Reggie Fils-Aime, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nintendo America, confirmed that Nintendo’s next generation console codenamed “Revolution” will follow the Sony’s timetable for PS3 (which is expected to hit stores in Q2 2006). Reggie also attacked Microsoft’s rush on releasing the Xbox 2. Not that I want to ignore the Xbox, but certainly we believe that a rush to a new system is a mistake. It’s the second time this year that a high executive from Nintendo attacked Microsoft’s new generation console. Former Nintendo Europe boss, David Gosen, said last June at the ELSPA Game Summit in London that in every cycle some manufacturer not profiting from the Read more »

Masa Chatani, Sony chief of technology officer, confirmed that the PlayStation Portable will be released this year in Japan and Q1 2005 on the rest of the world. He also revealed some tech details, but said nothing about the battery life, which has become the greatest doubt about the PSP. This is what Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime had to say about this particular subject: Those little women at the Tokyo Game Show with those portable consoles strapped to them… What you didn’t see is that those women were having to go recharge the batteries every two hours! (…) We have gone on the record to state that the Nintendo DS will Read more »

Ever wanted to be the master of a giant chicken? One that does whatever you tell it to do? Now you can! Sort of. Instead of a chicken it’s actually a man dressed as a chicken and he doesn’t do exactly everything you tell him, but the important thing is that it looks really funny! Try the words “dance”, “moonwalk” and “hump” and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Brought to us by Burger King (don’t ask me why). Read more »

After all the fight and threats involving Valve and Vivendi Universal Games, Half Life 2 finally has a release date! At least that’s what Eurogamer is saying: The long, drawn-out Half-Life 2 release date saga appears to be drawing to a close at long last, with Vivendi-Universal Games’ expected to formally announce a November 26th release date for Europe, with US gamers getting the game three days earlier on November 23rd. PC Gamer UK already published the first review of Half Life 2 on the October edition of the magazine. They gave a score of 96%, which is only as high as Half Life1! In Addition to the first review, Read more »

HL Fallout reports the versions of Half Life that will be available on retail and on Steam. Retail Boxes Standard Edition: includes HL2 and CS:Source. Ships on six CDs, in one of three box-art packages (Gordon, Alyx or the G-Man). Collector’s Edition: includes Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 1: Source, a Half-Life 2 T-shirt and a Prima book sampler. Ships on a single DVD. Steam packages Bronze: HL2 and CS:Source. Silver: HL2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 1: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Valve’s back catalog currently available on Steam. Gold: HL2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 1: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Valve’s back catalog currently available on Steam, Complete Strategy Guide from Read more »

Well, to be honest I *hate* The Sims series. It’s extremely boring and I can’t play it for more than 15 minutes. But that is just me and I gotta admit that it’s amazing the way this games sells! “The Sims 2″ sold 1 million copies in 10 days, being the best release ever for an Electronic Arts game. And it seems that they wanna conquer the world now: EA plans to follow up The Sims 2, which is a PC-only product, with a new evolution of the Sims franchise for consoles – The Urbz: Sims in the City. The title, which features exclusive music from popular hip-hop group The Read more »

Following the big court fight between VU-Games and Valve, GameSpot reports that Vivendi Universal has the power to delay Half Life 2 release for another 6 months after the final version of the game is done. This is what senior vice president of VU, Eric Roeder, stated on August 27, 2004 in court filings: Valve has announced that it will deliver a release candidate version of Half-Life 2 (HL2) (a game required under the 2001 SPA) to Sierra/VUG within the next few weeks. If Valve delivers a release candidate version that complies with the contract and is a Final Milestone, then VUG will have six months to release the product Read more »

Two guys broke the 6GHz barrier for desktop processors with a Pentium 4 originally clocked at 3.6GHz and lots of liquid nitrogen. The system can calculate PI in 25s and scores 18508 on 3DMark 03 with a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. Oh, the PI calculation is of 1M digits. Read more »

ATI introduced today the new Radeon X700 family, which is their new mid-range video card, made to compete directly with the nVidia GeForce 6600 GT. Based on the award winning RADEON X800 architecture and designed to closely adhere to Microsoft’s DirectX 9 specification, the RADEON X700 includes advanced architectural elements and features previously reserved for products twice the price of the RADEON X700. The eight pixel pipe and six vertex pipe architecture is unique for products in this class, enabling unprecedented processing power than any other mid-range priced graphics processors on the market. Versions X700: 400MHz core and 128MB of 700MHz DDR memory. Price: $149 X700 Pro: 420MHz core and Read more »

nVidia announced today the GoForce 3D 4500 which is a Wireless Media Processor for Advanced Handheld Devices, as they say. The 4500 allow 3D content on cell phones, PDAs and any other handheld devices. NVIDIA’s GoForce 3D 4500 WMP enables a whole new level of interactive content not previously possible on cell phones, PDAs, or other handheld devices. For the first time, mobile content developers can harness a powerful 3D medium to create rich, dynamic, lifelike worlds and characters. Additionally, mobile devices powered by the new 3D WMP will be able to synthesise amazingly realistic environments with objects that behave according to complex physics and intelligent characters with true-to-life personalities. Read more »