April 12th, 2007
Video game data firm Games Tracker which collects and distributes information on the gaming industry is trying to find the source of a leak that sent data into the wild that was supposed to be kept quiet. The data shows that the Wii is outselling the PS3 by a pretty big margin. Here’s part of […]
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April 12th, 2007
Yep, we were let down by the gaming hype yet again as Island of Rhodes turned out to just be a site where developers of God of War II could post videos about the game. So much for an announcement.
The site features videos from the games director Cory Barlog as well as other designers, animators, […]
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April 11th, 2007
The God of War countdown at IslandofRhodes.com will come to an end tonight at midnight eastern. The countdown does not have anything to do with the PSP version of the game but speculation abounds that it may be an announcement on God of War II, already released for the PS2, or an announcement about a […]
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March 31st, 2007
This week Sony released a new PSP firmware update, the first in 2 months, that adds some new functionality to the portable console. Here’s the features the update includes:
Thumbnail image support for items and videos
MPEG-4 support for 720X480, 352X480, and 480X272 video sizes
“Use Wireless Hotspot” feature added
Not too many major changes but the added video […]
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March 29th, 2007
Just hours after I posted the potential for an 80gb PS3 model, Sony has released a statement on the filing which I found via Kotaku:
“As mentioned when we made the product announcement for PS3, the system will have different configurations (thus, 60GB HDD with memory card slots and Wi-Fi and 20GB HDD without memory card […]
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March 29th, 2007
A recent filing with the FCC indicates that Sony way be toying with the idea of a bigger (and more costly) PlayStation 3 console. Kotaku reports on the news that this could be an upgrade to the existing 60gb or 20gb models or that it may in fact become the new low end model if […]
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March 24th, 2007
Analysts have been going on the record over the past few weeks suggesting that Sony needs to drop their price for the PS3 and it looks by all accounts they’ve listed. Recent reports suggest that Sony will be dropping the PS3’s price by $100 this October just in time for the holiday season.
While I applaud […]
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March 24th, 2007
Japan has very different sales trends often times than North America or Europe which makes them all the more interesting to look at. japan has a marked slant towards both Nintendo products as well as handhelds. Here’s the numbers for Japan from March 12th-18th courtesy of Joystiq:
- DS Lite: 121,471 12,959 (11.94%)
- Wii: 67,070 […]
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March 20th, 2007
With God of War yet to make the jump to PS3 some news is coming out on what the future holds for the popular series. Here’s a condensed version of what Joystiq had to say:
Much of the rumors surrounded the series upcoming PSP title. The game will not be a port and will have its […]
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March 16th, 2007
After rumoms about the PSP went from redesign, to no redesign, to redesign again we held off reporting the news until we knew what what was happening. Kotaku is now reporting that a PSP2 will be coming. E3 is being guessed as the location for the announcement of the redesigned console which is said to […]
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