There comes a time in every bad games life when the developers realise they stuffed up and it’s at that time that we stop seeing any more canned news released about the game. Tony Hawk’s Ride has had a pretty sedate start but after it has been savaged by reviews, panned by every gaming site on the planet and now …

Ah, physics. They are all the rage with the hip kids these days you know. Almost every game you play these days has some sort of physics engine running to ensure maximum lawnmower-man-realism *cough* in all of your videogaming experiences. Thing is, physics seem like they are still quite a far way away from being just right and this video …

Gaming retailers from all over the world have been refusing to stock the PSPGo mainly because it’s insane to believe they will stock a device that will hasten the collapse of their business model. However that little problem didn’t stop Sony from pricing it completely out of proportion with the rest of the offerings on the market which has pretty …

A Japanese videogame sales clerk has, via his personal blog, come forward to tell the world exactly what it knows already – The Xbox 360 is having a tough time in Japan. Despite trying really, really hard, and securing timed RPG exclusivity in the region, Microsoft’s gaijin machine has failed to capture the hearts of all but the “hardcore” Japanese …

File this one under “Oops!” Nintendo have released a new firmware update for the Wii – System Menu 4.2 – and included in its payload is some code that not only renders homebrew inoperable, it’s actively deletes it from the system. This is yet another feeble attempt by Nintendo to prevent users from running legitimate hombrew – like the DVDX …

Sony’s ads have always intrigued me because despite the one or two good ads they manage to endorse they normally approve hundreds of the most bizarre, outlandish or just plain stupid adverts. Step forward exhibit Z3254, As you can see on the right we have a healthy young gamer which pretty much represents the PlayStations core target market. On the …

Konami have announced that they have removed their redundant Konami ID system from their upcoming PES 2010 title. According to the PES producer, Shingo Takatsuka, the much criticised authentication system will not be appearing in PES 2010 due to the vast amount of poor feedback received by fans. Whether this means that Konami are going to dump the system for …

A long time ago on a webpage not so far away I posted a story about the failure rate of the Xbox 360 being around 61%, that was over two years ago and since then we have seen many other numbers bandied around and now we have a new one. One of Kotaku’s sister sites (The Consumerist) has posted up …