Gaming

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, said Thursday he believes the console could touch the stratosphere and top the PlayStation 2 in sales. The PS2's o...

Ever pushing the computing speed limit, Intel says its new Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor is the world's highest-performing notebook chip. The company, in announcing the new processor, said there is a big demand for high-performance processors for notebooks being used by "hardcore gamers,...

Last week should have been a bigger week than it was with E3, but that show is now a shadow of what it once was, and many of us struggled to pull anything meaningful out of the event. There are simply way too many lazy game developers right now, and I think that could kill this market. Sony continue...

Prospective PlayStation 3 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 S...

Microsoft is in a tough position with its Xbox 360 gaming console and Xbox Live online service. The Xbox 360 has outsold its key competitors, a position it attained in part by being the first to market by several months. However, since that time it has seen a disturbing number of 360 units die via a...

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. Having already scored hits by getting gamers to exercise their minds with the "Brain Age" game and "Big Brain Aca...

Lagging behind Nintendo in the handheld gaming device market, Sony has shaved some size and weight from the PlayStation Portable, added more memory and fitted it with a video port. The new $200 model will hit stores in September, the company said. The "more streamlined form factor" version of the po...

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...

As game developers gear up for the E3 Media & Business Summit this week in Santa Monica, Calif., game maker Electronic Arts 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. The venture...

Ask Electronic Arts 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...

After initially denying it had plans to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 gaming console, Sony on Sunday announced a hefty price reduction and announced a new PS3 model. As recently as Friday, Sony's president reportedly said there were no plans to cut the PS3 price, something observers expected wa...

Wii Are Family

Playing Electronic Art's 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 t...

Conceding many Xbox 360 gaming consoles were built with a flaw that resulted in system crashes, Microsoft is tripling the system's warranty, upgrading its design and reimbursing those who paid for repairs. The initiative will cost up to $1.15 billion, the company said. A properly-running Xbox 360 di...

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. Named "Otona No DS Kao Training" or "Face Training," the game, according to reports, will include a camera that plugs i...

In the U.S., a lot of folks are off this week because the 4th of July, which marks the Independence Day holiday, comes on a Wednesday this year. An impressive number of Americans have been spending the last few days scrambling to buy a $3,000 phone, and I think it is time to begin talking about the...

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