The latest news on Command and Conquer 3 says that the third faction of the upcoming game will be announced in December in the pages of that month’s Games for Windows magazine. The first trailer for the game showed some hints that the new faction would be alien in origin.
There is a great article on Gizmodo saying that with all the problems that Microsoft is having with their video downloading service, that they should look into a P2P setup like BitTorrent. They give an example of how this could work and how it would benefit Microsoft, ignoring that Microsoft would never use it. 1. [...]
Resistance: Fall of Man has been pushed and highlighted as the reason why Blu-ray exists. The developers, Insomniac, have stated that the game takes up 22GB of space to make it run, but it looks like ripping the disk in Linux has shown otherwise. A member of a forum, known as squatingyeti, posted a long [...]
You would think that someone studying in another country and making it rich would be a good thing, but Wang Yue Si, a Chinese student studying in Japan was arrested and even deported fro making some big bucks selling items such as weapons and currency for online games. From Kotaku: He sold items worth over [...]
For those that still have a Sony PSP, you might be happy to hear that Sony has announced pricing for original PlayStation games that will be made available for the PSP. The first batch of titles will be priced between $5.99 and $10.99 USD and will weigh in between 140MB and 550MB for downloading. Additional [...]
Nintendo Europe has let it slip that the Nintendo MP3 Player will launch December 8th, and be an SD card-based player. It mainly leeches off the Nintendo DS for power and to control the device. No word on price yet, but some are estimating that it will be around the €30 mark, without an SD [...]
Over on Engadget, they are highlighting an eBay auction that is absolutely ridiculous. Oh sure, Schnezy’s listing is dubious as hell: titled, “Sony PlayStation 3 PS3 NO RESERVE, HOT HOT HOT” and even supported by a picture of the console itself. And seeing all the features and specs spat out on the page certainly clutters [...]
Looks like everything did not go as smooth as silk for Nintendo as a few consoles need to be replaced thanks to their hardware locking up after updating via the Internet to the latest version. According to the official Wii forum, you will have to get your Nintendo Wii replaced if it comes up with [...]
While the Xbox 360 is not doing well in Japan, everyone wondered what would happen when the PlayStation 3 came out. From November 6th through the 12th Media Create tracked the sales of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStaion 3. The numbers are as follows: PlayStation 3: 81,639 unitsXbox 360: 3,864 units While the Xbox [...]
The popular online virtual world, Second Life, has some stats out thanks to Steve Rubel for this: Second Life citizenship grew 995% just this year. Commerce, a more important statistic, rose to $9M, up 287% this year The male/female split is close to even -57 to 43% Finally, more than 55% of citizens hail from [...]
