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Nintendo's Wii console, which has been on sales since since November 2006, has finally passed the 6 million sales mark in Japan. On top of this, the unique Wii Fit title has already passed the 2 million sales mark in less than 6 months.



Gears of War fans everywhere, here's a little something to make you all have a collective fanboygasm - Gears of War 2 gameplay footage. The following scene comes from the game's campaign mode. Enjoy!



The majority of highlights on this week's PSN update come from Sony’s PlayStation Day event, which was incredibly underwhelming this year. Still, if you’re interested to know what’s up on the PlayStation Store, take a look below. Playable content * Race ...



Somehow, in the middle of the night, with almost nobody noticing, Nintendo today launched The Nintendo Channel. It's a new addition to the Wii that lets users preview upcoming titles, receive news, and download playable demos for the DS.



Recently the BBC announced it's iPlayer video service will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii, thus making it the first of the current generation of consoles to have a truly dynamic range of online video content. The video download and streaming service offered b...



What a turnaround of fortunes this has turn out to be. A survey of over 2,000 Australian retailers has discovered that the country's game-sellers are less than stellar about the Xbox 360. According to a recent GameRush report, PS3 and Wii are being viewed as the main...



With the much awaited and shortly forthcoming arrival of the DualShock 3 controller, Sony has decided to cease production of the feather light, motion sensing Sixaxis controller. Sony expects the remaining Sixaxis units to be gone from store shelves by the summer. Honest...



Firstly, I was exited to hear a rap on the door this A.M. and discover that my Dualshock 3 straight from Hong Kong (thank you ebay) had arrived! I have been testing its vibration "skillz" for the better part of the day and I have some positive feedback.



In the wake of the recent Xbox 360 price cut, sales of the console have risen 35-40 Europe-wide price drop, Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch confirmed today.



Wii owners will be able to get their hands on the latest iteration of the classic Nintendo gaming series Mario Kart on April 27, Nintendo announced yesterday.



Amazon UK has cut the price of all Xbox 360 SKUs on it's website this morning, following news late last night that a Dutch retailer had detailed euro-priced cuts to the console, whilst the German FT ran a story admitting that Microsoft will drop the price of the console today.



Today, news flowed heavily from Sony at its annual Destination PlayStation Conference. First and perhaps most exciting, late in 2008's second quarter, an MGS4 80 GB PS3 bundle with an included DualShock 3 controller will be available for $499.



We’ve heard it all, from Surgeons to video games. But now there seems to be a new edition to the abnormal news gripping the gaming industry. The Nintendo Wii video games console is being used as part of physiotherapy treatment for patients in South-East England. Play...



This goes out to all my fellow 360-ers who are looking for the best HD deal you will probably see. Despite the fact that HD-DVD will be "no more" shortly, there are still some great titles out on the format currently (The Matrix Trilogy, The Bourne Ultimatum, etc.). The deal is the current price-cut on the external HD-DVD drive!



Sony is close to finishing development of their PS3 addon; PlayTV, which allows users to watch and record digital tv. The addon is a small black box which connects to a USB port on the machine. It has an aerial port in (and a pass through port) to pick up digital terrestrial signals.



Well, while we don't know if the third installment is going to make the jump to MMO, (please God, don't let this happen! I can't deal with Wookies of Warcraft!!) we do know, as of today, that the game is being developed by the original crew.



Sales figures are in, and since the game's Jan 31 launch in Japan it has sold over 1 million copies. That, for those of you who haven't been paying attention, officially makes it the fastest selling Wii game in that console's history.



Considering the PS3’s dominance over the Xbox 360 in Japan, this one is a bit of a no-brainer, but recent sales figure indicate the PS3 version of Devil May Cry 4 has outsold the Xbox 360 version by almost 5-to-1 in Japan.



PlayStation Home is one of the "big" things being lined up for the PS3, a free online social networking system with a complete virtual environment to explore... sounds cool, right? Well, not according to Japanese gamers, it isn't.



In a detailed conference call yesterday, Electronic Arts offered a miniscule slice of information about the release date of Wight Wright's Spore. Vague would be an understatement.



The last few weeks have been full of rumours in regards to the possible discontinuation of 80GB SKU from retailers worldwide. Today, GameStop reveals some concrete information which will hopefully bring this whole convoluted mess to a close.



*Mission Statement* I'd like this to be a helpful place for Divx info/discussion for anyone that is using their console as a media center or for media playback at all. I will post what I have learned and hopefully it will spark some interest among us gamers who also ...



Rumors have been flying and sources have been talking. But now it seems a lot more official when it was revealed from an internal, Best Buy memo, that “The 80GB version of the PS3 is going closeout and won’t be replaced at this time. It will come off the planogram on Jan. 28. The 60GB version should already be gone from stores. Only the 40GB version of PS3 will be sold in Best Buy stores at this time.”



A recent US study shows playing computer games particularly on the Nintendo Wii can help improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre. Wii games that require delicate movements with the Wii remote are said to be the most effective. The control required to play these games acts as a warm up before surgeons have to perform similar movements later on a patients body.



Because of problems many Xbox Live Gold members had logging on during the holidays, a couple of weeks ago Microsoft announced that it would be offering a download of one free Xbox Live Arcade game. Many, including yours truly, were hoping to have our choice of games. But, such is not the case. Today, the Big M made it known that the free game would be "Undertow."



