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Micro transactions are all the rage when it comes to PC-based MMORPGs. Free Realms is gaining more and more users and getting regular content updates from Sony even as BioWare seems to be hinting that its upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic is set to feature micro transactions as a possible paying option. And now, M... |
8 October 2009
03:24 GMT |
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There are a lot of Xbox 360 fans out there that have dug deep into their pockets to purchase a limited edition console or paid to have their rig modified with some unique concept art. But to believe that someone would pay at least 1.1 million dollars for an Xbox 360 is close to lunacy. The item is signed by former Al... |
6 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Pleased with the overall response that Zeno Clash received, game publisher Atlus decided to start a collaboration with ACE Team co-founder Carlos Bordeu. The latter showed interest in bringing the game to the Xbox 360 since earlier this year, as long as he would find a publisher to help out. And he did. Thus, accordi... |
2 October 2009
04:34 GMT |
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The biggest future project Microsoft is developing for the Xbox 360 home gaming console is the Natal motion tracking system, put on display at the E3 trade show and at the recent Tokyo Game Show. The system already has the support of big game publishers, like Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft, and the ... |
30 September 2009
04:35 GMT |
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During all of last week's Tokyo Game Show presentations, Microsoft's new motion controller Project Natal had the most outside representatives speak on its behalf. The show was put in motion by Microsoft Game Studios Kudo Tsunoda, which tried to give the public a better understanding of the new technology. F... |
29 September 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Forza Motorsport 3 from Microsoft for the Xbox 360 home gaming console has been scheduled to arrive on October 23 in Europe and four days later in North America, but it seems that the developers working on it are still making pretty significant changes to the way it will be played. The driving model is in place but s... |
29 September 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Developer Colin Munro of Tattiebogle.net has released a new version of his Xbox 360 Controller driver for Mac OS X, “which will hopefully install and work fine on 32-bit Snow Leopard,” according to a note on his website. The release also contains 64-bit binaries, but is untested, as of yet. Version 0.08 ... |
28 September 2009
04:44 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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With Halo 3: ODST released and players currently exploring both the New Mombasa-based, single-player title and the new Firefight cooperative-multiplayer experience, the only Halo-themed video game that is announced and set to arrive in the coming years is Halo: Reach, the project on which Bungie is working and that w... |
25 September 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Nintendo has officially confirmed that it will be dropping 50 dollars from the price tag of the Wii home gaming console beginning with September 27 on the North American market. On October 1, a similar price reduction will take place in Japan, bringing the console down to the yen equivalent of 220 dollars. Apparently... |
24 September 2009
04:49 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 has received several other controllers along the years, besides the standard black and white models. Now, it looks like a brand-new set of clothes will come for the device. Appearing only in the GameStop schedule, Microsoft seems to be preparing a red and black controller for the Xbox, expected to become... |
23 September 2009
12:01 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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Microsoft has announced that, between September 22 and October 5, it will be offering rebates worth 50 dollars for all those who buy an Xbox 360 gaming console. This is, basically, another price cut, albeit one that will only last for two weeks, bringing the most complete of the versions of the Microsoft home console... |
23 September 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Turbine Inc. has created a very robust MMO in The Lord of the Rings Online and the expansion, Mines of Moria, which it put out for it. The game never got to the same level of success that Blizzard's World of Warcraft achieved, but it has done well enough to warrant another expansion and to allow Turbine to work ... |
22 September 2009
02:53 GMT |
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It's official, even if Nintendo is not interested in confirming it. Yet another add has been leaked from a major retailer showing that the Nintendo Wii is set to get a 50-dollar price cut at some point in the near future. The most recent evidence has been offered by Best Buy, as you can see from the admittedly r... |
21 September 2009
08:10 GMT |
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During the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo held in June, Microsoft officially announced the camera-based motion controller, developed in-house for the Xbox 360. Project Natal, as it has been entitled, has pick up the passe for hiring in the development department even before the announcement. Through job listing i... |
19 September 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has sent official word that it is not planning on releasing the 250 GB hard drive that is part of the Modern Warfare 2 bundle announced a few days back on its own. The company has not mentioned any clear reason for the move, but players have been speculating ever since the announcement about the possibility... |
18 September 2009
08:16 GMT |
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Initially announced as an Xbox 360 exclusive, Star Ocean: The Last Hope finally received an official release date for the PlayStation3. With this, Star Ocean returns to its most familiar grounds, as all previous installments of the franchise have only wooed Sony's console owners. Right from the start, the game&#... |
