Confirming Internet reports from late last week, Sony Computer Entertainment America has officially confirmed the company will be dropping the price of the 60GB PlayStation 3 SKU to $499, effective Tuesday. Additionally, Sony will be introducing an 80GB SKU in August for $599 bundled with a copy of MotorStorm.
So far, the price drop is only [...]
PacMan’s skeleton, conceived by Le Gentil Garçon, in collaboration with François Escuilié, palaeontologist, from the comparative observation of human and various predatory animal skulls. 2004, Resin, diameter: 65 cm.
This is a pretty awesome concept, I didn’t even know Pac-Man had a skull! I figured he was just a soft gel like creature. Today, I was [...]
After watching Macrumors live stream here are some of the things I find exciting about the future of the new OSX and Apple’s new hardware coming out.
* Apple has made deals with EA and ID software to port more games over to the Mac.
* A brand new GUI for OS 10.5
* Better networking
* The first [...]
Nintendo is releasing yet another Nintendo DS, this time with popular Pokémon branding and a brilliant Pikachu yellow paintjob. While this special edition Nintendo DS Lite will retail for the regular price of 16,800 yen, getting your hands on one is going to be challenging. To secure this yellow piece of kit, you’ll need to [...]
Developer’s Conference has announced that this September, straight after the Austin Game Conference, they’ll be holding a PC-only show called PC Game On. The idea is to take PC gaming and give it its own show, away from those filthy, limelight-hogging little consoles. Katherine Schoback, of GDC parent company CMP Technology:
PC Game On celebrates PC [...]
Everyone’s doing the special edition thing these days and though Rockstar Games‘ announcement today for Grand Theft Auto IV isn’t quite on the level of the Legendary Edition of Halo 3, gamers will still be forking over $30 more for the extra goodies.
Priced at $89.99, the Grand Theft Auto IV [...]
If you head over to http://www.blizzard.com/you’ll see a teaser showing a timeline of Blizzards releases. Each day will feature a game as the main picture on their site and at the end of the timeline is a large question mark.
What can it be? There really are only two obvious choices. World of Starcraft, as was [...]
Is Xbox360 like the most fault-prone device in the history of video gaming or what? As if in a deliberate attempt to add injury to insult to injury, Microsoft provided only a 90-day warranty, AND staffed their call centers with a goodly numbers of jerks. To wit, this recent conversation Richard had when trying to [...]
After much waiting and speculation, Activision has officially announced Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s. The PlayStation 2 exclusive (boo!) will feature retro rock venues and characters styles after the era, as well as 30 songs.
While the partial song list doesn’t reveal anything shocking, it is enough to convince me to bust out my Karate Kid [...]
Video games based on movies tend to suck, true. They also usually stick to big summer action flicks released near the movie (or DVD release). Crave Entertainment is looking to break from the norm on all of these points with the announcement of Napoleon Dynamite. The game will be released for PSP and Nintendo DS [...]