Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Review: God of War-Chains Of Olympus: The Best PSP Game Ever

There's no doubt that the PSP has a lot of momentum going right now and it's only going to increase with the release of God of War: Chains of Olympus. Here's a great in-depth review:

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British bank Halifax blocks WOW subscriptions

While not some attack or slur upon Blizzard Entertainment the Halifax bank, with the Bank of Scotland as a subsidiary, are blocking automatic monthly payments to the MMO. They cite that World of Warcraft is experiencing high incidences of credit card fraud....

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First Look at Sony's PlayTV for PS3

But its still only for Europe

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Nintendo DS Air

Did any of you draw this exact comparison between the two when you first saw this commercial unveiling Apple's "ultra portable?"

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Spore Includes Youtube Integration

Among the flurry of details released today about Spore, coming September 7th for the PC, one interesting tidbit might have been missed along the way. When you create your custom alien race, spaceship, or vehicles in Spore, you can upload videos of them to your Youtube account with just one click from inside Spore.

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A Gamer's Dream: Brain Controlled Headset

Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.

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PC Gamers Pissed at Microsoft: DUH!

The arrival of DirectX 10 was much anticipated. Unfortunately, it's also been heavily criticised. DirectX 10 was released as an exclusive for Microsoft's latest desktop OS, Windows Vista, leaving Windows XP (and 2000) users comfortable with their current setup chagrined.

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Blizzard Has Canceled More Games Than You Know About

"The team also revealed a list of the Blizzard games that have been canceled over the course of their 17 years, a list longer than you may think."

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The PS3 Processor Has Been Successfully Shrunk

IBM has successfully miniaturized the Cell processor that you know from Sony's PlayStation 3. Formerly built upon the 65nm scale, the new version will be based on the 45nm high-k process. What's this mean? Money, power and heat savings for Sony. And maybe a smaller or cheaper PS3 for you.

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Xbox 360 Breaks 5 Times, But Microsoft Refuses To Replace It

Guy's XBox 360 has been out of commission for three months in the last year, but Microsoft still won't replace it.

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XBOX 360 Failure rate at 16%!!

The 360 seems to be failing at an alarming rate! What's up with that, Microsoft?

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Mole: 80GB PS3 dead, 120-160GB with Dual Shock 3 incoming

Our inside source of all things video gaming has been right almost every time it comes out of the shadows to give us information, so I'm going to dispense with the back story. Wherever his or her information is coming from, it's usually solid. After I spoke to Sony about the possible discontinuation of the 80GB PS3 model, I lit the mole-signal.

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SSBB Sells A Million, Becomes the Fastest Selling Wii Game !

When it went on sale, the game sold out at loads of Tokyo game shops, and in the last two weeks, the title has shifted a million copies. It took Wii Fit seven weeks to hit a million copies sold, and it took Wii Sports eleven weeks to hit that milestone. That makes Super Smash Bros. Brawl the fastest selling Wii game.

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World of Warcraft and the Virginia Tech Suicide

Last month, a Virginia Tech student was found dead in the Target parking lot of the Christiansburg, Virginia store with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. His name was Daniel Kim, a 21-year old senior at the university.

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The Xbox Finally Turns A Profit

In the last six years, there's been one constant when discussing Microsoft's foray into the strange and seductive world of video game console manufacturing: they had yet to turn a profit on any of it. No more, with today's announcement of Microsoft's second quarter earnings which showed a relatively impressive six-month income of $524 million.

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SPORE: Hands--on, five page exclusive preview!

Bit-tech.net has just had a chance to check out the latest full build of Will Wright's Spore and they've written up a huge five page preview on all stages of the game that explains the technology behind the game, how pollinated content works and how one of the most ambitious games ever made is turning out better than expected!

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Preview: Grand Theft Auto IV: New Details, Screens!

After six months of silence, GTA IV is still king. "GTA IV is definitely not getting delayed again," a Rockstar representative boldly states before an hour long demo of Grand Theft Auto IV, the first footage shown to the gaming press in approximately six months. The first thing Rockstar wanted to show us was...

