According to a report in the Financial Times, Sony will introduce a video download service for its handheld PSP console next year. Sony has made no formal announcement about the plan, though it has hinted coyly that something similar may be in the works for the PS3 too, and has promised to give details early [...]

Sony has applied for a patent in the US for a motion-sensitive controller device, presumably intended for the Playstation 3, which appears to ape most of the features of Nintendo’s Wii remote.
Sony had previously announced the tilt-sensitive Sixaxis controller for the PS3 but now appears determined to go the whole hog in the motion sensitive [...]

Microsost has released an update for the Xbox 360 allowing it to play more original Xbox titles. The full Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list, with the recent additions highlighted, can be seen here.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.