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Track & Field jumping hurdles to XBLA

By Gavin Mannion
June 14, 2007 - 18 years ago

  One of my favourite classic games is heading over to Xbox live in the near future. Track & Field, that button mashing classic from the NES is about to make it’s appearance on the 360. I can see a lot of controllers being worn out very quickly with this game. I wonder how they are going to integrate online …

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Xbox 360 Price Cut: For Real This Time?

By Gavin Mannion
June 14, 2007 - 18 years ago

So a very secret and informed inside source has said…  “They want to get Halo 3 out the door and sell as many systems as possible. They know that Halo 3 will help system sales. After the initial launch they will drop the price to $199 in order to boost sales over the holiday season. The original plan was to …

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The PS3 is not harder to develop for

By Gavin Mannion
June 14, 2007 - 18 years ago

The guys over at the new official Playstation blog have been kind enough to write up an article stating that it is not harder to develop for the PS3… They also go on to say how great the PS3 really is… What a suprise. Seriously though it is intersting to see what they had to say about the Xbox 360 …

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Microsoft beefs up Xbox 360 cooling

By Gavin Mannion
June 14, 2007 - 18 years ago

Engadget is reporting that in certain countries when you send your Xbox 360 in for heating problems they are being returned with a more advanced cooling system installed. There are 2 important things about this. One Microsoft seem to finally be trying to rectify this widely reported problem. And more importantly aren’t you happy that we don’t need to send …

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Bungie's Marathon coming to XBLA?

By Gavin Mannion
June 13, 2007 - 18 years ago

Am I the only one who didn’t know that Bungie had made anything apart from Halo? Well according to a German ratings board Bungie is releasing it’s once famous Marathon onto the Xbox Live Arcade…  Don’t feel to bad that you didn’t know what Marathon was as it was released on the Macintosh anyway… How weird is it that Microsoft’s most profitable game …

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Sony’s nightmare scenario

By Gavin Mannion
June 13, 2007 - 18 years ago

A developer named John Carroll has been writing on his ZDNet.com blog about the possibility of Sony’s nightmare scenario… What would that be? You’ve heard about the rumoured Xbox 360 price drops I take it, well that would be it. If the Xbox 360 does drop it’s price by $100 as rumoured it would make the core console $199 and the …

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Weekly US Hardware Sales – 3 June 2007

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2007 - 18 years ago

Okay if you are a PS3 fan now would be a good time to look away. The latest hardware sales from the US are out and it is not a pretty site. Toping the charts once again is the Wii with 90k units. Then comes the Xbox 360. Seriously it does, it beats out the PS2 this time with 61k …

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Sony to Europe – Suck it up

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2007 - 18 years ago

Sony seem to be on a mission to completely destroy the one market where the PS3 is really doing well. For some reason Europe (and us as we fall under them) has decided to forgive Sony for the 6 month delay enforced upon them, they then  went further and forgave them for not giving them the Emotion Chip like the US …

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Geeky Gamer RTS View of the Console Wars

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2007 - 18 years ago

Doobiwan over at Gamer ZA has written a very well penned RTS version of the current console wars.. Luckily I can use the word Geeky in the title since he did first 🙂 To summarise in his own words…. Microsoft got in an early rush, and currently have territorial advantage. They also started the game with the most resources.Nintendo countered with …

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IGN: America's Army Invades Xbox 360

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2007 - 18 years ago

It has been confirmed that America’s Army is going to be a Xbox 360 exclusive after all. IGN has a fantastic write up on this game which really looks appealing. This game has actually been developed by the US Army. Like it or not the US Army has been in more wars in the recent past than anyone else so who …

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PS3 titles moving to Platinum?

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2007 - 18 years ago

In what is hopefully a sign of things to come 2 titles have been drastically reduced in price in the US by Best Buy. Virtua Fighter is down $20 and Tony Hawk 8 is down $10 to $39.99 There is no official announcement of these titles moving to Platinum but if I where you I would hold out on buying them for a …

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The new ID engine… wow

By Gavin Mannion
June 12, 2007 - 18 years ago

Yes it could be rendered, and yes it could all be a farce but man is that engine looking good.From what John Carmack is saying in the video that racing game has over 20Gb of textures in it which can be changed and shaped at any time (design time) without affecting the gameplay. If that engine is true and not …

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