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Do HD Graphics Matter To Gamers?

January 19th, 2009 · 9 Comments

The question of the day, “Do HD graphics matter to gamers?” If you’re currently rolling with a PS3 or Xbox 360 and you’ve got HDMI and or sweet component cables you’re probably saying, “duh, of course they do.” What about everyone else, those Wii consoles for instance, there are so many of those. What about […]

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Tags: Editorial · Microsoft · Nintendo · Sony

Wii vs. PS3 in Japan: The Console Slaughter

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Famitsu Magazine is reporting the Nintendo console, Wii, has managed to sell 7-million units in Japan. This is roughly three times the number of Sony’s PlayStation 3, the console with superior graphics and power. Japan isn’t about graphics and power or they’re not a fan of the high priced PlayStation 3. The three times factor […]

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Tags: Industry News · Microsoft · Nintendo · playstation 3 · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360

PlayStation 3 Online Community Matches 360

November 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Although PlayStation 3 is still third in worldwide sales, behind the Xbox 360 by about 5-million units, the PS3 community services now have as many online gamers as Xbox 360 says Sony. Sony posted on their blog saying, “with 14 million active accounts and 273 million pieces of content downloaded, we know that you’re thirsting […]

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Tags: Editorial · Microsoft · Nintendo · playstation 3 · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360

Fanboy Turf Wars and Metacritic’s The Turf

November 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Gamers are passionate about gaming, love their games, follow the industry all while living and breathing all things game. This is the green pastures upon which fanboys are born. As we’ve seen at gamingpodcast.net, where we were hit hard by fanboy rage a few days ago the blood boils with hate and rage. Although our […]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News

Will Xbox Live Survive 2008 Holiday Stress?

November 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

This year many gamers will open new consoles for the holidays and many of those same gamers are going bring their console “live” on Xbox Live the same day. Traditionally we’ve found Xbox Live falls under the weight of the holiday rush much like Apple’s iTunes. Will we repeat history again? Although a fully loaded […]

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Tags: Editorial · Xbox 360

Storage Solutions for Fall Update

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Are you one of those that have a diskless (or low flash disk) based Xbox 360? We’ve been wondering, ourselves, what Microsoft was going to do to “fix” the fact that the upcoming Fall Update is going to require 128MB of disk space. It seems they’re going to hand you either a 512MB memory card […]

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Tags: Accessories · Industry News · Microsoft · Xbox 360

Xbox 360 Fall Update Too Big For Diskless Users

October 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you’ve got an Xbox 360 arcade edition or an older console without a hard disk, you’ll want to clear up at least 128MB of your flash card before powering on your console after the fall update hits. Wait, you’re flash disk isn’t 128MB in size? Oh oh. Latest reports are stating that consumers that […]

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Tags: Accessories · Industry News · Microsoft · Xbox 360

Xbox 360’s Fallout 3 Not Safe From Pirates

October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just last week in our gaming podcast we were talking about how Gears of War 2 wasn’t going to make a PC debut because it has a bit of a problem with piracy. We were afraid this movement was going to cause game developers and publishers to stick with console’s “big can of DRM” over […]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News · piracy

New Castlevania Title For 360 and PS3: 2D or 3D?

October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Castlevania series was born in Japan on September 26th back in 1986. That knowledge in hand, you can imagine the demographic of 30+ year old gamers who would kill to get an old school franchise title on a new graphic intensive console. We’ve had many new Castlevania releases since 1986 including releases on the […]

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Tags: Industry News · Konami · Platformer · playstation 3 · TGS · Xbox 360

Mega Man 9: Initial Impressions (Xbox 360)

October 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

With a few hours of Mega Man 9 under my belt I’ve got to admit, this game is FREAKING HARD. I’ve played many games since the original Mega Man series was released on the NES and later on the SNES and nothing compares to Mega Man 9 in terms of sheer difficulty. This new franchise […]

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