Games Industry Wire

March 14th, 2007

New Video Game Releases: Week of March 12th

Here is a complete list of all video games set to be released this week from GamerDeals:
Xbox 360
Call of Duty 3 Gold Edition
PlayStation 3
College Hoops 2K7
Nintendo Wii
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
PlayStation 2
God of War 2
PSP
Call of Duty 3: Roads to Victory
DS
Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach
Herbie Resuce Rally DS
Spectrobes
Tags: DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Video Games, wii, […]

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March 8th, 2007

Sony Needs Help, Gives Technology To Developers

With the Wii outselling Sony’s PlayStatsion 3 2:1 Sony is getting desperate for change. The company announced yesterday that they would be releasing programming tools to licensed game developers entitled PlayStation Edge. The tools which can normally cost up to $20,000 should spur development on the system.
Simpler games are being released for the console that […]

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March 7th, 2007

Sony Adds To PS3’s Online Capabilites

The New York Times has published a report that Sony will announce new online capabilities “meant to draw gamers into Sony’s cyberspace community and allow them to share entertainment content they have created, à la YouTube.”
The main component of this announcement will be a completely new service called PlayStation Home that is slated to debut […]

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March 1st, 2007

Sony President: No Pressure to Drop Price on PS3

You heard right folks. Sony has not plans, or pressusre to drop the current rather high price of the PS3. Joystiq has the scoop on everything Phil Harrison had to say:

“Sony feels under no pressure to drop the price of the PS3 this year, expressing comfort with their current strategy and the level of software […]

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February 26th, 2007

Predictions for Game Developers Conference

Next week the Game Developers Conference will begin and there are expected to be some new announcements. GamePro has some solid news on what will and won’t be happening at the conference.
Topping the list of what I call “almost locks” is Microsoft officially unveiling the Black Xbox 360 (prior coverage here). Halo 3 multiplayer […]

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February 25th, 2007

Freebies or a Lower Price?

When talking consoles there are apparently two strategies: The first is to give the end consumer a lower price. The second is to charge them a seemingly insane amount of money and then “reward” their purchase with small freebies. Given the option most consumers would without a doubt go for option one but when deciding […]

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February 25th, 2007

PS3 $1000 in Australia

The PlayStation 3 is going to launch on March 23rd in Australia with a price tag of nearly $1000…Australian. In U.S. dollars this price is $788 which still astonishes me for a video game console. The price is nearly identical to the price which all of Europe will be paying when the console launches there […]

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February 24th, 2007

Echo Chamber: European PS3 Has Backwards Compatability Problems

If it seems like this news from Sony is echoing something previously announced it is, for the most part. Sony has now gone on the record to tell Europe that not PS2 game will be able to play on the PS3. This is the same news Sony delivered to the U.S. just before pushing the […]

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February 15th, 2007

European PS3 Launch Titles

Here is a complete list of PlayStation 3 launch titles for the March 23rd European launch via PS3 Fanboy:

Resistance: Fall of Man
MotorStorm
Genji: Days of the Blade
FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION
Ridge Racer 7

Tekken: Dark Resurrection
Lemmings
Go! Sudoku
Go! Puzzle
Blast Factor
flOw
Super Rub’a’Dub
Call of Duty 3
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Tony Hawk’s Project 8
Gundam – Target in Sight
Full Auto 2: Battle Lines
Sonic the Hedgehog
Virtua […]

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February 3rd, 2007

PS3 Defended in Recent Press

Jack Tretton the CEO and President of Sony Computer Entertainment America has gone on a PR sprint of sorts defending the PS3 as the dominant console and saying that they are  essentially being rooted against and being put up against unrealistic standards. So lets break down some key parts of the article.
“Because we’re in that […]

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