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Last week Microsoft announced that it was shutting down the Xbox Live service for the original Xbox console starting in April, effectively killing all online play for the orphaned console, as ...
Date: 9 Feb 2010 19:02 | 7 comments
Yesterday we reported that Microsoft had slashed the price of the 120GB Xbox 360 HDD in Europe, while at the same time releasing a 250GB HDD in Japan.
Today they have announced the same offer ...
Date: 6 Feb 2010 21:02 | 20 comments
According to figures from Forecasting and Analysing Digital Entertainment (FADE), the Xbox Live Arcade has hit $103 million in revenue for the year 2009, a giant 34 percent increase year-on-year.
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Date: 5 Feb 2010 22:02 | 2 comments
Microsoft has noted that it will be dropping the price of the 120GB Xbox 360 HDD in Europe, as well as releasing an external 250GB HDD for the console in Japan.
The 120GB drive will drop ...
Date: 5 Feb 2010 21:02 | 6 comments
Microsoft has announced today that they will be discontinuing Xbox Live service for the original Xbox console starting in April. The move will effectively kill all online play for the orphaned ...
Date: 5 Feb 2010 19:02 | 19 comments
According to an interview with IGN, Sony senior VP of marketing Peter Dille says the company is on the fast track to passing the Xbox 360 in sales soon, also saying that the PS3 will still be ...
Date: 3 Feb 2010 19:02 | 32 comments
Video game industry analyst Michael Pachter has said today that he expects the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to receive price cuts again this year, which will lead to the Wii being forced into ...
Date: 1 Feb 2010 22:02 | 12 comments
Sony has announced that it will debut a new reality series, via the PlayStation Network, beginning later this month dubbed The Tester, in which 11 contestants compete in challenges to win the ...
Date: 1 Feb 2010 20:02 | 5 comments
Microsoft has announced they will begin selling a 250GB HDD add-on for the Xbox 360 in Japan starting next month.
Beginning March 11th, the drive will cost �15,540 (about $172 USD).
The ...
Date: 1 Feb 2010 18:02 | 13 comments
Rockstar Games has announced that they will be bringing two downloadable Grand Theft Auto IV episodes to the PlayStation 3 and to PCs, months after they debuted, exclusively on the Xbox 360.
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Date: 31 Jan 2010 22:01 | 10 comments
As of December 31st, 2009, Nintendo has sold 67.4 million Wii consoles, with 32 million in the U.S., 9.7 million in Japan and 25.7 million in Europe and other regions.
Additionally, 510 million ...
Date: 31 Jan 2010 20:01
Sony will be releasing "around" 10 motion control-based games this year, for use with the PS3's upcoming "Arc" device, says a short Nikkei report today.
A few of the games released will be ...
Date: 28 Jan 2010 18:01 | 12 comments
According to CVG, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was given the opportunity to sign up as part of the device that we now know as Project Natal, but declined because he felt they could not launch ...
Date: 28 Jan 2010 02:01 | 10 comments
The hacker behind the first proper breach of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console's security has released the exploit for others to tinker with. It won't let you launch a "hello world" program easily, ...
Date: 28 Jan 2010 00:01 | 29 comments
MCV is reporting today that the BBC is actively trying to get back into gaming, looking to turn intellectual properties into DS, Wii and iPhone games. The company is also looking to turn the ...
Date: 25 Jan 2010 07:01 | 3 comments
Data acquired by Valve's Steam gaming delivery service shows that a large portion of its users have already decided to switch to Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. Although it can ...
Date: 24 Jan 2010 00:01 | 5 comments
Epic Games, the publisher behind the extremely popular Gears of War series, regrets their exclusivity pact with Microsoft, says top video game analyst Michael Pachter, who adds that "I think ...
Date: 23 Jan 2010 21:01 | 43 comments
Rockstar Games has responded to an open letter attributed to "wives of employees" that alleges Rockstar workers suffer poor working conditions at a certain studio. The letter alleged that Rockstar ...