17 September 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that Shane Kim, the face that has been long associated with the Microsoft Game Studios and with the Entertainment Business division, should retire from all his positions at the end of the year. Apparently, he plans to exit the videogaming business altogether and retire after about 19 years of ... |
16 September 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Xbox 360 “Modern Warfare 2” Limited Edition Console is currently available for pre-order in the United States, with Microsoft promising that users in additional markets around the world will be able to also pre-order units by the end of this week. The result of a partnership between Microsoft and Activisi... |
16 September 2009
03:40 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is the best sold console in Japan for the week that ended on September 6, managing to sell no less than 151,783 of the new Slim gaming consoles, which are cheaper, use less energy and occupy less space while offering the same performance when it comes to gaming as their bulkier cousins.This comes as... |
14 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released the data for both hardware and software sales that took place in the month of August in North America, the most important market for the videogaming industry. And, as numerous voices predicted, it's not a pretty sight to look at. Overall sales are at 908.72 million dollars, which is 16... |
11 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Square Enix has held its long awaited press conference designed to announce the date on which the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII would arrive on the Japanese market. Thanks to a bit of shady Internet work from the people in charge of the web sites of the publisher, we already know that the long expected ... |
10 September 2009
16:21 GMT |
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2009 has been a pretty miserable year for videogames up until now, with sales lagging behind those registered in the same months of 2008 in both the hardware and the videogame departments. It did not help that in spring 2008 some really big titles were released, like Wii Fit, Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid ... |
10 September 2009
12:58 GMT |
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It seems that the PlayStation 3 Slim is having quite the impact on all the significant videogames markets. In Japan, the console is said by gaming magazine Famitsu to have moved around 150,000 units to gamers in the first three days. And now GamesIndustry.biz is saying that sales of the Sony made home gaming console ... |
9 September 2009
15:41 GMT |
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It was clear from the moment it was first rumored that the new version of the PlayStation 3 from Sony would make a big impact on the gaming world. After all, if only the initial promises of a lower profile, better power consumption and more efficient ventilation were fulfilled, gamers would have been interested in th... |
8 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Nintendo is clearly very fond of white. When the Wii home gaming console was initially launched in 2006, the Japanese manufacturer was talking about offering it in a variety of colors, including eye-popping red and mellow green, but it took it about 3 years just to move away from white and towards the other non color... |
2 September 2009
06:02 GMT |
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Are you looking to start building your first game for Xbox 360, Windows, or Zune and need a little help? Then you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft has made available for download a range of resources centered on the XNA Game Studio and designed to offer an introduction into the fundamentals of C# programming.... |
31 August 2009
04:53 GMT |
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In September, both the Xbox 360 Elite from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 Slim from Sony will be retailing for the price of 299 dollars, which is 100 lower than in August. A cut of one third of the price of gaming consoles is pretty significant however you look at it and the impact on the videogame industry will lik... |
31 August 2009
02:23 GMT |
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Microsoft has a lot of high-end games coming to its platform, the Xbox 360, during the following fall season. Out of all of them, one of the most important is Halo 3: ODST, a new title that will stay close to Halo 3 and, hopefully, will guarantee plenty of profit for the North American company and the studio behind i... |
28 August 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the biggest upcoming new properties arriving this fall season, and sadly one of the few new IPs being released in between the many sequels that will fill the store shelves before the winter holiday season. In an effort to further increase the hype around this game, where you will be able to p... |
28 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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GameStop has attracted many gamers’ antipathy. Some don't like it because it makes so much money on used games and because of the way it pushes blockbuster games to customers.Most big videogame publishers do not like it because it makes huge profits from used games sales, even though the industry benefits ... |
28 August 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Sony has long struggled to actually position the PlayStation 3 and its overall home console business in a way that truly connected to gamers. Initially, the PS3 was said to be a “gamer's console,” offering power and exclusive titles.Then, it all became a “multimedia center,” which focused... |
28 August 2009
04:54 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is quite a popular console these days, managing to stem the growth of its arch rival, the PlayStation 3, and still keep chasing the runaway success that was the Nintendo Wii. But now the PS3 has gotten a price cut, which puts it on par with the most recent Xbox 360 version. Also, as the PS3 received a n... |
