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High Definitions graphics have quickly become one of the most important selling points for modern video games, but at least one legendary developer hailing from Japan believes that game structure and storytelling are more important than looks even on modern home consoles. Speaking to Satoru Iwata, who is the leader ... |
7 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that its upcoming Devil May Cry HD Collection is now scheduled to appear on April 3, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.The Devil May Cry series has been around for quite some time, releasing some quality hack and slash titles on the PlayStation 2, as well as the more recent Devil May Cry 4 for t... |
21 December 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD will be launched in Europe on December 21 and gamers will be able to get it on the PlayStation Network for 9.99 Euro or 9.99 British Pounds (13.36 dollars).
Stewart Gilray, who is the leader of the Jaw development team, said on the European PlayStation Blog that, “I wanted to... |
9 December 2011
02:26 GMT |
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Sony has just confirmed that it's going to release a Jak and Daxter HD Collection in the future, after quite a few rumors popped up about its existence in recent weeks.Current generation platforms have seen a lot of older games appear for them, not just in the form of classics, but also through high definition c... |
10 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Konami has launched a new trailer for the High Definition remake of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, one which last for nine minutes and allows players to see an English translation.The game was originally launched on the PlayStation Portable and garnered good reviews on launch.Players are able to... |
10 November 2011
05:22 GMT |
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The developers at Capcom Japan have launched the first full trailer for the Devil May Cry HD Collection after the game package was confirmed as existing late during last month.The trailer is made up of cutscenes taken out from the three Devil May Cry titles that were released on the PlayStation 2 home console.As with... |
4 November 2011
08:23 GMT |
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The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Wii U home console won't necessarily look like the technical demo showcased by the company during the E3 2011 conference, as the development process hasn't even started completely, so plenty of things can change until it's ready.
Nintendo presented the Wii U last... |
5 July 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Nintendo's famous games designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, confirmed that a high definition Legend of Zelda title will be released for the new Wii U console at one point in time.Nintendo has a huge amount of quality franchises, from Mario to Star Fox or Pikmin, but The Legend of Zelda series has been a hallmark of exce... |
23 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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It seems that Capcom is going to follow the recent high definition remaster trend, as a retail listing says that the company will debut a Devil May Cry HD Collection at the end of this year.Gaming has reached a point where quite a lot of people didn't get a chance to experience many old titles, so companies are ... |
20 June 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Ubisoft has finally decided to shed some light on the Splinter Cell HD Trilogy that will arrive for the PlayStation 3 in the following months, as well as release a few screenshots of the remastered games.
Ubisoft is continuing to remake its older titles in high definition for current-generation consoles, and has a... |
8 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft was set to launch an array of titles remastered in high definition this month, with collections like the Prince of Persia or Splinter Cell ones.
Now, the French company has just announced, via IGN, that the Splinter Cell HD trilogy won't be arriving this week onto the PlayStation 3, as it has been pus... |
25 March 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Capcom is currently rumored to be preparing high definition remakes of two Resident Evil games, the critically acclaimed Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica: Director's Cut.
According to a report from Andriasang, a Japanese magazine has published the first details about Capcom's newest project called Resid... |
24 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Nintendo is preparing to launch the new 3DS handheld in late February, but it seems that the company might have some problems this year in the home console space, where there's no sign that it is working to launch a new version of the Wii.Speaking to IndustryGamers, Michael Pachter, who is the best known analyst... |
27 January 2011
14:51 GMT |
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After a pretty ambiguous reveal a few weeks ago, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix have finally decided to showcase the upcoming Tomb Raider HD trilogy bundle, which will be released later this year for the PlayStation 3.The last few months have been extremely busy for Tomb Raider's leading lady, Lara Croft, as n... |
7 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Crystal Dynamics, the developer of the popular and long-running Tomb Raider franchise, has just announced that it will be releasing a Trilogy edition for the PlayStation 3, consisting of Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider: Anniversary, both remastered in high definition, as well as the more recent Tomb Raider Underw... |
20 December 2010
03:00 GMT |
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Microsoft launched yesterday the next best thing in webcams, with the new LifeCam Studio, a webcam with high-definition video and a 1080p sensor, which is perfect for Windows Live Messenger 2011, with HD video calling and a 16:9 widescreen format.This is Microsoft’s first 1080p sensor webcam and it was built to... |
14 September 2010
04:18 GMT |
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A Nintendo game creator has said that the new home console from Nintendo, which has been widely rumored to be in development but has not been confirmed by the hardware maker, will come with the same level of innovation that the unveiling of the Nintendo Wii provided when it was introduced in 2006.Yoshio Sakamoto, who... |
