XBox eclipses PS3 in japan

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

It seems “Tales of Vesperia”, the latest in Namco’s series of “Tales of” games, had what it takes to help push Microsoft and its XBox 360 video game console over the top against it perennial rival, the Sony Playstation 3.
The new game catapulted sales of the XBox last week to beat the PS3’s numbers in [...]

GTA4 gives back

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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 GTA4’s [...]

GTA4 continues its record quest; encounters speed bumps

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

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 [...]

Sony PSP kicks Nintendo DS’s butt in Japan! But…

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

 According to game publisher Enterbrain, the number of Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) units sold last April in Japan was more than twice that of rival Nintendo’s DS.
However, the picture turned around when it came to full-fledged gaming consoles.
In the same month, Nintendo’s Wii outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3)  five to one.  The Wii has continued [...]

Stephen King wants to keep your games nice and bloody

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Not that he’s a gamer. Not that he even likes video games. But when the horrormeister learned of a bill in Massachusetts state seeking to ban violent video game sales to kids under the age of 18, his eyes went white and his head started spinning around and… oh wait that wasn’t his.
via Yahoo [...]