E3: Wii, PS3 forecast clear Xbox 360 cloudy
(via N4G.com) -- Nintendo Co.'s Wii focuses on casual, Sony Corp. defines a home entertainment hub, and Microsoft Corp. tries to expand outside the core audience in the latest E3 battle.

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5 months ago 

Xbox 360 DRM Fix - Works, But Takes Forever
(via Loot Ninja) -- Since I just got my 10th Xbox 360, I decided I'd use the new DRM fix tool that Microsoft released last month. I fired up the website and went through the steps as outlined, then it was time to re-download everything. I had a whopping 665 items in my download list to reclaim. My jaw

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5 months ago 

E3 2008: Ubisoft announces Naruto: The Broken Bond
(via QJ) - At E3 2008, Ubisoft has announced that gamers will be getting a new Naruto game for the Xbox 360 by Christmas this year. The sequel to Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, Naruto: The Broken Bond has players on a quest to save Sasuke from Orochimaru, who seduced the young ninja with promises of power.

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5 months ago 

E308: South Park XBLA to launch in 2009
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, E3 Remember that epic trailer showcasing the new South Park game for Xbox Live Arcade? All 2.4 seconds of it. No details were dropped regarding what type of game it would be but the South Park Studios official site is already trying to fuel the hype train.

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5 months ago 

Valve's Lombardi talks Portal XBLA, achievements and other platforms
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, E3 Valve's Doug Lombardi (seen muzzled by an X3F sticker at E3 2008) recently cleared up some confusion regarding the content of Portal: Still Alive for the Xbox Live Arcade in an interview with OXM. "It's just a series of new challenges," Lombardi told the magazine.

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5 months ago 

Resistance Retribution: not just another PSP Syphon Filter
(via Arts Technica) -- Resistance: Retribution is everything PSP owners have been waiting for and more: a huge AAA shooter that finally gets around the dreaded second analog stick problem.

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5 months ago 

Knights Of The Old Republic MMO Confirmed
(via Cinema Blend Games) - You may remember that Lucas Arts and BioWare launched a co-branded website in October and announced they were making an "interactive entertainment product" together. Well, it turns out it's not just any interactive entertainment product - it's a massive multiplayer online game based on the Knights of the Old Republic single player RPG's.

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5 months ago 

Miyamoto: E3 the wrong venue for showcasing core games
(via Arts Technica) -- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has explained the company's reasoning behind its casual-friendly keynote, saying that E3 isn't the right place to announce core games.

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5 months ago 

File-N-Forget Podcast: E3 2008 Day 4 Wrap-Up Special
(via Gaming Today) - Well, E3 has officially ended, and our team is preparing to wing their way back home. Before they started packing, they sat down to give you guys one more podcast detailing their final day at this year’s conference. You can look forward to hearing Shawn, Jonathan, and Daniel discuss the games they saw on Thursday, their hands-on experiences on the show floor, and what they were most impressed with at the show as a whole.

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5 months ago 

Xbox 360 - E3 2008: New Dashboard Avatars Featurette
(via Game Trailers) -- Get an up close look at the avatars you'll be customizing with the Xbox 360's new dashboard.

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5 months ago 

Mortal Kombat 8 Gets The Boot
(via 360 HQ) - This might come as a shock to the die hard fans of the Mortal Kombat series or it may not but in a report on kotaku.com co-creator Ed Boon gives us a little insight to what happened with the Mortal Kombat 8 that was promised to us last year but never heard from again. You got to love this pic At last year's Midway Gamers Day, Mortal Kombat co-creator and series overlord Ed Boon talked up the then-unnamed eighth entry in the franchise.

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5 months ago 

Fable 2 main story only 12 hours long
(via DCEmu) -- We had a lot of fun playing Fable 2 last night (more on that in a bit), so we were disappointed when we heard from several Lionhead staffers that the game's main story would take most around 12 hours to complete. It's not that we thought we were getting ripped off, after last night we just hoping...

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5 months ago 

Microsoft entertainment division posts $426 million gain
(via DCEmu) -- Microsoft released its Q4 and FY 2008 earnings reports today, with the Entertainment and Devices Division reporting a USD 426 million profit over the year. The division reported Q4 revenue of USD 1.575 billion - up 37 per cent from 2007 - but an overall operating loss of USD 188 million. For the...

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5 months ago 

Missing@E3: Indiana Jones and the Vanished Game
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, E3 One notable absence from LucasArts E3 room was any presence of Indiana Jones whatsoever. While they were highly touting Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Fracture, they didn't even have a poster featuring a silhouette of Indy and the Hat anywhere to be seen.

