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Archive for June 2006

June 13th, 2006

PlayStation 3 Shortages Expected

Looks like the Xbox 360 won’t be alone in the shortage department. Reports from Gamestop are popping up that point to a potential shortage for the upcoming PS3.

“An internal Gamestop email expressed concern over how many PS3s their chain (which is the largest videogame retailer and includes Ebgames as well) would have available. A local […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

June 12th, 2006

Xbox 360 and Qimonda GDDR3 Deal

The Infineon Technologies memory unit spinoff, Qimonda, announced today that it has struck a deal with Microsoft to be the supplier of choice for graphics RAM for the Xbox 360 console. Qimonda will be providing the company with a “significant share of 512Mbit GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate 3) RAM”.

In the Xbox 360, […]

By Ingrid -- 1 comment

June 12th, 2006

Nintendo DS Lite: Now Available

This weekend saw thousands of Nintendo fans crowding the Nintendo World store in New York City just to be the first to get their hands on the new DS Lite. It actually paid off to be first, since the first 100 people to purchase the mini-console received a free carrying case and a copy of […]

By Ingrid -- 4 comments

June 7th, 2006

Street Fighter Bonus Character: Bjork

I love Bjork. I love the weird things she can do with her voice, I love the swan dress that she wore to the Oscars that one year, I love her acting skills, and now, thanks to Joystiq, I can appreciate her ability to whoop serious reporter ass.
I had all but forgotten that ill-fated […]

By Erin -- 1 comment

June 7th, 2006

Gamer Version of Hot-Or-Not

I did a google image search for ‘girl gamer’ to see if I could find an image for something and I was immediately drawn to the bikini-clad ‘russianlvly’ a third of the way down the page of results. Oh boy, another GirlsofCS site to giggle at! It was then, with dawning horror, that […]

By Erin -- 3 comments

June 7th, 2006

Writing for Girls: A Guide for Boys

All of you gaming media folks out there who have been watching as the conglomerates struggle to get in touch with their feminine side and attract female gamer into their branded folds, have no fear! For you, a simple and easy-to-use guide has been constructed by Richard Cobbett. The ten-step recipe for success
with […]

By Erin -- 3 comments

June 7th, 2006

Hard-Core Becoming Synonymous With Broke

With the announcement of the PS3 mortgage like pricing, and following on the bundle-bundle-firstborn-bundle of the Xbox 360, it’s getting annoyingly expensive to be a hard-core gamer. You know it’s bad when even the general media pick up on it.
Yahoo recently ran a story entitled “Cost of being hard-core video gamer climbs“, proclaiming loudly […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

June 6th, 2006

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By Ingrid -- 0 comments

June 6th, 2006

Xbox World Cup Party in London

Microsoft is kicking off the first game of the World Cup this upcoming Saturday with a big par-tay, featuring the UK’s largest projection screen at the Truman Brewery in east London. Other goodies featured at this grand-spanking good-time event: top of the line sound system, and cheerleaders.

An Xbox spokesman said: “Forget about Germany, it’s all […]

By Ingrid -- 2 comments

June 5th, 2006

Time To Pay Up, Kids

Thanks to a new law in Minnesota, minors will now be fined $25 for purchasing Mature or Adults Only rated video games. Hope those four year olds buying Grand Theft Auto saved up for the extra cash they’ll have to fork over.
Naturally, the Entertainment Software Association is like, “This is st00pid!” and are gearing up […]

By Ingrid -- 4 comments

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