Archives - July, 2006

Sega Saturn Controller Hacked To Work With Xbox 360

Posted July 21st, 2006

Not wanting to play Xbox Live’s Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting with the 360 controller, Twistedsymphony from the Xbox-Scene forums, Has managed to make his old saturn controller work almost perfectly on an Xbox 360 – Even managing to retain its wireless functionality (sort of).
The saturn controller is completely unmodified, However, The poor 360 [...]

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Microsoft Xbox360 Just As Popular As Imagined

Posted July 21st, 2006

By June 30th 2007, Microsoft expect to have sold over 13 million Xbox 360 consoles. This follows the latest report that sales of the 360 so far have surprassed 5 million and are well on their way to passing the 10 million mark before the end of 2006.
The Xbox has hit the USA and [...]

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Playstation 3 Is In Production

Posted July 19th, 2006

The computer component manufacturing giant, Asustek, have reportedly begun to ship PlayStation 3 game consoles to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
The very fact that the unit is in prodcution means that the hardware setup has been finalised and the launch is expected to take place sometime in mid-November. From the article:
According to a report, about [...]

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Dead Rising Banned In Germany

Posted July 18th, 2006

Capcom’s upcoming horror title, Dead Rising, has been banned in Germany after the German software rating organization (USK) found the game too gory to be released at all.
Dead Rising is now the first Xbox360 game to be banned in any country. From a USK representative:
"Dead Rising received No Rating (Keine Kennzeichnung) by [...]

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Massive Japanese Used Videogame Store

Posted July 16th, 2006

Mr Jamie Sam has posted up a few pics of a recent trip he made to a Japanese used videogame store.
This must be the final resting place of pretty much every videogame ever.

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Network Card For Gamers

Posted July 15th, 2006

Bigfoot Networks have announced their new PCI network card designed specifically for gamers.
The aptly named Killer Network Interface card might just be the most unique gamer-centric component created. This gigabit NIC has its own 400Mhz network processing unit, 64MB of dedicated DDR RAM, a USB 2.0 port, and touts itself as one of the [...]

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Ubisoft Gets Driver’s License

Posted July 14th, 2006

Ubisoft has bought the rights to Atari’s Driver franchise for around $24 million.
The deal will be completed during Ubisoft’s second fiscal quarter, which ends September 30, 2006, and includes the acquisition of developer Reflections Interactive and its staff, along with most of the studio’s assets.
Yves Guillemot, The big cheese at Ubisoft, said:
"We are thrilled [...]

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Target Discontinues UMD Movies

Posted July 13th, 2006

The US retailer Target has pulled the plug on UMD movies in all of their stores due to poor sales.
Recently, Reuters reported that Wal-mart also considered pulling all UMDs from their store shelves. From ProGamer:
An unnamed movie executive says that UMD situation is "awful," and that "[UMD movie] sales are near zilch." The studio exec [...]

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The $25,000 Game Boy Original

Posted July 12th, 2006

Available through Swiss Supply and created by Aspreys Of London, This one-off solid 18k Gold and Diamond Original Gameboy is surely the ultimate way to blow 25k.
The original plastic case has been replaced with a solid gold one, and the display screen has been bordered with pave diamonds (even the on/off switch has [...]

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Hellgate: London Source Code Stolen?

Posted July 11th, 2006

Passthepress reports that reliable sources have indicated that the Flagship Studios network has been hacked and the source code for the upcoming Hellgate: London has been stolen.
It appears the hacker, a chinese individual, is now trying to sell the source code from his personal website.
Bill Roper, Head of Flagship Studios, Would not confirm or [...]

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