News: Last.fm free to Xbox Live Gold users
02-07-2009Albeit ad-supported. Options detailed. Xbox 360 owners will be able to access Last.fm to varying degrees whether they have a Gold or Silver account, but full ad-free access will require a premium Last.fm subscription. That's according to Christina DeRosa from Xbox Live, who told Joystiq that Silver users will get some form of time-limited access w...
Microsoft Debuts Kodu On Xbox Live Community Games Channel
02-07-2009Microsoft's Kodu Game Lab launched on Xbox Live's Community Games channel for $5 on Wednesday, bringing to market a "new visual programming language" that's made to be accessible enough for children to make games. Kodu, known originally as Boku, utilizes an icon-based language to allow inexperienced users to create small games with no programming ...
Hands on review: Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller
02-07-2009The quest for ultimate realism in rhythm game controllers continues. First the state of the art of gaming drums was upped with the advent of the Ion Drum Rocker , a professional-class electronic drum kit with outputs for your Xbox. Now Logitech enters the fray for guitar freaks, with the highest-quality, most realistic guitar controller to hit the...
Sony's PS3 in Danger Zone
02-07-2009Sony's PS3 in Danger Zone...
Sony Patents PS2 Software Emulation, Already Offers It
02-07-2009When it comes to the PlayStation 3, it's apparently easy to confuse the game blogs. They've picked up on an incidental story by a tech site that communicates in fragments concerning Sony's recent filing to patent emulation of its legacy PS2 Emotion Engine vis-a-vis its "cell" processor. The cell processor, you'll recall, is the cerebral cortex of ...
PS3 could play PS2 games again as Sony patents technology
02-07-2009Siliconera reports that Sony has patented new technology that allows the PlayStation 3 to play all PlayStation 2 games. The article explains that the technology works by emulating the PS2's Emotion Engine, which would enable the PS3 to be backwards compatible with PS2 games. This is a feature that was present in the first generation of the PS3 but...
Game review: 'Grand Slam Tennis' for Nintendo Wii
02-07-2009Before the Wii was marketed as a system for everyone, it was pegged as a beacon for unprecedented immersion....
Stealth Checking Xbox 360 Games With abgx360 and Nautilus
02-07-2009Ubuntugeek: "If you're like me, you've jumped through a million hoops to get abgx360gui working. But you can only get the command line interface working. No problem, we'll create a script for Nautilus to easily launch abgx360 to check your Xbox 360 games."...
Blizzard's Rob Pardo on Console MMORPGs
25-06-2009Blizzard's VP of game design Rob Pardo talks about the difficulties facing console MMORPGs....
Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix: Xbox Live Deal of the Week
25-06-2009Last week, Xbox Live offered a deal that allowed Silver members to upgrade to Gold for one dollar for up to a month. This week, those who are currently Gold members can download the full version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix for 800 Microsoft points ($10) which is marked down from the original 1200 ($15). That's a 33% discount, which i...
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