March 26th, 2007
It’s common knowledge at this point that the Xbox 360 is pwning the PS3 in terms of sales, but according to market research, the PS3 is selling a little faster than the Xbox 360 did at the same point of its release.
Part of the reason the Xbox 360 struggled so much at the beginning was [...]
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March 26th, 2007
Xbox Live users bet get in all the gaming they can today, as the service will be down for scheduled upgrades and maintainence, according to the blog of Major Nelson.
The Director of Programming announced that beginning at 0000-1400 PT on Tuesday, March 27th, Xbox Live, Xbox.com, and the Xbox forums will all be out of [...]
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March 26th, 2007
Gamers can finally have a peek at Disney’s latest cross-platform take on Captain Jack Sparrow & Co. Due to be released on May 22nd, 2007 for the DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, and 360 (phew!), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End tracks the antics of the second and third movies. Swash-buckle [...]
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March 25th, 2007
Last week I had outlined Mexican mayor Héctor Murguía Lardizábal’s ire that Ubisoft’s new title Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (GRAW2) portrayed his town of Juárez as a haven for unsavoury types.
The discontent now seems to have spread to higher levels of government south of the American border, with Spanish-language El Diario reporting [...]
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March 25th, 2007
It seems appropriate to post this after the market report that sees MMORPGs continuing to grow well into the next decade. University of Bolton researcher Dr John Charlton, Research Fellow in Psychology in the School of Health, Psychology and Sport, is working to refine the criteria defining computer game addiction.
Charlton feels that the current [...]
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March 24th, 2007
Based on some quick calculations from a previous post, which found that Blizzard’s raw income from the WoW subscription base alone was worth about $1.44 billion dollars per year, it comes as no surprise that analysts are now estimating that western MMORPG’s will break the $1.5 billion mark by the year 2011.
Screen Digest has [...]
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March 22nd, 2007
Finally!
You Don’t Know Jack (YDKJ) fans rejoice. Jellyvision, the developers of the edgy trivia game, have launched youdontknowjack.com, where everyday folks like you and me can test our mental might.
Join sarcastic host “Cookie” and think outside the box through a series of trivia questions not meant to challenge your smarts, but to challenge you [...]
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March 22nd, 2007
Racing games like Gran Turismo, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed and other staples in the car junkies hall of fame might actually contribute to real world recklessness on the roads.
German researchers have published the results of a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied which suggests that playing racing games “could provoke unsafe [...]
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March 20th, 2007
The Microsoft Corporation announced that a PC version of the popular Xbox Live will be available to Windows Vista users. The PC version of Live will debut on May 8th with a Windows Vista version of Halo 2.
To make it all the more interesting, June will see the release of Shadowrun, where Xbox 360 players [...]
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March 20th, 2007
Analyst Yuji Fujimori stated at CNN Money that a possible price cut for the PlayStation 3 might be possible due to cost-reduction measures being taken in the production process. Sony saving money means that a $100 price cut to the PS3 might happen as early as October.
Fujimori’s note outlined how Sony reduced the number of [...]
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