Thanks to Joel Johnson from Wired News we now have confirmation from Nintendo’s VP of Marketing Perrin Kaplan that ALL first-party Wii games will be without region locks. This means that all games made by Nintendo for the Wii will be playable on Wii systems from all regions.
This is what Perrin Kaplan had to say [...]

Nintendo announced today that the Wii will launch in Japan on December 2nd, priced at 25,000 Yen (around $215).
The Wii will be launching in the U.S. almost two weeks earlier, on November 19th, and will retail at $249.99. The U.S. version comes bundled with Wii sports.
The Wii will launch in only one color in all [...]

Back in September 2005 Microsoft announced that the 360 will be supporting HD-DVD. Since then many have thought that Microsoft will be planning a new version of the 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive to draw par with the PlayStation 3’s inclusion of Blu-ray Discs.
In the past year however it has become to look less [...]

This is the inside of the Final Fantasy XII limited edition case. Very Nice!
On another note, Gamespot are reporting that the final build of Final Fantasy XII will be playable at DigitalLife, a consumer electronics show that takes place in New York City between October 12 and October 15.

Activision has announced that Call of Duty 2 has become the first game on the Xbox 360 to reach the 1 million mark in sales in the US.
The World War II first-person shooter was one of 18 titles launched with the 360 back in November 2005. It may also be worth noting that according to [...]

Back in August we heard whispers of a new Prince of Persia title for the PSP ‘Rival Swords’. A whisper that has just been confirmed by Ubisoft today.
“In Prince of Persia Rival Swords, the Prince makes his way home to Babylon, bearing with him Kaileena, and unspeakable scars from the Island of Time. But [...]

Fun Technologies held the first-ever WorldWide Web Games in Hollywood, California. Kavitha Yalavarthi of Odessa, Texas, was crowned World’s Best Casual Gamer at the event.
Three games were used at the event: Bejeweled 2, Solitaire, and Zuma. There were 71 contestants for the competition, which took over the course of 12 hours.
[via GameSpot]

Ever since Ben Heckendorn created his first portable console - an Atari 2600 over six years ago, his console modding has become more and more elaborate. Now he has recently unveiled his latest creation - An Xbox 360 laptop.
The fans have been replaced with water cooling. Some speakers, an LCD screen, and a USB keyboard [...]

If Play-Nintendo magazine are to be believed, The Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console service will launch with at least 26 games.
Play-Nintendo say their information came from “A trustworthy source”, lets just hope they’re right because the titles they’ve given as the launch lineup are some of the best loved retro games ever created.
The full list of [...]

Electronic Arts are saying Will Wright’s Spore will be PC only for the time being. EA issued a statement on the matter following speculation that a Wii version was in the works.
“Right now we’re 100 percent focused on finishing SPORE on the PC and PC only,” EA said. “Though we’re investigating the [...]