Posted by on Wednesday, Aug 2, 2006, 8:34 am 0 comments
THE NINTENDO WII has always appeared to be a souped-up Gamecube, and the latest alleged specs from a Wii developer seem to support this further.
Leaked specs via Max Console and further discussion from Spong give us a very good understanding of what's going to appear in our Wii. Below is a synopsis of the information given to the news sites by the various industry insiders.
Posted by on Tuesday, Jun 13, 2006, 7:40 pm 0 comments
While nearly five years old, the PlayStation 2 continues to be a considerable force at retail in the United States, even outselling the Xbox 360, data from the NPD Group indicates. Only in one month since Microsoft launched its next generation console, April, has the company been able to best the venerable game system.
In May, the PS2 sold approximately 232,000 units to the Xbox 360's 221,000. In April, the roles were reversed, with the Xbox 360 outpacing the PS2 by about 90,000 consoles with an estimated 295,381 consoles sold.
Posted by on Thursday, May 11, 2006, 8:29 pm 0 comments
The legendary programmer behind Doom and Quake talks about his new project—making great games for your mobile phone.
With games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, computer programmer John Carmack is widely considered as one of the fathers of the popular—and sometimes controversial—first-person-shooter genre of videogames. Even with all his success, the 35-year-old remains at heart a tinkerer, shown by his longtime interest in rockets, and, more recently, games for mobile phones, including Doom RPG [role-playing game], a translation of the PC classic. NEWSWEEK's N'Gai Croal caught up with Carmack a few days before the start of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)—the world's biggest videogame conference—to discuss his upcoming mobile phone game, Orcs & Elves.
Posted by Matt on Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006, 10:33 am 0 comments
Xbox Live players are getting the chance to play against movie stars, as Microsoft teams up with film maker Paramount Pictures.
Via the Xbox Movie Showcase users will be able to download extras from upcoming blockbusters Mission: Impossible III and Nacho Libre.
The package includes high definition movie trailers and graphics for use with Xbox games.
Gamers can win the chance to play stars via Xbox Live contests.
Users will be able to enter for the chance to play celebrities including Jack Black, the star of Nacho Libre, through contests also available for download.
Posted by on Thursday, Sep 15, 2005, 6:25 am 0 comments
Fueling global anticipation for the arrival of its powerful new video game and entertainment system, Microsoft today announced that Xbox 360 will arrive on store shelves Tuesday, November 22 in North America, Friday, December 2 in Europe, and Saturday, December 10 in Japan.
The announcement, made on the eve of Tokyo Game Show 2005, marked the first time that a game console will be launched in three territories in the same time frame.
In preparation for what is expected to be massive worldwide demand for the new system, Microsoft also announced that Xbox 360 manufacturing is under way, with state-of-the-art facilities producing millions of units ultimately bound for frenzied gamers' homes from Osaka, Japan, to Oxford, England, and Orlando, Fla.
Posted by on Thursday, Sep 15, 2005, 2:43 am 0 comments
Sony Online Entertainment today announced the release of EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow, the tenth expansion to the long-running massively-multiplayer RPG title.
Darkhollow lets players explore raw, bleak caverns and face the most formidable monsters yet. For the first time, players can take the role of a monster and experience EverQuest lore first hand while battling ancient foes. Players can use Spirit Shrouds to don the form of a lower level creature to join newbie friends in battle.
Posted by Arneh on Friday, Aug 5, 2005, 3:52 am 3 comments
The processor in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console will support Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system according to a recent posting to Sony's UK website.
The highly anticipated successor to the PlayStation 2 is expected to hit the streets in 2006, shortly after Microsoft releases its rival XBox 360 system.
"Sony is expected to offer optional hard drives for the PlayStation 3 with potential memory capacity of 80 or 120 GB. It remains to be decided whether the standard version of the PS3 will come complete with a hard drive," reads a company statement.
Posted by Arneh on Thursday, Jun 23, 2005, 9:55 pm 0 comments
Taunton (MA) - Virtual Reality is one of those promising technologies that keeps running out of steam just when they could get interesting for the mass market. Here's a new try: 3001 AD believes 2005 is the year for mainstream VR and preps a $500 high-tech headset for game consoles.
Remember the monstrous and futuristic Virtual Reality stages from the mid 90s? Many of us, especially journalists believed this to be the future of gaming. Unfortunately, these platforms, typically priced above $10,000, never made it beyond themeparks and cyber cafes. Still, VR always has been a simmering technology that has been waiting for its mainstream opportunity.
This opportunity could come along in the fourth quarter of this year, when 3001AD, a company that builds high-end VR machines for large-scale entertainment centers, will introduce a headset that can be used in combination with the Xbox and the Playstation game consoles and several blockbuster game titles.
Posted by Arneh on Wednesday, Jun 22, 2005, 9:13 am 0 comments
Microsoft is setting some aggressive sales goals for its next-generation Xbox.
Apparently, it should only take the 12 to 16 months for the team in Redmond to sell more than 10 million units around the globe. This is according to Peter Moore, Microsoft's vice president in charge of marketing and resident Xbox pitch man.
Moore made the claim during his keynote at an Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) event in Kensington, London on Tuesday.
Certainly it's a better prognosis than Microsoft made four years ago when the original Xbox had trouble selling more than one million consoles in its first year. Microsoft didn't see a sales bump until well after it dropped the price. Prices for the Xbox 360 have not been released yet but analysts suggest the price point should be around $299. A first generation Xbox currently retails for $149 online.
Posted by Arneh on Friday, Jun 17, 2005, 11:40 am 0 comments
Deal will allow Xbox 360 to run Xbox titles, but tinkering with software is still needed
Microsoft has signed a deal with NVIDIA to license the company's technology in order to enable backwards compatibility in the Xbox 360, which uses an ATI graphics chipset that isn't natively compatible with Xbox titles.
The question of how to get Xbox 360 - which uses a radically different architecture to the Xbox - to play Xbox titles has been a major problem for Microsoft, and it's rumoured that backwards compatibility wasn't actually part of the original specification of the console.
Indeed, it wasn't even confirmed that the system would be able to play Xbox games until E3 this year, when Microsoft announced that "best-selling" Xbox titles would work on the Xbox 360 - a curious piece of double-speak which the software giant refused to clarify fully.
Posted by Matt on Thursday, Jun 9, 2005, 2:34 pm 1 comment
Free prizes just for playing games...what could be better?
Empire Earth fans and real-time strategy players, rejoice! Join the Official Empire Earth II Ladder and National Championship starting June 8.
Players will be able to play on LAN with other players at their local game center, on WAN for some center vs. center competition, and online from anywhere. Prizes will be awarded at your local game center's weekly challenge nights and at the National Championship. Besides the weekly events at your local center, you can help build your rank by challenging other players in additional matches during the week.
Over the course of the competitions, more than $10,000 in prizes will be awarded, including five Intel Pentium 4 processors with HT Technology and five Intel motherboards, 10 NVIDIA/MSI graphics cards, plus an Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition-based Alienware computer as the grand prize.
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