Japanese hardware sales for last week show that Nintendo is dominating the gaming hardware market. Nintendo DS sales rose to 110,935, with the Wii sales also rising to 52,583. Total in Japan, about 2 million Wiis have been sold.
The PS3 is trailing behind (only 14,520 sales), though the PSP continues to do well. Not as [...]
After bowing gracefully out in 2006, the official fancon for Blizzard titles (let’s face it, mainly World of Warcraft) is back on the calendar for this year. The release of the Burning Crusade expansion pack has provided a lot of fodder for the conference organizers to play around with, and allowed for the formation [...]
The Chinese government has taken strong measures to address criticisms about the level of video game addiction present in its population. While most politicians here are focusing on violence and the blurring of virtual(ity), Chinese children under the age of 18 have come under the watchful eye of the powers that be.
Internet game distributors [...]
Or so thinks Quake designer John Romero, according to an interview recently conducted by Adrenaline Vault. His new company and their “first of its kind” PC MMORPG are still in development, but interviewers were able to get more general thoughts about the state and future of the industry from this seasoned veteran.
Romero feels that [...]
It’s official: the 20GB PlayStation 3 is being has been discontinued. Sony plans to focus instead on the 60GB model due to its popularity over its cheaper counterpart.
“At launch, we offered two separate models of PLAYSTATION 3 to meet the diverse needs and interests of our PlayStation fan base. Initial retail demand in North America [...]
Along with the City College Brighton, PartnerTrans and Skillset, NCSoft is working to launch an Apprenticeship in Quality Assurance and Game Production.
“Skillset’s Apprenticeship in QA and Games Production is a key part of the Computer Games Industry’s skills strategy. It offers a structured entry point outside of the games industry’s traditional academic routes. The apprenticeship [...]
Did they? Didn’t they? Will they? Won’t they?
Electronic Arts seems to be playing the denial game with a recent rumour that it had gobbled up a 19% stake in Asian MMO company The9, an outfit responsible for the distribution of none other than World of Warcraft for the region.
Gamasutra had earlier [...]
Don’t you love those generally annoying and useless help bots that spit out babble in response to your increasingly frustrated questions? You know the ones…they leave you typing things like “(#@&(@%&@)@)&#!!!!!”, and only respond “I do not understand that request”. Well it looks like one of these charming non-entities has finally been of [...]
I have an astounding amount of respect for people who have the intelligence, skill, and ample amounts of free time required to do what Benjamin Heckendorn has done.
This enterprising uber-nerd has made some of the sweetest gaming devices I’ve ever seen, including an Atari 800 XE laptop with faux-mahog paneling, brushed aluminum, and a custom [...]
You may have been far too into your gaming news to notice, but Play-Girlz.com, along with all of its Video Games Channel compadres, have gotten a facelift from the b5media design team.
Simplified navigation, a streamlined aesthetic, and should all be positive by-products of the new look, but as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts, [...]
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