With Advanced Micro Devices Inc. pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long-chilled chip war with Intel Corp. may just be heating up again, analysts say.
After struggling with delayed products and bad market and mind-share woes through 2007, a lot of industry pundits started writing off AMD. And while AMD struggled, […]
Perhaps this can be considered a lesson for game developers eager to deliver tomorrow’s game technology today: Crysis hit the PC market with an exoskeleton-enhanced thud. The critically praised — but processing intensive — title sold a disappointing 86,633 units in the States following its Nov. 13 release.
Holding hands with Crysis is Epic’s Unreal Tournament […]
Thanks to Black Friday and the holiday buying season, the video games industry experienced blistering sales during November.
Nintendo walked away as the big dog, selling a record number of hardware units. The Nintendo DS handheld sold an astonishing 1.53 million units – 653,000 of them during Black Friday week. The Wii likely sold out its […]
Unit sales and price point seem to have a direct correlation in this generation’s console race. After cutting the price of its 80GB PlayStation 3 to $499 and introducing a 40GB model at $399 in November, Sony experienced a significant uptick in sales of its high-tech hardware. Nintendo’s $249 Wii, which has been the cheapest […]
In May, September 25 became a holy day for first-person shooter fans who owned an Xbox 360, as Bungie announced it would be breaking with tradition by releasing the final installment in its Halo trilogy a full two months before its anticipated November launch. Since then, the week has more or less belonged to Halo […]
London, UNITED KINGDOM – July 20, 2007 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that it will launch Far Cry® 2 in Spring 2008 for PC. Far Cry 2 is being developed in Ubisoft’s Montreal studio.
The original Far Cry® won PC Gamer’s Action Game of the Year Award in 2004. […]
You may re-reading that headline and asking yourselves “Halo 2? Isn’t that out on PC yet?”
To which we answer; “No. No, it isn’t. Now stop talking in italics.”
Halo 2, the much anticipated sequel to the original Xbox best-seller, has been delayed again. Falling back from its planned release date of May 8, i.e. Yesterday, because […]
Valve has released a new Steam update recently announcing that the long-awaited and much delayed Half-Life: Episode 2 is nearing completion.
No, really.
Valve has stated that each episode of the continuing series will have a new focus. For the first episode this focus was on NPC interaction, with the player being constantly accompanied by Gordon’s sexy […]
News on the wire over at Digitimes has said that the Xbox 360’s Xenos graphics chip will be getting a bit smaller come fall. According to equipment manufacturers in China, the new version of the chip has already been taped out and will begin production soon.
The original Xenos chip, designed by ATI, was manufactured using […]
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Elite is here, and this version of the sleek game console offers more than just cosmetic improvements. The unit’s bolstered specs–such as a 120GB hard disk drive and an HDMI 1.2 connector, perfect for today’s high-def TVs–mean more room to store digital content, and a better way to view high-definition content.
Though […]