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Oct
5
New SKU for the Wii?
Category: Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Mill o' Rumour | 
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“045496880088“. For those of you in the retail world, you may recognize this as a UPC code. Nothing too special about it, right? Well, that UPC code is owned by some company called “Nintendo of America Inc.”. Yeah, I’ve never heard of ‘em, either, but apparently they’re pretty popular. Something about plumbing, or something.
According to […]
Oct
5
Frankly, this announcement made me consider booking a plane ticket to San Francisco next week. Apparently if you are one of the first 200 people to arrive at the Playstation store at the Meteron next Tuesday and buy the new Darth Vader PSP bundle, you will also get one of these sweet Han Solo cases […]
Oct
5
There have been rumors of a 40GB PS3 for a little while now, and today Sony Computer Entertainment Europe officially unveiled their new, cheaper 40GB model. What makes this 40GB model cheaper, besides the smaller HDD? It only includes 2 USB ports, and will not have the multi memory ports.
Oh, and there will be absolutely […]
Oct
5
Tori-Emaki screensaver is more fun than most PS3 games
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
Common reaction to that title above is going to be "Stop bitching about PS3, bleh bleh bleh." Great thing is, since I’m a Games Journalist (also known as: hack), I can bitch about it all I damn please. Snark aside, this Tori-Emaki business is kind of neat. Apparently this EyeToy title allows you to float […]
Oct
5
Star Ocean: First Departure screens and video emerge
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
At last month’s Tokyo Game Show, I got my hands on Square-Enix’s Star Ocean: First Departure for the PSP. I wanted nothing more than to show you how wonderful the game looked, but Squeenix had me on camera lock down, and they only supplied me with a couple of craptastic screenshots. The day has been […]
Oct
5
OFFICIAL: Microsoft and Bungie parting ways
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It’s official, ladies and gentlemen. After rumors that have been persisting all week, it has finally been confirmed that Bungie and Microsoft are going their seperate ways.
In a press release issued by Microsoft, it was announced that Bungie will become an independent company. Microsoft will retain an equity interest in Bungie, and the long-standing […]
Oct
5
You know, with all the Wii love being passed around the gaming industry, it’s practically unseen that someone would come out and dare to say something negative about Nintendo’s new cash cow.
Yet, in an interview with GameTrailers, that is exactly what Epic Games’ Mark Rein did.
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Original post by JW and software by Elliott […]
Oct
5
The fragrant Jay Bibby from Jay Is Games sent me a note to, uhh, note that “…we are about 13 deep into rolling out the entries for our latest game design competition”, and the free web/PC titles are being posted entry by entry over on his excellent Flash/casual game site.
Bibby explains: “This time the […]
Oct
5
Hirai continues to champion Blu-Ray, forgets that quality isn’t everything
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In a recent interview with Hollywood In Hi-Def, Kaz Kirai went with the usual song and dance about the PS3 and its infinite superiority. PS3 versus other consoles were discussed as always, and Kaz had a bit to say on that:
HIRAI: I have heard many people say our competitors’ systems are just as powerful […]
Oct
5
Sony explains the reasons behind the PS3 backwards compatibility cut
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Gamers are already raising a stink over the removal of backwards compatibility in the upcoming lower priced 40GB PS3 model we just found out about. Ray Maguire from Sony UK thinks that the money and effort spent on backwards compatibility could be better spent at this time.
"As we come to our first Christmas with the […]