Archive for November 4th, 2007
November 4, 2007
A Nintendo executive has commented that they are offering advice and cooperation to third party developers although they should not be telling these devs what they should be creating in terms of content. Another point of note is that they don\’t assign too many of their internal developers for such cooperations, so they ask third party devs to create an internal team which can work closely with Nintendo developers.
November 4, 2007
Nintendo recently had a small event in order to usher in the move of a number of operations to Silicon Valley. Reggie Fils-Aime was the man of the moment, commencing that Nintendo\’s message is that everyone is a gamer whether it is brining joy to parents playing Wii Bowling for the first time or catering to the teenage girl who likes to play with a virtual puppy.
November 4, 2007
It was reported a while ago that the new 40GB PS3 featured a 65nm processor, but Sony has told Heise Online that the 40GB SKU still uses the old 90nm processors. However, the new model does however feature a new design with lower power consumption (120 to 140 watts compared to 200 on older models). Sony is looking to go the 65nm way in the future but for now they are sticking at 90nm across all models.
November 4, 2007
Surveillance footage has shown a man at a Davie Gamestop fighting with a GameStop employee over a Playstation 3 console and then eventually stealing it after knocking down the employee and dragging him halfway to the door. It would seem as if working in Gamestop is a risky job these days.
November 4, 2007
A blog is running a rumor that Call of Duty 4 only runs at 720p based on one gamer\’s experience. The back of the box claims that it can support up to 1080p but his Samsung Full HDTV can only run the title at 720p. The same person claims that he has tested other full HD games such as Lair and Ninja Gaiden Sigma and they all run fine at 1080p as expected.
November 4, 2007
Here have four minutes of new Haze gameplay taken recently from the Igromir game show hosted in Moscow.
November 4, 2007
And we thought their advertising had gotten better…
November 4, 2007
SCEA has announced that is brining New York Giants Michael Strahan to accompany that \’annoying guy\’ who pops up in their Dude get your own series of campaigns. Strahan is going to help push the PSP Slim, with Sony\’s VP commenting that using Michael was a natural choice as him and his teammates love the PSP and take it on the road.
November 4, 2007
Dark_Alex has released a patch to enable fullscreen play in Symphony of Night, it will replace the larger mode with the full screen one. Check it out at the official release thread. Spread the word and DIGG THIS!!!
November 4, 2007
Weltall has stopped by the MaxConsole Forums to release CWcheat v0.1.9 rev h. This new version increases the priority of the prx and features extreme improvements to the search speed. Read more here.
November 4, 2007
StrmnNrmn posted up a message on his blog that Daedalus R13 for the PPS should be released sometime on Sunday. He states that he just has a bit of polishing and testing to do, but providing all is well it will be available to download very soon.
November 4, 2007
The Boston Herlad has posted up some form of review on Blacksite: Area 51. Buried in between their telling of their storyline, is a grade A rating and some comments that it plays fun, looks great and is a challenging experience.
November 4, 2007
Olivier Van Wynendaele from the HD DVD promotion group has slammed reports that millions of PS3 owners are watching movies on their consoles. Wynendaele also commented the vast majority of PS3 owners didn\’t know their system could play movies and are buying consoles to play games and not to watch movies. However, he also had harsh words for the Xbox 360 by stating that internal research has shown that console owners play a game for around 400 hours but only spend 3 hours watching movies.
November 4, 2007
The official Wizards of the Coast site notes that today is Worldwide Dungeons and Dragons Game Day. All day your Friendly Local Gaming Store will be running events using the D&D 3.5 rules, as well as skirmishes for Dungeons and Dragons minis. The official link there has downloadable character sheets if you want to go play, and the minis section of the site has rules and regs for the skirmish scenarios. The list of participating locations is available online … so get rolling..
November 4, 2007
Gamespot reports on the rumours swirling around the possibility of an Elder Scrolls Massively Multiplayer Online Game. They began when ZeniMax formed their very own Massive development company, ZeniMax Online. The company subsequently hired Matt Firor, formerly of EA Mythic, as its head. Now, the discussion online is centering on the registration of a URL that hints at big things to come for Bethesda’s world. Pete Hines, spokesman for Bethesda, has a perfectly rational explanation: ‘”We are tired of people squatting on domains related to our games or simply not being able to get them if we needed them (note oblivion.com, fallout.com, and many others) and decided a while back we’d get these to keep it from happening again … People are grabbing domains like these and trying to extract money from us for them, or using them for some other purpose.’ Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that the URL registration confirms the existence of an Elder Scrolls MMORPG. However, with others holding the Fallout and Star Trek MMORPG rights, the RPG franchise–famous for having MMORPG-size open worlds–is the only truly proven property in Bethesda’s catalog.”.