video games
Sony Zaps PlayStation 3 ‘Install Other OS’ Feature
(PC WORLD) - Sony giveth and Sony taketh away: When the company’s newest PlayStation 3 firmware update drops on April 1, it’ll remove a beloved feature once trumpeted as a system sale-maker. That’s right Linux wonks, it’s time to kiss the PS3’s “Install Other OS” option goodbye.
Unlike [...]
NDS-Gear Launches Next Generation Iedge DS Cards For The Nintendo Lovers
For the people looking for the DS cards and adapters in UK, NDS-Gear is offering the premier range of DS cards and adapters for the Nintendo (DS, DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL/LL) like iEDGE DS card and is the direct stockist of all the DS cards and adapters.
London, UK (PRWEB) March 7, 2010 — [...]
Nintendo DSi XL - will YOU be upgrading?
(GUARDIAN) - The 4.2 inch screens are a whopping 93 percent larger than those of the Nintendo DS Lite, the displays are beautifully bright and glossy and the combination of matt underside and gloss cover is a perfect marriage of style and gripping power. But will you be forking out the [...]
Derby inner ring road to be named Lara Croft Way
(BBC) - A new £36.2m Derby road is to be named after computer game and movie character Lara Croft following a public vote.
The star of the Tomb Raider franchise was originally devised by a computer game developer based in the city.
More than 27,000 people took part in the vote to name [...]
The 12 most incredible games of the decade
(TECH RADAR) - It’s not only the traditional time of year for us to compile our lists of favourite things, it is the time of the decade for definitive lists of favourite things.
Add this to the fact that geeks, tech-heads and gamers just love to compile definitive lists, and you will understand what a job [...]
Nintendo Wii sales pass six million
(TELEGRAPH) - Sales figures released by Chart Track-GfK show that the Nintendo Wii has sold more than six million units in the UK since its launch in Dec 2006, making the Wii the fastest selling video game console in UK history and the quickest ever to [...]
BBC iPlayer for Xbox 360 delayed over cost row
(T3) - It’s long been the killer feature that 360 owners have pined for. Say what you want about Blu-Ray support, offering the Beeb’s top drawer video on demand service, the iPlayer, on a console is now almost a necessary requirement.
And Microsoft knows it. It seems that the people in charge of Xbox Live have [...]
Government intelligence organisation targets recruits with Xbox Live ads
(GUARDIAN) - Government intelligence organisation GCHQ is to run an ad campaign within Xbox Live online games, including Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, to attract quick-thinking 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks.
The campaign marks the first time that GCHQ, which reports to the foreign secretary, David Miliband, and works with MI5 and MI6, has [...]
Religious leaders slam Modern Warfare 2
(MCV) - Figureheads from UK Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups attack game’s violent content live on BBC One
Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 was heavily criticised by UK religious leaders from across the belief spectrum on BBC One yesterday.
Speaking on morning TV programme The Big Questions – which carried the query: Are Violent Video Games Damaging to [...]
Xbox 360: review of new features
(TIMESONLINE) - Microsoft is making its boldest bid yet to reposition the Xbox 360 as a complete home entertainment hub.
Traditionally seen as the system for hardcore gamers, the Xbox has gained new video and communications functionality that includes Facebook, Twitter and, most impressively Sky TV. Most of these new features require Microsoft’s [...]
