Wednesday, Nov 4
Modern Warfare 2 is set to be released on November 10 by Activision and Infinity Ward on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony. One very important platform missing from the list is the Nintendo Wii, a device that received a port of the original Modern Warfare when...
Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced that it planned to release a new downloadable-content pack for its boxing simulator, Fight Night Round 4. The pack will be ready in the early days of December for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The DLC is priced at 800 Microsoft Points on the Xbo...
In October, a Collector's Edition of Splinter Cell: Conviction made an appearance on an Australian retailer's website. The pack, meant for the PC and Xbox 306, included a bonus DVD, a comic, a Sam Fisher figurine, and a code to download the original Xbox game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory ov...
A study was conducted by GamerDNA and DFC Intelligence on a sample of 10,000 players of the Xbox 360 home gaming console who owned either Guitar Hero 5 from Neversoft and Activision Blizzard or The Beatles: Rock Band from Harmonix and MTV Games during the month of September.
Tuesday, Nov 3
Motion control is coming into its own in a big way. The Nintendo Wii has had it for some time but a lot of people dismissed it as just a gimmick to bring in more casual players but now the Xbox 360 is getting Project Natal set to arrive at some point in 2010, while the PlayStation 3 is getting the mot...
Monday, Nov 2
The camera-based motion controller from Microsoft is expected to arrive in 2010 and the company is scrounging up resources from wherever it can to give the new device proper software support. The new Xbox 360 controller has already managed to enlist Fable III as one of the big games that wi...
The Xbox 360 division at Microsoft does not feel in any way threatened by the rise of cloud-based computers like the recently revealed OnLive and Gaikai, believing that the current distribution model, focused on disk-based releases and downloadable content, will be central for the co...
Responsible for the publishing of the original Dead Space on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Electronic Arts hasn't announced anything about the critically acclaimed horror game receiving another addition to the series. Even if the developer that worked on the first title, Viscera...
Saturday, Oct 31
This is the probable reasoning related to Sony and Netflix finally entering into an agreement to bring the service to the PlayStation 3 beginning with November. They are now offering players the possibility of getting a disk to enable the service, with XMB integration coming in 2010. Sony...
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Friday, Oct 30
The first Xbox wasn't such a big hit in Japan when it was first released. In fact, it never really managed to catch their eye at all. So when Microsoft prepared to launch the Xbox 360 they decided to take some extra steps to ensure the console would do better. Their plan consisted in developing a n...
Thursday, Oct 29
We already know that Final Fantasy XIII is set to be launched in Japan on December 17 in what is sure to be one of the biggest and most lavish releases of a JRPG ever. The game will only come on the PlayStation 3 at that date and Square Enix has not said when the game will arrive on Western markets, w...
It seems that BioWare is including user-generated content in its plans for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game set to debut on the Xbox 360 and on the PC on November 3, and on the PlayStation 3 later on during the same month. The videogame marks a return to the roots for BioWare, with the...
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Wednesday, Oct 28
BioWare has announced that it plans to make sure that all players of Dragon Age: Origins have an option to actually follow the progress made in the role-playing game by their friends and, why not, their enemies. The idea is that all copies of the game, be they on the PC, the PlayStation 3 or the...
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He further added that, “For a little over $4 a month Xbox LIVE Gold membership is hands-down the best value in home entertainment, and gives you exclusive access multi-player gaming and early demos as well as Face... (read more) Now with Netflix coming to the PlayStation 3, it seems like Micr...
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Xbox 360 “pilots” need to start their warming laps as “Forza Motorsport 3” for Xbox 360 developed by Turn 10 of Microsoft Game Studios has hit store shelves in the United States. Microsoft and Turn 10 managed a fast lap between the starting point, five months ago when the game was unveiled at...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Bill Koefoed, who is the general manager for investor relations at the EED division of Microsoft, stated in a conference call that, “Overall gaming revenue was up almost $100 million,” before mentioning that, “Halo 3: ODST was the number one selling console title in the U.S. last month, al...
Monday, Oct 26
The Xbox 360 also offers Netflix, but it's only available for the subscribers of Xbox Live Gold. The membership costs $50 a year, and, as far as advantages and disadvantages go as to Sony's offer, things are up for debate. Over an entire year, the Xbox 360 offers the service at a lower price, bu...
It's all beginning to feel a lot like deja vu. A few days ago, Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, had an exclusive interview with Gizmodo, in which he touched on the subject of the Xbox 360 gaming console and the company's future plans for it. The Microsoft boss seemed to...
