The European and Other area’s sales figures are in and Sony are smiling all the way to the bank even though they are still losing to Nintendo. Total sales across all areas are as follows Wii  – 284,155PS3 – 246,812360 – 142,155 So the 360 was killed this week. In fact the only areas where the 360 beat the PS3 …

The rumour that just won’t lay down and die is back again. Metal Gear Solid 4 is coming to the Xbox 360. This is not a rumor. This is straight from a Konami distribution representative’s mouth. The game is already in production and has been since early 2007. Apparently this has once again been confirmed by a Konami insider and …

Okay so 2008 is now here and we have another great gaming year to look forward to. Which means it is time to make predictions. Who is going to sell the most consoles worldwide in 2008 and how many are they going to sell… Along with other pointless predictions. As of now the sales charts have the following info Wii …

2007 has come and gone and what a year it was Probably the best gaming year for consoles ever, the news was exciting and the suprises just kept on coming. The PS3 and Wii were launched locally to a moderate amount of fanfare… the PS3 started fantastically and then slumped, however a recent price cut has really put the cat …

There is no better way to end of 2007 than taking a look back at the games released this year and finding out which one was best. However everyone always has their own opinion and these lists are always highly debatable. Which is where metacritic.com comes in, they gather all the review scores handed to games worldwide and aggregate them. …

Gamer.Blorge.com has written a nice wrap of the previous years fortunes for the big three. Generally like everyone else they have agreed that the Wii has had the best year and are smiling all the way to the bank. However there is still a worry about the quality and quantity of third party Wii games… The PS3 has had an …

By Lisa Haasbroek In the mood for 1980s nostalgia? And I don’t mean the type that involves a mullet and leg warmers. Yikes, I’m having bad fashion flashbacks. But back to the topic. The Commodore 64 ruled the market, PacMan was Atari’s hot new release, and video arcades were the place to be. Yes people, I’m talking about retro arcade …

Okay so here is how I imagine it went down… Microsoft headed on over to Japan to have a chat with Solid Snake, of Metal Gear fame, and attempted to bribe him to come on over to their console of choice. Snake was very excited about this opportunity but did ask for a large sign on fee. The Microsoft reps …

It seems that the huge surge in Xbox 360 sales in the US is having some unexpected side effects. The paid for Xbox Live service over there is starting to fail. According to a Microsoft support technician the servers are struggling to handle the weight of all these new users but the problem should be resolved by the end of …

By Doobiwan Not everyone can keep up with all the new releases, and with the catalogue of “old next gen” titles growing week by week, every so often a good deal pops up on an older title, something goes platinum, or becomes generally available in quantity for trade. This is often the best time to dig up some long forgotten …

I was reading a PS3ZA and game across an interesting post. Not sure how accurate it is but here is a list of exclusives for the PS3. There are definately a couple that would make me run out an buy a PS3. It does appear to include some of those “arcade” downloadable games but here is the list anyway.

So yesterday I posted about the worldwide sales (excluding America) which had the Wii happily sitting on top of the pile with the PS3 coming second and the 360 bringing up the rear. Well there are no suprises in the US sales results this week so lets get straight to the hardware numbers 1. Wii  – 740,7912. 360 – 367,3043. …