The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a Sony PS3 internet advert in the UK, reported Life Style Extra. The organisation said that the advert "could be deemed to condone or glamorize violence or anti-social behaviour.” After forcing it to be withdrawn, the ASA issued Sony with a warning regarding its …
Read More »AUSSIE CHARTS: Mario parties on
GfK’s latest all formats top ten for the week ending August 5th shows a dominant Nintendo and Sony carve up the spoils between them. Microsoft doesn’t get a look in as Guitar Hero Encore ‘80s is the only new title to break into a PS2-dominated chart, while Motorstorm leaps up …
Read More »Oxygen opens Wii and DS studio in London
Publisher's new internal team targets Nintendo platforms
Read More »Scott McCloud: storytellers have only ‘scratched the surface’ of games
SIGGRAPH 07: Famed comic guru talks through the challenges of producing stories in the age of computer graphics
Read More »Parappa developer branches into iPod game development
Musika available now on the iTunes store
Read More »Wii to Boogie on August 31st
New IP, exclusive to Nintendo – not terms you’d be quick to associate with EA only 12 months ago, but with Wii powering its way to market leadership in the next-gen race, EA will unleash its latest new IP on the console later this month. Boogie, which combines karaoke and …
Read More »Mercury releases MultiCore Plus SDK for PS3
SIGGRAPH 07: Development environment brings Cellâ??s power to all
Read More »Motion-sensing DS on the way?
Following the tremendous success of its once mocked and now reverenced motion-sensing Wii console, it has emerged that Nintendo has filed a patent for a motion-sensing handheld console, CVG reports . Filed only a few months ago on March 30th, the patent reads: The housing [console] incorporates an XY-axis acceleration …
Read More »Sony withdraws two more PSN titles
Following last week’s removal of PSOne title MediEvil from Sony’s PS3 download network PlayStation Network following the discovery of a game-crashing bug, two more titles have experienced technical problems and been temporarily removed. As you have probably noticed by now, Spyro 2 and Crash Bandicoot 2 have also been temporarily …
Read More »Wii gets firmware upgrade
A new layout for the Shop Channel and some interface alterations are the main talking points of Nintendo’s updated firmware release for its Wii console – with version 3.0 now available for download. Along with the addition of a digital clock on the bottom of the Wii Channel menu, several …
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