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A growing number of users are voicing their complaints regarding the new LCD screen on Sony’s revised PSP-3000 – with concerns focusing on the problem of visable scanlines on the machine’s screen. The new PSP offers a brighter screen with deeper blacks and more vibrant colours, but many are now …
Read More »New Star Wars MMO revealed
New Star Wars title The Old Republic will take the form of a story-driven MMO set in the timeframe of previous hit Knights of the Old Republic, LucasArts and Bioware have revealed. While the official statement from LucasArts does not reveal an expected release date, it does outline the plot, …
Read More »Music overtakes sport in game genre battle
A new report from market research firm Odyssey claims that music-based games have now overtaken sports titles to become the second most popular genre behind action, Venture Beat reports. The US-based study claims that in 2006, 62 per cent of those surveyed claimed to play sports titles – this has …
Read More »Xbox Live Primetime to miss NXE launch
Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live Primetime, an online quiz network originally announced as part of the firm’s New Xbox Experience, will not arrive alongside the upcoming Xbox 360 update on November 19th . Forbes quotes the platform holder as saying: The delay is necessary in order to ensure a …
Read More »WHATS NEW October 24th 08
It was set to be the one of the most epic release days in history until LittleBigPlanet managed to get itself delayed (ruining a bet in the MCV office in the process, incidentally), but this Friday will still see a shockingly high number of genuinely blockbuster titles battling it out …
Read More »amBX goes independent
amBX, the ambient technology arm of electronics giant Philips, has been spun out as an independent company. The move was made possible with the backing of Prime Technology Ventures, a Netherlands-based pan-European venture capital firm. It will now be able to license the amBX technology to other hardware manufacturers, although …
Read More »JAPAN: PSP 3000 enjoys powerful debut
Having released in Japan on October 16th, Sony’s redesigned PSP ( dubbed the 3000 ) managed to sell an incredible 141,270 in just its first four days on sale, according to data from Famitsu. Kotaku reports that when sales of the older models are taken into account, total hardware sales …
Read More »Realtime Worlds makes senior hires
Scottish studio welcomes new director of development and VP of online operations
Read More »Miyamoto ‘concerned’ other developers resort to ‘excessive violence’
Nintendo's famed designer says "there are more ways of grabbing players' attention"
Read More »PS3 leads PES 2009 charts charge
For the first time in the series’ history, sales of the new Pro Evolution Soccer have been spearheaded by PS3, which accounted for 58 per cent of the game’s week one performance. PES 2009 shot straight to the top of the Gfk ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 yesterday , knocking …
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