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For me, yesterday’s announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic was bittersweet.  It was sweet because I’m definitely looking forward to this game; it was bitter because it seemed like one my favorite games of last year, Mass Effect, wasn’t going to be having a sequel for some time.  I mean just how many games [...]

In case you didn’t know, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, AKA Major Nelson, runs a podcast that gives inside, albeit somewhat PR laced, information about the going ons in the Xbox division of Microsoft.  And in this week’s show, he gave a teaser regarding early access to the New Xbox Experience, which is expected to be released [...]

Once again, the NPD numbers of the month have been released and it’s time for the internets to light up once again reporting about them.  Let’s start out with the hardware figures:

Wii - 687,000
Nintendo DS - 536,800
Xbox 360 - 347,200
PSP - 238,100
PlayStation 3 - 232,400
PlayStation 2 - 173,500

The Xbox 360 was the biggest gainer [...]

Now that Halo 3: Recon has been announced players around the globe are demanding more information about the game.  And, for once, Bungie has given us some.
Speaking to Joystiq, Bungie Studios Community Director Brian Jarrard cleared up some questions about the game and gave some interesting information.  Perhaps the biggest reveal of the interview was [...]

Joining Mass Effect and Too Human on the planned trilogies bandwagon is Mirror’s Edge, the game that is gaining more and more hype by the day.  For those of you who still don’t know what this game is all about, the most efficient description of the game is a first-person Prince of Persia.  Interested?  Check [...]

The New Xbox Experience’s launch is impending and the hype is building.  In the past few days, Microsoft has given more information about the Xbox 360 revamp, including possible movie and photo sharing, the structure of updates (Fall and Spring?) and the size of NXE.

Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida talked to Eurogamer in the mix of all of this TGS hype, most of which has, surprisingly, revolved around Microsoft and the Xbox 360.  The most interesting thing about this interview: he was completely honest.  He wasn’t afraid to tell Eurogamer that “we haven’t seen real acceptance of the [...]

Two weeks ago, Bungie teased a very interesting game that they were making, referring to it just as “Keep it Clean”.  Well, Bungie realized that wasn’t a very good title, so they have officially announced that that teased title is actually called Halo 3: Recon and re-released the trailer with new footage at the end.  [...]

Most people would call the period we are about to be entering the holiday season.  Us gamers refer to it as a different name: FPS season.  And one of the plenty of shooters releasing this fall that hopes to stand out from the pack is Far Cry 2.  We already know the game is gorgeous [...]

EEDAR, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, have released their monthly estimate for the console sales of the previous month.  Remember, these are just estimated figures; don’t freak out about over them.
Hardware:

DS - 600,000
Wii - 600,000
Xbox 360 - 320,000
PSP - 235,000
PS3 - 215,000

Software:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - 360 - 505,000
Rock Band 2 - 360 - [...]

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 [...]

The Gears of War 2 hype train has left the station as we are only two months from the blockbuster’s release and on board today is Lead Designer of Gears 2, Cliff Bleszinski who gave a very revealing interview with D+ Pad. In this interview he gave some key information about the sequel such as [...]

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A very interesting rumor has been floating around today that suggests that Microsoft will be releasing an Xbox 360 that has gone through a harsh diet or a minor case of anorexia.  Yes, that was my clever way of saying that Microsoft is rumored to be releasing a slim Xbox 360 next year.
According to [...]

Last week, a weekly report from Famitsu showed that the Xbox 360 had beaten all the competition and become the best selling console in Japan, for a week.  While that report was later disputed, not disputed was the fact that the Xbox 360 gave the PS3 a thourough whipping in Japan last week, selling over [...]

The internet has been set on fire as Bungie released a teaser trailer for their new game (or expansion pack) called Keep it Clean.  This game has been teased by Bungie on their website on more than one occasion.  And, in typical fashion for us gamers, the video has already been dissected and analyzed.  First [...]