Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business, Entertainment and Devices Division (all Microsoft bosses have really long, cool titles), says during an interview that Microsoft will sell 100 million Xbox360 consoles. They’ll do it by expanding the market and target general non-gamers.
“If you’re going to hit 100 million you need to address that [...]

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EA’s upcoming futuristic shooter, Battlefield 2142, will come in a Collector’s Edition version; only released via the EA Downloader, and not in retail. The Collector’s Edition includes a game soundtrack, behind the scenes video and a special 24-hour head start on the upcoming demo of the game, scheduled for release sometime next week.
The game has [...]

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IGN’s ultimate Nintendo fanboy and Wii reporter Matt Casmassina got a chance to play around with some Wii hardware and made a video walkthrough, presenting the Wiimote, nun-chuch accesory and the Wii console itself.

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Epyx has announced that they will be delivering several of their Commodore 64 games to the Wii Virtual Console. The Virtual Console already has Turbografx 64, Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, and N64. It is unconfirmed exactly which titles will be released, but you can see the list of games Epyx released after the jump.

Tags: Driving

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Assassin’s Creed developer Ubisoft says that while the Xbox360 and PS3 versions are “nearly identical”, the Xbox360 game will have a better AI system. According to an IGN article, Producer Jade Raymond says,
“The hardware also allows for improved threading, which will improve even further the crowd AI,”
The article only mentions “crowd AI”, and not [...]

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Pictures of the upcoming Nvidia G80 graphics card have emerged. The card is larger than any other on the market, and sports a massive cooler (one version with a water cooler as well). It has two 6-pin power connectors, which fuels the rumor suggesting it will consume 300W, more than the entire power consumption of [...]

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Microsoft’s brand new portable media player, called Zune, will be accepting Microsoft Points for purchasing Zune songs. Microsoft Points will be available via retailers and the Xbox Live Marketplace. The price of each song you can purchase is 79 Microsoft Points, which is the equivalent of 99 cents, which is also the exact price of [...]

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Apparently Nintendo is selling so many DS games that they are running out of plastic boxes. At the moment they are using GBA style cardboard boxes for top sellers such as Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing: Wild World and Tetris DS. So far only Europe has to bear with the cardboard boxes, but Nintendo includes [...]

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Only a few months to launch and obviously Nintendo and Sony are trying to get all the PR they can at this point. Nintendo’s president Reggie Fils-Aime said during an interview with ABC News that he would be selling the first few Wii consoles in New York on launch day, November 19. He said
“Those consumers, [...]

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Those Japanese gamers, we never quite get them. Apparently, the launch of Pokemon Diamond/Pearl for the DS sold over 1 million copies per game during the first few hours it went on sale. In addition, 500,000 units of customized Pokemon DS Lites were sold. Both games and the speacial edition DS Lite are sold out [...]

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The Official PlayStation Magazine reveals that the top-selling Xbox360 and PC title Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is coming to the PS3 and PSP sometime in 2007. The PS3 version will have some new content, including a new faction that players can join, called “Knights of the Nine.” Plus the usual new characters, weapons and locations.
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We recently reported on Remedy’s upcoming game Alan wake, running on quad-core CPUs. This time, we have stunning screenshots, and a video showing the game running on an Intel Core 2 Quad. More screens and the video after the jump.

Tags: Action, Adventure, Hardware, PC, Simulation, Software, Technology, Video

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Microsoft’s yearly Xbox event, X06, had a lot of interesting news this year, besides the pricing of the HD-DVD add-on. Exclusivity was a big buzz word this time, with several new titles announced exclusively for the Xbox360.
Peter Jackson working on new Halo games
Film maker Peter Jackson (Lord of The Rings, King Kong), currently busy producing [...]

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The official box art for the upcoming Wii games has been revealed, and it’s nothing special really. Compared to the Xbox360 and PS3 standard boxes, the Wii ones are rather boring actually. But you should never judge a game by its cover anyway.
Via IGN

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Microsoft’s HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox360 will launch this November for $199 in the US, €199 in Europe and £129 in the UK. It will be bundled with an Xbox360 Media remote and (for a limited time) a HD-DVD copy of Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
The add-on will make the Xbox360 one of the cheapest HD-DVD [...]

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