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Sales forecasting company Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has predicted in a note to investors that Microsoft will likely announce a price cut for it Xbox 360 game console in the USA at E3 this year. It was added that such a price cut would probably have Sony following suit with a similar price [...]

Anthony Puzo, son of the late Mario Puzo, is suing Paramount Pictures for at least $1M for breach of contract, after the studio allegedly failed to turn over revenues from the video game adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”. Paramount licensed game published Electronic Arts to turn the original 1972 film into a video [...]

For Playstation 3 owners, your gaming experience is going to get a lot more commercial, and cluttered, and distracting, etc. etc. insert sellout rant here. But naturally, if Sony is to be believed, it’s all going to be subtle and stuff. How much does Sony stand to gain by opening up the PS3 to advertisers? [...]

So here’s the thing: the wise and good people at Namco Bandai decided to put a few Star Wars characters in their Soulcaliber fighting game series. BUT they put Darth Vader in the PS3 version and Yoda in the XBox 360 version, and so never the twain shall meet. Enter the guy above, Starkiller, Vader’s [...]

What is Qore? It’s a bit like a gamers’ magazine, a bit like a podcast, a bit like a website. It’s basically exclusive content that Sony wants its PS3 owners to subscribe to via the online Sony Playstation Network and will feature galleries, trailers, interactive stuff, and even ads, in addition to “a few other [...]

USA Major Soccer League team Seattle Sounders FC has revealed its official team jersey, bearing the name “XBox 360 Live”, displayed prominently across its breast. Though both sides are playing hush-hush, it’s been reported that the deal was worth about $20M, and will include playing surface sponsorship (“The XBox Pitch at Qwest Field”) and, naturally, [...]

I don’t play very many fighting games anymore, but if it’s Street Fighter-related I’m all ears. Or in this case eyes. It’s Street Fighter 4! It isn’t really the fourth installment, but what the heck? And what with all the hubbub about that other megafranchise that sports the number four (GTA4, for the hopelessly underinformed), [...]

The Nintendo Wii, Microsoft’s XBox 360, and the Sony Playstation 3 all contain too much bromine, according to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace. Bromide is classified by Greenpeace as a chemical that’s hazardous to the environment,and the PS3 had the highest levels of it. The XBox and PS3 also had beryllium-containing alloys, which Greenpeace found worrisome. [...]

Is Microsoft developing a motion-sensitive controller similar to Nintendo’s Wiimote? The project, supposedly codenamed “Newton”, has been making the rounds but Microsoft Game Studios head Shane Kim sort of put down the rumors, though he stopped short of a full denial. Meanwhile, Yu Suzuki’s masterly Shenmue series is supposed to be up for a Nintendo [...]

Recently rumors have been flying about a planned “slimmed-down” version of the Microsoft XBox 360 gaming console. The sleeker model was supposed to have been in line for a 2009 release. But a Microsoft representative quashed the rumor by telling tech blog Engadget the whole thing was a hoax. Unless, of course, the rep was [...]

Japan’s $6.9 billion arcade gaming isustry has been hit hard by the increasing popularity of TV gaming consoles, particularly the Nintendo Wii, according to reports. Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. plans to close a quarter of its outlets, while rival Namco Bandai Holdings has announced that it will shut down roughly 20 percent of its arcades [...]

Nintendo is making eight arcade style games available for its Wii gaming console on May 20… and they can be had via internet download! The following games can be purchased online using Wii points, which can be purchased using a credit card at stores found at the average High Street: Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: My [...]

Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute has published a book entitled “The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It”. In it he says the latest must-have gadgets like the XBox 360 b and iPhone stifle creativity and turn their owners into passive users of technology. Increasingly tighter controls on production of [...]

The website Seattle P.I. lists twelve reasons why Grand Theft Auto 4 is better on the Microsoft XBox than on the Sony Playstation 3: 1. Better Native Resolution : Xbox 360′s 720p beats the pants off the PS3′s “640p”. 2. The ANA chip : built-in, hardware-based scaling of images on the XBox vs. software-based scaling [...]

Reports from Taiwan suggest that an ASUS subsidiary there is in the process of developing a version of Microsoft’s XBox 360 gaming console that supports Blu-ray discs. There’s been news before of Lite-On making a stand-alone Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, but this is the first news to go in the direction of built-in [...]

It seems Grad Theft Auto 4 is giving back to the community that made its success possible: the video game console industry. Manufacturers of the Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft xBox 360, the two platforms for which the game is available, have reported an increase in console sales. This increase has be traced directly to [...]

  Microsoft has announced price reductions for its XBox 360 gaming consoles in four Asian regions by as much as 20 percent. Consumers in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore can expect the lowered prices to take effect this week. A similar price cut was implemented in Europe last month, with price tags going [...]

There seems to be no stopping Rockstar games’ Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA4) fro claiming the best-selling game of all time title, with record-braking sales in UK with over 600,000 units sold in one day. The game is expected to sell about 6 million units in the first week, smashing the 3M-unit mark set by [...]

Wii have seen the future, and the future is fit. Nintendo’s latest accessory for its Wii gaming console is a white plastic slab of gaming technology that you stand on, and it detects subtle shifts in weight and balance of the player and transmits those to the game. The balance board is designed to be [...]