It's that time again. Where the PSN Fairy comes and blesses the European side with updated goodness. He brings us a few demos, add-ons and some new trailers to feast upon your eyes. The most anticipated of which are the Guitar Hero III music tracks, and the Folklore add-on.



If you use your PSP/PS3 for music and video content you might be interested in knowing that Sony has planned to release a 16GB Memory Stick PRO Duo sometime in March of this year.



Play.com has announced a release date and pricing for PS3 TV. It will be released at the end of March in the UK and will retail for £99.99.



Though it's already known that a special version of Skype will be released for the Sony PSP, Sony confirms today that it will be coming to us as early as the end of this month.



It seems that our friends at Microsoft might not have fully anticipated the consequences the huge influx of new Xbox 360 owners, who subsequently became Xbox Live owners, over the Christmas season would have. If you've spent any time at all on Live as of late, you ...



A new year is underway and Sony is wasting no time in showing off all the updates and features for its products. With its Consumer Electronics Show taking place next week, the Sony CES website has begun to show off what's in store next week.



Xbox 360 users may have noticed that it's been more difficult to get an online game going recently; That the service has been sluggish and three of your menu blades are stuck on the loading screen. Why? Some colossal server error? Apparently not. A little digging on the XBL helpline revealed that it's all our fault.



Sony are in the Christmas spirit this week it seems, providing firmware updates for both PS3 and PSP owners. In this article, we look at the new 3.80 firmware update for the PSP, and take a look at the new PSP Radio feature



Sony are in the Christmas spirit this week it seems, providing firmware updates for both PS3 and PSP owners. In this article, we look at the firmware update for the PS3.



Sony's expanding PlayStation Store has seen a number of additions for it's December 13th update, and cars seem to be the "in" thing right now with PS3 and PSP consumers alike. Need For Speed Pro Street has seen a huge amount of extra content, and a demo of the hugely anticipated next instalment of the Burnout series, Burnout Paradise, is also available to download for free.



For those of you who've decided to throw down some cash and get an Xboxlive gold account will now have something new to be happy about during the next update as new down-loadable content will be exclusive to gold members only the first week of its release. However silver members aren't exactly thrilled.



Auckland-based security assessment reports the powerful chip has been used to crack passwords faster than ever. Security researcher Nick Breese is the apparent man behind the report.He supposedly cracked strong eight-character passwords used to protect PDF and Zip files in a few hours.



In the four weeks ending November 25, Sony sold 183,217 PS3s, while Nintendo's seemingly unstoppable Wii trailed at 159,193 sales, according to Japanese magazine publisher, Enterbrain's figures.



With Christmas looming ever closer, higher console sales shouldn't really come as any surprise. What may come as a surprise though, are the figures. Video Game Chat takes a closer look at how each of the Big Three are fairing for the holiday season. Our final report looks into Microsoft's successes over Black Friday.



With Christmas looming ever closer, higher console sales shouldn't really come as any surprise. What may come as a surprise though, are the figures. Video Game Chat takes a closer look at how each of the Big Three are fairing for the holiday season. Sony are put under the microscope for this report.



With Christmas looming ever closer, higher console sales shouldn't really come as any surprise. What may come as a surprise though, are the figures. Video Game Chat takes a closer look at how each of the Big Three are fairing for the holiday season. In this report, Nintendo are the highlight.



In the forthcoming December update for the Xbox 360 console, Microsoft has announced the addition of 84 more titles to the systems library of playable original Xbox titles. The update brings the list to a respectable sum of 465 playable black box originals.



Avid gamer A.R.K. has released v1.5 of a very useful little program; the PS3 Theme Creator software. This WYSIWYG software is an extremely functional and user-friendly product which lets you customise the visual appearance (but not the layout) of the PS3 interface to suit your tastes, right down to the smallest detail.



Microsoft have announced that the social networking aspects of the Xbox 360 will be expanded on in the Xbox Live fall update. How, you ask? Another change planned with the quickly approaching dashboard update will give Xbox Live users the ability to view other members' friends lists.



Acting on a tip from Michael, I found out that for today only (as far as I can tell), Microsoft, Activision, and Red Octane have released the Halo 3 Mjolnir Mix (as played at the beginning of Microsoft's E3 conference) as a free downloadable track for Guitar Hero III.



As of November 15th, Xbox Live will be a wopping five years old, and my how big has it gotten! From just a way to play Halo against the guys down the hall in your building to being one of the largest online markets for videogame demos, movies, and loads of online content!



While Nintendo's online offerings currently pale in comparison to the robust gaming experience Microsoft offers via its wildly popular Xbox Live service, the big M has, at least on the surface, taken a page from the Wii's Virtual Console playbook and announced that in the future, certain original Xbox titles will be made available for download to the 360 console.



Normally, any news regarding Microsoft's console in the land of the rising sun usually involves the Xbox 360 falling short behind the PlayStation 3 or the Nintendo Wii. However, the release of Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation and price drops saw the 360 soar past the PlayStation 3 in sales with over 17,000 Xbox 360 units sold in the course of one week.



Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has fired off a press release, clearing up the big mystery of what the 2.00 Firmware update, available for download November 8th, would be.



In a move that has taken many video game fans in general, and Super Smash Bros. fans in particular by complete surprise, Nintendo has announced that the newest iteration in the famous fighting series, slated for a February 08 release, will include the ability to design and share custom levels.



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