Archives - December, 2006

Gears Of War Shifts 2 Million Copies

Posted December 15th, 2006

Less than six weeks after Gears of War hit the shelves, Microsoft have announced that Epic’s sci-fi shooter has become the fastest selling next-gen game so far, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide - 1 million of those in the US alone.
Since the game went on sale on November 7th, the daily rate of [...]

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Nintendo to Replace all Wii Straps!

Posted December 15th, 2006

The BBC is reporting that Nintendo is issuing a recall order on all the Wii consoles which have been shipped worldwide. The company plans to replace the straps on the Wii game controllers after reports that some were breaking, or coming loose, and causing accidents.

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Lost Eden Released

Posted December 15th, 2006

The Lost Eden expansion for sci-fi MMORPG Anarchy Online has been released. Funcom, the creators of the game, have indicated that they wanted to beef up the PvP experience in this expansion, as well as offer greater opportunities for players to confront the alien invasion forces.

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PvP Changes Unleash Chaos in the World of Warcraft

Posted December 13th, 2006

The PVP changes introduced by Blizzard last week, which made it possible for powerful epic items to be acquired by anyone participating in the PvP battlegrounds, have unleashed chaos in the World of Warcraft. A “huge increase in Battleground activity” has taken place according to Blizzard. The PvP battleground servers have been overloaded and the [...]

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Sony : PS3 Production Issues Now Resolved

Posted December 13th, 2006

According to a recent statement from communications boss David Karraker, All PS3 manufacturing issues have been resolved and Sony is still on target to ship one million PS3 consoles before the year is out.
“We will continue to utilise airfreight delivery for PlayStation 3 to assure a steady stream of systems for North American consumers through [...]

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Create your own Xbox 360 Games!

Posted December 12th, 2006

Microsoft has made version 1.0 of its XNA Developer Kit available, enabling anyone to now create games for the Xbox 360. Based on the .NET framework, and the C# programming language, the dev kit is PC-only at the moment, and can be used to cross-develop games for both the PC and Xbox 360 platforms.

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Spike TV Video Game Awards Winners Announced; WOW Burning Crusade Footage Ninja’d

Posted December 11th, 2006

Bethesda Softworks’ sword-and-sorcery themed adventure Oblivion :Elder Scrolls IV took home the honours at the Spike TV Videogame awards in Los Angeles on Saturday. The game won five awards in total, including Game of the Year, Best RPG, and Most Addictive.

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In-Game Advertising Comes To Counter-Strike

Posted December 9th, 2006

In an interview with CS Nation, Valve Software has confirmed that in-game ads will be coming to Counterstrike 1.6 in the near future. Faced with often hostile questions from the interviewer, Valve’s Doug Lombardi refused point-blank to answer some of them, but did reveal the essence of the company’s plans.

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Wii UK Launch

Posted December 9th, 2006

The Wii went on sale at the stroke of midnight on Friday. Nintendo held it’s official launch event at HMV on Oxford Street in London.
Ian Wright, Nell McAndrew, Pat Cash, and Ricky Hatton arrived to test their skills on Wii Sports. Cash and McAndrew played Wii Tennis, with Cash winning two games to none. Then [...]

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Muslims call for ban on Christian game

Posted December 8th, 2006

The recent release in the UK of “Left Behind : Eternal Forces,” a real-time strategy game based on the apocalyptic novels of Tim LaHaye, has prompted calls for the game to be banned.
Based on the Book of Revelations and the religious doctrine of dispensationalism, the game pits players against the forces of the Antichrist, and [...]

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