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First 360 Game To Break 1 Million Sales: Call Of Duty 2

Posted September 13th, 2006

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 [...]

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New Prince Of Persia Coming To PSP

Posted September 12th, 2006

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 [...]

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Casual Gamer Wins $1 Million

Posted September 12th, 2006

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]

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The Xbox 360 Laptop Mod

Posted September 11th, 2006

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 [...]

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26 Retro Classics Launching On Wii Virtual Console

Posted September 11th, 2006

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 [...]

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EA: Spore Just For The PC

Posted September 11th, 2006

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 [...]

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Ubisoft Reveals Wii Wheel; Announces Splinter Cell 4

Posted September 9th, 2006

Ubisoft has revealed their Wii Wheel accessory to IGN Wii. The wheel is developed by Thrustmaster and will be shipped with GT Pro Series. The accessory, however, is reported to be able to work with all racing games currently to be on the Wii. The Wiimote fits in the center of the wheel, and all [...]

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PS3 Delayed In Europe!

Posted September 7th, 2006

European gamers rejoiced when Sony announced at E3 that the PlayStation3 would be released in all regions during the month of November, no long waiting after the Japanese and American releases as with the original PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Sadly time has shown that this claim was too good to be true for PAL [...]

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Rockstar Rename Bully

Posted September 5th, 2006

It has been revealed by GameCentral that Rockstar have changed the name of their game Bully in all territories outside of the US, because of the controversy the name is causing. The game is now apparently being called Canis Cadem Edit (Dog Eat Dog), named after the motto of Bullworth Academy, the setting of [...]

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Circuit City Looking To Rip Off Customers?

Posted September 5th, 2006

This picture was taken from a Circuit City in Newport Beach, California. Basically, the sign says that Circuit City will install the backward compatibilty software on your Xbox 360 for the low price of $28.99.
As you probably already know, this software is available for free through an auto-update on Xbox Live, or if you don’t [...]

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