XCM have announced that final testing for their XFPS 360 is complete and that full stock of the innovative keyboard and mouse adapter will be shipping to retailers very soon.
This neat little adapter is compatible with all standard PS/2 and USB mouse and keyboards. It also supports Playstation controllers and peripherals such as light [...]

This scan from the Japanese weekly magazine Nikkei Business has popped up on the official Nintendo forums showing some of the Wii controller prototypes that (thankfully in some cases) didn’t make the final cut.

Chris Satchell, general manager of Microsoft’s Game Development Group, has questioned whether the Wii, despite being the fastest selling console in history, has got what it takes to hold gamers interest in the long run.
“I’m not sure what its long term potential is. It’s a super-strong for Nintendo’s first-party IP” he says, “It’s going to [...]

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 [...]

In a recent interview with IGN, Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond made a comment which suggests the 360 version of Ubisoft’s upcoming title will sport better crowd AI than the PS3 version.
Raymond puts this down to the “improved threading” technology on the 360, although the AI of the crowd will undoubtedly have little (if any) [...]

Remedy showed off their upcoming psychological thriller, Alan Wake, recently at the Intel developer forum.
The game was running on quad-core processors, using the “multiple cores to stream in data seamlessly in the background” – however it works, the results are stunning!

For a brief period on friday, Amazon.com began taking pre-orders for the Wii Console, only to pull the offer from their site a few hours later.
Many believed Amazon had sold out of their initial quota, but according to a recent post by Amazon Video Game Editor “Jon G”, the offer was pulled from the site [...]

Nintendo UK has told Gameindustry.biz that the Wii will be region locked, despite the recent reports from Nintendo’s of America’s VP of Marketing, Perrin Kaplan, that ALL first-party Wii games will be region free.
From the article, Nintendo UK say: “We are region-locked,” and said the US arm of the company had made a mistake in [...]

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 [...]