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[Photo Credit: Revolution Report]

Much has happened since yesterday in Revolution news, so I thought I’d put it all in one place. First of all, at GDC (Gamer Develpers Conference) in San Jose, Nintendo had put out a Revolution on display behind a plexi-glass container. This is what is assumed to be the final design of the console itself. RevolutionReport snapped a few photos of it on display in a wide variety of angles, including one image where it was compared with a DS. From what I can see, it looks small, just longer than the DS it seems to be a minute console. On the back of the console there are two USB ports, a AV port and a DC in. The mysterious ports in the patent filing are missing (perhaps they will reveal this later?) The words ‘Revolution’ have also disappeared from the console and only the Nintendo logo is there. Maybe this is because it will be re-named?
The second piece of news fits in well with the last question. An Engadget reader (Helmut) sent in a photo (right) of what is apparently the new name of the Revolution, ‘Nintendo Go’, with some Japanese text (confirmed to make sense). Because of all the hype and fakery (remember the Nitendo ON?) around the Revolution I think this is fake, but we will have to wait and see if Nintendo does anything. Now that the Nintendo keynote is history, we can only assume that Nintendo may make a press release of the new name, or announce it alongside the release of the actual console.
The last news is the actual keynote. Both Joystiq and the Revolution Report did some good blogging of the Keynote. I will quickly run over the main things that happened.

• No big Revolution announcement (such as a name change).
• New fun game for DS ‘Brain Age’ to exercise the brain (logic game).
• Nintendo DS Zelda confirmed: Phantom Hourglass.
• Revolution download game library includes games from the Sega Genesis, NES, SNES and N64.
• Iwata (Nintendo President) ends the keynote with “At Nintendo, we do not run from risk, we run to it“.

So the keynote didn’t announce anything big for the Revolution, but the Brain Age game sounds fun and entertaining for the DS. Leave it to Nintendo to come up with such imaginitive ideas. I wish I had a DS…