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It seems that this fall is a season for videogames which target the imagination of the players. Spore has sold well on the promise of allowing you to imagine, design and then play with creatures and now LittleBigPlanet is getting ready to launch, promising to permit players to design any adventure they wish.At the To... |
10 October 2008
22:31 GMT |
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Resistance 2 is presented by Sony Computer Entertainment of America and is one of the most important titles to arrive on the PlayStation 3 this year. Resistance: Retribution is a spin off game designed to help the PlayStation Portable attract bigger sales. The two games are part of the same franchise and the PSP and... |
10 October 2008
19:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is continuing its strategy of making the Xbox 360 the most interesting console of the Christmas holiday season by putting out a host of bundles which should turn the device into a more attractive one to some gamers.The company has not clearly defined all the bundles it plans to release but there are reports... |
10 October 2008
12:31 GMT |
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A new rumor points to the possibility that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft might be getting a Blu-ray drive. These rumors seem to pop up every couple of months, proposing either an internal or an external drive, only to solicit a quick and tough reaction from a Microsoft official who denies the possibility that this will... |
9 October 2008
19:31 GMT |
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If you are one of those people who have stalled buying a PlayStation 3 because of the price and because of the upcoming holiday season, which will be filled with price cuts and wonderful bundles that just might make it worth it, well, in the past years, things might have gone that way but you're wrong this time ... |
9 October 2008
03:26 GMT |
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The new update for the PlayStation Store arrives today and, if up until now it wasn't something that would really spark the interest of players, despite the classic new content like themes or icons, this time the developers are introducing a brand new feature, called Premium Themes. This new update will give Pla... |
9 October 2008
02:33 GMT |
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Valve is a developer that hasn't gotten along so well with the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. It has always focused on the PC and eventually on the Xbox 360. All of its games have been developed for these platforms, and it definitely seemed like it was going to stay that way. But help for the fans of Sony&r... |
7 October 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that the Xbox 360 gaming console is “an absolute home run”. He believes that the recent move to cut the prices of the device to make it competitive with the Nintendo made Wii console is a sign of good business acumen and not one of desperation, as some ... |
7 October 2008
03:28 GMT |
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LittleBigPlanet is certainly hot property when it comes to PlayStation 3 games. Sony is probably expecting the Media Molecule designed game to drag the sales of the PS3 up come Christmas, alongside the release of Fallout 3 and Resistance 2. And if it does a good job, then Sony might just need the same game to salvage... |
6 October 2008
15:41 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is closer and closer to selling more than the PlayStation 3 for a full month, while also abandoning the pretense of challenging the domination of the Nintendo Wii amongst the big gaming consoles out there.The Nintendo DS managed to be the best seller overall again, with over 57,000 units sold, which mean... |
6 October 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Reuters has obtained information from Enterbrain, the publisher of the popular Japanese magazine Famitsu, which details how various games and gaming platforms performed in the first six months of 2008 on the Japanese markets. And although everyone expects a Nintendo domination, the PlayStation Portable has managed to... |
6 October 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Gran Turismo 5 is a pretty good game that brings the realism of racing on tracks all around the world in very expensive and powerful cars straight into your living room. The game has several distinct features such as 16 player online races or full high definition gaming experience with the visuals on 1080p and high f... |
6 October 2008
03:44 GMT |
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We've been hearing a lot lately of the surge in sales that the Xbox 360 is experiencing, mostly thanks to the price reduction that Microsoft operated early in September. The company claims that the console has doubled the sales of the PlayStation 3 from Sony in the United Kingdom, while data coming from Japan sh... |
4 October 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Fallout 3 is going to be a blockbuster title for its developer, Bethesda. The studio behind the massive hit The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has recently talked, through the voice of their product manager, Pete Hines, about the future game, especially about the Downloadable Content which will be available only for the... |
2 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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It's really nice to hear developers that appreciate the work of their fellow colleagues. Most of them only take other people's games and analyze them with great scrutiny in order to find something that didn't work and say how they could have made it much better. But every once in a while, some develop... |
2 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Activision Publishing, the division of Activision Blizzard which is in charge of actually getting games to players, has entered into an agreement with IGA Worldwide, one of the biggest game advertising companies in the world, to create opportunities to introduce advertisements in the PlayStation 3 games that the comp... |
2 October 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Dead Space is shaping up to be a pretty interesting game. It promises a lot of innovations and from what we have seen until now, it will deliver on most of them. With just a few weeks until its official launch, on October 14 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and October 20 for the PC, Electronic Arts, the developer... |
