Archive for October, 2007

Heroes Season 1 bundled with XBOX 360 HD-DVD

Microsoft and Universal have struck a deal to include the most highly sought-after exclusive HD-DVD titles with the XBOX 360’s HD-DVD addon - Heroes Season 1. This is a series that took the TV world by storm last year (and yours truly is one of the many who are addicted) and it’s not available [...]

XBOX 360 tops sales chart for once

As you just saw, Halo 3 sold pretty damn well in September, making more money than every other game on the Top 10 list combined. It also helped propel the 360 to the top of NDP’s September hardware sales charts, although not by as much as you might have expected:

Xbox 360 - 527.8K
Wii - 501K
Nintendo [...]

Halo 3 Pwns everyone else

NDP’s numbers for September are in, and what we all knew would happen happened. But I didn’t expect such a dramatic number:

Halo 3 |XBOX 360| 3.3 million
Wii Play w/ Remote |Wii| 282K
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass |DS| 224K
Madden NFL 08 |PS2| 205K
Skate |XBOX 360| 175K
Madden NFL 08 |XBOX 360| 173K
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption |Wii| 167K
BioShock [...]

Play with the Portal Gun in Half Life 2

I think a lot of people would agree that the most pleasant surprize in gaming this year is Portal, the most underhyped portion of The Orange Box. Portal was actually the part we were looking forward to most, but little did we know that a simple puzzle game would be so immersive and contain [...]

Bionic Commando is COMING BACK!

Looks like I was thinking along the right lines, as Bionic Commando was my first choice when coming up with a list of old school 2D video games that need to be revamped - in 2D. Okay, so I was only partially correct this time; Capcom also wanted to make a new Bionic Commando game, [...]

Toting a gun around in WoW

I once had this dream where my friends and I were hiking in the mountains. We stumbled on a mansion and explored inside. Upstairs, we found a coffin with Dracula in it. Dracula sat up and looked at us. We screamed and ran outside. Started running up the hill [...]

Upcoming PS3 firmware to add Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 - Picture in Picture playback

Update: The 2.10 firmware being released on December 19 will officially add Profile 1.1, so this rumor turns out to be true!
Sony VP of Advanced Technologies Don Eklund spoke at yesterday’s HDTV DisplaySearch conference in Universal City, California. During the panel discussion, Eklund mentioned that the Playstation 3 will be receiving a firmware update [...]