via

via

via

via

via

via

via

via

‘Gears of War,’ ‘Okami’ and ‘Wii Sports’ in Lead at the 7th Annual GDC Awards

Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios’ Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War was the recipient of three honors including Best Game at the 7th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The blockbuster hit game also received the awards for Technology and Visual Arts. Following close behind with two awards each were Clover Studios and Capcom Entertainment’s Okami and Nintendo’s Wii Sports. The ceremony, produced and hosted by the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and presented by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), is the only peer-based, open nomination awards program in the industry where honors are bestowed to developers by developers. Recipients were announced tonight at the 2007 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco...more click on heading

via

A member of the advisory board for the Game Developers Conference has launched a savage attack on Nintendo and its Wii console.

"The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and some duct tape, " said games developer Chris Hecker. "The Wii is a piece of s**t."

The comments came during a Burning Mad: Game Publishers Rant session during which Hecker took to the podium to answer a question he asked at last year's conference...more click on heading

via

 Microsoft’s Xbox Live has reached six million members worldwide four months ahead of the target it had set for June this year, the company revealed yesterday.

According to Microsoft, following the launch of the Xbox Live network in November 2002, gamers have spent over 2.3 billion hours on the network playing games with friends across the world – equal to 95 million days of gaming or over 260,000 years.

With the Halo 2 game on the traditional Xbox and the Xbox 360, gamers are estimated to have spent over 710 million hours playing online with over half a billion games played...more click on heading

via

Nintendo's Wii has finally surpassed Sony's PlayStation 2 in Australia. Released on 7th December, 2006 in that territory, Nintendo's new console has sold more than 68,000 units to date, with 17,000 of those coming in 2007 alone. In comparison, the Xbox 360 has sold a total of 153,000 units since launch early in 2006 and has cracked 13,000 units sold so far this year. As for the PlayStation 2, 265,000 units were sold in 2006 and sale tracker GfK states "It's still a very strong console."

Despite being so strong, though, the Wii has finally managed to edge ahead in terms of overall popularity thanks to a supply of strong games, increased hardware stock and people not buying PS2s due to waiting for the impending PlayStation 3.

via

Fans of Comedy Central’s series, “South Park,” are going to see just how good Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman really look with the launch of the first-ever high definition episode “Good Times With Weapons.” Comedy Central, a division of MTV Networks, and a unit of Viacom has partnered with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 division, to offer to Xbox Live members the HD episode free for two weeks. The episode will be available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday.

The comedy network also said that South Park’s fans will also have the chance to get their hands on a free copy of the episode from Best Buy’s retail stores, which will offer free HD DVDs of the “Good Times With Weapons” episode with the purchase of any Xbox 360 console or HD DVD drive from March 20 through April 3...more click on heading

via

Sony this week said that PS3 inventory at U.S. retail will be steady by May. The PS3 is on track to ship 2 million units in the U.S. by Mar.

Media Create Co. this week reported that PS3 game software it out of the top 30 in Japan. The system was unable to rank game titles in the latest sales data for the region. Sony this week said that Europe PS3 game titles will retail for near $80 U.S. Launch titles include MotorStorm and Resistance: Fall of Man.

Sony this week unveiled a second-generation Blu-ray disc player that will be on par with the price of a high-end PS3. The stand-alone unit is scheduled to be released this summer...more click on heading

via

via