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5 months ago 

Left 4 Dead: welcome to the zombie-killin' social
(via Arts Technica) -- Co-operative zombie hunting: how could you possibly goes wrong? We spent some time with the current build of Valve's Left For Dead and survived through the night to tell the tale.

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5 months ago 

GT5 not seeing the light of day anytime soon
(via LazyGamer) - The guys at Joystiq miraculously managed to get a few moment to speak with Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of the massively popular and respected Gran Turismo series. The bad news is that they reported the following: “According to the Polyphony Digital boss, his studio is focusing a majority of its efforts on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.

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5 months ago 

Mortal Kombat 8 Gets The Boot
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E3 2008: Microsoft wares lack novelty with mainstream appeal
(via N4G.com) - Gamescritics writes: "To paraphrase a line from The American President, the problem with Microsoft isn't that they don't get it. The problem is that they can't sell it. At E3 2008, Microsoft unveiled a line-up of products designed to appeal to the more casual gaming audience that Nintendo currently dominates with the Wii.

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5 months ago 

Xbox Live coming to South Africa
(via LazyGamer) - Well this is some great news isn't it! It looks like the possibility of Xbox Live coming to South Africa is become better and better. ITweb.co.za reports that "Xbox product manager John Press is confident Microsoft would greenlight an Xbox Live expansion into the country.

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5 months ago 

Xbox division finally makes a profit for Microsoft - $426m in the bank
(via Xboxer) - Finally, the figures are in glorious BLACK for Microsoft's gaming squad. The Entertainment & Devices part of the mega-corporation made a profit last year, banking $426m across Xbox, Zune and PC gaming sales. This compares quite sensationally well to last year's figures, in which MS made a $1.

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5 months ago 

Microsoft - E3 2008: Movie Games Announcement
(via Game Trailers) -- Two new games with movie themes are headed to the Xbox 360. Get your first look here!

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5 months ago 

News: E3: Sony: Final Fantasy XIII will be better on PlayStation3
(via OXM) -- Sony's Scott Rohde goes on the counter-attack when pressed about the announcement. Sony's Vice President of Product Development, Scott Rohde, has said that Final Fantasy XIII will probably be better on PlayStation3 because that's where it's being developed first.

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5 months ago 

XboX 360 has a profitable year
(via Xbox Users Group) - If Kotaku.com is to believe, then Microsoft can start congratulating themselves, as the XboX 360 has finally had a profitable year. According to the story (http://kotaku.com/5026559/xbox-division-finally-reports-profitable-year) , MS has made $426,000,000 in the financial year 07-08.

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5 months ago 

07-08: Xbox's first EVER profitable year
(via CVG) -- MS spreads the good news: did Halo 3 and GTA IV have anything to do with it?. Microsoft's Xbox group has reported its first ever profitable year since the company entered the console business in 2001.

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5 months ago 

News: E3: Warhammer: Battle March trailer and screens
(via OXM) -- Real-time strategy rears its head right at the end of E3... As E3 was winding down to a close, Warhammer: Battle March finally decided to show its face.

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5 months ago 

Fracture Developer Walkthrough
(via LazyGamer) - We haven’t seen much about Fracture over the past few months and unfortunately that normally means the game doesn’t end up being as good as we all hoped. To jog your memory, Fracture was that game were you could mould the terrain to create mountains or holes to change the battlefield.

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5 months ago 

News: PlayStation brand hitting its stride, says Tretton
(via Game Industry) -- CEO pleased with PS3's lead over Microsoft's Xbox 360 in June

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5 months ago 

Independence: Adding Insult To Injury
(via rampancy.net) - So a couple days ago I wrote a bit on how Bungie got the rug pulled out from under them at E3. As near as the Intertubes can piece it together, a few days before E3, Microsoft let Bungie know they wouldn't be included in the press conference. Bungie then enacted contingency plans for their own announcement, which is what precipitated the countdown on Bungie.

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5 months ago 

MSN Messenger gets an Avatar-like upgrade
(via N4G.com) - Destructoid writes: "Today, Arstechnica found that Microsoft unveiled a project that works with MSN Messenger to give users Mii-like avatars. The program is called "Minimise Me" and it's an extremely simple little web-based service that allows users to construct faces, then port them to MSN Messenger.

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5 months ago 

Wheelman E3 2008 Stage Show Demo
(via Gamespot) -- Wheelman is shown off on GameSpot's E3 2008 stage show.

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