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Jazzed perhaps by a successful showing at last week's E3 Media and Business Summit, as well as continued strong sales of his Wii video game console, Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, told a Reuters reporter Thursday he believes the console could touch the stratosphere and top the PlayStation 2 (PS2) in sales ...
Prospective PlayStation 3 (PS3) purchasers on Friday felt a collective urge to run -- not walk -- to their closest retailer on word that the newly discounted 60 GB models would soon disappear from shelves for good. Published reports early Friday morning of an E3 interview with David Reeves, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), seemed to indicate that the company planned to sell out the current stock of 60 GB PS3s and simply phase the lowest-priced model out of the market in the U.S
Major players in the gaming industry continued to make a splash at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, as Nintendo unveiled its latest lineup of games ...
Microsoft opened this year's E3 Media and Business Summit Tuesday with two major announcements -- the addition of Disney films to its Xbox Live download service for the Xbox 360 as well as its lineup of new titles for its "Games for Windows" brand, most set for release during the 2007 holiday season ...
One decade in and blogging has gone from a prosaic exercise in online journaling to a serious enterprise undertaken by so-called citizen journalists eager to bring stories to light that the mainstream media might otherwise overlook. The dogged determination of these passionate online journalists has brought to the forefront stories that have derailed political campaigns and caused major corporations to rethink how they handle their customers...
As game developers gear up for the E3 Media & Business Summit this week in Santa Monica, Calif., game maker Electronic Arts (EA) Tuesday let slip a few details on two of the three upcoming titles it has teamed with director Steven Spielberg to bring to the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (PS3) ...
Ask Electronic Arts (EA) head John Riccitiello what he thinks about the game software development industry and you might be surprised by the answer. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, EA's chief executive said games coming out from top game makers lack innovation and that the industry needs to aggressively expand their audience beyond traditional gamers and pursue so-called casual gamers...
Playing Electronic Art's (EA) line of sporting games just became a little easier for Wii console owners. The game maker has unwrapped its new EA Sports Family Play system, which will make it "easier for players of all ages and skill level to play its most popular EA Sports games" on the Wii, according to the company. The new style of game play will be available with the release of Wii versions of "Madden NFL '08," NBA Live '08," and "FIFA Soccer '08."
After scoring a hit among the senior citizen crowd with its "Brain Age" line of games, Nintendo has taken its quest to help the aging remain youthful to the next level -- the face ...
Amazon.com and Microsoft have come together to launch the 1,000 Indies Project, in which the online retailer will sell independent films in the HD DVD format via its CustomFlix DVD on Demand service ...
AMD announced Friday that it will begin shipping its quad-core Opteron processor, dubbed "Barcelona," in August. Enterprise-level server manufacturers including Sun Microsystems have committed to using the standard and low-watt special edition (SE) versions of the chip, giving the chipmaker a much needed boost against archrival Intel and its Xeon 5300 Clovertown quad-core chip...
A University of Maryland researcher announced this week that he has created a prototype device using a parallel processor that could very well be the "next generation of personal computers." ...
The BBC announced Wednesday it will launch its iPlayer on-demand TV service on July 27. Initially restricted to users in the UK, the service will become available to an expanded Internet audience in the fall ...
Nintendo unveiled a new game developing tool for its Wii video game console Wednesday. The company hopes the WiiWare tool will attract budding game programmers as well as experienced independent game makers interested in putting their programming skills to the test on the next-generation console and its innovative controller ...
Game personalization, or soft modding, has been a hobby among hardcore gamers for at least a decade. In recent years, however, the underground pastime has been gaining popularity, so much that the art of creating a personalized version of a video game is even being taught at summer cyber camps. In 2007, soft modding will hit the big time and go official with the launch of Sony's LittleBigPlanet...
Dell chose Macy's flagship Herald Square store in New York as the location to introduce its new line of laptops Tuesday. Models strutted down the catwalk sporting the line's eight different colors, including what the company calls "flamingo pink," "sunshine yellow," "alpine white," "ruby red," "jet black," "midnight blue," "spring green" and "espresso brown."
Since they hit the Web in the mid-1990s, Web logs, more commonly known as "blogs," have matured from simple journal entries cataloging the day-to-day goings-on in the lives of Net dwellers to, in some cases, serious enterprises. Today, corporations, political parties and their partisans, the media and everyday citizens use blogs as means to send out the word on their favorite causes...
Hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer Seagate unveiled Monday two 1 terabyte storage hard drives aimed at both enterprise and consumers users. The "first second-generation desktop and enterprise" Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 1 HDDs will be available in the third quarter of 2007, the company said ...
Sony's latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming device unleashes the full power of the machine's processor, accelerating its CPU (central processing unit) speed from 266 MHz to 333 MHz ...
After a ban in Ireland and the UK, as well as an Adults Only (AO) rating from the U.S. Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games, said Thursday it has temporarily suspended the release of "Manhunt 2" for the Wii, PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) video game systems. The company had originally planned for the game to hit store shelves on July 10 in the U.S. and July 13 in Europe...
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