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The world’s PS3s are working again. After a day of panic and a what must have been a very long and nervous night for Sony execs, the internal clock bug that saw around 92 per cent of the globe’s PS3 consoles stop working correctly yesterday has been defeated thanks to …
Read More »PS3 fix expected within 24 hours
Sony has claimed that it hopes to have solved the glitch problems affecting the vast majority of PS3 owners within the next 24 hours – and added that owners of older ‘fat’ machines should not turn on their consoles in the interim. We hope to resolve this problem within the …
Read More »Random House sets up games team
One of the largest names in book publishing has reportedly set up an internal games-focused team with then intention of creating original stories specifically for video games, as well as offering narrative advice to developers. WSJ reports that Bertelsmann’s Random House unit is looking to sell two original games projects …
Read More »US paper warns of Satanic games
Video games have come under fresh attack after a North American newspaper columnist accused them of promoting the devil and portraying God as an enemy. The story, published by Philadelphia’s The Bulletin, opens with the remarkable claim that even the most hard-core gamers are sounding the alarm about the rise …
Read More »JAPAN: Wii passes 10m sales
Nintendo’s unstoppable motion-sensing home console Wii has now passed the 10m unit sales barrier in the company’s homeland of Japan, Kotaku reports. Being more specific, the Wii has now sold 10,009,736 units in Japan. Interestingly, it took the machine 170 weeks to reach the milestone – 39 weeks longer than …
Read More »Ex-DICE boss calls Wii a virus
The former boss of Swedish Battlefield developer DICE has slammed Nintendo’s Wii for being, in his words, a toy and not an entertainment focused product”. Wii, to me, I would describe it as a virus that doesn’t stick,” the dev told GamingUnion, as spotted by CVG. It’s a toy, people …
Read More »Sony working on Heavy Rain shortages
Having shot straight to number one in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, Sony has revealed that landmark PS3 release Heavy Rain is suffering shortages on the UK High Street. However, Sony hopes to have got extra stock into the channel by next week. We have …
Read More »Now Codies joins the DLC code movement
Codemasters is to become the latest publisher to reward those who buy their games brand new with digital content not available to pre-owned buyers. This will begin with Race Driver: GRID Reloaded, due for release on Thursday, March 11th for PS3. The new SKU will include a copy of the …
Read More »Ex Naughty Dog says Natal could revolutionise gaming
Microsoft’s motion sensing camera Natal has come in for some praise from an unlikely source – the former boss of SCE owned developer Naughty Dog. Speaking to GameTrailers, the studio’s co-founder and ex-president Jason Rubin stated: I think Natal and things like Natal are going to revolutionise more than gaming. …
Read More »Xboxs FFXIII to outsell PS3 version
The Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII is on track to outsell the PS3 SKU by two-to-one – that’s the prediction of discount shopping portal MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. The site comes to the conclusion based on the number of searches made on its server, with interest in the Xbox 360 title …
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