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TGS 2009: Sony PSP 3000 getting a price drop in Japan

TGS 2009: Sony PSP 3000 getting a price drop in Japan

The PSP is getting a price drop in Japan starting from October 1st, 2009. The PSP is currently priced at JP¥ 19,800 ($218) and from October 1st, 2009 the portable will be sold for JP¥ 16,800 ($181)... Read More

Want a $250 Xbox 360 Elite?

Want a $250 Xbox 360 Elite?

Well Netflix is sponsoring the already price-cut $299 Xbox 360 to get an extra $50 mail-in-rebate. This offer ends soon (October 5, 2009) so if you want a cheaper Xbox 360 Elite cheaper click here. ... Read More

Grand Theft Auto V in 2010: Michael Patcher

Grand Theft Auto V in 2010: Michael Patcher

When will Grand Theft Auto V be released? That is one question that no one knows what answer should be given. But Michael Patcher says that Rockstars next games in the controversial series will be rel... Read More

Bioshock 2 Releases February 9

Bioshock 2 Releases February 9

2Ks amazing Bioshock's sequel is finally coming out. Bioshock 2 was supposed to come out this October but it got pushed back. But today 2K finally announce the date of the highly-anticipat... Read More

PS3 outselling 360 and Wii three to one

PS3 outselling 360 and Wii three to one

The Playstation 3 has outsold both the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii by a ratio of 3:1 according to ChartTrack sales. ChartTrack havent yet released the orginal numbers, but they have to following to say ... Read More

Europe getting Forza 3 and 250 GB Xbox 360 Elite Bundle?

Europe getting Forza 3 and 250 GB Xbox 360 Elite Bundle?

A website from the Dutch:  Area Games has reported that a 250GB  will be released in Europe for a price tag of 279 euros. Also it was stated that Forza 3 will be included in the bundle along with tw... Read More

Latest Media Create Hardware Sales

Latest Media Create Hardware Sales

Here are the latest figures from Media Create for thr week: August 24th to August 30th 2009. PS3 59,881 PSP 26,081 Wii 25,038 DS Lite 7,304 Xbox 360 7,254 PS2 3,179 PS3 1,040 Read More

Nintendo Wii Internet Channel is free forever

Nintendo Wii Internet Channel is free forever

For people who use Nintendo Wii Internet Channel, Rejoice!  Nintendo Wii Internet Channel is free forever. So the requirement of 500 Wii points is now lifted.  Nintendo also announced that people ... Read More

Frontier announces LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias

Frontier announces LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias

A sequel has been announced to last years Frontier on the Nintendo Wi.David Braben the Founder of Frontier had the following to say about the new game: "LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will deli... Read More

Xbox RROD issues on the decline and Wii is the most stable console: A Survey

Xbox RROD issues on the decline and Wii is the most stable console: A Survey

From the survey: "SquareTrade analyzed failure rates for over 16,000 new game consoles covered by SquareTrade Care Plans and found that the Wii experienced one-fourth of the common failures tha... Read More

New Playstation 3 Boxarts are now official in the U.S

New Playstation 3 Boxarts are now official in the U.S

Im sure alot of us saw pictures of what seems to be the new Playstation 3 boxarts, instead of having the "Playstation 3" logo on the side, we saw that the boxart changed, and now due to the PS3 Slim, ... Read More

Double XP in Call of Duty: World at War during Labor Day Weekend

Double XP in Call of Duty: World at War during Labor Day Weekend

Now here is some good news for Call of Duty: World at War fans, the developers Treyarch will be introducing Double XP only during the Labor Day Weekend. So you can earn double XP from Septemeber 3rd ... Read More

Tony Blair’s Family in trouble over Counter Strike

Tony Blair’s Family in trouble over Counter Strike

Tony Blair's son Nicky and wife Cherie are under fire for being directors of a eSports company named Magnitude Gaming. This is somewhat good that they are helping out gaming industry as a whole but al... Read More

You wont believe this: A game to fight Swine Flu

You wont believe this: A game to fight Swine Flu

The latest outbreak of swine flu that is the H1N1 virus that has killed almost 1,800 people and infected more than 180,000 people worlwide gets its own game. The game is titled: " The Great flu". "... Read More

Kaz Hirai: Sony will still loose money after PS3 slim

Kaz Hirai: Sony will still loose money after PS3 slim

A few days ago the PS3 slim was announced. The system was extremely well received by the media and the gamers, but still Sony would be loosing money after the PS3 slim. Kaz Hirai told Times Online th... Read More

Firmware update 3.0 might be the last major update for 2009 for the PS3

Firmware update 3.0 might be the last major update for 2009 for the PS3

According to Sony's PSN operations director Eric Lempel, Firmware update 3.0 might be the last major update for 2009 for the PS3. Lempel told G4TV: "This is a big and significant update, so you ... Read More

Sony waiving bandwidth fees for PSP mini and QA processes

Sony waiving bandwidth fees for PSP mini and QA processes

According to a pdf document released by SCEE, Sony is charging less to the Mini Devs. Everything which is released on the Playstation Network is charged a fee of 0.16$ per gigabyte. There wil... Read More

Microsoft officials respond to Hardware Failure rate Survey

Microsoft officials respond to Hardware Failure rate Survey

We recently came across the 54% failure rate for Microsoft's next gen console: The Xbox 360. A number of websites had to lot  to say about the issue but heres what Microsoft had to say about the iss... Read More

Namco Bandai and Ninja Theory to develop new IP

Namco Bandai and Ninja Theory to develop new IP

At GamesCom it was announced that the Playstation 3 excluisve Heavenly Sword developers Ninja Theory will team up with Namco Bandai to release their new game in 2010. Nina  Kristensen stated: ?This ... Read More

Fable 3 confirmed for the Xbox 360

Fable 3 confirmed for the Xbox 360

VG247 have posted some photos from the on going GamesCom Microsoft press conference. The images below are ample proof that the next Fable game is indeed in production for the Xbox 360. Read More