28 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially announced that it is cutting the prices of the Xbox 360 Pro and Elite just one week after Sony announced the new PlayStation 3 Slim and the fact that it would sell for 299 dollars when coming out on September 1. The interesting fact is that the Redmond-based company is basically shedding the ... |
28 August 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Bungie is one of the most appreciated development studios in the industry, having established a name for itself by creating the critically acclaimed Halo series of first person shooters. The fact that it almost single-handedly made shooters work on consoles through its multiple Halo titles is something that needs to ... |
27 August 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Kaz Hirai, who is the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment, is saying that the release of the PlayStation 3 Slim marks a new beginning for the console business of Sony and that the company will again become the leader of the videogaming market. The remarks were made to the Financial Times as part of a wide-ranging int... |
26 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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We live in high-tech days and many people want their entertainment to be at the highest possible quality, meaning that non-high-definition content might not be everybody's cup of tea as a lot of people have HDTVs and current-generation consoles. That is why you don't see a lot of games running on sub-720p ... |
26 August 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Square Enix is one of the most respected Japanese game developers of all time, owning what might be the most successful and well-known franchise coming from the Land of the Rising Sun, Final Fantasy. The series made the JRPG genre famous and took Western markets by storm thanks to a few popular iterations. But with ... |
26 August 2009
02:41 GMT |
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With the PlayStation 3 Slim announced by Sony at Gamescon and confirmed as arriving on most markets on September 1, a lot of people are now wondering how Microsoft and Nintendo, the two rivals of the Japanese manufacturer, are preparing to respond to the new hardware unveiled and to the price cut attached to it. We m... |
26 August 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Racing games are extremely popular these days as many people want to experience the virtual thrills of driving supercars to their limits on challenging racing tracks all around the world without leaving the comfort of their own home. For quite some time Electronic Arts' Need For Speed series has been a leader o... |
25 August 2009
03:58 GMT |
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The console war has been underway for quite some time as each of the three big console manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, has been trying to revamp its devices in order to make them attractive in these hard financial times. The most recent example was Sony's introduction of the newer and cheaper PlayS... |
24 August 2009
03:04 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is a fairly popular console as it managed to beat its arch rival, the PlayStation 3, in terms of sales thanks to its low price, and is still trying to catch up to the huge success of the Nintendo Wii, which reigns supreme over the current generation of consoles. But there was at least one reason to be h... |
24 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Racing games have proven to be an extremely enjoyable passtime and provided many gamers with some unforgettable moments while behind the virtual driving wheel of some of the fastest cars in the most challenging circuits in the world. One flagship franchise for the genre has been Codemasters' Colin McRae rally d... |
21 August 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Developers aren't very pleased with people who don't respect others in online services, especially in games where a lot of the times players resort to cheating and thus ruin the whole experience for the customers who bought the game and wanted to get a nice and fair experience out of it. As you may know, C... |
21 August 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Xbox users will be able to access new Fable gaming content come September 29th, 2009, but Lionhead Studios is in no way done with bringing the Albion universe to Microsoft’s console. In fact, gamescom in Germany served as the scene where Peter Molyneux, creative director at Lionhead, revealed that Fable III wou... |
19 August 2009
11:47 GMT |
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As you all know, the GamesCon conference is currently underway in Cologne, Germany. We're already in day two of the convention and there have already been some huge announcements made by Sony yesterday in regard to the PlayStation 3 Slim and new features for the PSP. But today was Microsoft's turn to revea... |
19 August 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Xbox Live is one of the most important online services designed for the Xbox 360 console made by Microsoft. It provides a top-notch environment for gamers and for the companies that create the titles and it receives newer and newer features everyday, with the likes of Facebook, Twitter or Last.fm being set to appear ... |
18 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the biggest companies involved in gaming at the moment, owning a lot of high grossing franchises with a big number of fans all around the world. The software giant is also quite proud of its Xbox 360 console, which has generated a lot of money and is still making a bit more than its arch rival, th... |
18 August 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important news from the gaming industry in the last seven days. This week was a very interesting one, filled with speculations, reports and, to top it all off, the sales charts from the NPD group showing software and hardware sales ... |
15 August 2009
04:11 GMT |
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