A few days ago I noticed that an old story about the Call of Duty: World at War map pack was suddenly receiving a huge amount of hits. A lot of the visitors were leaving comments asking when the Map Pack 1 would become available and I just presumed the PSN store was slow in updating as all the visitors …
NPD, the market research folks who track stateside console and software sales have released their figures for February – and it should come as no real surprise to anybody that Nintendo continues to dominate the charts. The waggle-machine with too many unnecessary peripherals sold an astounding 753,000 units in February, while its little handheld cousin sold a total of …
The PS3 is the three-legged horse in this generation’s console race – last out of the gate, it’s constantly fallen behind it’s competitors. The 360? Yup. That’s sold more units. The Wii? That’s sold PLENTY more units. Does this bother Sony? Not so according to SCEA’s Senior VP of Marketing Peter Dille. “I think it’s already well publicized that we …
We surmised recently that PSN was the superior platform, on account of its Ninja costumes for home avatars. Some of you said that the inclusion of pirates on Xbox Live would level the playing field. Well, it’s time to put that test, as Xbox Live avatars will indeed be getting pirate costumes. A shameless marketing tie-in with Capcom’s Pirate-themed RTS …
The lack of graphical firepower inside the Nintendo Wii is not a new argument and is one that I suspect will start affecting it’s future titles quite badly. However having said that I have to admit that the latest screenshots for it’s upcoming FPS title, The Conduit, are looking pretty awesome and easily good enough for the majority of gamers …
There have been tons of articles recently claiming that the PS3 is about to receive a price cut and then debating on how much they are going to cut. The general consensus is that we can expect a $100 price cut at or around E3 this year… However Sony has now come out and possibly killed that theory, in a …
On the 1st of September last year Nick posted up an articled entitled Is the PS3 really catching up to the Xbox 360? where he looked at the sales gap between the Xbox 360 and PS3 and then working out how long it would take for the PS3 to overtake the Xbox 360. At the time it was worked out …
It’s not often that I feel any longing to return to London, my two years of grey skies and shoebox living was more than enough for me. However I would love to be there to see this. SEGA have decided that the most logical way to promote their hugely brutal MadWorld title would be to scatter some fake arms all …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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