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If you live in Australia and you feel that you're being cheated by the delayed release of games and the censorship of the Australian Board, and the consequent banning of some violent titles, you don't have the right to complain about it anymore. Also, if you live in some other part of the world and feel in ... |
20 November 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Recently, Square Enix confirmed the release date for Final Fantasy XIII, its upcoming Japanese role playing game blockbuster, for the markets in North America and Europe. The title is set to arrive on March 9, 2010 for those who live outside Japan, while the lucky gamers who live in the island nation will be able to ... |
19 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta really got shafted, especially compared with the Xbox 360 one. On Sony's console, the game suffered from a lot of issues, including choppy framerates, lesser graphics and, not to be cast aside, the prolonged loading times. As it has been mentioned by a dedicated fan of the ... |
18 November 2009
03:19 GMT |
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A few days ago, we saw the first leaked images showing that Facebook integration was being prepared for the PlayStation 3. And, in an unusual move, Sony has not entered its usual denial tactics and actually put out a preview of the features set to be integrated in the 3.10 firmware update, which is said to come very ... |
17 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from Naughty Dog and Sony has managed to top the NPD Group chart for the month of October, beating out other titles that were also released for the Xbox 360 or for the Nintendo Wii.The game has been praised, with the Softpedia review not being an exception, for the quality of its graphics, ... |
17 November 2009
03:30 GMT |
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The universe is a vast and mysterious, endless patch of knowledge. But somehow, all that the Earth got was an endless batch of incredibly confused and disturbed individuals. As far as fantasy goes, movies, books and all other forms of entertainment usually depict criminals as the greatest masterminds of human history... |
16 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The weekly numbers for hardware and software charts in Japan have new leaders for the week that began on November 2 and ended on November 8 as seen in the data offered by Media Create, a firm which closely watches the market. Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 from Konami taps Japan's love of football in order to get to ... |
16 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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You may find it confusing at times why exactly people don't refer to the PlayStation 3 or to the Xbox 360 as their just being gaming consoles. Well, that's because they can do so much more than just run games. As it turns out, the PS3, among all the other things it can do, can convict criminals. The way in ... |
16 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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October was not a good month for the videogames industry in the United States, which remains the biggest market in the world. Overall, the industry is 19% down over the same period in 2008, going down to just 1.07 billion dollars, making it worse than the same period in 2007.But it seems that even if the numbers don&... |
16 November 2009
03:12 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released the data for hardware and software sales on the United States market, showing that the videogames industry has declined no less than 19% when compared to the same period of 2008, with sales reaching 1.07 billion dollars. As analysts predicted, the overall economic situation is impacting vid... |
13 November 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has been making a lot of marketing noise lately in relation to the coming update for the Xbox 360 home gaming console, which is set to introduce social services, like Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm, to those who are paying for the Xbox Live Gold subscription. The company hopes that the introduction of the s... |
12 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Gran Turismo 5 is not yet out, even if the boss of Polyphony Digital, Kazunori Yamauchi, has repeatedly said that the videogame has been done for quite some time. Until the release date, those who are interested in the title can comfort themselves with the fact that Gran Turismo 5 might just be one of the most expens... |
9 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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There are big things going on when it comes to both the hardware and the software markets in Japan. The PSP Go, the new handheld from Sony, has seen its first sales numbers released, and Bayonetta has managed to slay the Pokemon series and go to the top in the videogame chart.The best selling system in Japan continue... |
9 November 2009
03:53 GMT |
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DICE, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that they plan to release a multiplayer beta of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 exclusively on the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony starting with November 19.All the players who are interested in getting a place on the beta program an... |
6 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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To compensate for the lack of the UMD drive for the PSP Go, Sony has decided to flood the PlayStation Store with all kinds of games. Ever since the console was first launched on October 1, the company has poured in games every week, and it's doing it again now. The PlayStation Portable section of the store got l... |
6 November 2009
04:11 GMT |
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As the videogaming world matures, a lot of people, most of them outside the industry, have been asking whether videogames can be seen as art with the implication that they are just a form of entertainment for the masses.Of course, there are others who point to titles like Braid and Fahrenheit and call them art. But D... |