2 October 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Microsoft says that the sales of the Xbox 360 have risen by 214% in the two weeks since prices went down. According to the company, it means that the console is now posting numbers which double those of the PlayStation 3. The numbers are provided by Microsoft and have not been independently confirmed.Chris Lewis, who... |
2 October 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Realism is a very big part of most games. Trying to recreate a real world environment and characters is often a pretty hard task. Especially with things such as clothes, objects or foreign languages. That's why Capcom, the developer behind the upcoming Resident Evil 5 title, wanted to make it as real as possible... |
1 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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You have to love Peter Molyneux. If he isn't praising the high quality and innovation of his games, he's praising the console for which he is working on, the Xbox 360. While speaking in a recent interview with VideoGamer, he went on to analyze Microsoft's console against Sony's PlayStation 3. Gues... |
1 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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In-game advertising is set to be one of the biggest advertising mediums that has yet to be explored by the big companies. Although some attempts were made in the past, with Electronic Arts indulging in quite a few real life products in their Need for Speed series, the concrete deals aren't in that big of a numb... |
1 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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A study from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has managed to link increased numbers of Achievements or Trophies with increased video games sales. The correlation is strong enough that developers should consider packing all their titles with them in order to make sure their games sell.The study took into a... |
1 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is going to be a pretty interesting title, the zombie shooter promising quite a lot of things. The innovations it brings have been enough to convince most of us that it will be a must buy title. But not everyone, so Chet Faliszek from Valve decided to give us a few details on the future demo of the ... |
1 October 2008
14:31 GMT |
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There's a lot of excitement around DC Universe Online, the superhero based MMO which is being developed by Sony Online Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and the PC. The developers say that the game will allow players to become superheroes on their own and be drawn in a complex storyline where they can fi... |
1 October 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is really stressing the importance of its fall update to the Xbox 360, especially the long awaited New Xbox Experience. Essentially a revamp of the old blade system which is currently employed in the Xbox 360 navigation menu, this promises to bring a much more user friendly experience and to take pers... |
30 September 2008
20:01 GMT |
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One of the overlooked elements in Sony's presentation at the E3 trade show was MAG, an upcoming massive multiplayer game which should debut exclusively on the PlayStation 3 sometime in 2009. Now Sony seems to be passing around a questionnaire about the game suggesting that, for the first time, it might be consid... |
30 September 2008
18:31 GMT |
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Bioshock is a truly terrific game. With innovations and a wide opportunity of choices which affected every aspect of the game, it was a breath of fresh air for the gaming industry. The philosophical and moral issues asked by this game really tore gamers into camps, each of them militating for the choices which ... |
30 September 2008
14:21 GMT |
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We recently reported that Sony wants to test the dedicated servers which its blockbuster title LittleBigPlanet would be getting on launch day and released a beta of the game. Also, as a token of appreciation for all the support the developers got during the making of this game, they released several thousand beta ke... |
30 September 2008
03:13 GMT |
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It seems that one of the most interesting features of LittleBigPlanet will not be available when the game launches. Sony says that the online multiplayer version of the level creation tool which is integrated in the game will only get to players as a patch which will be released after the game is out. The offline cre... |
29 September 2008
05:31 GMT |
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In a not too surprising move, the interest in the Xbox 360 in Japan, just two weeks after Microsoft decided to cut the price of its gaming console, is beginning to return to normal levels while Nintendo regains its choke hold on the hardware sales chart.The Nintendo DS, which is again rumored to get a significant mak... |
29 September 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Valve, through the voice of Gabe Newell, has confirmed that it does not plan to deliver any content patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Team Fortress 2.The videogame, which was initially included in The Orange Box, was launched for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. But the PS3 version of the game was not... |
26 September 2008
18:41 GMT |
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As we said on previous occasions, LittleBigPlanet is one of the most anticipated games for the PlayStation 3, and with all the hype going around, the little time left until its launch seems like an eternity for the fans. In order to ensure that everything will run smoothly when the game launches, Sony wanted to test ... |
26 September 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Bioshock was a great game. It was very innovative, it introduced gamers to the idea of free will and it really took the industry by storm with its many philosophical and moral issues. These aspects were presented to the players in many forms, and detailing upon them would only ruin the experience for those who haven&... |
