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Gaming has supposedly got a race war going on thanks to BBC One’s consumer rights show Watchdog . Last night’s edition granted five minutes to claims that that voice recognition technology used in Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on DS discriminates against those with Northern accents as it struggles to …
Read More »PES gets North American name change
IGN is reporting that Konami’s popular footballing series is to undergo a name change in North America – dropping the Winning Eleven formula and instead adopting the until-now European-only Pro Evolution Soccer mantle. The series will continue under the Winning Eleven brand in Japan, where PES2008 was known as Winning …
Read More »Dead Rising 2 farmed out West?
It was one of the first triple-A titles on Xbox 360 upon its release in late 2006, and now rumours of a sequel to Dead Rising have emerged – along with some speculation concerning a change of development duties. The March issue of US games mag EGM claims that the …
Read More »Nvidia acquires Ageia
PC and console graphics hardware firm Nvidia has signed an agreement to purchase Ageia, the creators of popular physics engine PhysX. Ageia’s engine has been used in over 140 games on a number of consoles including PS3, 360 and Wii, as well as on PC. "The AGEIA team is world …
Read More »Silver PS3 confirmed for Japan
SCEJ has confirmed that it will launch a Satin Silver version of its PS3 console in Japan on March 6th. Costing just under YEN 40,000 (around 190) the 40GB machine will also include a silver version of the new rumbling Dualshock 3 joypad. The Dualshock 3, as well as both …
Read More »NCsoft says console MMOs are inevitable
In an interview with GameDaily , the president of NCsoft North America Chris Chung has said that it is inevitable that the MMO genre will eventually shift its focus from PC to consoles – and that the shift will be a technically challenging one. "We have to really optimize for …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Burnout Paradise maintains pole position
Next-gen menu-free metal-crunching racer Burnout Paradise has become the first game of 2008 to hold onto the top spot in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 for two weeks on the trot. EA’s title does so despite a 13 per cent drop in sales – thanks in part to a …
Read More »How GAME can keep it up
While the acquisition of rival specialist Gamestation during 2007 has driven total sales growth, the incredibly buoyant market has aided the like-for-like improvements. Like-for-like growth of over 30 per cent is almost unheard of among maturing retailers which – like GAME – have not added a considerable amount of organic …
Read More »Sony shows off new look PS3 Home
Though there’s still no word on when it will arrive with PS3 gamers, or even when to expect a public beta, Sony has shown off the latest build of its console social networking community Home to attendees at a recent technology show in Monte Carlo, CVG reports. The most obvious …
Read More »Gears of War 2 info imminent?
The latest issue of US games mag GamePro has got Xbox 360 fans excited thanks to its double mention of the as-of-yet unannounced Gears of War 2 on its cover. No more details are known as of yet, though the news had reignited previous talk that Epic’s much-wanted sequel could …
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