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Soon you will be able to enter Second Life on your cell phone via the NEC’s IP Voice and Media Solution, the SCI platform, announced at the Mobile World Congress 2008.

The connection between the real life and the virtual one will be made using the NEC Communicator which will be located in Second Life and the exhibition visitors will have the opportunity to use an avatar and make calls to other people in the real world using the Communicator.



More than that, the visitors that will try the system will be able to send SMS, e-mails and IP messages from the virtual world to the real one.
According to NEC’s press release, the Communicator will be placed at Tokutoku Pocket Island in Second Life and this will happen during Mobile World Congress.

EA has recently announced the artists who recorded the songs for the Sims 2 FreeTime soundtrack.
The expansion pack give to the Sims the possibility to explore new activities, hobbies and try interesting new careers, on the music of Natasha Bedingfield who’s new song, Pocketful of Sunshine, was chosen for the game and is sang in the Simlish language.

Along with this song you will also hear the voices of Lexington Bridge band from Germany, I’m from Barcelona band from Sweden, Datarock from Norway with "Fa-Fa-Fa" and Lara from Spain, while from the US are They Might Be Giants, Great Northern and Fire Flies with their "It's A Party".

Natasha Bedingfield has declared: "It was such a fun and delightful challenge to learn how to sing in Simlish. The language of The Sims captures a wonderful sense of beauty, creativity and humor, so my song 'Pocketful of Sunshine' translated well!"

On February 26 the FreeTime expansion pack will start shipping in US and on February 22 to Europe.

In Canada and US, Silverlode Interactive is launching a retails product for the SAGA online collectible game, in partnership with Alliance Game Distributors, Diamond Comics, ACD Distribution and GTS Distribution.

The game will be available in retails display with the game CD, the registration code and three booster packets, but there will be also the individual booster packs containing a card with the code to be unlocked online in exchange for a virtual pack with 50 different spells and 100 different troops.
The specialty packs in the boosters are five faction packs, dragon packs, double-rare packs and spell packs.

“Hobby Stores who first spurred our imaginations with role playing games have seen a decline in sales with the proliferation of online MMO worlds, and the same decline is now being seen in collectible game sales as more and more games move online. But SAGA turns the tables, providing a retail product to the people who brought us collectible games in the first place,” declared Jason Faller, Executive Producer for Silverlode Interactive.

The pre-orders can be made until February 22 while the products will start shipping on March 14 to the distributors.