Live in Europe? Own an Xbox 360? If you answered yes to both, then this weekend (November 28-November 30) Xbox LIVE is on the house! Xbox LIVE Xtival ’08 kicks off today, granting European Xbox 360 owners 72 hours of Gold enabled LIVE, as well as exclusive content, competitions, and promotions. Last year’s Xtival ’07 was [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Today Microsoft announced that they, too, are getting in on the Black Friday sales by cutting the prices of multiple Xbox LIVE Marketplace items. After posting the full list on his blog, however, Xbox’s Major Nelson was faced with another issue entirely: angry gamers not in the US. As we already knew, once again Microsoft’s latest [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
On May 8th, 2006 — the day Kaz Hirai formally announced the PlayStation 3’s release — the main concern on prospective buyers’ minds was price. Two and a half years later, that hasn’t changed; Blu-ray player aside, the low-end PS3 still costs 1.5 times the price of a comprable Xbox 360, and it seems Sony [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
Only four short months after the gorgeous 2D action-adventure Odin Sphere captivated critics and gamers alike, developer Vanillaware announced its spiritual successor: a Wii-exclusive named Oboro Muramasa Youtouden, set in feudal Japan. Since, the welcome news has arrived that the game will indeed find U.S. release — but two Tokyo Game Shows have come and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
For good or ill, Sony’s PSP portable gaming system has long been marketed as a companion device to their PS3 home console, and — while it may remain that way in the U.S. — it seems that abroad, Sony is ready to loose one of its more artificial tethers between the two devices: the ability [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 2, 2008
Nintendo’s Wii Fit has already become a worldwide success story at retail, selling over two million copies in Japan alone. But for U.S. consumers, finding the oblong white box is an exercise in frustration; and according to the perennially outspoken Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter, Nintendo — and the weak dollar — are to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 11, 2008
Europe getting better game releases on Virtual Console than us Yankees? Has the world gone mad?
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Friday, November 28, 2008
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