Sony Corp said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its production facilities for the powerful computer chip at the heart of its struggling Playstation 3 game console to rival Toshiba Corp. The deal, reportedly worth over $1-billion, is part of Sony’s efforts to refocus on its core electronics business and staunch losses from the PS3 in the face …
I just received another press release from Microsoft and they have finally confirmed the arrival of the Xbox 360 Arcade in South Africa. This should be available to buy from this Friday and is basically the core model with a wireless controller, 256Mb memory card and 5 Arcade games bundled in. The games are PAC-MAN Championship Edition,? (NAMCO BANDAI Games), ?Uno,? ?Luxor …
I don’t understand how Rockstar has managed to do this with a straight face. The company that continues to bring us Grand Theft Auto and all of the parodies contained within has complained legally to EA about the Simpsons parody of GTA called Grand Theft Scratchy. When I first heard it I thought it was going to be another lawyer jumping …
Kotaku has posted some bad screen shots of the PS3’s version of Lost Planet this morning. Now can someone explain to me how it is possible that 10 months after the 360 version hit the shelves the PS3 version looks much much worse? Take a look at the image above, I think it is pretty clear that the PS3 version …
Pro Evolution Soccer has been a PlayStation mainstay for many years now and is developed by the same company that develops the incredibly popular Metal Gear Solid franchise. Which is why what I am about to report on must be very worrying for the PS3 fans. According to Pro-g.co.uk (a popular non biased UK website) the PS3 version of PES 2008 sucks. It’s absolutely …
Wow, I just received a press release from Microsoft South Africa about the Christmas bundles and I am impressed. We had heard about the Forza 2 / Marvel bundles already and I didn’t think twice that we may actually be getting anything better. Well we did, straight from the press release Available from Friday 2nd November, includes an Xbox 360 …
Game Life has put together a really cool Venn diagram showing the differences between the 4 PS3 models. A quick note about Blu-Ray, since it is in all 4 models it is not included as in the norm in Venn diagrams. The Americans also got upset about the 20Gb model being there since it has been discontinued but we all know …
Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, has been chatting at the recent Web 2.0 summit in the US and has told an audience member that the PlayStation 3 is the most advanced gaming platform available. Now I don’t think that is news really, it did appear quite a while after the 360 and does include bleeding edge technology so yeah saying it …
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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