26 September 2008
02:52 GMT |
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Yesterday we received the confirmation that Hungarian studio Zen are working on a game based on the Marvel comic book hero The Punisher. The game will be a PlayStation 3 exclusive, and will be available on the PlayStation Network. In a recent interview with GameSpot, Zen Studios' chief, Zsolt Kigyossy, said quit... |
25 September 2008
16:01 GMT |
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There's a lot of hype around the upcoming LittleBigPlanet title. For those of you who don't know, LBP is exclusively developed for the PlayStation 3 with Sony heavily promoting it, and it is a puzzle platformer game that allows players to create their own characters, levels and worlds. They will contro... |
25 September 2008
03:29 GMT |
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LittleBigPlanet is going to be out on October 21 and the game is seen as one of the major reasons to get a PlayStation 3 this fall. Recently we have received news of the Trophy list for the game and we've got them all lined up for you to see.Most of the Trophies in the game are Bronze ones. You get one for compl... |
24 September 2008
16:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 has had a rough time lately, without the exclusives everybody was expecting, like Grand Theft Auto IV, or games which didn't rise up to the hype created around them, like Metal Gear Solid 4 (it didn't sell quite as Sony was hoping). So, that made them look for other opportunities of poten... |
24 September 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead will be a pretty good game, promising a zombie shooter with some very interesting twists, and although the single player aspects will be the classical "You're surrounded by zombies, try to escape," the multiplayer will allow the gamer to control the zombies and try to stop the survivors. Valve, its d... |
24 September 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the latest installment in the Star Wars franchise, was launched a week ago. Although there were some who didn't think too kindly of the new game created by LucasArts, most of us were pretty excited by the launch. Of course, when I say most of us, I’m actually referring to th... |
24 September 2008
02:35 GMT |
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Technology development is constant nowadays, but Sony and Toshiba's latest venture in research, the attempt to improve the Cell processor, which currently powers the PlayStation 3, has resulted in a finished product. Say goodbye to the old 65 nm chip, and welcome to the new 45 nm one. Sure, it may not soun... |
23 September 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Although some reports released in the middle of the last week suggested that the Xbox 360, with its new reduced price tag, was overtaking the Nintendo Wii in sales on the Japanese market, the weekly data from market research firm Media Create says that the Microsoft made console came very close but fell just short of... |
22 September 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Atari are barely making profit these days. The launch of Alone in the Dark was supposed to fix that. But the versions developed for the Xbox 360 and the PC, launched in June were full of bugs and glitches, which drove away a lot of customers. That made critics really tarnish the name of the game, most of t... |
19 September 2008
19:31 GMT |
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After a delay and some concern regarding the actual release date, Sony is announcing that Life with PlayStation, the latest in a string of services planned for release for the company's current gen gaming consoles, is now live and can be downloaded by anyone through their PlayStation Network account.The service ... |
18 September 2008
09:51 GMT |
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When Microsoft announced that it was cutting prices in Japan, bringing the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade below that of the Nintendo Wii, most of us thought that this was only a dry run in preparation for the world wide price cuts that Microsoft has since then rolled out. After all, the Xbox 360 has always been a very... |
18 September 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Sony is announcing that a new firmware update is available for its PlayStation 3 gaming console. The catch is that the update is not really necessary for most users and that you probably can safely ignore it.Firmware update 2.43 is specifically created to address issues with the consoles that Sony sold in Japan. It s... |
17 September 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Bikes are coming to Paradise City as part of a new update to Criterion's Burnout Paradise. The developers are keen on keeping the game interesting for players and they are continuing their record of very good support by releasing this patch for the title.The upcoming patch will introduce two motorcycles that can... |
16 September 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Sony has great plans regarding DC Universe Online, its MMO incorporating elements from the mythology of comic books. The game, which is developed by Sony Online Entertainment, will be one of the first MMOs to run on the PlayStation 3 and the experience should be special.In order to create a backstory more interesting... |
16 September 2008
03:49 GMT |
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For the fifth week in a row, the Nintendo DS manages to hold off the PlayStation Portable to be Japan's best sold gaming hardware. But the overall sales of gaming consoles have continued to slow as the interest in videogames launched during this period plummets.The Nintendo DS sold exactly 51,412 units, which me... |
15 September 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo. If you want to see what's new in this iteration of the franchise, you can download the demo from Xbox Live, get it on the PlayStation N... |
12 September 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The videogame industry only managed to grow by 9% in August compared to last year. This is one of the smallest increases this year and shows that the overall economic performance in the United States might be finally catching up with gamers and videogaming companies.The industry has had revenues of 1.08 billion dolla... |
12 September 2008
06:16 GMT |
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