Archive for November, 2006
Written by admin on 28 November 2006
Nintendo recaps its new system’s first eight days at retail, says more than 75 percent of Wii owners also picked up Zelda.
While Sony said it would have 400,000 PlayStation 3 systems ready for its North American launch, Nintendo consistently refused to put a comparable figure on its own efforts with the Wii launch. Instead it would say only that it would ship 4 million systems worldwide by the end of the year.
Now that the launch has come and gone, Nintendo has finally tallied up the number of Wiis it has sold. Today the company said that more than 600,000 Wiis were sold in the Americas in the console’s first eight days of release.
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Written by admin on 28 November 2006
Dutch daily spotlights Guerilla Games’ elusive shooter; 120 developers working on project, downloadable content confirmed.
Ever since its controversial trailer fired up 2005’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the forthcoming Killzone game for the PlayStation 3 has been missing in action. It was nowhere to be seen at a variety of high-profile events, including E3 2006 and the 2006 Tokyo Game Show. The shooter wasn’t even mentioned at the Gamers’ Day events Sony held to help hype the launch of the PS3.
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Written by admin on 27 November 2006
Menino, the new Jack Thompson?
Apparently, GTA encourages killing prostitutes, shooting cops, running over old people and beating
gang rivals, or at least, that is what Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston thinks.
Over the past week, Boston has been in anti-GTA: Vice City Stories frenzy, as the city officials are against the game to be advertised on trolleys. But in just four weeks of advertising, Grand Theft Auto has earned MBTA no more and no less than US$ 115,000, at least according to what Boston Herald reports.
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Written by admin on 27 November 2006
Two truckloads of consoles hijacked as thieves stock up for Christmas.
Two consignments of Xbox 360s has been stolen in the UK this week, reports regional newspaper, the Express and Star.
The first occurred after a lorry (truck) was flagged down travelling south on the A38 at Hillards Cross. The driver, who thought he was being waved down to inform him of a problem with his vehicle, pulled over. The men then threatened him and dragged him out of the cab, they then made off with the lorry and £750,000 (approx $1.5 million) worth of consoles. The driver suffered minor injuries, and the lorry was later found–empty–further down the A38.
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