8 September 2010
08:51 GMT |
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The existence of a successor for the Nintendo Wii has been talked about for two years, with analysts of the videogame industry saying that the Japanese manufacturer needs to offer more power and better graphics to its customers. But it seems Nintendo is more interested in selling as many Wiis as possible now and less... |
17 March 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Final Fantasy has come a long way since the 1997 release of Final Fantasy VII, yet a lot of gamers still hold up that title as the epitome of what the JRPG can be. But hopes of seeing the experience recreated using modern graphics and new technology is periodically dashed by statements from the developers.Motomu Tori... |
5 February 2010
14:51 GMT |
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Over the past years, video formats have grown in number, thus making place for video converting tools that can ease your work when you want to play a video file on different gadgets that support various file formats. Converting a video file nowadays has become a simple job that any user can cut into with the least ef... |
21 December 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 is set to be released on November 10 by Activision and Infinity Ward on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony. One very important platform missing from the list is the Nintendo Wii, a device that received a port of the original Modern Warfare when it came out in 2007. Bu... |
4 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is not the same successful videogaming console that it was during 2008. Sales of the platform have slowed down a lot this year, falling by no less than 34% in Japan, the home territory of the company. The reasons are complex, ranging from market saturation to the impact of the economic downturn on ga... |
2 November 2009
06:54 GMT |
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There's a lot of speculation going around related to what Nintendo is preparing to do as a response to Microsoft introducing its own motion tracking Project Natal and Sony releasing the wand for the PlayStation 3.The logical move would be to counter with a more powerful Wii console, which has HD capabilities lik... |
21 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The era of black-and-white movies ended a long time ago, when color films came out, continuously improving the quality of the displayed image. Today the standards are very high when it comes to creating a good-quality picture with crystal-clear images that captivate the audience, and this is how the High Definition s... |
26 May 2009
11:31 GMT |
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With the 10.5.5 update out, Apple's next focus should be adding Blu-ray support in its next update to Mac OS X Leopard, some suggest. After all, pretty much everything Digg's Kevin Rose disclosed about Apple's latest announcements turned out to be true, so why wouldn't Blu-ray materialize?Kevin Ro... |
19 September 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Since JVC is one of the most important names in the A/V industry, it was to be expected that it would have something big in store for this year's CEDIA expo. And one of the company's announcements is related to the area of projectors, as JVC has just unveiled four new such devices, namely the consumer-grade... |
5 September 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Microsoft together with Sony were celebrated for their contributions to the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4AVC standard that directly impacts the quality of the HDTV video signal, both in terms of storage but also of its delivery. The two companies are among the members of the Joint Video Team Committee, which received ... |
4 September 2008
09:42 GMT |
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The title of world's thinnest LCD HDTV seems to have changed hands once again. After Hitachi held on to it for almost half a year, along came Sony and launched the incredibly thin KDL-40ZX1, whose panel is just 9 mm thick (while the device itself reaches just... 28.8 mm) but still capable of displaying high-qual... |
28 August 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Runescape is a game so good, addictive and popular that it can be compared, when it comes to the number of players, to World of Warcraft - Jagex's game has around ten million active accounts registered. The biggest difference between this massively multiplayer online game and WoW is the fact that most of these a... |
2 July 2008
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Sony and Samsung have independently started shipping new Blu-Ray devices to meet the increasing demand in high-definition video worldwide. The new devices are not only a passport to the high-definition digital world, but also the creation of two major trendsetters in the industry, having been among the key factors th... |
29 April 2008
08:27 GMT |
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The format war might be over for Toshiba's HD-DVD, but it seems that the next target on the list of casualties will be the victorious Blu-Ray. Those of you who are already prepared to toss the Blu-Ray movie titles and jump in the new format's bandwagon, are advised to wait a little more, as the new format i... |
17 April 2008
09:19 GMT |
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PC manufacturer 1 Beyond has just announced an update to its GoFlex317 notebook, a machine primarily aimed at the graphics specialists and hardcore gamers. The new system packs hardware that is worthy of a desktop system in a portable form factor.The new GoFlex317 notebook is not just a refresh of an already existing... |
9 April 2008
03:05 GMT |
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PC vendor Hewlett-Packard has just unveiled a high-resolution webcam for video-conferencing and instant messaging. The new creation is extremely unusual, given the fact that HP was not much of a player on the webcam market until now. As if this was not enough, the new offering comes in a less-conventional shape, that... |
31 March 2008
09:33 GMT |
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The recent death of Toshiba's HD-DVD format propelled the rival Blu-Ray high-definition standard as the new industry's king. However, it seems that the Blu-Ray itself will be soon facing the same situation as its former rival.According to THX, one of George Lucas' spin-off companies, the Blu-Ray format... |
