Singapore lifts ban on Xbox game with lesbian scene (AFP)
November 20, 2007AFP - Singapore has lifted a ban on an Xbox video game featuring an intimate scene between two female characters, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Archive for November 20th, 2007
Sony Slashes Price of PS3 Development Kit (NewsFactor)
November 20, 2007NewsFactor - On Monday, Sony slashed the price of its software development kit for the PlayStation 3 console. The electronics giant is hoping to encourage third-party game developers to make new software titles for its struggling platform.
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Mass Effect: Xbox 360 Game Doesn’t Live Up to its Hype (PC World)
November 20, 2007PC World - Mass Effect Slideshow
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Sony cuts fees for PS3 game developers (AP)
November 20, 2007AP - Hoping to encourage more games for the PlayStation 3, Sony has cut in half the price of a software development kit for the struggling console.
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Three new classic games added to Wii console’s first anniversary
November 20, 2007Wii celebrates its first anniversary today, and big stars from past consoles are coming out to help Nintendo celebrate. Luminaries walking the Virtual Console red carpet this week include Mario and Luigi, Sonic The Hedgehog and Zonk. So throw on your best tuxedo or finest gown, and get ready to party with these video game A-listers.
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Nintendo: Wii Zapper doesn’t look like a gun
November 20, 2007An article at the Washington Post looks at the potential backlash that the Wii Zapper will receive. However, Nintendo\’s senior vice president of marketing has played down such concerns by commenting that Nintendo doesn\’t even think the Wii Zapper looks like a gun, all it is a utility that allows for more diverse styles of play. However, all the spin in the world won\’t stop concerned parents from venting their anger at the device.
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The House Of The Dead 2&3 Return Screens
November 20, 2007SEGA has released a batch of screenshots for House of the Dead 2&3 Return for Wii.
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Nintendo sends out press release to hype up Wii Zapper
November 20, 2007\”Our new Wii Zapper interface opens up a huge range of experiences for players and developers,\” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America\’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. \”Just as the Wii Remote put Link\’s sword in your hands, now you physically pick up Link\’s crossbow, take aim and shoot targets as though you were right in Hyrule. It\’s another example of how Nintendo continues to change the way people interact with games.\”
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ESRB rate Ys I & II & Rolling Thunder 2 for Virtual console
November 20, 2007The ESRB Two has rated two more candidates for the Wii Virtual Console. Ys I & II, Rolling Thunder 2 Due have been rated which is usually a good indication that they will come to North America in the next few weeks. Ys Book I & II is a role-playing game collection released for the Turbografx-CD and Rolling Thunder 2 is a side-scrolling shooter classic.
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Gary Coleman’s Gamecube auctioned off for $510
November 20, 2007Different Strokes star Gary Coleman has auctioned off his signed GameCube along with all six games he has purchased for it, which suggests that he is not hot on gaming. The console and all the games were signed by the actor and the auction ended on November 10th at a winning bid of $510.
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GT5 Prologue has taken 3 years and 320,000 man-hours
November 20, 2007GT5 Prologue has taken roughly 3 years and 320,000 man-hours to get this far, creator and producer of the Gran Turismo series, Kazunori Yamauchi has said. He said they have 120 people working on the game 40 of whom are car modelers. In the first Gran Turismo, one car model took an average of one day to create, where now it takes them 180 days to do one car. In GT4 they used 4000 to 5000 polygons to create a car, in GT5 the number rises to 200,000. Yamauchi\’s interest in cars started when he was around 4, but he didn\’t get his drivers license until the age of 24 because of the expense in Japan. He currently owns a Nissan 350Z, Honda S2000, Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, Porsche 996 GT3 and two Ford GTs.
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MegaTV HD IPTV service for PS3 launches in Korea tomorrow
November 20, 2007MegaTV\’s video on demand service for the PS3 will launch tomorrow in Korea.Content of the PS3 IPTV service includes drama series, animated features, movies and sports. The MegaTV support came for Korean PS3 users via the firmware 2.0 update already and is supposed to activate tomorrow via the MegaTV site.
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Singstar European PS3 TV Spot/Teaser
November 20, 2007A reader mailed in that the following is a European PS3 TV Spot for Singstar although it seems perhaps a tad too long to be an advert so perhaps it is a promotional trailer.
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PS3 is actually on par with Xbox 360 sales by end of first year?
November 20, 2007Despite a common belief that the PS3 is suffering very badly, VG Chartz estimates suggest that the PS3 is on par with the Xbox 360 in terms of its sales during the first year of its release. For their one year launch periods, the PS3 sold 5,552,074 units in comparison to the Xbox 360\’s 5,656,039 which indicates that there isn\’t much in it at all.
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New PS3 DualShock 3 hits FCC
November 20, 2007The new PS3 controller DualShock 3 has finally hit the FCC for testing. Not long to go now until North American gamers can experience the joys of rumble once again on the Playstation platform.
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