It’s quite incredible (well, not really, but it works well as an opening gambit) that as soon as one of the big manufacturers makes an announcement it turns that their main rivals were ready to make a very similar one. In the case of games consoles it’s almost as though all three big manufacturers ready an announcement and then they have a stand-off until one fires the first salvo causing the others to join in. Anybody that gets left out loses the round and receives a stern “must try harder” reprimand. Anyway, this...
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The latest gaming charts show that the world, or at least console gamers from the UK, still loves a cowboy as Red Dead Redemption sits atop the table for the XBox 360 and the PS3 and is also the 3rd most popular title on all platforms. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty from Blizzard takes the top spot on all platforms while Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the most popular Nintendo Wii game. XBox 360 There hasn’t been a lot of change in the top 5 for the XBox 360. Red Dead Redemption keeps its place at the top with Crackdown 2 also holding firm...
It’s all go in the world of gaming and consoles today. Nintendo sales have been hard hit by the imminent release of Sony’s new Playstation Move and the Microsoft Kinect motion sensing controllers. Nintendo posted a surprising loss in profits for the quarter despite price slashes leading to increased Wii sales. The immediate future is a little on the shaky side as they will soon have major competition even for their flasgship console. However, there could potentially be some good news for the Japanese gaming giant as they have...
The Rock Band franchise has become one of the biggest names in the games industry and in its various incarnations and numerous spin off titles it has created one of the greatest and most loved games, especially in the music games genre. Along with Guitar Hero it essentially helped sporn an entire series of games and through offering numerous peripherals and the incredible line up of downloadable content we’re willing to bet it makes Harmonix an absolute packet. The good news is that the next instalment, catchily titled Rock Band...
1 – Crackdown 2 Crackdown was one of the stand out games of the XBox 360 when it was first released and the open world sandbox style was well loved by many gamers. Even playing it now, it’s difficult to imagine it was made so many years ago so it’s perhaps unsurprising that developers stuck quite rigidly to the first game when creating the 2nd. However, the formula has once again paid off giving the new and improved Crackdown 2 top spot in this week’s gaming charts. 2 – Dance on Broadway Dance on Broadway...
The new XBox 360 slim hits UK shelves tomorrow having been available in the US for quite a while now. Microsoft is offering something of an upgraded package for current XBox owners with the deafening roar of the old 360 reduced to ltitle more than a whisper and if you’ve ever played the old model then you’ll know that every game is accompanied by an incredible level of noise emitted from the fans. The good news is that the XBox 360 slim is reported to genuinely be all that quiet so good news there, but what else does the new...
Ubisoft has said that the level of demand for 3D gaming is such that it predicts every home will have 3DTV installed by the year 2013. However, research has shown if this is the case then a reasonable amount of them will be largely unused as 12% of all Brits are unable to see 3DTV in all its glory. What’s more, according to a report in the Telegraph, Samsung announced a couple of months ago that its 3D TV sets (and 3D TV in general) could be harmful to those suffering from epilepsy as well as pregnant women, the elderly, and children....
The announcement of the slimmed-down reboot of the Xbox 360 console went down well at the E3 conference last week and Microsoft has now said that a cheaper edition of this new device will be arriving later in the year. The cheaper, slimmer Xbox 360 will be replacing the Arcade version of the current model, which sits on shelves at about £130. Microsoft says that its replacement will cost somewhere between the £150-170 mark and although it will not have the huge 250GB hard drive of its big brother, it will still get the sleek, black finish...
The brand new hand-held console from Nintendo has appeared at the E3 gaming event, bringing with it 3D effects that don’t require the wearing of polarised glasses. Nintendo has implemented the rather novel idea of having the 3D display properties controllable in real time thanks to a slider on the side of the console. This means the user can choose in real time just how much depth is perceived on-screen, perhaps allowing Nintendo to sidestep criticism that the 3D display could result in eye damage after extended use. Nintendo has...
An Italian advert purporting to showcase an upcoming slimmed-down version of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has appeared, fuelling rumours about the planned system relaunch in the run up to E3. Microsoft has never fiddled with its console line in the past, with the original Xbox sticking to its bulky black body throughout its life cycle. Meanwhile Sony has historically revamped all three of its PlayStation models, with the most recent PS3 Slim cutting down on the bulk of the original launch by almost a third. The supposed advert for...