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November 20, 2014
I'm out of the hospital and recovering slowly by doctors orders I can resume to work tomorrow and also start shipping again Saturday. Anything I pack and send tracking for... Read more
October 5, 2014
Hey Backers, our Full Update is in the works but will be submitted on Wednesday, rather than tonight, in order to be sure all arrangements with the post office for... Read more
July 6, 2014
Hey guys, after shipping out most of the "final 14" confirmed units this week before the post office closed for the holiday, we're now headed into our final projected week... Read more
June 29, 2014
Hey fellow Backers! It's Update time once again. Thanks for waiting one extra day. I wished for more shipping to be completed before posting this week and today more units... Read more
June 27, 2014
We are excited to announce that GCW - Game Consoles Worldwide LLC is now an official LPI - Linux Professional Institute corporate member. They have recognized and acknowledged how GCW... Read more
June 21, 2014
As another week draws to a close, our goal of shipment completion draws closer as well. In less than a month, all remaining Pledge Reward GCW Zeros will be en... Read more
June 13, 2014
Hey Backers, it's time for another Update- not too many more to go before all shipping has been completed! As for the news we'll be sharing with you after we've... Read more
June 6, 2014
Please e-mail this address addresschange.gcw@gmail.com with the e-mail you used on KickStarter to make your pledge to confirm your address change or current postal mailing address.
This is the format... Read more
June 5, 2014
Hey Backers, as you may have noticed, there's been lots of activity at GCW and shipping has been progressing steadily. Justin has been prepping, packing and shipping throughout the week.... Read more
May 28, 2014
After two weeks of unfortunate, time-consuming complications mentioned in previous Updates and its projected shipping date pushed back twice, the latest batch of Zeros has finally been dropped off at... Read more
May 21, 2014
Regarding the battery discussion, it's true that the prototype consoles had a 2800mAH battery with RAM that was 3.3 volts with a battery life of 8 to 10 hours.
It... Read more
May 20, 2014
May 15, 2014
May 11, 2014
I'm sorry to share such unfortunate news but due to Justin Barwick's current state of ill health following two days of hospitalization for diverticulitis, this weekend's planned shipment of consoles... Read more
April 29, 2014
As GCW's new PR representative, one goal I hold of the highest priority is to do my best to deliver what backers of this project have been asking for first... Read more
March 19, 2014
February 21, 2014
60 units were shipped this week. The shipping process continues. Expect us to slowly catch up on e-mails and messages sent. Currently the focus lies on getting units out of... Read more
February 10, 2014
After dealing with a family emergency during the last few weeks, it has come to my attention that quite a few of you backers have been rather worried about the... Read more
January 2, 2014
We haven't forgotten about you! How could we? Not only have you all helped to make this project a reality, but every day goes by that we have to sit... Read more
December 24, 2013
The Staff/Developers here at GCW would like to wish everyone a Safe and Happy Holiday's.
We just got a great Christmas Eve surprise from the local print shop the smaller... Read more
December 11, 2013
Still waiting on printer to deliver CE stickers and have artist working on a sticker that will comply with CE & WEEE that we can get printed locally or by... Read more
December 2, 2013
Only 533 units are left to ship. While the Asian, South American and Australian orders continued to ship, the European shipments had to be stalled in order to meet the... Read more
November 26, 2013
The actual CE conformity letter is written and we should resume shipping Friday to all countries affected by the requirement.
On another not numerous people have e--mailed me about seeing... Read more
November 25, 2013
For those who have contacted me stating for some unknown reason their FedEx package is being returned instead of delivered due to wrong address or no reason at all.
Please... Read more
November 22, 2013
We are pleased to hear that with every hour passing more and more units sent to the USA and Canada get into the hands of their happy owners. With a... Read more
November 21, 2013
We are glad to announce that all of the pledges within the United States and Canada have shipped as of yesterday.
The United States shipments are being handled via FedEx... Read more
November 13, 2013
All of the pledges still withstanding in the United States will ship FedExSmartPost on Monday r Tuesday. All European or over seas packages are being shipped and will be completed... Read more
October 30, 2013
# Shipping and Availability of Units
A fulfillment company was approached to deal with shipments in order to speed up the delivery process. However, due to their unfitness in handling... Read more
October 16, 2013
September 14, 2013
A milestone has been reached. 778 KS units have been shipped and another 200 are scheduled to ship on Saturday - but the project... Read more
September 6, 2013
Why did I goto PAX?
For this project to stay alive after the KickStarter it needs exposure to attract more developers Indie and Commercial alike so the console library will... Read more
August 29, 2013
I'm only one person with the help of my wife and kid sometime to ship all of these packages. With the delays and added expenses from delays and damages unexpected... Read more
August 20, 2013
Ok alot of you have had questions and I'm going to try and address them as quick as possible with this e-mail.
