Torchlight…For Consoles? Maybe! [PC]

Torchlight is a game we like . A lot . So we also like the news that it’s developers are looking at bringing the game to consoles. More

What Does Japan Really Think About Game Consoles? [Japan]

Ask Google. The Japanese language version of the search engine catalogues the most popular searches. Those automatically pop up when searching. So what displays for the Nintendo Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360? More

What Does Japan Really Think About Game Consoles? [Japan]

Ask Google. The Japanese language version of the search engine catalogues the most popular searches. Those automatically pop up when searching. So what displays for the Nintendo Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360? More

Death of A Wii [Wii]

At the ripe old age of 3, my Nintendo Wii has officially gone to join the celestial Wii Music choir. Let’s hope it doesn’t take drums. I first received my Wii nine days before Nintendo rolled out its new motion-controlled console to masses of gamers and non-gamers on Nov. 19, 2006. That doesn’t sound like a long time for a piece of solid state electronics to last. But let’s compare consoles, why don’t we? The Xbox 360 , a console that launched about a year before the Wii, has been beset with multiple deaths since visiting my home . While I typically have two of the consoles at a time (a retail and a debug), and it has been the most used gaming system of the lot, that does little to explain how over the course of three years or so I had ten of the consoles die on me. Since then, and the inner tweaking of the consoles, I’ve had a clean run with no Xbox 360s dying at home. The Playstation 3 , which launched just days before the Wii, has had the best run so far without a single replacement of the retail or the debug console that I can recall. So here you have it, the gaming console death ratio: 10:1:0

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Sony Details PSN Expansion To Other Products [Ces 2009]

At CES 2010, Sony Computer Entertainment chief Kaz Hirai described long-anticipated plans to unify its PlayStation Network content offerings across its product line – including network enabled Blu-ray players, Sony televisions and PCs. Further, Hirai announced the creation of a new studio specifically to produce content for this type of distribution. The studio will be called Sony Network Entertainment , and Hirai is in charge of it. The PSN expansion will deliver “a single user login and experience across all product lines,” Hirai said, effectively extending PSN’s reach beyond gaming platforms. The video service will come to networked Bravia televisions and Blu-Ray devices beginning next month. It will also be available to any Windows-based PC. Users may sign in and buy content with the same PlayStation Network account they have on their consoles. The PSN expansion culminates a long period of anticipation that the service would be extended beyond gaming devices. Back in June, Hirai told Fortune magazine that an expanded PSN would likely debut in the spring of this year.

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Microsoft: difference between cheat, exploit? None. Banned!

Microsoft has begun issuing temporary bans to players taking advantage of an exploit in Modern Warfare 2, while Infinity Ward works on a patch to fix the issue. While the servers may be kept slightly cleaner for the efforts, the amount of control Microsoft holds over owners of their consoles, and the arbitrary way they are able to ……………..

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Viva la PS3 and 360. Ten Reasons We Don’t Want The Next Gen

Normally by this stage in a console generation’s lifespan, we’d have at least one eye trained on the consoles around the corner. Not so this time. Nope, this time there are just too many compelling reasons why the PS3 and Xbox 360 should hang around for several more years at the least.

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Viva la PS3 and 360. Ten Reasons We Don’t Want The Next Gen

Normally by this stage in a console generation’s lifespan, we’d have at least one eye trained on the consoles around the corner. Not so this time. Nope, this time there are just too many compelling reasons why the PS3 and Xbox 360 should hang around for several more years at the least.

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Viva la PS3 and 360. Ten Reasons We Don’t Want The Next Gen

The Antipodes Beckon [Note]

To : Brian From : Luke So, good turkey day? Not being one to celebrate such a thing, today I gave thanks for the kebab I ate for lunch and played some FIFA. You must be off to Australia in, what, a day or two? Should be a hoot. Weather’s much nicer down here this time of year… Here’s what you missed: An Old Friend Returns In New Mass Effect 2 Videos, Screens Next Zelda Game To Feature Flight? Sony Boss Takes A Swing Or Two At The Wii Street Fighter IV’s New Guys In Action Red Dead Redemption Gets A Proper Release Date Square Enix Anticipating The Death of Consoles

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Happy Turkey Day! [Note]

To : Crecente From : Luke Happy thanksgiving! Not that I even really get what that means , but hey, any day where eating giant birds is a national holiday is cool with me. Here’s what you missed: Capcom Side-Scrollers Coming To Xbox Live, PSN Custom Bayonetta “Figure” Gets The Outfit Right New Afterburner Game Coming To Home Consoles? Red Dead Redemption Moseys On Into April 2010 All Of EA’s PC Games, 30% Off So, When’s Modern Warfare 2’s DLC Due?

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