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Thursday, Oct 22
Metro 2033 was initially announced in 2006, but things seemed to stay quiet otherwise. It had a release date of 2008, but, when it missed it, the game completely disappeared and went into hiding. Rescued from the blizzard of nuclear ash, it has been picked up for publishing by THQ and is now pr...
Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Xbox LIVE that, among others, is designed to kill unauthorized memory units that customers are using with their consoles. On October 22nd, 2009, concomitantly with the worldwide general availability of Windows 7, the Redmond company gave...
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The main idea is to make downloadable content easier to access for players that might not be closely following news about a game they play. The game designer also said later in the evening that walkthroughs for Fable III might also be offered in the shop.
It's been reported that so-called “unauthorized storage devices” will not be allowed to work anymore with the Xbox 360 home-gaming console by the upcoming update for the device, which is due to arrive before November. The news has been reported by Larry Hryb, also known as Major Nelson, o...
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The PC video-game chart often gets overlooked when the NPD Group numbers for hardware and software sales are announced each month. After all, the big battle between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii is much more interesting than the supposedly moribund market for PC tit...
Wednesday, Oct 21
A Microsoft spokesperson has then clarified Ballmer's comments by stating that, “Our immediate solution for Blu-ray-quality video on an Xbox 360 is coming this fall with Zune Video and 1080p instant-on HD streaming. As far as our future plans are... (read more) One of the advantages that th...
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The videogames industry grew, by only a small margin, in September mainly on the strength of the price reductions for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and with strong help from the sales of Halo 3: ODST. But most analysts believe that the rebound is not something set to last.
Microsoft seems to be considering a rewards program for a segment of the Xbox Live subscribers, probably later to be extended to the whole service. An e-mail has been sent by the creator of the Xbox 360 to a select few gamers inviting them to join what is described as an “exclusive pilot rewar...
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Tuesday, Oct 20
Microsoft has also stated that the Xbox 360 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Warner Bros. published and Rocksteady developed action adventure title, would have come in at number ten in the videogame charts if handheld releases were to be excluded. Still, it must be hard to see the Play...
Sony was, undoubtedly, the company that had most to celebrate when the NPD Group sales figures for September were released. The PlayStation 3 managed to sell almost half a million consoles during the month, significantly more than the Xbox 360 and even more than the Nintendo Wii, and with...
The first of those albums is set to be released for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii versions of The Beatles Rock Band this week. The first two consoles will be getting individual singles, “Maxwell's Silver Hammer,” “Oh! Darling” and “Because,” that are sold for 160 Micr...
Second spot went to Wii Sport Resort, which is being sold bundled with the Motion Plus add on, that managed to ship more than 442,900 units in the same period while Madden NFL 10, judged to be a bit of a disappointment by Electronic Arts, took third spot with sales of 289,000 on the Xbox 360. The...
Monday, Oct 19
The Nintendo DS handheld still manages to be the best sold gaming platform in North America, with 524,200 units moved to players in the month of September. The price discounted PlayStation 3, which also got the Slim variant, sold 491,000 units in the same time frame ahead of the Nintendo Wi...
Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that Queen, one of the biggest rock bands in the world, is set to arrive in Rock Band 2 via downloadable content, with ten of their most important songs being offered this week for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii version of the music s...
Sunday, Oct 18
One of the more unnerving sights of the last few months has been the marketing campaign for Dragon Age: Origins, the BioWare developed and Electronic Arts published role playing adventure set to arrive on the Xbox 360 and the PC on November 3.
Friday, Oct 16
It seems that BioWare is turning the PC version of its upcoming role playing game, Dragon Age: Origins, into something special by making it the only one where players can zoom out enough so that they get the birds eye tactical view used to control the party in the classic Baldur's Gate serie...
The NPD Group sales numbers for September will not be coming out until Monday but the various console manufacturers have already begun putting out statements related to the order in which the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii will arrive. Microsoft seems determined to pree...
Thursday, Oct 15
If Nvidia is not the best producer of video cards for the PC, it is certainly the most popular. Most games carry the “The way it's meant to be played” catch phrase and are pretty much optimized for this particular chipset. But consoles run on a different track, so it's no wonder they have differ...
Wednesday, Oct 14
The idea that gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony are the mediums that MMOs will conquer next has been around for some years but while multiplayer-oriented gaming has been on the rise on those platforms, no MMO managed to really gain traction on...
