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Quake Con id Announcement

Posted August 7th, 2006

John Carmack, co-founder of id software, revealed that their next project will be a completely new game and not just another Doom or Quake. It will be an FPS and its focus will be on game-play, rather than on a new graphics engine.
Speaking during his keynote speech at the 11th annual Quake Con, [...]

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Wii’s Price is $299.99?

Posted August 6th, 2006

7-11’s new Slurpee promotion has a Nintendo Wii as one of the prizes, but interestingly enough, the promotion website lists it as an approximate retail price of $299.99. Now this tidbit goes against Nintendo’s statements of a price tag under $250.
Of course, the Wii could always be packaged with a game, but the problem [...]

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Ultimate Wii Rumour Compilation

Posted August 3rd, 2006

There’s certainly been no console with a more enigmatic lead-up than the Wii, previously known as the Revolution, the N5, GCNext and the GameCube 2. Conjecture surrounding the Wii began as early as 2004.
Now, GameWorld Network have put together a huge list of pretty much every Wii rumour there has ever been, including [...]

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E3 To Be Downsized?

Posted July 31st, 2006

The ESA, The organisation behind E3 are reportedly making an announcement today to reveal their plans to downsize E3 only for the press. GameSpot’s Curt Feldman writes:
One reason behind the downsizing of the show can be attributed to the dollar cost of the event to exhibitors, including the demands on companies to assign large numbers [...]

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Nintendo Wii To Be Region Free?

Posted July 27th, 2006

Nintendo have done more than a few things right with their DS system. One of them is making all the games "region free", allowing you to buy them from anywhere in the world.
In a recent talk with IGN, Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate communications in America, dropped a hint that the Wii [...]

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Crysis Unofficial System Requirements

Posted July 23rd, 2006

Oh dear, The administrator of the Crysis-Online Forums has posted up what he believes will be the minimum and recommended system requirements of Crysis….and for those of you with an average PC things aren’t looking too good for Mr Wallet.
Minimum Requirements
CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghzGraphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows VistaHDD: 6GBInternet: [...]

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Playstation 3 Is In Production

Posted July 19th, 2006

The computer component manufacturing giant, Asustek, have reportedly begun to ship PlayStation 3 game consoles to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
The very fact that the unit is in prodcution means that the hardware setup has been finalised and the launch is expected to take place sometime in mid-November. From the article:
According to a report, about [...]

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Hellgate: London Source Code Stolen?

Posted July 11th, 2006

Passthepress reports that reliable sources have indicated that the Flagship Studios network has been hacked and the source code for the upcoming Hellgate: London has been stolen.
It appears the hacker, a chinese individual, is now trying to sell the source code from his personal website.
Bill Roper, Head of Flagship Studios, Would not confirm or [...]

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Crysis Coming To PS3?

Posted July 5th, 2006

Crytek, The team behind the upcoming Crysis game for PC are looking to hire themselves some PS3 console programmers.
So far, Crytek have only announced Crysis for the PC (expected early 2007), but this job posting suggests that they’re looking to appeal to third party developers by bringing CryEngine2 to the PS3.

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No Internal HD-DVD For Xbox 360

Posted July 2nd, 2006

Rumors have been floating about that Microsoft plans to produce Xbox 360 consoles with internal HD-DVD drives. Today, Cesar Menedez set the record straight on the Microsoft Xbox and Games blog:
Saw a few stories online about an Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive: not true. We have no plans to release an [...]

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