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Jack Thompson Blames NIU Shooting On Video Games

Florida attorney Jack Thompson has appeared on Fox News this morning as a "School Shooting Expert", blaming 27-year-old sociology grad Steven Kazmierczak's rampage yesterday at Northern Illinois University on - you guessed it - video games like Counter-Strike.

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Mindblowing:Gamer to release 100's of SEGA prototypes!!!

DRX, a member of the Sonic Retro Forums, has done something unprecedented in the gaming community. After years of research and detective work, he has gotten his hands on a treasure trove of materials from the golden age of SEGA, including hundreds of prototypes, documentation, and possibly other things as well....

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Microsoft Has No Answer For Their Broken XBOX Live DRM

Normally purchased made via XBOX live work on your XBOX whether or not you are signed into XBOX live or the profile your purchased the content with. If your XBOX 360 gets the RROD (and chances are it will), any content you've purchased via XBOX live won't work unless you are logged into XBOX live and only for the profile that purchased it.

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PSP mockup is far sexier than the real thing will ever be

Good gawd y'all, we don't normally bother with fan renders and mockups, but excepting the awkward placement of the L and R triggers there's almost nothing about this PSP re-visioning that leaves us wanting. Gank that UMD, add some flash memory, and this is our be-all end-all fantasy portable gaming device -- that will likely never ever be made.

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Why it's Too Soon for the Next Xbox

Rumors are already starting to go around the Internet that Microsoft is planning for the successor to the Xbox 360. However, releasing a new Xbox system a year or even two years from now is not a good idea for Microsoft or the industry. Here's why.

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The Rarest and Most Valuable Super Nintendo Games

Interesting look at rare SNES titles. Super Mario RPG needs to come to the virtual console!

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Call of Duty 4 overtakes Halo 3 as the top game on Xbox Live

The top games for the week of January 14th have been released, and it looks like Halo 3 is now second to Call of Duty 4 as the top game on Xbox Live. It's about time.

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World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers

Blizzard Entertainment, owners of World of Warcraft, announced this morning that the game now has more than 10 million paying subscribers around the world. Blizzard said today that those 10 million paying subscribers include 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe.

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18 Undiscovered Websites Every Gamer Should Know

The gaming niche is characterized by its haves and have-nots. You’ve seen Kotaku, IGN, GameSpot, Joystiq, 1UP and the others, but what about the great, lesser-known gaming sites? Here are 18 great gaming sites you might not have seen before.

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Rockstar: GTA IV a Bigger Leap Forward than 2D to 3D.

Rockstar talks about reinventing their most popular franchise.

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Dr. Kawashima declines $22 million in Brain Age royalties

With 17 million copies of Brain Age sold since its release, Dr. Kawashima is due to earn $22 million in royalties. The shocker? He doesn't want a single penny, and instead puts his royalties towards funding other research projects. “Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it," he said.

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The Xbox 360 Elite laptop

That's right folks -- it's the Xbox 360 Elite laptop.

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EA Demands Fox News Channel Correction

In a letter to a producer at Fox News, Electronic Arts calls their Mass Effect story insulting and error riddled.

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Spore release date announced!

Spore, the sim-everything simulator, finally got its amino acids together today and plopped out a release date of September 7, 2008.

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Gears of War 2 Coming in November

Announcement from GDC about the release of Gears of War 2 in November.

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How to make a successful Flash game

This article examines why some games like Line Rider are so popular.

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Who wants to be a millionaire! LOTR edition

Put your LOTR knowledge to the test in the fun game.

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Stickman Madness

Take out the men in black to save the girlfriend.

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Impressive online Kaleidoscope Design creator

Myoats is a place where you can create simple or complex designs, shapes and patterns. The designs that you create can be: * Downloaded as an image. * Downloaded as a transparent png. * Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving. * Made into a wallpaper

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