So what are we looking at here? Basically this is a graph of worldwide sales for the three main consoles. With their launches aligned. That Blue cliff is the unstoppable Wii, The Green snake is the 360 and the Red is the PS3 (why is the PS3’s colour always red?) As you can see the PS3 has kept pace …
A new rumour/conspiracy doing the rounds is that the Xbox 360 Ultimate (the one with the rumoured HD-DVD drive) was cancelled at the last minute due to Warner’s Blu-Ray statement. In fact, I’d bet money that Microsoft’s much-rumoured HD DVD-enabled Xbox 360 was one of the deals on offer to tempt Warner to support HD DVD exclusively in a “you …
Yes it is still in pre-release so all these things can still be fixed. However I do find it a bit worrying when a AAA exclusive game is struggling to hold its framerate in a demonstration. When the on-screen visuals held less action and focused on nearby buildings the action locked at 60 frames per second. However, when bullet fire, …
by Lisa Haasbroek Want to get your girl to game? Consider getting a Wii. Since its launch, the Wii has been marketed towards non-traditional gamers, in particular female audiences and seniors. If you need any proof, just check out the glut of pink Wii accessories on the market…and yes, I confess, my Wii is pink. Because its relatively budget friendly …
Hellkom.co.za (an anti-Telkom website) has created quite a fancy faceplate for the xbox 360 offer that Telkom has. While the local community has an understandable general dislike for Telkom, I have to say that I am happy to see them in some way supporting the local gaming industry. Granted they may only be doing it to line their own pockets …
If anyone was delusional enough to think that Microsoft was going to take the HD-DVD hit lying down then they had another thing coming. A truly oozing press release has been sent out by Microsoft to the major media houses and once such journalist has published the entire thing online. To be honest it reads very well and makes you …
Only in America could three intellectually disadvantaged individuals sue someone for damages which are probably about a million times more than they apparently suffered. Xbox Live in the US costs I think around $60 per annum. The Xbox Live service was pretty much broken for around 10 days during the peak holiday season. So what do the three Texans decided …
Gamer.blorge.com has an article asking whether or not the PS3 can overtake the 360 in 2008. I would just like to state up front that I highly doubt this is possible and the rest of my thoughts are based on whether or not the PS3 will achieve greater 2008 sales than the 360. Obviously the Warner Bros. and New Line …
So once again the media around a 360 announcement got way ahead of themselves. The two biggest rumours over the last week was that either Microsoft were going to announce a new Xbox 360 Ultimate (which included everything) or that they were going to licence their gaming technologies out to third parties. The media and fanboys got themselves ready for …
There is a very interesting rumour doing the rounds this morning. A small Czech gaming site (www.hrej.cz) has been speaking to a 2K games insider and apparently Bioshock 2 is going to be a prequel. The insider is anonymous and the source page is in Czech (?) so I have no idea how authentic this is, but the moment I …
Once again www.Take2.co.za has come to the party and very kindly released its software sales percentages from the beginning of November to the end of December 2007. Unfortunately all our retailers seem to be under some embargo which doesn’t allow them to release sales numbers and our distributors don’t seem to want to either. However I have it under good …
Microsoft has released the list of the most played games on the Xbox 360 over the past year. Obviously they can only count games played on a Live connected Xbox 360, but the list looks fair enough. 1) Halo 32) Gears of War3) Call of Duty 44) Rainbow Six Vegas5) Call of Duty 36) Crackdown7) Oblivion8) Guitar Hero II9) Forza …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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