Valve is saying that one of the elements of Left 4 Dead 2, set to be released for the PC and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft in November, that has received special attention from the development team is the AI Director, which directs all the Infected forces in the game.
One of the games that started a few rumors at the Tokyo Games Show was Hokuto Musou. Koei didn't actually announce the title at the conference but it seemed to pop up in plenty of discussions. Now, we finally get some official statements as it has received its first event this week in Japan. The a...
Tuesday, Oct 13
Infinity Ward has confirmed, via the official Twitter feed of the company, that when Modern Warfare 2 is released to the public on November 10, the Xbox 360 version of the game, the one expected to have the biggest sales, will be bringing items that can be employed on the Avatars of the users...
Monday, Oct 12
The Games on Demand system has really taken off and more and more titles are becoming part of the list. The Xbox Live users have been granted special access to some of the best games the console has ever seen, while the Xbox 360 owners can get their hands on titles like BioShock, Mass Effect, Bu...
Friday, Oct 9
It seems that September will be judged to be a good month for videogaming when the NPD Group hardware and software sales numbers are released. For the first time in seven months, the industry is set to post positive growth numbers mainly on the back of the price cuts that kicked in for the Play...
Thursday, Oct 8
The PlayStation Home proved to be a success even though it's one of those mind-puzzling concepts. Or maybe that is exactly why it was successful. Just like the Wii console, the PSH focused on casual gamers, on personal interaction between them and a simulation that involved some degree of... (...
When the PlayStation 3 Slim launched, with its reduced 299-dollar price point, Sony quickly moved to say that in some territories, sales increased by 999%. Microsoft also signaled that feedback had been positive to the similar price cut of the Xbox 360 Elite. Now, it's Nintendo's turn to d...
Micro transactions are all the rage when it comes to PC-based MMORPGs. Free Realms is gaining more and more users and getting regular content updates from Sony even as BioWare seems to be hinting that its upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic is set to feature micro transactions as a possibl...
Tuesday, Oct 6
We often hear that the Nintendo Wii has been so successful in its competition with the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony because it manages to attract those players who do not directly associate videogames with violence and with weapons.
This probably means that those who are willing to pick Natal up early should be prepared to pay the price of the console to which the hardware will be attached. The drops will probably arrive after quite a while, considering how long the Xbox 360 went without a price cut.
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But it seems that no one is really talking about video capture tools being integrated in other Xbox 360 titles set to be released this year. Of course, with Microsoft being the publisher of Halo 3: ODST, it might just be that they used the game as a testing ground for a feature they plan to add to...
Thursday, Oct 1
Superannuation found three jobs as listed in dire need to be filled that would help with the development of a multiplatform game. Hints found in the ads suggest that it will be a brand-new, standalone title for the Xbox 360 and for Nintendo's Wii and a possible spin-off of an existing IP on on...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Square Enix is the king of the Japanese role playing games and its biggest franchise worldwide is Final Fantasy, even if Dragon Quest seems to be the series dominating the Land of the Rising Sun. And now, the company has estimated that it will sell more than 6 million copies of the upcoming Fi...
The DLC is available for the PC and Xbox 360 but they’re not exactly the same thing. The difference comes with the price tag. If the PC version respects the tradition of all other downloadable content of L4D and is free, the Xbox 360 version isn't. It's priced at 560 Microsoft Points or $7. It may b...
Wednesday, Feb 25
Game Guru The game went on to become very popular, thanks to its seamless interaction with Valve's Steam online service, which provided a solid multiplayer and sold extremely well, on the PC and on the Xbox 360. A few weeks ago, PC users of Left 4 Dead received ...
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Friday, Dec 5
Fable 2 is getting a patch and Lionhead is very specific about what will be included. Some Xbox 360 users have been complaining that there are minor glitches which pop up in the game, like not being able to interact with objects at certain points while playing. So, for all those who have had pro...
Friday, Sep 26
The videogame, which was initially included in The Orange Box, was launched for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. But the PS3 version of the game was not developed internally at Valve, who do not have a team dedicated to the Sony made gaming consoles, but by a team that was put togethe...
Wednesday, Sep 10
Bungie has confirmed that Title Update 2, which is basically the second update to the Xbox 360 game, introduces new Achievements to Halo 3. There are also a few changes that are made to the game itself, other than adding Achievements.
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