Online Entertainment retailer Shopto.net are offering pre-orders for the Nintendo Wii for £149.99 (about $275) and have the launch date chalked up for October 15th.
The £150.00 price point was expected in the UK, Though Nintendo boss Yoshihiro Mori has already stated that the Wii would cost no more than $250 when launched in the US.
Shopto [...]

A College student named Wim van Eck has created a version of Pac-Man which pits the player against real life crickets unwittingly controlling the ghosts in the game.
The aim of the project was to analyze the "advantages and disadvantages of real-time behaviour of live animals in comparison to behavior-generating code in computer games".
The [...]

Analysts from DFC Intelligence have published their prediction that Sony could end up at the bottom of the pile, behind Microsoft and Nintendo, in the next-gen wars.
They claim the high price and lack of quality titles as the main reason the system won’t appeal to as broad an audience. From the report:
“It is our [...]

After the official website was launched two weeks ago Ubisoft have posted up some more Xbox 360 screenshots of the the new Splinter Cell title ‘Double Agent‘. From IGN:
Double Agent is taking on the next generation by removing the HUD and the heavy, unnecessary text blocks, which in most Splinter Cell games were, honestly, [...]

In a recent interview with Gamedaily, SEGA of America’s Scott Steinberg confirmed Sonic The Hedgehog and Full Auto 2: Battlelines will be launch titles on the Playstation 3. He also mentioned Virtua Fighter 5 will be on the PS3 by March 2007.
It’s quite an interesting interview as Scott discusses much of SEGA’s strategy in [...]

Larry LaPierre, The Executive Producer for Need For Speed Carbon, Has revealed several new game modes that will be making an appearance in the series next-gen incarnation.
There will still be the usual Drift, Sprint, Circuit, Time Trial and Speedtrap.  The new modes will be based on the "Canyon" circuits which are Canyon Duel, Canyon [...]

Some guy who goes by the name of DocCRP has pain stakingly recreated the Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 3 out of cardboard and snapped some pics of the two rival consoles side by side.
The PS3 certainly looks like a monster when compared to Nintendos offering though its more the case of how small [...]

News4Gamers reports that SCEE is looking for a Senior/Lead Designer to "realize the future of WipEout on PSP and PS3".
From SCEE’s Recruitment page.
Senior/Lead Designer - URGENT Wipeout Wipeout is the most revered, innovative and respected arcade/action racing franchise of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios.
The Task To have a key role in realising [...]

Microsoft’s Peter Moore talks to Business Week about Xbox 360, Xbox Live!, E3, and the competiton in the next-gen console wars. From the Article:
Blu-ray? "You can over burden the features [of a console] and therefore offer features that the consumer is not particularly interested in. Case in point, look at the PSX in [...]

MindArk, The developers behind the MMO Entropia, have announced their very own cash card service to allow its players to access their in-game account funds from any Versatel ATM in the world.
The Entropia Universe is, so far, the only virtual gaming community that actively supports sales of virtual products with actual cash value within [...]