Yup you can now all feel as old as I do. Today is Sonic’s birthday. He is 16… That’s right you have officially been playing video games for over 16 years today… Don’t you think it’s time to grow up now? Nah me neither 🙂 Happy birthday Sonic, hopefully if you come back again it will be in a much better …

Engadget is reporting video output issues on the Xbox 360 this morning. Reports are filtering in about the screens going blank but the users can still hear what is going on. There is also one or two people complaining that the red aspect of colour is failing. Strange that this surfaces now as I was playing Gears on the weekend and my entire screen went …

Some kind man over at N4G.com has put together a montage of all the best Xbox 360 case mods around… Personally the Gears of War transparent one is my favourite… Not sure I would risk my 360’s warranty doing that though? Last Updated: June 24, 2007

  Gameplayer.com.au has a very nice article explaining why there has been such a media backlash against Sony in this generation and how if they don’t deliver on Home it may be the last straw for many. However it is by far all doom and gloom, if Sony deliver on Home and by all counts we have no reason to …

The latest PS3Zine is out and they have a very nice article about the PS3 versions of Fifa and PES. PES just manages to squeak it in the end but there is quite a bit of rumbling about how it is not moving forwards quick enough and is starting to live up to it’s Evolution moniker. FIFA still wins the graphics side hands down and …

So the weekly hardware sales are out and there is only one big mover from last week. Wii – 65,521 PlayStation 2 – 11,974 PLAYSTATION 3 – 9,481 Xbox 360 – 7,583 So they all stay in the same position but the Xbox 360 has jumped from just over 2k to 7.5k… All of that can be put down to Trusty …

Howard Stringer, Sony Chairman, has been telling the Sony shareholders today that the PS3 is already making a comeback. Now that they have solved the production problems that is… Personally I remember the PS3 problems being lack of games and an exceptionally high price. Not production problems.  To add some weight to his claims however it was announced today that over 380 …

An Australian website called Smarthouse has written an article detailing it’s findings into the Xbox 360’s failure rate. Microsoft has always claimed that the failure rate falls within the 3-5% industry norm, Yet no one has ever believed them. Smarthouse is claiming that the failure rate is actually around 30% which does fit in well with all the other surveys and articles …