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  • 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.

  • 26 June 2007

  • News: Videogame addiction is not a mental disorder

    The American Medical Association (AMA) has chosen not to classify videogame addiction as a mental illness, stating that further research into the problem is necessary before conclusions can be made.

  • News: Nintendo overtakes Sony as world top CE firm

    Nintendo surpassed Sony as the world's largest manufacturer of consumer electronics yesterday, albeit briefly.

  • News: New Sony game to help PSP take on Nintendo DS

    Although the PSP is steadily increasing its worldwide user base every month, Sony's handheld is still lagging behind the massive sales figures of the mighty Nintendo DS.

  • 20 June 2007

  • News: PlayStation 3 being used as a Blu-ray player

    Movie-rental giant Blockbuster has the first confirmation outside of Sony that the PlayStation 3 gmaes console is being used as a Blu-ray Disc movie player.

  • 19 June 2007

  • News: Microsoft denies Xbox 360 faults

    In the wonderful land of Xbox 360-ville, the sun is shining, the grass is green, and everybody is very, very happy. Of course, that's only if you go strictly by the words of Todd Holmdahl, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the group devoted to gaming and Xbox products. Unfortunately, in Holmdahl's personal vision of Xbox utopia, nobody says anything of substance either.

  • 18 June 2007

  • News: Sony discusses PS3 price cut

    Despite multiple reports stating that a possible price cut for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) is still as far as two years away, the console's premium price tag is clearly on the minds of top Sony executives. Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, discussed the thought process behind delivering a price cut to the end consumer in an interview with the Financial Times.

  • 16 June 2007

  • News: Extreme overclocking: Tips & tricks from Taipei

    Overclockers waged a battle of ice against fire last week in Taipei, pushing the performance limits of Intel's CPUs to 5GHz. The hobbyists, who are becoming an increasingly common sight at IT trade shows, are perfecting the art of pushing processors to their limits.

  • 15 June 2007

  • News: Nintendo hit with Wii lawsuit

    Another day, another lawsuit over a next-generation video game console. Lonestar Inventions, a Texas-based technology company, has filed suit against Nintendo, alleging that the Nintendo Wii "infringes on a patent that it holds for a high capacitance structure in a semiconductor device”.

  • 14 June 2007

  • News: Sony speaks out on PSP 'redesign'

    Rumours of a PSP redesign have recently been gaining momentum across the internet, what with the considerable increase in both analyst speculation and rumours from "inside sources".

  • 13 June 2007

  • News: SoulCalibur IV coming to PS3 & Xbox

    1Up has announced that SoulCalibur IV will be released by Namco Bandai Games on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360 sometime next year. This will be the latest installment in the legendary fighting game franchise that features weapon-wielding, armour-clad combatants duking it out against various backdrops based on history and fantasy.

  • News: Official PlayStation blog targets PS3 fans

    It took a while, but Sony Computer Entertainment America has now started a blog to report on all things PlayStation related

  • 11 June 2007

  • News: AMD to continue with ATI/Intel chips

    AMD will continue to supply ATI graphics chips for PCs based on Intel chips despite the fierce competition between the two companies, AMD's chief technology officer said in an interview.

  • News: Church of England slams Sony PS3 game

    The Church of England is calling on Sony to apologise for using one of its churches as the scene for a gory firefight in its PlayStation 3 game ‘Resistance - Fall of Man’.

  • News: Slim PSP in the works at Sony

    A slimmer version of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) console may be in the works, according to Kotaku’s report from inside sources at Sony.

  • News: 1m PS3s sold in Europe, but Wii still winning

    The PlayStation 3 (PS3) console has reached 1 million unit sales in PAL regions, including the UK and the rest of Europe.

  • News: Sony announces two new PlayStation 3 games

    Sony Japan has released details of the next two original games to be made available for the PlayStation 3 games console. The new PS3 games will be available this month in Japan.

  • 08 June 2007

  • News: Nintendo Wii tennis elbow strikes

    A medical doctor in Spain has diagnosed a patient with "Acute Wiiitis". The condition is caused by playing too much Nintendo Wii Sports Tennis. This is the first recorded case on Nintendo tennis elbow.

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