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Tony DeRuiter writes: "The release of this new G4 is causing quite a stir in the video game community believe it or not. And not PC gaming, but console gaming. You see, Nintendo's next generation game console, has been rumored to be under the name of Star Cube, and in a cubic shape. Not only that, but seeing as how this Star Cube uses a CPU of the PowerPC architecture, and the fact that many of the development kits are Macintosh based, many have deducted that Apple and Nintendo have formed some sort of partnership. It does seem very odd that two companies have the exact same design idea for their hardware and both are connected in the similarity of their hardware internally. I thought you might be able to dig up some info or just run with this. You can find a whole mess of Star Cube info at places like:"

www.tendobox.com

www.planetn2000.com

www.nintendoexpress.com

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