Posts By Pramath

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

Looks like redesigning and rebranding a console is all the rage these days. Certainly, it seems to fuel market demand. Sony did it last year with the laucnh of the PS3 Slim, which was accompanied by a... Read More

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

There have been recent reports, fuelled by Sakaguchi's own statements, that his upcoming Wii exclusive RPG, The Last Story, would be his last game. The RPG legend recently blogged about how he would b... Read More

OnLive Isn’t Meant For High End Games, Says CEO

OnLive Isn’t Meant For High End Games, Says CEO

Do you remember the grand unveiling of streaming service OnLive last year? It promised people with low end rigs the ability to play titles like Crysis and Grand Theft Auto IV without having to upgrade... Read More

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Hits US Shores September 12

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Hits US Shores September 12

The next instalment in what is arguably the best game series to have originated on the Nintendo DS has had its release date pushed up a week, for a new September 12th release date. Considering that th... Read More

Indie Developer Lashes Out At Epic, Says They Can Go ‘F**k Off’

Indie Developer Lashes Out At Epic, Says They Can Go ‘F**k Off’

Wow, looks like this is turning into a trend. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It makes for great entertainment. After Schafer went on record to call Activision head Bobby Kotick a dick and a pr... Read More

WTF Moment of the Day: Pachter Believes Activision Must Charge Fees For Call of Duty

WTF Moment of the Day: Pachter Believes Activision Must Charge Fees For Call of Duty

Yeah, that's just what we need, Pachter. More milking of gamers by evil corporation Activision. But of course, that's what's gonna happen anyway, and it seems that by making this prediction, Patche... Read More

The Xbox 360 Slim Is Seeing Unprecedented Demand in UK

The Xbox 360 Slim Is Seeing Unprecedented Demand in UK

The Xbox 360 Slim got off to a stellar start in the US, propelling Microsoft's wonder machine to the coveted number one spot as far as console sales are concerned for the month of June, and it looks s... Read More

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond to June NPD Data

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond to June NPD Data

NPD revealed sales figures for software and hardware for the month of June earlier today, and the results were dramatically predictable. As expected, the DS took home the honours of being at the top s... Read More

Schafer: I Need To Keep My Mouth Shut

Schafer: I Need To Keep My Mouth Shut

Remember Double Fine's Tim Schafer's outburst about Activision's Bobby Kotick yesterday? The one where he described him as a prick? Yeah, that one. Well, apparently it was an 'accident.' Speaking t... Read More

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

There are games that achieve the status they deserve only years after they have been released. One such game was Okami, Capcom's classic title for the PS2 and the Wii, which had a subdued launch, matc... Read More

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Quite a few of us were pleasantly surprised when Nintendo took the wraps off the title it hopes will spearhead the 3DS launch: Kid Icarus: Uprising. Essentially, this represented the revival of a fran... Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

Series director Eiji Aonuma told the Official Nintendo Magazine that his team was aiming for an early 2011 release date with the next title in the Zelda series, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.... Read More

WTF Moment of the Day: Next iPad to Match Xbox 360 in Graphical Power, Thinks Developer

WTF Moment of the Day: Next iPad to Match Xbox 360 in Graphical Power, Thinks Developer

What is it with developers thinking handhelds are gonna be on par with the HD consoles any time soon? First, we had rumours pegging the 3DS' power to be at the same level as the Xbox 360 and the PS3's... Read More

Rare Looking At Goldeneye for Kinect?

Rare Looking At Goldeneye for Kinect?

Fans of the original Goldeneye 007 title for the N64 got a pleasant surprise this E3, when Nintendo announced that Activision would be releasing a remake of the beloved classic exclusively for the Wii... Read More

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

JRPG lovers might have been worried that the slew of exclusive tradition RPG's the Wii is getting over in Japan might not make it to the US, what with the games pandering to such a niche audience and ... Read More

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

The Nintendo DS might have experience some mind boggling software sales, but perhaps those numbers could have been better if the system wasn't probably the system most rife with piracy in history. Wit... Read More

Ubisoft Thinks Assassin’s Creed Will Be As Big As GTA

Ubisoft Thinks Assassin’s Creed Will Be As Big As GTA

This kind of sounds like a case of Ubisoft getting a bit too ahead of themselves. Whereas there can be little doubt that both the Assassin's Creed games have been extremely well received, and are amon... Read More

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Cartridges have shown themselves to be surprisingly resilient, having been around since the days of Atari, and still in heavy use in mdern handhelds such as the Nintendo DS. This, despite many analyst... Read More

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

The 3DS, while possibly the most accomplished piece of 3D kits yet, has ts own challenges to surmount. Most notable, marketting a system centred around 3D gaming, when most TV screens at home are 2D, ... Read More

Sony: Move Has Been Priced To Maximise Profit

Sony: Move Has Been Priced To Maximise Profit

Apparently, Sony is still trying to recover from the heavy losses that its gaming department was posting until just about a week ago. That, according to Sony reps, would justify the PS Move's high lau... Read More