The three game console creators have kicked off this year's E3 -- the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- with their respective press conferences. As the console war heats up, these press conferences gain new significance as the gaming ...READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Apr 9, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Nielsen's most recent study of video gamer habits was widely reported and made for great headlines in the gaming press this week. Too bad some key information in the report was wrong. After a follow-up with Gavin McMillan of ...READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 100 Fri May 13, 2005 at 11:25 AM
Last night was a first for the video game industry. Microsoft unveiled their new console, the Xbox 360, on an MTV special. While the program felt like a cheesy variety show, the few glimpses of the next generation games were ...READ»
Microsoft held its annual Xbox 360 press conference this morning at the Los Angeles Convention Center to kick off E3. I arrived about 30 minutes after the conference already started because of a late flight but apprently I didn't ...READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 88 Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Microsoft continues to push the social networking and entertainment capabilities of the Xbox 360--games on demand and group movie viewing are two such features due in the next system update (due in August). We asked Shane Kim, Microsoft's VP of Strategy and Business Development for Interactive Entertainment, about the evolution of Xbox Live and what the launch of Project Natal means for the business.READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 82 Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 11:52 AM
With several announcements at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week, the high-definition landscape has become a quagmire. The hi-def war was once a simple battle between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD--each format ...READ»
One panel at ad:tech focused on new media exclusively--the advertising opportunities to be found in video games. The CEO of Massive, the Microsoft-owned game advertising company, cited that the company has already provided ads for 85 ...READ»
Yesterday, along with a slew of new functions in its Xbox 360 system update, Microsoft launched its Games on Demand store with full Xbox 360 titles for download. Is this move a game-changer or just business as usual?READ»
BYGreg Spotts Relevancy Score: 76 Fri Jan 26, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Often referred to as the “Netflix of video games,” the GameFly online video game rental service allows users rent a game, play it as much as they want, and then send it back in a postpaid envelope. As soon as GameFly receives ...READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 75 Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM
In 2008, titles like Grand Theft Auto IV (5 million copies) and Wii Fit (4.5 million) helped the game industry reach $21 billion in sales. But with the recession, gaming may struggle to stay on top in 2009. So how will the big three ...READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 75 Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM
At a press event at the GamesCom convention in Germany today, Sony announced that the long-rumored slimmer PS3 will be released September 1 for $299, a $100 price drop from its current PlayStation 3. The console will have a 120 ...READ»
Can choice be a bad thing? After years of enjoying friends' Xbox 360s, I decided to go buy one of my own. But then which do you buy? Microsoft currently has four models of the Xbox 360 available. It is further complicated by the fact ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 67 Sun Jul 5, 2009 at 5:31 PM
It may shock you to hear that I know very little about video gaming. OK, that's actually an overstatement. I know nothing about video gaming. That's not to say I don't have deep admiration, nay, awe for folks who not only understand ...READ»
Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics produces a new series of incendiary videos to alert people about how the big video-game system makers need to do more to rid their consoles of toxic chemicals.READ»
Leave it to Yoichi Wada—president of final fantasizer Square Enix, the biggest Japanese game house—to break the news about the next generation Nintendo Wii. All while predicting that Microsoft and ...READ»
BY Michael A. Prospero Relevancy Score: 54 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM
Consumer-electronics companies are embracing the open-source model--enlisting volunteer developers, designers, and just regular folk--to create cooler products for all their customers.READ»