1. Giving estimated numbers and such is alittle... Read more
August 6, 2013
How to connect to WPA/WPA2 Networks
July 30, 2013
Thank you so much for believing in the project and helping us get fully funded. As most of you know, the units are in house... Read more
July 25, 2013
Thats right "The Eagle Has Landed" the KickStarter GCW Zero consoles have arrive with the fixed D-Pad and buttons. You all have asked a couple questions so I will take... Read more
July 19, 2013
Just got off the phone with customs estimated date for customs clearance is July 22nd or July 23rd, 2013 then it should only take about 2 to 3 days till... Read more
July 14, 2013
Kick Starter GCW Zero Consoles hit American Customs via Air Freight in New York, New York at 2:30PM yesterday. Now starts process of clearing customs I will keep you posted... Read more
July 9, 2013
The shipment of consoles should make land fall here in the USA tomorrow or Thursday. Once that happens it will go through customs hopefully faster then last time. As always... Read more
June 28, 2013
Everyone if you have an SE with Sticky D-Pad the three options are:
1. Send it back and we will replace it with a new smaller one for you.
2.... Read more
June 26, 2013
Yes the KS models will have the smaller D-Pad and buttons to prevent any sticking of them that appeared in some of the SE models that have been shipped.
We... Read more
June 18, 2013
We are wrapping up shipping the SE aka Early adopter models today/tonight. We then will commence/continue flashing and rigorous QA/QC testing of the consoles as some of the first... Read more
June 13, 2013
For those who did not yet know we have partnered with Evil Dragon aka Michael of Open Pandora and their project to bring all of 3D Realms titles we have... Read more
June 7, 2013
GCW Zero - KickStarter Units
This form is for GCW KickStarter backers. Thank you so much for believing in the project and helping us get fully funded. We have reached... Read more
We have shipped 60 SE units so far between my day job and time I have at night another twenty were QA/QC again last night and package they just need... Read more
June 2, 2013
GCW Zero Flash Party Pics and Pictures of GCW HQ. Hope you enjoy the pics... I'm bushed now the fun of packing and shipping the SE's... It was a lot... Read more
June 1, 2013
Ok everyone has asked questions in comments. The way we are currently doing the GCW Zero SE is flash a batch pack them and ship them this process will carry... Read more
May 24, 2013
More photos of the factory and the GCW Zero going through Assembly. Also pictures of two boxes of the consoles we recieved already here. The count is twenty consoles per box... Read more
May 22, 2013
Long over due photos of the factory and the GCW Zero going through Assembly.... Enjoy I have a xcouple picture from Articus who was here helping flash over the weekend... Read more
May 13, 2013
Shipment hit the Kansas City Hub at 6:30PM tonight and is slated for delivery tomorrow I will try to get off in time to receive the package if not able... Read more
May 10, 2013
At 9:45PM the shipment was cleared from customs no movement as of yet but the shipment has cleared customs finally... ;)
Next here is a video of some of the... Read more
May 6, 2013
Consoles have hit customs and are in the clearing house as we speak from past experience they should be cleared Monday or Tuesday. Once cleared they usually take one to... Read more
April 29, 2013
As you saw from the video below from Qbert we do indeed have a test version of the kernel and bootloader running that recognizes 512MB. Qbert is testing the unit... Read more
April 27, 2013
If you have low level kernel development experience or Open GL driver development experience we could always use you in the Vivante Open GL Open Source driver project by Wumpus... Read more
We have just passed FCC & CE certifications and ROHS is proceeding nicely.
I hope to have the units by Wednesday or Thursday as they are slated to hit customs... Read more
April 21, 2013
The units left by courier to Hong Kong to catch there flight to America turn around from there to here is usually 3 to 5 days. As for customs delay... Read more
April 20, 2013
I won't know till tonight if the did ship from China or not as we are a day behind China and about 10PM central time is when I talk with... Read more
April 18, 2013
Well progress slowly but surely on 512MB Kernel issue and more progress on USB OTG. Working with Ingenic/Vivante on Open GL.
Ackk Studios gave me a status update on Two... Read more
April 16, 2013
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Boston that we had become acquainted with just a few weeks ago. Boston will always occupy a special place in... Read more
April 14, 2013
Developers are still working hard on the kernel for 512MB issue and USB OTG.
We will have some new video footage in the next couple of days which will totally... Read more
April 9, 2013
There has been some progress with the kernel portion of the memory recognition alittle more work is still needed to make the OS recognize 512MB of Ram.
