No one can say that the PS3 hasn’t been a success in the console market, but it has lagged behind the family friendly Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s powerful Xbox 360 in terms of sales. This was mainly due to it being delayed when it first came out and its price, which was substantially more than [...]
Nintendo has announced that the Wii MotionPlus add-on for the Wii controllers will be released on the 8th of July in the US and the 12th July in UK and Europe. Funnily enough, Wii Sports Resort, which will use the MotionPlus system, will not be released till the 24th July in the US and a [...]
Last week the new Nintendo DSi handheld gaming console was released in the UK. The new device has been revamped and Nintendo is hoping for the new console to maintain its handheld console dominance.
The original Nintendo DS sold over 100 million devices worldwide and the new DSi is set to continue the trend. The [...]
A new way of video game distribution has been unveiled at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Called OnLive, the new system aims to let users’ stream on-demand video games straight to their PC’s and TV’s using a new distribution network.
The new OnLive service could provide competition for the high-end games consoles such as [...]
MSI have released their newest gaming laptop, designed for all of your gaming needs when you’re on the move. Called the GT735, this powerhouse of a laptop boasts a 2.2GHz AMD Truion X2 Ultra Dual-Core processor, 4GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive and a super fast Radeon HD3850 Graphics card with 512MB DDR3 memory.
Built for [...]
Leading UK retailer of PC and Video games GAME has announced that it will be launching a game rental service on its website. The new service, which is similar to online movie rentals, will allow avid game players to borrow up to 2 games at a time for a monthly fee.
Customers can choose a [...]
Microsoft has release a rival to Playstation’s hugely popular karaoke Singstar game. Called Lips, this new game is similar to the Singstar franchise in that players sing their favourite tunes and score points for mimicking their idols; the closer to the original vocal the more points are scored.
The Lips game come complete with two [...]
Verdict Research has released a report that says that the sales in computer games will exceed music and video sales in the UK this year. It will be the first time that games will outstrip music and video and shows a shift in consumer attitudes, and that video games are becoming the UK’s most popular [...]
Alienware has announced a new notebook to add to its series of high-powered gaming laptops. Called the M17 (not to be mixed up with the M17x), this power house of a laptop is the first to incorporate the Intel 2 mobile quad-core processor and Alienware’s first laptop to have the ATI CroffFireX dual graphics card [...]
Midway and XS Games have announced a new guitar game and add-on peripheral exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. The game, called PopStar Guitar is basically a copy of the highly popular Guitar Hero franchise, but instead of having a guitar shaped controller, a slip on Wii remote add-on is used.
The new AirG peripheral provides the [...]