Category: Gaming
PS3 not supporting developers, developers not supporting PS3?
According to a report on Bloomberg.com, developers are not working on PS3 games because they haven’t had access to final technical specifications or "dev kits", the units developers work on to test games on console hardware. THQ CEO Brian…
E3: DS kills next Game Boy?
Speaking to Reuters, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, has said it is unlikely the company will produce the much-rumoured next Game Boy any time soon, because of the runaway success of its dual-screened handheld, the DS. "I would have second…
E3: Sony "me too" approach slammed by Ubisoft exec
In an E3 workshop on next-generation game design, Clint Hocking, creative director of Ubisoft's Montreal studio, has slammed Sony and the PS3 for its copycat approach to other's technology. First criticising Sony's copying of Microsoft's Xbox Live service, Hocking…
E3: Halo 3 in 2007, will miss PS3 launch
Microsoft has admitted that its much-anticipated Xbox 360 title, Halo 3, will not arrive in 2006. In slipping to 2007, Halo 3 now won't be the big gun Microsoft has to wheel out against Sony's PS3 launch in November….
E3: Gates says 10 million head-start for Xbox 360
A little crumb we missed from last week's E3 coverage – Bill Gates claims that the Xbox 360 will have sold over 10 million units before the PS3 even sells one. Read all the latest gaming news on sister-site…
E3: PSP ceramic white version hits Europe
On the back of E3 announcements of a £20 "Greatest Hits" range of PSP budget titles, Sony also revealed that the "Ceramic White" PSP is coming to Europe. Available from May 15 onwards, the matt white PSP is expected…
E3: Microsoft denies working on "Xboy" handheld
In his new book, "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked", Dean Takahashi claims that half of Microsoft’s original Xbox 360 hardware team are currently working on a portable handheld console to rival the PSP and DS. The rumoured handheld device would, according…
E3 attendance drops by 10,000
It seems slightly odd, what with the video games industry still riding high on steadily increasing market growth, that E3 attendance should actually decrease this year. However, it was after complaints of over-crowding last year that event organisers decided…
Nintendo Wii gets Opera web browser
Whatever the peeps at Opera did with their DS web browser, it must have made a good impression with the Nintendo bosses: it was revealed last week that the new console, the Wii, would be getting its very own…
Paris Hilton's E3 blunder
At the E3 unveiling of her new videogame, Jewel Jam, Paris Hilton managed to tell fans she was "really excited to have my new video game, Diamondquest". Well we didn't really expect her to have anything to do with…