6 November 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Heavy Rain is a very ambitious project. It sounds mundane at first, with four characters pitted on the trail of the Origami Killer and with promises of cinematic action. But once you factor in the work David Cage and most of his team have done on Fahrenheit earlier in their careers, Heavy Rain becomes one of the most... |
5 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Firmware updates for the consoles allow the manufacturer to keep its products up to current standards and make all sorts of small improvements and tweaks. As the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii showed, the firmware updates kept the platforms alive for a longer period of time and made sure they were not becoming outd... |
5 November 2009
03:21 GMT |
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The recent focus on the PlayStation 3, with the redesign process beginning in 2008 and with the recent launch of the Slim version and the price cut, has been detrimental to the health of the PlayStation Portable as a viable gaming platform. Now, Sony is aiming to shift focus to its mobile gaming platform and challeng... |
4 November 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Sony has announced a loss for the second fiscal quarter of the year and lower revenue but overall sales of the PlayStation 3 home gaming console have gone up by 33% because of the price cut that kicked in and because of the better value for money of the new Slim version of the device.For the quarter that ended on Sep... |
3 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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It seems that Sony has great plans for the new motion tracking controller, shaped like a wand, set to be released at some point during the spring of 2010. Far from seeing it as only an add-on that can offer some players a new way of controlling their experience, the company sees the new device, which has not yet rece... |
2 November 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Despite the big amount of new titles that is being released each week, the Japanese market seems fixated on getting Pokemon video games in the top spot in software charts and on making the Nintendo DSi handheld on which they are played the best sold piece of gaming hardware. The DSi, which is set to receive a new ve... |
2 November 2009
04:34 GMT |
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September was a good month for the videogames industry, as shown by the figures put out by the NPD Group for both hardware and software, with the decline of the previous months reversed and with revenue pretty much equal to that registered in the same month of 2008. But it seems that October might bring more pain to ... |
30 October 2009
04:09 GMT |
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It seems that BioWare is including user-generated content in its plans for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game set to debut on the Xbox 360 and on the PC on November 3, and on the PlayStation 3 later on during the same month. The videogame marks a return to the roots for BioWare, with the company comparing it ... |
29 October 2009
07:53 GMT |
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A new study created by TNS/Today's Gamers and Gameindustry.com is showing that more and more gamers on all platforms are interested in digital distribution but that full-game distribution through the Internet is still in its infancy at the moment, with a majority of gamers still preferring to get their Modern Wa... |
28 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Now with Netflix coming to the PlayStation 3, it seems like Microsoft is about to lose yet another exclusivity. So, the normal course of action would be to think of a way to sweeten the deal for the Xbox Live Gold membership that offers the service on its console. And maybe it is, who's to tell no. Well, Microso... |
28 October 2009
12:01 GMT |
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After a year of rumors related to both the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3, it was finally confirmed that the Netflix streaming service would be launched on the Sony home console. And, now, Steve Swasey, who is the vice president for corporate communication at Netflix, has described in some more detail how the ser... |
28 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Rumors have been flying around that Netflix streaming will soon come to a new device. The stories were true, and the lucky winner is the PlayStation 3. Yesterday, the official announcement was made by both companies, Sony and Netflix, and now the console is receiving the final preparations required. Netflix will beco... |
26 October 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Killzone 2 was not the hit that Sony hoped it to be. It sold pretty well, but not enough for a big-budget PS3 exclusive. Some players complained about the lack of a cooperative mode, about the rather clunky controls and about the stereotypical plot advancement. It was a solid shooter, but it really did not manage to ... |
26 October 2009
17:01 GMT |
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When Dragon Age:Origins got its first delay, from October 20 to November 3, PlayStation 3 owners got a crippling blow. The game's version for Sony's console received an unspecified launch date, and was left simply marked as to be ready "later in November." A reason, or any details regarding this decision we... |
26 October 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The hardware and software sales figures for the week that ended on October 18 have been released by Media Create and they show the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console again selling better than its rivals in the Land of the Rising Sun, while Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has debuted at number five in the software chart. T... |
26 October 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Installing games on their PlayStation 3 has become a natural thing for gamers, as they've begun to leave the “cartridge” fashion of the old consoles more and more and brush shoulders with the PC tradition. But, it seems, at least one major release will stay true to the console and is designed as an i... |
23 October 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Gaming magazine Famitsu is the first to come to a hands-on conclusion regarding Platinum Games's newest action title, Bayonetta. The official verdict is in and according to it it is perfect. The game was put in front a of a four-man jury where it was awarded a mark from one to ten. After a strict deliberation, i... |