Date: 23 Jan 2010 13:01 | 7 comments
I don't generally like to post articles on claims about console hacking. Over the past few years, the PS3 and Xbox 360 have been subject to numerous hoaxes. In the Xbox 360 case, there were ...
Date: 23 Jan 2010 01:01 | 38 comments
Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console has sold 3 million units in the United Kingdom since it was launched. "We'd like to offer a huge thank you to our retail partners in helping ...
Date: 22 Jan 2010 23:01 | 3 comments
Responding to complaints, Xbox group product manager Aaron Greenberg has said that the company does not want to mislead consumers with MS Points and will be looking to display actual currency ...
Date: 21 Jan 2010 20:01 | 10 comments
Companies that market the 25 year old classic, Tetris, are expected to announce that the game has reached an impressive 100 million mobile downloads -- paid mobile downloads at that. Since it's ...
Date: 20 Jan 2010 23:01 | 2 comments
Sony Corp. has announced that it is delaying the release of its anticipated motion controller for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console. The announcement of the delay comes just a week after it was ...
Date: 20 Jan 2010 22:01 | 12 comments
According to VG247, the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 motion controller will be called Arc.
The new "wand" has yet to be officially named, and so far it has only been known as codename "Gem." ...
Date: 19 Jan 2010 23:01 | 5 comments
Sony Asia has announced that it has launched the PlayStation line of consoles in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The PSP, PS2 and PS3 are now available in Vietnam, which becomes the 8th ...
Date: 19 Jan 2010 22:01 | 5 comments
Microsoft and Disney are currently in talks over offering ESPN content through Xbox Live, although the sources say a deal is not imminent.
If completed however, ESPN would live stream certain ...
Date: 19 Jan 2010 22:01 | 5 comments
According to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, the Sony PlayStation line of consoles is "poison" and is leading children down the "capitalist road to hell."
The PS wasn't the only product ...
Date: 18 Jan 2010 07:01 | 39 comments
Warner Bros. Interactive has signed a deal with Sesame Workshop that will allow the publisher to create educational videogames using "Sesame Street" characters. Sesame Workshop is the non-profit ...
Date: 18 Jan 2010 02:01 | 4 comments
Sony Electronics USA President Stan Glasgow has revealed that the PlayStation 3 will soon be getting support for the BRAVIA Internet Video Link streaming video service.
New Sony Bravia HDTVs ...
Date: 17 Jan 2010 07:01 | 6 comments
Sony Japan has introduced a new TV tuner for the PlayStation 3 dubbed "torne," a very similar product to Sony Europe's PlayTV hardware.
Torne will allow gamers to watch digital terrestrial ...
Date: 16 Jan 2010 04:01 | 19 comments
Sony has revealed today that besides seeing huge hardware sales for the PlayStation 3, revenue from the PlayStation Network (PSN) set a new all-time record in December as well.
Overall, revenue ...
Date: 15 Jan 2010 19:01 | 1 comment
Nintendo will officially announce a "DS 2" handheld within 8 months, says top video game industry analyst Jesse Divnich, despite a record sales year for the DS/DSi in 2009.
"Even though the ...
Date: 15 Jan 2010 19:01 | 10 comments
According to the latest NPD figures, the struggling video game industry ended 2009 on a high note, with hardware sales jumping 16 percent, offsetting a dip in software sales. Overall, sales ...
Date: 15 Jan 2010 17:01 | 6 comments
Nintendo has finally announced the European launch date for the DSi XL, setting March 5th as the release day for the new, updated console.
The handheld has a much larger screen, and comes ...
Date: 14 Jan 2010 20:01 | 3 comments
The Activision blockbuster smash hit Modern Warfare 2 has hit $1 billion USD in global sales in two months of availability, meaning about 15 million units have been sold.
The news makes it ...
Date: 14 Jan 2010 18:01 | 21 comments
Beginning "in the Spring," Wii owners will finally get Netflix movie and TV streaming, the third console to receive the service.
To use Netflix, Wii owners will be sent a free disc that must ...
Date: 13 Jan 2010 21:01 | 7 comments
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