Everybody Wants a Wii - December 2007 Video Game Sales Figures
The North American December sales figures are in and, well, it was a big month. Game companies saw a total revenue of $4.82 billion come their way last month, nicely capping off a $17.9 billion year. This marks the biggest year ever for the games industry - a 43% increase in sales over 2006’s [...]
Xvid on Playstation 3 firmware 2.10 works FINE
According to initial reports, the Playstation 2.10 firmware supported DivX but not XviD. We reported this when the firmware was first announced, because after all, the site that reported it actually had it and actually tested it.
Unfortunately, the person who tested it may not have their network running properly. As it turns out, Xvid plays [...]
PS3 Firmware 2.10 Tomorrow - Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 is here!
For all the doubters, turns out we were right ;)
Tomorrow, Sony will release the 2.10 firmware for PS3, which adds Profile 1.1. To find out more about what this means, please read our original post on the subject.
DivX support is also going to be added, along with VC-1 WMV support. However, there are rumors that [...]
Canadians Forced to Cross Border Shop for Rock Band
As reported by Shack News at the first of the month the release of Harmonix’s Rock Band in Canada has been delayed until December 17th. Rumblings out of EA and MTV Games is that the delay is due to the need for billingual documentation and has nothing to do with a supply issue. If [...]
Playstation 3 vs. XBOX 360 - One Year Later
It has been exactly 1 year to the day since we published our PS3 vs. XBOX 360 article, written for us by a friend of mine who is a lead programmer for a game company working on all three consoles (and PC).
His conclusion was a controversial one at the time. That the XBOX 360 [...]
Buy PS3 80GB, get 10 FREE Blu-Ray movies at Wal-Mart (Rumor)
If you were planning on getting a PS3 for Christmas, you might want to tell Santa to hold off, and wait until the 24th yourself. Apparently a Wal-Mart employee is spilling the beans early of a “Secret Sale” they are planning to have for two days on December 24-25.
With this deal, when you buy [...]
Nintendo back on top again; October Videogame Hardware Sales
Okay Microsoft, you had your fun on top for a month. Everyone who was waiting for Halo 3 got their 360, and now the Wii takes over its spot on top.
Wii | 519K
Nintendo DS | 458K
Xbox 360 | 366K
PSP | 286K
PlayStation 2 | 184K
PlayStation 3 | 121K
Things are certainly back to normal. Almost too much [...]