21 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A nine-month revenue of $17.1 billion is a big number even for corporate giant Nintendo. Not only that, but the company even expected another big holiday season with figures to further increase its revenues. But as time progressed, their expectations weren't met and by July sales fell by 40 percent and profits b... |
21 October 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The much awaited NPD Group hardware and software sales figures for September have finally arrived and while the picture looks less grim for the videogame industry (where are the times when we deemed it recession proof?), there are still signs of trouble.The Nintendo DS handheld still manages to be the best sold gamin... |
20 October 2009
08:07 GMT |
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Not so long ago, Sony announced the God of War Collection, a pack that would include God of War I and God of War II as well as a demo for God of War III. The title was soon plagued by rumors of delays, and word that the package would no longer become available this year began to spread amongst the gamers. But Sony ha... |
19 October 2009
15:31 GMT |
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While we are waiting for the NPD Group to release the sales figures for September, which should have been out on Friday but have been delayed because of some processing issues, the latest hardware and software numbers out of Japan are available, with sales of all gaming hardware falling even as all the big consoles a... |
19 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Yet another PlayStation 3 version is about to hit the market. The new SKU's hard drive is more than twice the size of the older one but thankfully it's not twice the price as well. The new product is a 250GB edition of the PlayStation 3 Slim, it will become available on November 3 and will cost $349. It... |
16 October 2009
07:45 GMT |
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The NPD Group sales numbers for September will not be coming out until Monday but the various console manufacturers have already begun putting out statements related to the order in which the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii will arrive. Microsoft seems determined to preempt the expected dominance of ... |
16 October 2009
03:04 GMT |
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If Nvidia is not the best producer of video cards for the PC, it is certainly the most popular. Most games carry the “The way it's meant to be played” catch phrase and are pretty much optimized for this particular chipset. But consoles run on a different track, so it's no wonder they have differ... |
15 October 2009
04:52 GMT |
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The Russian site of Electronic Arts and the official site of the Australian videogame retailer GAME have listed Mass Effect 2 as coming to the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony. Since other retailers do not have this listing, it's not clear whether it's an error on the part of the two above source... |
13 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Sony released its new handheld, the PlayStation Portable Go, in Japan last week while also taking down the price of the older PSP-3000, which resulted in a series growth for the line. Still, the Nintendo DSi managed to be the biggest seller of the week, moving no less than 53,293 units. The Sony-made PSP only shipped... |
12 October 2009
14:21 GMT |
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It seems that September will be judged to be a good month for videogaming when the NPD Group hardware and software sales numbers are released. For the first time in seven months, the industry is set to post positive growth numbers mainly on the back of the price cuts that kicked in for the PlayStation 3, with the rel... |
9 October 2009
03:38 GMT |
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It seems that the level of frustration of those affected by problems introduced by the firmware 3.00 update for the PlayStation 3 has reached boiling point. One man from Florida took action against Sony by filing a class action suit against the Japanese console manufacturer alleging that the update had affected his g... |
7 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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It seems that the Japanese domestic videogame market is continuing to shrink, according to the data offered by a report from Enterbrain, the company that publishes the quintessential games magazine Famitsu. Overall, the shrinkage is of about 10.5%, with hardware dropping more precipitously than software. The data cov... |
5 October 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Sony put on display quite a lot of new things at the Tokyo Game Show and one of the most overlooked of them was the presentation of the PlayStation Room, which is now headed to the PSP handheld. It seems that the fresh social space is set to arrive at some point during winter as part of a firmware update and will be ... |
29 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is a very welcoming console. It has its exclusive releases, it shares some of its videogames with the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 but until now, it has failed to mine one of the most extensive videogame libraries in the world, that of the previous PlayStation home gaming consoles, which had their ... |
28 September 2009
05:32 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii price cut that Nintendo announced at the Tokyo Game Show was welcomed by the videogaming industry. After all, the Wii is the most popular of the current generation of consoles, selling about as well as the PlayStation 2 did when it was at similar point in its lifetime cycle and game makers need the d... |
28 September 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Netflix has already been available on the Xbox 360 for quite some time and there are a lot of people using the streaming service to watch movies and television shows. And, for quite some time, there have been rumors, some of them generated by announcements for open jobs at the company, that Netflix is laboring on get... |
23 September 2009
06:03 GMT |
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