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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

New 40GB PS3 confirmed for Europe at €400

And that just means that the rumored new model will be destined for the rest of the world, probably at the equivalent of $400 USD (and probably $450 in Canada, despite the fact that their dollar is worth as much as the US Dollar right now).

You’ll notice on the front that there are only two [...]

Unreal 3 PS3 delayed until 2008

Remember when Sony announced the big coup of Unreal 3 being exclusive to their console until some time in 2008? Their plan was to be the only console with Unreal 3 this holiday season.
Unfortunately, things aren’t going to pan out, as today Midway announced that the game will be delayed until 2008. It may still [...]

Sony announces Dualshock 3 controller at TGS - full lineup of supported games listed here

One of the not-anticipated (but not unexpected) announcements coming out of Tokyo Game Show 2007 is today’s announcement of the Dual Shock 3 controller by Sony.
Coming this November to Japan, the Dual Shock 3 will combine SixAxis support with RUMBLE~! They weren’t able to include this feature at launch, due to litigation from a controller [...]