27 March 2008
17:36 GMT |
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Wireless connectivity is one of the newest obsessions in the industry, and 802.11 companies have made a habit out of exterminating those dusty cables piling up under floors, rugs or even furniture. Most of them succeed in implementing wireless solutions, but they are quickly discouraged by the snail-like speeds. The ... |
25 February 2008
08:40 GMT |
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With all the rush surrounding the first CES 2008 days, we missed Panasonic's four new consumer-oriented camcorders.Unlike previous reports on camcorders from Sony and Canon, we'll start off with the standard definition ones, the SW20 and SDR-S7. The most impressive of them is the SW20, which can go underwat... |
9 January 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Apart from the new A-200 DSLR, Sony has also announced at CES 2008 a plethora of camcorders, including both HD and standard resolution models that record on HDDs, DVDs, miniDV tapes and media cards. Let's start with the high definition models, since they present more interest compared to the older standard defin... |
7 January 2008
06:30 GMT |
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Toshiba went short of one important ally on the HD-DVD battlefield two days ago. Warner Bros, one of the movie studios that had previously released its titles on both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks, called it quits and completely switched to the latter. Although this is a significant loss for Toshiba, the HD-DVD supporter ... |
7 January 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you should be familiar with the Wireless HD (or WiHD) standard. WiHD is a a wireless high definition digital interface standard that operates on the 60 GHz frequency (much beyond the cellphone carriers' spectrum) and is alleged to spare the HD appliances owner the heada... |
3 January 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Nero 8, the latest iteration of the Nero platform for digital media creation and playback, plays well with high definition content. But at the same time, the company producing the multimedia solute announced that it was kicking it up notch in order to deliver superior integration of high definition materials with the... |
20 December 2007
04:32 GMT |
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We all know that sex sells and that sex can sell just about any product in the world. But what about selling sex-related products with the aid of an already famous brand? That's the case of a Japanese retailer selling 40GB PS3 consoles while mentioning that the console can also play Blu-ray porn movies. The que... |
20 November 2007
16:40 GMT |
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Sanyo keeps pounding the video market with surprising products and judging from their latest products they might have what it takes to go against the likes of Canon, Sony and JVC. Their latest contraption is the DMX-HD1000, touted as the world's smallest and lightest full HD camcorder, that's 1920 by 1080 p... |
31 August 2007
06:29 GMT |
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As high-definition is steadily becoming a "must have" for an increasing number of consumers, more and more manufacturers rush to tackle this growing market, launching all sorts of advanced display devices meant to pleasure the eye and blow some serious holes in the purchaser's bank account. And that's exact... |
29 August 2007
05:21 GMT |
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While the battle between the next-generation optical disc formats (HD DVD and Blu-ray) and compatible players rages on, it would seem that there are still quite a few companies out there that have decided to stick with the "oldie but goldie" DVD format and continue to launch last-gen players, albeit pimping them up a... |
9 August 2007
03:26 GMT |
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The hype around Sony's Blu-ray format has reached new levels lately, partially caused by all the controversy surrounding the conflict between its supporters and their adversaries from the HD DVD camp, but also for other reasons as well. And among all this ruckus, the people over at Hitachi have decided that it&#... |
2 August 2007
11:36 GMT |
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Although it's not exactly very popular around the rest of the world, TiVo is the most famous brand of Digital Video Recorder in the United States and each announcement regarding an upcoming TiVo product or service creates quite a buzz among the US readers. This is exactly the case right now, as the company has j... |
24 July 2007
06:41 GMT |
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As high definition camcorders are becoming increasingly popular among consumers, the problem of transferring the filmed content onto other media becomes even more dire, especially since HD content requires a lot more storage space and bandwidth for the transfer operations. And since Sony is one of the most important ... |
19 July 2007
03:11 GMT |
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DLP projectors have evolved quite a lot during the past few years and have thus become quite an affordable solution for those people who want to setup their own home theater system without having to occupy even more space in their already over-crowded homes with a huge, widescreen plasma or LCD display. And one such ... |
11 July 2007
03:06 GMT |
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The format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is far from over, and every week marks yet another major development in this competition. Even if only a few days ago HD DVD supporters announced that they've got the lead in this race, it would seem that the tables have turned, at least after Blockbuster's surprise... |
18 June 2007
01:14 GMT |
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The tough competition (read war) between the two next-generation HD formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray is far from being over, as each side tries to employ every trick in the book and every means necessary in order to secure for itself even the slightest advantage. And it seems that the aggressive manner in which the two fo... |
12 June 2007
03:41 GMT |
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