Here is something that I found very suprising. For the three months leading up to September EA Games platform sales came in at an exceptionally healthy $435 million. In their latest financial papers EA Games has broken this figure down by platform and the results are interesting… Xbox 360 – $218 millionPlayStation 2 – $73 millionNintendo Wii – $59 millionNintendo DS – …

Could the Xbox 360 actually beat the PS3 in Japan? Well if the first indications are anything to go by this is exactly what has happened in the last week. The figures are not final yet but currently according to VGChartz the 360 sold 17 000 units last week in Japan while the PS3 only shifted 16 000. The Wii still stands head and …

Well this is a good news story for the PS3 this morning. A COD 4 developer has been speaking to the media and has stated categorically that developing for the PS3 is easy. He goes on to assume that other companies may be struggling as they are choosing lead platforms and then porting while Activision is platform agnostic. I am …

I saw this morning that the official PlayStation 3 blog had been updated with some firmware 2.0 information. Now don’t shoot me if I am missing something but so far this firmware update is completely under whelming. According to Eric Lempel, Director of the PSN operations, the following great features are going to be in version 2.0 Information Board – An RSS …

A very strange story has appeared this morning about Sony pulling out of a development deal with IBM and Toshiba. We heard a few days ago that Sony had sold the rights to manufacture the Cell chip to Toshiba, however now it appears that Sony are completely wiping their hands of it. Sony had signed a contract to continue researching and developing …

The South African Call of Duty 4 launch event is taking place this afternoon in Bryanston, Megarom ran a competition across a number of sites in the past week to give members of the public a chance to attend the event. Due to the huge interest in the competition Megarom have decided to increase the allocation of tickets from 10 …

The 40GB PS3 was released in the US one day before these figures were closed off so I think it is safe to say that we can expect another spike next week. Living in deepest darkest Africa has kept us from experiencing a huge software event that happened in the USA last week. Guitar Hero III was released. Now to …

So I posted yesterday about Call of Duty 4 on the PS3 being delayed and then got slammed by a bunch of Americans… I mistakenly took the delay to be a worldwide one. However I have been given a bit more information this morning. The delay is due to a problem with Activision delivering to emerging markets. Which is why …