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  • 21 November 2006

  • News: 'Killer' games blamed for shoot-out

    A long-simmering debate in Germany about banning violent computer games is burning again after a teenager stormed his former high school, shot five people and later killed himself.

  • News: PS3 update for PlayStation Portable

    Sony will begin offering a software update for the PlayStation Portable on Wednesday that allows it to interoperate with the recently launched PlayStation 3.

  • News: Tacos-for-life for a PlayStation 3

    People have pushed and shoved for it, queued overnight in the rain for it and it’s been sold online at great profit. Now the Taco Bell fastfood chain is offering a "lifetime" of tacos in exchange for a PlayStation 3.

  • 20 November 2006

  • News: World of Warcraft demo launched

    Blizzard Entertainment has released a free ten-day demo of World of Warcraft for Mac OS X and Windows.

  • News: Nintendo Wii hits shelves

    The next-generation video games battle became a three-console race on Sunday as retailers across the US and Canada put Nintendo's Wii on sale

  • 16 November 2006

  • News: Every PS3 sold costs Sony £162

    Each and every PlayStation 3 console that Sony sells is losing the company a whopping £162. While end users benefit from "supercomputing performance" at the price of a cheap PC, according to research company iSuppli, Sony can only hope to make up its profits on the sale of PlayStation 3 games titles.

  • 13 November 2006

  • News: First look: PlayStation 3

    Sony's PlayStation 3 is finally in the hands of gamers, with thousands of die-hard fans likely to have spent thousands of hours getting to know the new console

  • News: PlayStation 3 price surges 50 percent

    PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles were selling at about a 50 percent mark-up on their retail price on Saturday evening in Japan, about 12 hours after the console made its worldwide debut.

  • 10 November 2006

  • News: Queues forming for PlayStation 3 launch

    Queues of gamers anxious to get their hands on the PlayStation 3 console from have begun forming outside Tokyo electronics stores that plan to begin selling the machine on Saturday morning.

  • 09 November 2006

  • News: Sony plans PlayStation 3 update

    Sony will offer the first software update for the PlayStation 3 on Saturday to coincide with the release of the console in Japan

  • 07 November 2006

  • News: PlayStation 3 available online now

    Highly anticipated console offered on internet auctions before it ships, with some buyers shipping to the UK

  • 03 November 2006

  • News: Official Warcraft Encyclopedia now online

    If you're a fan of Blizzard's Warcraft game series, you might be interested in The Official Warcraft Encyclopedia , an online repository of all things Warcraft-related that's actually hosted by Blizzard itself.

  • News: Wi-Fi is hot for consumers, but not manufacturers

    There are conflicting conclusions from a couple of recent studies about the increasingly ubiquitous wireless networking technology. One says that most Americans would prefer their favourite sports team to lose than themselves go without Wi-Fi for a week.

  • News: Europe waits longer for PlayStation 3

    A month after cutting back international launch plans for the PlayStation 3 console, Sony has expanded them again, and will start selling the device in Hong Kong and Taiwan on 17 November – months before Europe

  • News: Microsoft aims Xbox 360 at developing nations

    Microsoft became one of the first game console makers to launch in India when it launched the Xbox 360 in seven cities in September. It is also trying to sell the Xbox in China, where it is currently banned

  • 27 October 2006

  • News: PlayStation exporter forced to close

    A Hong Kong-based online retailer of computer games consoles and software says it's closing down after losing a lawsuit brought against it in the UK by Sony.

  • News: Xbox 360 boosts Microsoft profits

    A strong quarter from its entertainment and software server divisions helped Microsoft beat Wall Street analyst expectations for the first quarter of fiscal 2007, which ended 30 September

  • 26 October 2006

  • News: PlayStation 3's Bluetooth gets go-ahead

    The PlayStation 3 has cleared another pre-launch hurdle after being approved by the US Federal Communications Commission.

  • 25 October 2006

  • News: Delay for World of Warcraft update

    Blizzard Entertainment is pushing back the release date for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade by a few weeks and it will no longer be available by the end of the year.

  • News: AMD plans combined x86 & graphics chip

    AMD plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement came as AMD completed its $5.4 billion merger with graphics chip manufacturer ATI.

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