by Lorien Faulkner on May 6, 2008
During today’s PlayStation Day event, SCEE CEO David Reeves announced that Sony’s PlayStation 3 has outsold the Xbox 360 in the European market.
According to Reeves, Sony has moved a total of 5 million PS3s in Europe, out-pacing sales of the similar game console from Microsoft. Sony also announced movement of 12 million PSP units [...]
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The Chicago Transit Authority, the company that brought the windy city classic traffic management titles like Traffic Lights and Asphalt Highway, is being sued by Grand Theft Auto publisher Take Two.
Take Two is accusing the CTA of pulling GTA:IV branded advertisements a mere days after they went up. According to Reuters, the Transit Authority [...]
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Harmonix announced the planned release of Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 today, promising users of Rock Band on the Wii and PS2 twice as much rock with half the calories of the leading brands.
The release wasn’t completely clear as to how we get a copy, but we think the little man with the asterisk [...]
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It’s that time of year again, compatriots — quarterly results from all our favorite public video game companies. We’ll be compiling a feature for boring business details, but until we do you’ll be getting them in little shots of net profit/loss love.
Midway announced an exceptional net loss of some few millions, and a forward [...]
by Lorien Faulkner on May 5, 2008
We’re still conjiggering the new site, so feel free to complain about things not working. Oh wait, we’ve not fixed the comments yet, so looks like you’re out of luck. Muhahahahahahahaha.
We’ll get everything up and running in the next day or so, right after a round or four of Team Fortress 2. In [...]
by Wil Meloche on April 24, 2008
Is the motion-controlled Xbox 360 add-on real?
Kotaku recently did a piece with comments from Microsoft, Rare, and Gyration about the “Newton” motion sensing controller that is rumoured to be in the works for the Xbox 360. Interestingly while Movea Inc. (the parent company of Gyration since January) flat out denied involvement with the project, another [...]
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Commence removing pencils, paper, and Pictionary from your life. LOL.
The Agetec published ‘LOL‘ is a Nintendo DS project thought up by Kenichi Nishi. His portfolio includes games such as ‘Moon’ on the PlayStation, and both ‘Giftopia’ and ‘Chibi Robo’ on the GameCube. With LOL, Nishi and four others volunteered their free time to completing the [...]
by Lorien Faulkner on March 10, 2008
Microsoft announced today that it would continue the trend of cutting 360 consoles in Europe this week, knocking between £40 and £50 from each version. The discounts bring the Xbox 360 Arcade console down to £159.99, the Xbox 360 down to £199.99, and the 120Gb Xbox 360 Elite to £259.99. Good news for [...]
by William Faulkner on March 6, 2008
38 Studios announced yesterday that it has licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 to power a new MMOG due for a late 2010 release date. According to 38 Studios Chief Technology Officer, Jon Laff, the company will combine Unreal Engine 3 with BigWorld to provide a platform for the new game.
The new MMOG will feature [...]
by Lorien Faulkner on March 5, 2008
Most our of readers are familiar with flOw, Sony’s thesis turned action packed video game that kinda shipped during the PS3 launch. If you’ve not heard, or simply don’t care, please move on.
Announced today, fans and late comers can now snag a downloadable copy of flOw for the PSP. We’ll be reviewing the [...]