Bennu is a high level open source game development suite which focuses on modularity and portability, making it a perfect choice for cross-platform game development.

Although officialy it is only supported on Windows and Linux, Bennu can run on multiple other platforms, including *BSD, MacOSX and consoles such as GP2X, Wiz and Wii.

Bennu -which was born as a Fenix fork- is actively mantained and makes it easy for both beginners and experienced users to create their own games.

http://www.bennugd.org/?q=node/2

Madman is currently working on a shooter minigame which will feature 2 games modes. A regular one and an endless mode.

The normal mode will contain a certain amount of levels, the endless mode will feature an infinte amount of enemies coming at you randomly. How long can you survive?

For now everything is a work in progress and Madman is looking for feedback, so if you have a few spare minutes, play it and let him know what you think!

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49366-wiztype/page__view__findpost__p__752524

Many of you have already read about it, but actually not too much is known about the F-300, which is a slighty enhanced Wiz console.

Tony Han has sent us the appropriate specification sheet, which we quote as follow:

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Specifications (Specs):
CPU: ARM0 / 533MHz / 3D Accelerator
Display: 3.5 inch LCD Touch Screen Panel
RAM: 64MB
NAND Flash Memory: 1GB
OS: Linux
Battery: 1400mAh Lithium-ion Polymer
Size: 14.3cm(w) x 8.2cm(h) x 2.8cm(d)
Media display/playback:
Video formats: MPEG 4, Xvid, Divx, AVI – all @ maximum 640 x 480 (30fps)
Audio formats: OGG, WAV – lyrics supported
Image formats: JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and others
EBooks: TXT

Furthermore there is a calendar with world time function, a timer and a calculator.

The main difference to the Wiz is mainly the different screen (LCD instead OLED). It’s slightly larger than a Wiz console and has a weaker battery.

Tony Han has sent me an email regarding their “Promotional Video Clip Contest” a while ago, but we did not manage to post it yet… so here we go:

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Gamepark Holdings Co., Ltd is hosting a promotional video clip contest starting 15th October 2009, and ending on 20th November 2009 @ 23:59 in your local time zone.

Your Task:
1) Create a promotional clip, which promotes the GP2X WIZ
2) There is a time limit of 10 minutes
3) The clip should be enjoyable to anybody.
4) Violence, nudity, racism and other immoral content will not be tolerated.

Judging:
Judging will be done by Gamepark Holdings Co., Ltd officials and the general public.

Copyright:
Everyone should respect the copyright of others, so please only use elements with permission or generate your own content (preferred).

By submitting your entry, you agree that your video clip does not violate any copyrights. Furthermore, you consent to give Gamepark Holdings Co., Ltd permission use this video clip without restrictions.

How to submit your entry:
Step 1) Upload your Video to YouTube
Step 2) Write us an email to gph-video@gp2x.com with the appropriate URL of your clip.

Prize:
Once the result is announced, the 3 contestants with the most votes will receive a nice Christmas present from GPH.

WarmFluffyUK has managed to get a sneak preview of FunGP, which is Gamepark Holdings’ equivalent appstore type place.

FunGP will hold free and commercial games. Everything is in heavy testing phase and things should be ready for the public close to the upcomming winter season.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=49549

Pickle has updated Roman’s “Open Great Giana Sisters” game ( http://openggs.romanhoegg.ch/ ) to the Wiz!

This version adds a proper “C64 mode”, as the author Roman gained permission for the official C64 graphics. It’s a lot more authentic now!

Thanks to Pickle himself for the news via MSN.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,143

One day when Smallball woke up he discovered that Nasties had stolen all of his friends happyspirits! Without the HPs all of Smallballs friends was as braindead as zombies! Gather all of the HPs before the Nasties gets you too! But beware, you are in changeland where natural laws change constantly!

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,217

This is an enhanced interpreter for the Commander Keen 1-3 Series. It is based on the original CloneKeen engine.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,55

Wiz-Write is a text editor for Wiz.

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Here is Wiz-Write a text editor for Wiz. It permits to edit even huge text file, in both dos and unix mode, using iso8859-1 (8bits) characters encoding. All iso8859-1 characters are present in the “Danzeff like” virtual keyboard.

Background images have been designed by Gruso (many thanks to him). This version supports the Wiz Touch screen, for both menus and virtual keyboard.

How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/380-Wiz-Write-A-Text-Editor-for-Wiz-v1.1.0.html

G. Eijer updated his “Game Of Life” variant.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,209