Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Consumer Report: Nintendo Wii Menu version 3.3 update destroys homebrew, Freeloader support (Nintendo Wii Fanboy; Nintendo Everything via videogaming247) Enthusiast: PlayStation 3 “trophies,” in-game XMB finally inbound for firmware v2.40; release date unspecified (PlayStation.Blog) Nintendo’s Laurent “geeks and otaku” Fischer promises some sort of Wii storage [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 6, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Today, updated on the fly: Gaming: MGS4 80GB PS3 bundle sells out in seven minutes, KOs Amazon.com (PS3 Fanboy via Gaming Today) GTA IV exclusive Xbox 360 DLC delayed until Q1 2009, says Take-Two… (ShackNews) …but Microsoft reminds us that Q1 begins November 2008, and says GTA DLC [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 19, 2008
It never ends! Electronic Arts’ “deadline” for their tender offer to Take-Two Interactive’s shareholders has come and gone — again — prompting EA to extend the deadline — again. Take-Two, in response, has advised its shareholders to remain firm and refuse the offer — again. Honestly, I could more or less copy and paste the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 15, 2008
The April NPD numbers are here, and once again the gaming industry performs as if recession meant every American had $600 burning a hole in their pocket and only games to spend it on. With multiple Guinness World Records in its honor, even with only five days worth of sales there was no question whatsoever [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
Reuters is reporting that Electronic Arts has secured a billion dollars in loans from Morgan Stanley, among others, in order to finance its ongoing efforts to acquire Take-Two Interactive. EA’s bid, still standing firm at roughly $2 billion, has been on the table for three months now, and has seen increasingly bold tactics on both [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
“No,” says the man in Hollywood, “It belongs to the cinema.” Universal Pictures has officially picked up BioShock for the big screen, and major director Gore Verbinski (of the Pirates films, among others) will be running the show. No release date has yet been announced, nor any casting decisions, but Verbinski is said to be [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Take-Two has released the numbers from Grand Theft Auto IV’s opening week, and everyone was right on the money — and there was a lot of money. GTA4 has broken the records for day-one sales and week-one sales, with global numbers coming to 3.6 million units on opening day, and 6 million units in its [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
It should come as no surprise to you that Grand Theft Auto IV is breaking a record or two when it comes to sales. You probably still have GTA IV running in the background even as you read this. It turns out that GTA has virtually wiped away all those pesky records in the U.K. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Take-Two Interactive, according to a Reuters report, has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority regarding some Grand Theft Auto IV ads that were pulled off of Chicago buses. It seems that Take-Two feels that, having paid $300,000 to run the ads for six weeks, the ads’ disappearance after less than one week entitles them [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
With reports of Grand Theft Auto IV’s freezes continuing to flow in, GameSpot checked out the latest solution from the Take-Two support site. Take-Two is suggesting that PS3 players take twelve steps, all of which boil down to jiggling the cord, blowing in the cartridge, rebooting, and other general “well, see if this works” tips.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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