Entries in 'consoles' (139)
Boxed Angry Birds smashes onto consoles
Boxed Angry Birds console games are landing at retail next year accompanied by a line of official accessories.
MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending October 16th)
We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and the leading campaigns for the week ending October 16th year-on-year.
Blizzard: 'Diablo III feels better with 360 controller'
Highly anticipated PC RPG Diablo III plays “even better” with an Xbox 360 controller, says the game’s director.
Consoles, unite! Valve and Blizzard want online harmony
Two of the world’s most influential PC games studios want Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to break down the barricades to their consoles’ online services.
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Platform holders blocked Runescape cross-console play
Speaking at the recent Edinburgh Interactive conference, Gerhard said Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo were each opposed to the idea of Runescape players interacting across rival platforms.
Blizzard assembling console Diablo III team
GAMESCOM: World of Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has said that it is in the process of preparing to make a console port of upcoming PC dungeon crawler Diablo III.
THQ's admiration for EA's console strategy
Fewer, bigger, better. That seems to be an increasingly common trend amongst traditional console games publishers, and THQ’s executive VP of core games Danny Bilson is all for it.
A gaming Holodeck for your home? It’s on the way, says Rare
Total immersion in a believable and completely customisable digital world. The vision offered by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Holodeck represents the ultimate gaming nirvana, and Rare boss Scott Henson ...
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Are we losing the generation game?
A nation of children break up for school holidays next week. And they are breaking away from games, too.
Hawkins blames software licensing for creativity decline
Long-term industry face and EA founder Trip Hawkins has revisited the two-decade old debate about platform holder software licensing, blaming it for the death of creativity in the modern market.
Market rebound “unlikely” unless we get hardware price cuts
Ahead of the publication of the June US video games market numbers, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has predicted big drops for every major format.
Now ESRB rates Crysis for consoles
It looks like 2007 PC hit Crysis could be coming to PS3 as well as Xbox 360.
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HBO to launch on consoles?
HBO could follow in the footsteps of Sky and launch on platforms such as Xbox 360, a new report suggests.
Mobile games claim half of all game downloads
Digital games downloads for mobile games devices now account for around half of all full game downloads.
New consoles still three years away?
Gamers could face a wait of up to three years before successors to the Xbox 360 or PS3 are launched, anonymous sources have supposedly told Kotaku.
Reeves wants single format future
While the internet is buzzing with mutterings about Wii 2 and Xbox 720, David Reeves is hoping the future of the console market will be much simpler.
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Wii dominates the living room
More than half of US Wii owners keep their console in the living room.
Blizzard plans Diablo III on consoles
Blizzard could potentially release its next next super-hit on console as well as PC, the firm has told MCV.
Angry Birds tops 100m downloads
Angry Birds has now been downloaded more than 100 million times, according to Rovio Mobile marketing exec Peter Vesterbacka, speaking on a panel at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
NPD: Xbox claims January win
Microsoft has claimed both another month of strong sales in the US and another month of console market leadership.
Tesco launches 'VAT free' sale
Online retailer Tesco Direct has launched what it describes as a 'VAT free' 20 per cent off sale that offers some significant savings on a range of gaming hardware.
PlayStation 2 hits 150m sales
Almost 11 years on from its Japanese debut in March 2000, Sony's PlayStation 2 has now passed 150m unit sales across the world.
PS3 games drive Sony results
Nine months into Sony's current financial year and the PS3 has already outstripped its total sales for the 2009 fiscal year, Sony has reported.
Jacobson wants to score on consoles
Sports Interactive’s Miles Jacobson wants to see a console version of Football Manager.
