony PSP selling for $199.99, Microsoft will have a hard time bringing the Xbox console to a handheld device at a price lower than $300. The only way people could pay for an Xbox Portable more than what the DS and the PSP cost would be if Microsoft offered with the XP something its competitor can’t; not hardware specs so much as software and services.

Team Xbox envisions a system with a QWERTY keyboard, directional pad, trackball and four action buttons. The article then goes on to examine a wide variety of handheld devices on the market (Sidekick 3, QTek 9000, OQO 01+, etc.) and describes what features that Microsoft could possibly emulate when coming up with its own portable gaming unit. As for the hardware choices, there are a number of possibilities for a processor including Transmeta's Efficeon and XScale (which Intel recently sold off to Marvell). Here's Team Xbox's take on the graphics for the XP:

Of its entire technical specifications, it is worth highlighting that the nVIDIA GoForce 5500 is the first handheld GPU to playback and encode H.264, WMV9 and MPEG-4 video up to 720 X 480 (NTSC) and 720 X 576 (PAL) resolution at 30 frames per second with 24-bit surround sound, making the GoForce 5500 compatible with major mobile TV standards, and capable of both recording and decoding video at DVD-quality. The GoForce 5500 also offers digital photography features, including multi-shot capabilities with support up to 10 Megapixel resolution digital still images.

Wearing a green minidress and red platform pumps, Hilton made a brief appearance at the Electronic Entertainment Expo to promote "Paris Hilton's Jewel Jam."

"Sorry I'm late," the heiress said. "I'm really excited to have my new video game, 'Diamondquest.' Thank you all for coming, and you can download the game," she said.

After Hilton arrived, men in business suits jockeyed for space with reporters and computer geeks as she sat at a table posing for photographers while signing autographs.

One problem--the promotional materials plastered all over Hilton's booth touted the game as Paris Hilton's Jewel Jam, not Diamond Quest, leading to speculation that perhaps the socialite hadn't bothered to learn her lines before showing up at E3.

On Friday, a publicist for Gameloft tried to back Hilton up, saying that Diamond Quest was one of several names being bandied about for the game before the company settled on Jewel Jam. Moments later, the rep called back, this time insisting that the game's name had been changed to Paris Hilton Diamond Quest from Gameloft just moments before her announcement, despite the slew of promo materials to the contrary. Jewel Jam, the rep claimed, was simply a working title.

The name of the cell phone-based game seems to be an ongoing point of confusion for the game purveyor.

In a May 5 release, Gameloft announced that the game was called Paris Hilton's Jewelry Case, while the official E3 Website has it listed as Paris Hilton's Jewl (yes, "Jewl") Jam.

With all the misinformation out there, it's impressive Hilton was able to produce the correct name when it came time, particularly since all the game-related info at her booth clearly referred to Paris Hilton's Jewel Jam.

Paris Hilton's Diamond Quest is the first official mobile game featuring the dazzling socialite. The objective, in this simple yet addictive gameplay, is to solve exciting, frantic puzzles based on an easy concept: switch around stunning diamonds in a grid to line up identical gems and - depending on the challenge or mode - beat the high score in a given time. With more than sixty levels and six different modes - including the fun and original "Diamonds are Forever," "Fortune Telling," and "Forget Me Not" - Paris Hilton's Diamond Quest will keep players of all kinds glued to their mobile phones for hours at a time. As an added bonus, photos of Paris herself will be revealed, and the star will regularly show up to guide, help, and challenge you as the game goes on. Even Tinkerbell, her celebrity dog, will make a surprise appearance! Paris Hilton's Diamond Quest will be launched in June 2006 across 150 carriers worldwide in over 70 countries reaching 1 billion plus subscribers.

The Mario Kart franchise has sold more than 11.1 million games in the United States alone. Mario Kart DS offers racers more than 30 courses, including classic tracks from Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Favorite Nintendo characters cruise in dozens of classic and custom karts as they use weapons like bananas, bombs, lightning and squid ink to gain a competitive advantage.

When racing using a wireless local area connection, up to eight players can play, even if only one of them has a Mario Kart DS game card. When using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, up to four players across the world can join a race. Friends share their DS Friend Code to find one another online using their friend roster.

Outside the home, when a user brings a Nintendo DS unit and a Wi-Fi-enabled game into a Wayport-enabled McDonald's restaurant locations, the user simply launches the game in Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection mode. No setup is required.

From director, Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and writer Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning team of A Beautiful Mind comes the film version of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, one of the most popular and talked about novels of our time, with a cast headed by two-time Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Sir Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina and Paul Bettany.

Produced by Grazer and John Calley, The Da Vinci Code, begins with a spectacular murder in the Louvre Museum. All clues point to a covert religious organization that will stop at nothing to protect a secret that threatens to overturn 2,000 years of accepted dogma.

Service providers are said to be welcoming mobile phonegaming, which represents the fastest growing part of the video game industry, as an extra revenue source.

According to Electronic Arts, it anticipates up to USD25m in revenue to result from the intended launch of 15-20 mobile phone games by the end of 2005

The object of the game is to skip a stone across the surface of a lake as many times as possible. The power gauge on the right of the screen allows the player to dose the initial power of the release of the stone. As the user releases the stone at a higher level, the stone starts jumping at a higher initial point, affecting the stone's trajectory. Subsequent skips of the stone on the water must be timed, using one-thumb presses of the key pad, in such a way as to maximize the stone's traveled distance across the lake.

Topolon, from Japanese publisher G-Mode, is one of the most addictive and intellectually involving puzzle games ever devised, for any platform. It's not a Tetris or Dr. Mario knockoff, like half of the genre's games seem to be, although it has that same type of spark; it's not based on any board game we've heard of; and it's not currently available outside of Japan, to the best of our knowledge. Strangely, this isn't because it's too technologically advanced for US or European handsets to handle, as is the case with many other Japanese mobile games--in fact, the game's presentation is about as complicated as your average stick figure or napkin diagram. This is simply a product of mathematical and spatial genius, turned from abstraction into reality. Topolon is at once the ultimate game for casual players and the perfect choice for those seeking to be driven insane by a video game.