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Archive for August, 2006

PlayStation 3 Dev Kit On Ebay

Who knows if this is real or if this guy really "snuck it" out of his office but there is what appears to be an authentic Playstation 3 Dev Kit on Ebay.

There is not much else info on the listing other than it claims to have the final PS3 hardware and that […]

Miyamoto Hints At GC Remakes For Wii + Marionette

1UP reports on a translated article from the Japanese mag Nintendo Dream that features an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto where he casually mentions the possibility of bringing aging and perhaps underappreciated GameCube titles to the Wii.
"Of course you can wander into a second hand shop and buy a lot of these games […]

PS3 Interface and 360 Live Vision Camera In Action

IGN Weekly has posted a video demonstrating the updated PS3 interface as well as how the Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera works.

Neither are particularly interesting as it turns out. Surprise! It's a slow news day…
But it does show how easy and user friendly both are to use with the PS3 dashboard looking […]

Analyst Predicts Sony Ahead In ‘11

Earlier this week financial technology analyst company, the Yankee Group, sent out a press release foreseeing Sony triumphing over the 360 and Wii in 2011.

The release goes on the speculate on how many each company will actually sell by that point with the PS3 at 30 million units and 44% market share, the 360 […]

Less Than Wii Thought?

Rumors were flying last week about the Nintendo's pricing and release date strategy for the Wii after a message board post from a supposedly reliable source close to console's development found it's way onto IGN. The post stated something to the effect that the Wii would be released sometime between Nov. 2 and Nov. 12 […]

Xbox Live Vision Camera To Ship With TotemBall

GamaSutra, reporting from Microsoft's Gamefest, sends word that the upcoming Xbox Live Vision Camera is set to ship this September and include the gesture-based title 'TotemBall'. The game apparently involves pushing around a totem pole on wheels in order to collect items within a certain amount of time. Sounds…fun?

The joint companies behind […]

Wii Want To Pump *Clap* You Up!

IGN today calls attention to a Bloomberg report that briefly mentions that Nintendo has "diet" software in the works for the Wii.

We can only take "diet" to really mean an exercise game that will also include a 20 lb.nunchuck peripheral requiring lunges and Wario Ware-style squats.
Either way a "diet" game doesn't […]

Microsoft Warns MMO Gamers

Microsoft today further warned MMO gamers and developers against online hackers and organized crime at their Gamefest game dev conference.

"Those of you who are working on massively multiplayer online games, organized crime is already looking at you," said Dave Weinstein, a Microsoft security development engineer, to the crowd of developers at […]

XNA Team Blog Now Up.

As revealed earlier this week, Microsoft is unleashing a consumer version of the their 360 software dev tools, XNA Game Studio Express, later this month.
Now the team behind the software has their own blog, The XNA Team Blog, up and running.

Have a look a look HERE and keep up […]

Penny Arcade Doesn’t Want E3 Crown.

Now that E3 as we knew it is no longer, the question that comes to many people is "what will take it's place?"
Influential gamer site Penny-Arcade.com has for the past couple of years put on a gamer expo known as PAX up in Seattle, WA, home of Nintendo and Microsoft, and as it's grown some […]