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Microsoft banning hacked consoles from Live

By Gavin Mannion
May 18, 2007 - 18 years ago

  It has finally happened. Microsoft are taking a hard line with people who have violated the terms and conditions of the Xbox Live service and are banning consoles that have been ‘modified’ from using the service. So if you are one of the people who has chipped their consoles to play backups then sorry for you 🙂 Microsoft have …

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Ubisoft CEO sees Sony's console lead weakening

By Gavin Mannion
May 17, 2007 - 18 years ago

Yet another person has come out and complained about the price of the Sony PS3. This time it’s the CEO of Ubisoft… Yeah the huge development house behind the Tom Clancy series of games… Sony Corp. risks losing its iron grip on the game console market with its new PlayStation 3 and needs to significantly lower the price on its …

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Halo 3 beta – Crackdown debacle

By Gavin Mannion
May 17, 2007 - 18 years ago

Now that everyone has calmed down and the Crackdown people can download the Halo 3 beta it’s time to look back at exactly what went wrong yesterday and how people reacted.. So what really happened? Well the problem was that when the countdown ended and a million fanboys opened up their Crackdown to download the Beta the button was still greyed out… A posting was …

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Pain coming to the PS3

By Gavin Mannion
May 17, 2007 - 18 years ago

  Relax this isn’t another bad story about Sony or the PS3 🙂 It’s actually a very interesting mini game that is coming to the PSN, you get to load people into a giant catapult and then shoot them into whatever causes the most pain. Be that moving cars, windows or propane tanks… You also score extra points for crotch …

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PS3's Stranglehold comes with extras

By Gavin Mannion
May 17, 2007 - 18 years ago

  Finally a reason to get a PS3 version of a game instead of the Xbox 360 version…. If you pick up the collectors edition of the new John Woo game Stranglehold you will also find a copy of Hard Boiled in HD on the same disc… Now that’s using the capacity properly… It will however cost you an extra …

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Sony's woes continue

By Gavin Mannion
May 17, 2007 - 18 years ago

Not content with ruling the headlines yesterday with it’s bad news, Sony has started today with a bang as well. According to VGChartz the PS3’s sales in Japan dropped 44% week on week and has for the first time dropped under 10 000 units. They only managed to ship a paltry 8 8 72, easily beating the Xbox 360’s 2 …

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Web Africa Logo Competition – Win a Xbox 360

By Gavin Mannion
May 16, 2007 - 18 years ago

Here is a really easy way to get your hands on a brand spanking new Xbox 360 Premium….. WebAfrica.com is running a competition where all you have to do is create a new logo for them and if yours is the best they hand you a free Xbox 360… Easy enough… There current logo is so that shouldn’t be do …

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Classic Halo Video – Awesome

By Gavin Mannion
May 16, 2007 - 18 years ago

So Halo 3 is here and a lot of us haven’t been playing Halo 2 for the last couple of years/months and may have forgotten the finer details of playing Halo. Luckily I found this video on Youtube that explains all the requirements quite well…

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Halo 3 Beta Now Open – Bungie Posts Loads of Help

By Gavin Mannion
May 16, 2007 - 18 years ago

Awesome the Beta is now running, if you haven’t tried yet you should be able to download it now… Bungie has also opened up the beta site and given us a ton of information on all the maps, weapons, friends and everything else… According to he Bungie site there are currently over 1000 people playing Halo 3, so instead of …

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Sony going to repeat the PS2 success?

By Gavin Mannion
May 16, 2007 - 18 years ago

 Joystiq have been playing around in their archives and have come up with the following quotes from an age old article… “Whether or not Sony was sincere in its claim that a supply crisis led it to cut its initial shipments … there’s little question that the corporation was successful in the arena of hype marketing. Lines of obsessed PlayStation …

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Bad day for Sony

By Gavin Mannion
May 16, 2007 - 18 years ago

Today is turning out to be a bad day for Sony… First  Bloomberg is reporting that Sony will make the largest loss of their history for the fiscal year ending the 31st of March ($630 million), the games division alone is expected to lose $1 Billion which is huge…. Next comes the news that Sony only managed to sell 100 000 …

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Grand Theft Auto IV | Screenshots

By Gavin Mannion
May 16, 2007 - 18 years ago

 Insidegamer.nl seem to have some nice contacts hidden away in developers offices… This time they have released a bunch of new Grand Theft Auto screenshots… I am very hesitant to believe any screenshots anymore after all the CGI rubbish tha thas been pawned off as ingame but hey at least these are pretty. Follow the link so see some more. …

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