We have also... Read more
Below you will see the KickStarter Shirt and The Stickers/Decal in the coming days I will be showing of the drinking glass and pilsner beer glass.
Also the shirts we... Read more
April 4, 2013
PAX Pictures and Meet Ackk Studios the makers of Two Brothers which will be in demo soon on the GCW Zero and hopefully not much after that for sale as... Read more
April 2, 2013
Last status update I gave was just two days ago. But if you would like I can make them more frequent... Last count I got was a little over 1500... Read more
March 30, 2013
Here is a video showing Progress on GCW Zero USB OTG support compliments of Zear for making the demo...
Also mega thanks to xl0's for all of his hard development... Read more
March 28, 2013
It's 10:06PM here still awaiting exact count of where we are at production wise from the factory as soon as I get that number I will give a best guess... Read more
March 9, 2013
We are raising funds to buy the iconic Atari brand, re-launch it, and give it back to you on the GCW Zero portable gaming console.
Atari is the Godfather of... Read more
March 7, 2013
A Little Teaser Of Something I Think Everyone Will Like..... Huge thanks to Smagin for developing this port and Qbert for the videos....
Video Surprise 1
Video Surprise 2
March 2, 2013
Below you will find the Authorized Resellers/Distributors for specific regions in the world we are always seeking more. They will all soon start to begin taking pre-orders for our Retail... Read more
February 27, 2013
Below you will find GCW Weather Proof Carrying Cases I've been working on as an accessory for the GCW Zero.GCW Small Black Weather Proof Carrying Case Closed:
GCW Small... Read more
February 26, 2013
If you are a developer and want to develop your KickStarter game or application for the GCW Zero, please before you make it as a stretch goal - contact us,... Read more
February 7, 2013
February 3, 2013
Rider Games developers of Darkened Light are planning on developing the game for GCW Zero.
Check Out Their Kick Starter here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ridergames/darkened-light-action-rpg-platform-game?ref=live
For more info on the developers: http://www.ridergames.ca
January 28, 2013
I wanted to take this moment with only 5 minutes to go to say think you for your support and making all our dreams a reality. You guys and gals... Read more
January 27, 2013
Below you will see the KickStarter Founders T-Shirt and The Standard T-Shirt we will be carrying on our website for purchase. Estimated price of Standard T-Shirt is $25.00
Here are... Read more
You may have already seen some scenes from Unnamed Monkey Game in the GCW Zero presentation video. Now its official: Not only will UnnamedMonkey Game be one of the... Read more
Everyone! We did it, we really did it! Thank you SO much for all your support with making our dreams a reality.
You guys and gals are just amazingly awesome!... Read more
January 26, 2013
Thanks for your amazing support so far! With just under 48 hours remaining in our Kickstarter, we have a few exciting announcements for our backers! As you may already be... Read more
The GCW Toolkit will soon be accompanied by a virtual device emulator with the help of QEMU (http://wiki.qemu.org/). This feature has been requested before to allow for testing OpenDingux programs... Read more
January 22, 2013
For a pledge of $135 (or more) the Kickstarter project awards you one handheld (+$20 shipping outside of the USA).
The developers package will net you two handhelds for a... Read more
I wanted to take this moment to THANK YOU ALL for supporting this great console! Thank you from me and the whole GCW team. Your support means a lot to... Read more
January 21, 2013
We are pleased to announce our first Indie Game developer for GCW - "SeattleTek" will be releasing a demo of their new game "Beasts & Blades".... Read more
January 19, 2013
Game One, a popular game show on MTV Germany, will air an episode covering the GCW Zero Wednesday on MTV (which is pay TV in Germany) and Friday on ... Read more
January 16, 2013
We are diligently working on implementing mini HDMI/Analog TV out to the console currently and it looks like we will have Analog TV out very soon. So keep your eyes... Read more
January 15, 2013
After some serious debate in the comments section here on our Kick Starter page and other forums, we have decided to upgrade the RAM from 256MB to 512MB.
We have... Read more
January 14, 2013
We'd like to introduce "Unamed Monkey Game"; a retro inspired multi-platform commercial Indie game developed for the GCW Zero and several other platforms, developed by Zear, Harteex and Topy44. Our... Read more
January 12, 2013
For all the game/application developers and homebrewers out there. GCW Zero devteam would like to announce an SDK (toolchain) for GCW Zero has just been released. Head to http://www.gcw-zero.com/develop for... Read more
January 11, 2013
We just wanted to take the time to say thank you for all your support thus far this is super exciting and we wouldn't be where we are with out... Read more
January 9, 2013
To show we are committed to free and open source applications and games we made our development repositories public. Be our guest and browse all of our source code. If... Read more
