January 17, 2011
Get ready to step into the hot tub time machine and warp back to late 2005, when the Xbox 360 was new and in short supply. Now just over 5 years old, the console could again be in short supply in the coming months, and so could the Kinect, Microsoft wa…
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January 17, 2011
Without Flash support, browser-based gaming has all but been eliminated on Apple’s iPad, though not entirely. Thanks to Sarien.net, iPad owners can relive (or discover for the first time) classic adventure games from Sierra, all playable on the iPad’s …
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January 13, 2011
Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! Actually, the former King Kong record holder isn’t dead, but he has been dethroned by Hank Chien, a 35-year-old doctor from Queens, New York, according to Twin Galaxies.
Chien scored 1,068,000 points in less than three hou…
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January 12, 2011
As the saying goes, ‘Keep your friends close, and sue your customers.’ Wait, that doesn’t exactly right, but it’s the motto Sony’s sticking with as it takes legal action against a band of hackers who uncovered and published security codes for the PlayS…
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January 12, 2011
Our parents told us if we sat too close to the television, we’d go blind. Some researchers say cell phone radiation could cause brain damage or cancer. Videogames apparently turn us into blood thirst miscreants hellbent on hurting people, or so we’ve h…
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January 11, 2011
According to Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter’s numbers, Nintendo moved around 2.6 million Wii consoles in December, edging ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 with 2.5 million units and way ahead of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (1.2 million units), CNet reports.
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January 11, 2011
Nintendo has never had much trouble moving large quantities of its handheld gaming system, so it’s understandable why company president Satoru Iwata is so confident the 3DS will fly off store shelves. In an interview with Nikkei Business Daily, Iwata s…
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January 10, 2011
The new Onza Tournament and Standard Edition Xbox 360 controllers will give console a gamers a glimpse into the world of Razer, which up to this point has focused entirely on PC gaming peripherals and assorted gear.
Razer says the two new controllers a…
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