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  • Xbox Europe hits 10 million consoles in sales

    Xbox Europe hits 10 million consoles in sales

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    You've got to admit, Microsoft is having a good month. First, they release Windows 7. Now, they hit a rather remarkable milestone of 10 million consoles shipped in Europe.

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  • Microsoft bans ‘small percentage’ of modded Xbox 360s from Xbox Live

    Microsoft bans ‘small percentage’ of modded Xbox 360s from Xbox Live

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Fair warning to those of you who play your modded Xbox 360 on Xbox Live: Microsoft is breaking out the ban hammer. Again.

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  • Console Wars: The Effect Of Price Cuts On The Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3

    Console Wars: The Effect Of Price Cuts On The Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    While the Nintendo Wii continues to have a stranglehold on console sales, both worldwide and in the United States, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are battling it out for the the second place position for year-to-date sales. Just a little over two months ago, Sony announced that they would be slashing the price of their game console, the PS3, to $299. Microsoft quickly followed suit, and in just ten days dropped the price of their most expensive console, the Xbox 360 Elite, to $299. Nintendo, who has sold nearly double the number of consoles worldwide as these two, decided to lower the price of the Wii on September 27th to $199: this was the first time since its inception that the Wii has had a price cut. All three console manufacturers hoped that the decrease in price would help them to increase sales and finish the year on a strong note. The results have been mixed: while all three consoles have seen an increase in sales, the PS3 has seen astonishing growth in the US and abroad, and has wrestled the second-place position in worldwide YTD sales from the 360. As for the Xbox, even in its upgraded Elite form it has seen only minimal gains since the price drop.

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  • Postal worker helps himself to $86,000 worth of Gamefly games

    Postal worker helps himself to $86,000 worth of Gamefly games

    Posted on October 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Whoops. Philadelphia-area Gamefly members who have been wondering why in the hell they never got their rented copies of Cooking Mama finally have some answers. The culprit, 34 year old Reginald Johnson of Germantown, PA, stole some 2,200 Gamefly games while working as a mail-processing clerk between April and September of 2008.

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  • Three years later, the PS3 outsells the Wii (in Japan)

    Three years later, the PS3 outsells the Wii (in Japan)

    Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
    It only took Sony three years for it to get its act together! The recent introduction of the PS3 Slim was, as you know, a pretty big success, and today we have another metric: for the first time ever, the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan last month. Everyone party!

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  • Tokyo Game Show: Sega’s action game Bayonetta (video)

    Tokyo Game Show: Sega’s action game Bayonetta (video)

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Sega's third-person action game Bayonetta was playable today at the first day of the Tokyo Game Show, both on Xbox360 and PS3. The game looked fine on both consoles and features a bespectacled female ("Bayonetta") as the main character. Judging from the demo versions and previews I've read so far, Bayonetta isn't much different from other third-person action games like Devil May Cry.

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  • Daily Crunch: Bathroom Party Edition

    Daily Crunch: Bathroom Party Edition

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Tetris Tiles Hit The States, Showers Forever Changed This Microsoft Windows 7 launch video is, if possible, worse than that musical one Poken gets a Pulse

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  • Sony may get exclusive Dreamcast titles

    Sony may get exclusive Dreamcast titles

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    The year was 2002. Two friends and I had just finished moving into a swanky three-bedroom affair a block away from Lake Calhoun in the trendy Uptown area of Minneapolis. Upon waking up after a blowout house warming party with what seemed like 500 of our closest friends, I found my SNES, Genesis, and Dreamcast covered in beer and orange juice. I haven’t felt complete since that very moment. If you could punch someone’s soul, that’s how it feels. Now it appears that Sony’s “currently in discussions to bring a number of Dreamcast titles exclusively to PSN,” according to MCV.

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  • Square Enix doesn’t think too highly of all this motion control nonsesne

    Square Enix doesn’t think too highly of all this motion control nonsesne

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    It's been about three years since the Nintendo Wii was first released here in the good ol' USA. Its number one claim to fame, motion control, sure isn't unique anymore, what with Project Natal for the Xbox 360, and whatever Sony's improved motion control thing is called coming out fairly soon. But are these motion control deals mere gimmicks (I think so, just based on how I play game; the public may well think differently), or something more? “Gimmicks!” yelled Square Enix's Yoichi Wada.

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  • Activision mulling plug-and-play Guitar Hero TV games in the future

    Activision mulling plug-and-play Guitar Hero TV games in the future

    Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
    If you really think about it, it makes sense that future installments of Guitar Hero and other games like that could basically come packaged like those Jakks Pacific plug-and-play TV games. It’d eliminate the need for a console altogether. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick realizes this, and says that his company is considering the possibilities.

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  • John Carmack: Expect new game system ‘earlier rather than later’

    John Carmack: Expect new game system ‘earlier rather than later’

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Let's say you get home from work or class, you make some dinner, and sit down to play an hour or so of Game 2: The Game. You're cool with that; you have no reason to shell out $500 to buy another video game system this autumn. But, oh! Wait! What's this? John Carmack seems to think that, despite the fact that there's nothing wrong with this generation of consoles just yet, someone may announce a new video game system “earlier rather than later.”

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  • PS3 Slim, anyone? Sony just ordered a whole bunch of PS3 components

    PS3 Slim, anyone? Sony just ordered a whole bunch of PS3 components

    Posted on August 4, 2009 | No Comments
    The rumors surrounding a possible PS3 Slim continue, annoyingly. DigiTimes, the paper of record when it comes to what's being manufactured in eastern Asia, says that Sony “has ordered enough parts to make one million consoles in the third quarter of this year, twice as many as in the last three months.” In other words, Sony just ordered an extraordinary amount of components.

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  • DJ Hero Renegade Edition shipping 10/27 for $200

    DJ Hero Renegade Edition shipping 10/27 for $200

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Dang. I now know to put aside $200 for the Renegade Edition. Pre-order DJ Hero for all three major consoles and get it in time for Halloween. Xbox edition [Gamestop] PS3 edition [Gamestop] Wii edition [Gamestop]

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  • Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    I hate to do it, but I have to. Sorry, kids. Ahead of the June NPD numbers that will be released on Thursday, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter stated today that US sales of the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 have declined 43 percent from June of last year to June 2009. He predicts that Nintendo moved 350,000 Wiis while Sony sold 165,000 PS3s and Microsoft came up shy of a quarter million with 225,000.

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  • Rumor: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 price drops coming this Fall

    Rumor: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 price drops coming this Fall

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    The Mole, as Ars affectionately refers to its gaming industry insider, has once again struck with a ‘rumor’ detailing Microsoft and Sony’s plans for their respective consoles this year. In case you’re super busy this Monday morning, I’ll break it down for you real quick. Expect to see bigger hard drives in the Xbox 360 and a slimmed down version of the PS3.

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