For gamers, the new year usually begins after mid-November and this year’s no different; pretty much all major console exclusives have been released. So, this is the first time that we can actually look back at 2008 and see which console had the best exclusives for the year - the PS3, Xbox 360, or Wii.
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Being a lucky fellow, I managed to get into the beta for the New Xbox Experience. This revamp to the Xbox 360’s dashboards is releasing across the board on November 19th, but seeing as thats a few days away, I’ll give you a little taste of what I thought of NXE.
Epic Games President Mike Capps has recently been interviewed by GamesIndustry.biz and has given some newsworthy information about his and Epic’s stance on the used game market. He called the secondary market “a huge issue in the United States”.
We all know Epic has been making steps to curb used game sales, namely putting an unlock [...]
If you don’t know by now, I love numbers. So, I decided to introduce a new segment that I’ll run a few days before the NPD releases for the previous months. Basically, I’ll just give my predictions of the top selling games and consoles of the previous month. Then we can compare my predictions to [...]
Today, on ClickZ, writer Kevin Carney has caused some disturbance in the gaming market by proclaiming that the “consoles are facing extinction” because of the casual market and the lack of innovation in the current consoles. In fact, he goes so far as to say that this generation was a “giant leap backwards”.
Well, first of [...]
In what is a very strange time to announce a new game, Microsoft has debuted the title Boku, which hopes to capture the user-generated content fervor that surrounds Sony’s LittleBigPlanet. The game has been confirmed for both the Xbox 360 and the PC.
It’s pretty apparent that Microsoft wants this game to be in direct competition [...]
Believe it or not, one of the biggest goals of game developers is to make money. Not helping developers achieve that goal is GameStop, with its huge used game market. Every used game bought is one less new copy of the game bought; developers and publishers don’t receive profits on any used game sales.
But, so [...]
Late last night, a report was released that stated that Nintendo will be releasing a revision of the DS later this year. And it’s not just little aesthetic changes (bigger screens, thinner), Nintendo is slapping a whole camera, music player, and increased wireless functionality on the little gaming handheld we’ve come to know and love.
So [...]
One of the biggest shockers of the year may be LittleBigPlanet. That’s because although the game has tons of hype now, it was relatively unknown just a year ago. And of course now that it is a hyped up exclusive, fanboys are standing at two sides of a fine line debating about whether or not [...]
Microsoft’s long rumored price cut for the Xbox 360 has finally been confirmed. The Arcade SKU will be available for $199 starting September 5. Of course this is a great move for Microsoft at the moment; Xbox 360 sales have been very stagnant the past few months. However, many gamers have already called this a [...]
The past few weeks, we have got top of the line games from a source that we were losing faith in: the Xbox Live Arcade. Sure the Arcade had some gems on it (Cloning Clyde, Geometry Wars), but it was mostly filled with trash. But here’s the release list for the Arcade for the past [...]
By now, you’ve probably seen the footage for the recently announced Halo game, Halo: Interactive Strategy Game. For those of you who haven’t, here’s the horrible trailer. Before you watch it, I’d like to say that this is a real game; it’s not some sick joke. But how I wish it was… On to the [...]
From the beginning of time, Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers have been dueling about who’s console is the more graphically powerful. In these skirmishes, terms like CPU, GPU, and RAM have been thrown around, but now those folks on the PS3 side of the fray have another weapon in their arsenal: disc format.
You may think [...]
I’m relatively new to blogging, so I do some research about blogging in general and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) at times. And this morning I found out about nofollow tags.
Google wanted to make sure that spam commenters didn’t get extra search engine juice by, well, spamming, so they introduced nofollow tags to combat spam by [...]
In-game advertising may seem like a new beast, but don’t be fooled. Because although the exact date of the first in-game ad is unknown, video games have definitely been used as marketing tools since the early ’80s. In 1984, for example, Coca-Cola decided that video gaming was a big enough property to launch an advertising [...]