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 The new „Xbox Experience” is the name for the system update of the Xbox 360. Free updates will go live on November the 19th. Microsoft calls the new update an “entirely new experience”, but it’s just a streamlined menu system with a better online store and the addition of streaming movies. The feature “Game Marketplace” organizes all of...
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 Lucas Arts and BioWare unveiled “Star Wars: The Old Republic” at a press event at Lucas Arts’ headquarters in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon. The video game is a new massively multiplayer online one. The two companies did not divulge a release date and it appears that they will not show any live game play. However, even if a release...
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 Microsoft said last summer that it would soon unveil a new piece of its larger Xbox 360 Live known as “Primetime”. Basically, it would be an ongoing series of game shows that players could participate in with friends using the new Xbox Live Experience. Despite this information, Microsoft has decided to put off the launch of the Primetime...
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 Lyrics in a background song from Sony’s “LittleBigPlanet” delayed the release of the PS 3 video game until October the 28th. By that time, company will remove the “Tapha Niang” song from world music artist Toumani Diabate. Some lyrics translate from Arabic in “Every soul shall taste of death” and “All that is on Earth shall perish”,...
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 Nintendo Wii keeps 1st position in the battle of video game
consoles. Xbox 360 keeps its advantage over the PS3. This follows a price cut
from the Microsoft console that made Xbox 360 the cheapest of them all, $50
less than the Wii and half the price of the PlayStation 3. Even if it is said
that September is a slow month, this year...
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 Presidential candidate Barack Obama is the first politician
that makes his campaign ads turn up in video games. The Obama campaign has
purchased ad spots in several games: “Burnout Paradise”, “Madden NFL ‘09”, “NASCAR
‘09”, “NHL ‘09”, “NBA Live ‘08”, Need for Speed (Carbon and ProStreet), "NFL
Tour" and Skate....
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 Microsoft has officially announced that its Xbox 360 Pro version will have its price cut with $50, and will therefore start being sold at $299 effective today. What is more, the company has announced that it will introduce a new model of its gaming console that will feature a 60 GB hard disk. The new model will become available in...
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 Microsoft has announced that it will cut $50 from the price of its popular gaming console, the Xbox 360. This will make the 40 GB Xbox 360 Pro to sell for $299. The move will bring the device to about $50 dollars from Nintendo’s Wii, which sells for $250 and which currently holds the largest market share.It will be interesting to see...
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 It is now official: Fallout 3 is not going to be seen in the Australian stores’ game sections. The website of Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has recently been given an update which showed Fallout 3 in the refused category. An official statement as to why this happened hasn’t been yet issued. However,...
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 According to Thomson Financial, Nintendo’s 2008 plan includes the launch of a "localized" edition of its DS system in Taiwan. The company intends to release the device later on this month for Taiwan and sometime at the end of the year on the Chinese market.Last month Nintendo, currently largest portable game console maker in...
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