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  • 20 July 2007

  • News: Nintendo Wii to overtake Xbox 360

    Global Nintendo Wii unit sales are less than 1 million away from total Xbox 360 worldwide sales of 10 million, according to recent estimates. At its current rate, the Wii could surpass Xbox 360 sales as soon as September.

  • News: Microsoft's Q4 survives Xbox 360 woes

    Microsoft made a slight profit in its most recent quarter despite Xbox 360 woes which cost the company $1bn.

  • 18 July 2007

  • News: New Xbox 360 games outshine Wii & PS3

    GamerMetrics has compiled the most anticipated games for the second half of 2007 according to online page visits in the US. Topping the list of prospective best sellers is Halo 3, followed by Madden NFL 08 and Grand Theft Auto IV.

  • News: PlayStation Portable to get mobile TV

    The PlayStation Portable (PSP) console is to get mobile TV functionality, after Sony announced details of the second-generation PSP.

  • News: Xbox boss quits Microsoft for EA

    Peter Moore has resigned as the president of Microsoft’s Xbox business, less than two weeks after the company revealed that it would take a $1bn charge due to widespread defects in the Xbox 360 console. The Briton will be joining Electronic Arts (EA), and will be replaced by Don Mattrick, a former EA executive.

  • 16 July 2007

  • News: Dell kills PC due to overclocking problem

    An overclocking flaw related to Intel’s quad-core chips has forced Dell to stop taking orders for one model of its high-end desktop PCs in the US.

  • News: Sony to kill 60GB PlayStation 3

    Sony grabbed headlines recently when they announced that the 60 GB PlayStation 3 (PS3) would be dropped to $499 (£250). But on Friday Sony also revealed that this model will be discontinued later this year, leaving only the $599 (£300) model for sale in the US.

  • News: Nintendo Wii to outsell PS2

    Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said in a statement last week that the Nintendo Wii could surpass total PS2 sales given the former system's continued success.

  • 12 July 2007

  • News: Sony to release slim PlayStation Portable

    Sony plans to release a redesigned version of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game system in the autumn. The new PSP, announced at the E3 conference, is 33 percent lighter and 19 percent slimmer than the original PSP model, which was first released in 2005. It also contains a faster Universal Media Disc (UMD) drive, used to load games and some movies, and features improved battery life.

  • News: Xbox 360 'damages game discs'

    A class-action suit in the US claims Microsoft’s Xbox 360 consoles damage game discs.

  • 11 July 2007

  • News: Microsoft to release Xbox 360 keyboard

    Microsoft has revealed that the previously unveiled QWERTY keyboard attachment for Xbox 360 will be released in the US on September 4 for $30.

  • News: Xbox Elite coming to Europe next month

    Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Elite console will become available in Europe in August, while its Xbox Live video download will be with us before the end of 2007, according to company executive at the E3 Media & Business Summit.

  • 09 July 2007

  • News: Sony apologies to Church for PS3 game

    Sony has issued a public apology to the Church of England due to its unpermissive use of the Manchester Cathedral in a violent Resistance: Fall of Man shootout sequence.

  • News: Price cut follows new PlayStation 3

    Sony is introducing a new version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console in North America in August and cutting the price of the current 60GB model by $100 (£50) from today, it said.

  • News: New online mode for Xbox 360's Virtua Fighter

    Sega announced that Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox 360 will feature online multiplayer, something the PS3 version lacked when it was originally released in February.

  • 07 July 2007

  • News: Nintendo Wii to get more third-party games

    Industry analyst Colin Sebastian said more third-party games are coming to Wii despite Nintendo's history of poor external support.

  • 06 July 2007

  • News: Microsoft admits huge Xbox 360 failures

    Microsoft expects to take an earnings charge of over $1bn for the quarter that ended in June related to expenses it will incur fixing faulty Xbox 360 machines.

  • 04 July 2007

  • News: Xbox 360 has '33% failure rate'

    Anecdotal evidence suggests the Xbox 360 failure rate may be as high as one of every three machines, according to US retailers.

  • 28 June 2007

  • News: ASA bans violent Electronic Arts advert

    Electronic Arts has recently had to answer to UK authorities over a controversial advertisement depicting a smashed-up sports car and a burning tire. Above the tire is the slogan "Inner peace through outer violence”.

  • News: PS3 upgrade coming this week?

    In a post on its new Playstation.Blog, Sony's Eric Lempel, director of PlayStation Network Operations, announced the impending release of system software update version 1.82 for the PlayStation 3 console.

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