Sony PlayStation’s ‘Home’ Delayed Again (PC Magazine)
May 8, 2008PC Magazine - Playstation 3 owners hoping to see a Home debut any time soon will have to wait a little bit longer.
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Archive for May 8th, 2008
Electronic Arts Looks To Wii To Drive Sports Growth (TechWeb)
May 8, 2008TechWeb - Key games such as “Madden” football, “NBA Live,” and “FIFA” soccer are expected to come out in special versions for the game console soon.
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‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ races into videogame record books (AFP)
May 8, 2008AFP - “Grand Theft Auto: IV” blew away videogame and Hollywood records as its creators reported Wednesday that it raked in an unprecedented 500 million dollars in its opening week.
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Take-Two’s ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ tops $500M in week 1 sales (AP)
May 8, 2008AP - “Grand Theft Auto IV” raked in more than $500 million in its first week in stores, selling more than 6 million units worldwide, the video game’s publisher said Wednesday.
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GAMES REVIEW: ‘Iron Man’ video game clunky (AP)
May 8, 2008AP - “Iron Man” has always had a flight problem in video games.
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Nintendo channel now live
May 8, 2008The Nintendo channel is now live. The channel will allow you to Watch trailers, mini-documentaries, product demonstrations, and gameplay videos. Also, using the DS Download Service, you can download game demos and additional game data on to your Nintendo DS.
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Wii Homebrew Channel beta video
May 8, 2008Bushing has uploaded a video to youtube demonstrating the Wii Homebrew Channel beta, powered by devkitPPC / libOGC. The apps \”are being loaded off an SD card. The channel also has built-in support for loading ELFs/DOLs via USBGecko and TCP/IP (shown at the end, when Linux is loaded).\”
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Nintendo legal team force the closure of MiiEditor.com
May 8, 2008The folks over at MiiEditor.com were sad to announce today that Nintendo has shut them down. I deeply regret to have to inform you that due to legal action taken against this web site from the \”Big N,\” the editor service provided here will no longer be available. The site allowed users to create and edit Mii characters for their Nintendo Wii.
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Iron Man Wii Behind-the-Scenes Trailer, features Robert Downey Jr.
May 8, 2008Get perspectives from many different voices behind the development of Iron Man for the Wii, including Robert Downey Jr. himself.
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Wii Fit selling out
May 8, 2008If you promised a certain someone you\’d buy them Wii Fit you better hurry as retailers are reporting they have already filled their pre-order allocations. GameStop has said that it has stopped accepting pre-orders for Wii Fit and many Game Crazy stores have sold out, but some are still accepting second orders. (Thanks daps83777)
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PS3 ad pulled for misleading backwards compatibility claim
May 8, 2008PC World have been ordered not to show a \”misleading\” 60GB PS3 TV advert again which said that it \”plays your PS2 games as well.\” This was deemed to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority who noted that when the advert was broadcast it could play around 80% of PS2 games.
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Japan: Sony plans to ship around 100k units of MGS4 PS3 bundle
May 8, 2008A Japanese newspaper is reporting that Sony plans to ship between 80,000 and 100,000 units of the limited edition MGS4 PS3 bundle. It is unclear how many units Sony are planning to ship in other regions.
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SCEE boss hints at official external PS3 HDD’s
May 8, 2008SCEE boss David Reeves has hinted that Sony may at some point consider releasing official external PS3 HDD\’s. \”We launched with 60GB and to reduce the price we went to 40GB. We\’re not sure we want to stay with that configuration of hard drive, and I think what you\’re going to see in the future is maybe consumers can choose. The PlayStation will stay the same, but consumers can choose whichever size of hard drive they want. They can now, or course, because it\’s not a proprietary hard drive.\” said Reeves.
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Rockstar release 18 MB GTA IV PS3 patch
May 8, 2008RockStar have released a 18 MB GTA IV PS3 patch \”that prevents Gamespy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up.\”
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