Sony continued to push the 3D capabilities of their PS3 at their IFA press conference today. Having strung along their users for a while now, CEO Howard Stringer, announced that they plan to roll-out the 3D Blu-ray capability for the PS3 by the end of October and not September, which had been muted a few [...]
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New Xbox 360 Controller Incoming
Clearly set on tinkering with it’s existing range of products, Microsoft have now decided to upgrade the familiar Xbox 360 controller.
After several years of gamer’s complaints regarding the poorly designed and sometimes unresponsive D-pad, Microsoft have taken it upon themselves to revamp the controller and aim to improve the disliked D pad.
The new design D [...]
Xbox Live Set For Price Hike from 1st of November
Major Nelson announced today that Microsoft’s lucrative Xbox Live service is going to see a price increase from November 1st.
At the moment we only have the price for the US service, but a single month will go from $7.99 to $9.99, three months will go up from $19.99 to $24.99 and for the year it [...]
Nintendo’s DS and DSi Set For Price Drop
With Nintendo concentrating on their hotly anticipated 3DS, they are preparing to off-load the remaining stock of DS and DSI with the announcement of a price drop of both. The DSi will drop to $149.99 and the XL version will drop to $169.99. Prices have already been dropped over here in the UK and in [...]
Xbox Live Chat Audio Codec Set to be Updated
Microsoft are gearing up to revamp yet more xbox stuff for their loyal following of gamers. Unfortunately this time it won’t be a new product launch, that’s already been done with the 360S and Kinect Accessory.
This time they’re looking to upgrade the audio quality for the Xbox live online gaming service. The chat codec used [...]
Microsoft Announce Official Kinect Accessories
Microsoft Kinect is set to be released in November (4th for US and 10th for UK) and when the new Xbox 360 peripheral is released it is expected to come with a battalion of games and accessories to make that motion-gaming extra special. In case you missed it in June, the 15 launch titles [...]
Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 cross platform gaming?
Cool news for gamers, as the soon to be released Microsoft Windows Phone 7 software and its Xbox live functionality is set to be cross platform compatible.
So Windows Phone 7 users will reportedly be able to play Xbox 360 users via a Wi-Fi connection!
The news has come from Microsoft’s Canadian mobility solutions manager, Greg Milligan [...]
Microsoft States Xbox 360 will be Around for 5 years
Microsoft have been blowing their own trumpet this week, as Vice-president for Interactive Entertainment Business in Europe, Chris Lewis of Microsoft, has gone on the record to say that Kinect will give the Xbox 360 an extra five years of life at least.
Lewis stated that, “Kinect really gives us, I think, a very genuine additional [...]
Touch-Sensitive PSP3000 Incoming?
As Sony clutches at straws to try and make their PSP a success, they have recently been the source of some interesting press of late, including ten free games when you buy the PSP Go, a rumoured Sony Ericsson PSP phone and now a new PSP with touch-sensitive controls.
According to unnamed sources “The PSP3000” as [...]
Gaming Weekly – Gamescom 2010
Information Overload Edition
Summer is almost gone, oh no! But it means that this winter’s gaming releases are getting a lot more well-documented, especially this week, as the internet has been flooded with hundreds of choice nuggets of information on the latest and greatest games. So therefore, this week’s edition will cover three (or more!) mini-segments [...]
