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Duke Nukem Forever Epic Trailer Released Today

Chris Burns, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [5]

It tells of a story of Duke Nukem in the past where he destroyed an invasion of aliens on the planet earth. He died, or at least disappeared without a trace, but now the aliens are back, and of course, there's more of them, and they're much more gigantic. All seems hopeless until they begin to kill... the strippers. Duke Nukem, even though he's been in hiding or dead this whole invasion cannot stand for this, thus, he is reborn in Duke Nukem Forever! All the alien slaughtering and inappropriate nude body touching, hookers, and swearing you remember from the original, and it's still slated for May 3, 2011, as confirmed by this official trailer. Read The Full Story

Nintendo 3DS Europe launch March 25

Chris Davies, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

Nintendo has already confirmed that the 3DS will land in the US on March 27 2011; now the company has revealed European pricing and availability. The 3DS will hit Europe on March 25 2011, two days ahead of the US; the street price will be determined by retailers, however, which is currently hovering around £249.99 in the UK. Read The Full Story

Grand Theft Auto Creators Sued by Shagg for $250 Million Bucks

Chris Burns, Dec 10th 2010 Discuss [5]

So you know how when you go back to your cave of video games, you open up a 2-liter of Mountain Dew, you fire up the oven to lay in some $2 pizzas or go ahead and order from some big chain like Domipapas or whatever you might call it, and you bust out the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to murder a few hundred civilians whilst stealing cars and outrunning the police? Turns out you might be living the life of none other than Michael "Shagg" Washington, a man claiming to be a backup singer from Cypress Hill. Say what? Read The Full Story

OnLive MicroConsole $99 pre-orders begin; due Dec 2

Chris Davies, Nov 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

OnLive has gone, well, live, offering open pre-orders for the company's streaming OnLive Game System with deliveries expected from December 2. Priced at $99 - complete with a free game - OnLive reckons gamers can go from opening the box to playing titles in three minutes; your money gets you a MicroConsole TV adapter, which hooks up to your internet connection, a wireless controller and all the necessary cables. Read The Full Story

More Kinect stock than in any other Xbox launch, promises Microsoft

Chris Davies, Oct 15th 2010 Discuss [2]

Microsoft is preparing more Xbox 360 Kinect units than it has readied hardware for any other Xbox launch, though UK pr-eorders have already seen retailers' stock sold out. A company spokesperson told MCV that Microsoft is "working hard" to make sure the three week period in November - when the motion-gaming system will launch across all of the markets Xbox 360 is active in - meets the "exceptional" demand. Read The Full Story

Netflix PS3 update coming Oct 18th

Chris Davies, Oct 14th 2010 Discuss [6]

Sony has confirmed that the Netflix update for the PS3 will go live on Monday, October 18th, allowing users of the console to stream TV and movie content without needing to slot a Netflix disc in first. There's also an updated UI, but more impressively select media itself will be higher resolution than before. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

R2D2 gaming mod packs 11 consoles, projector and more

Chris Davies, Sep 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Is there a better use for an old Pepsi R2D2 promo shell than stuffing it full of eleven consoles and a projector? If there is, we can't think of it; Brian DeVitis's droid has been a labor of love over the past three years, and currently contains a GameCube, N64, NES, SNES, Atari 7800, PSP, DreamCast and several other consoles along with a liberal splash of LED lighting. Read The Full Story

Sony blames pricing for PSP Go shortcomings

Chris Davies, Sep 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai has blamed pricing for the slow sales of the PSP Go, telling MCV UK that the digital-only handheld suffered by virtue of being too different from the traditional PSP. According to Hirai, "because of the cost reductions we’ve been able to do over the years, the traditional PSP has benefited. But the PSPgo is a completely different design, so the cost trend is different." Read The Full Story

Next-gen Wii is jaw-droppingly unique claims Sakamoto

Chris Davies, Sep 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nintendo has always been upfront about its challenges for the next-gen Wii console: while many gamers would be content with Full HD and some Blu-ray playback, the company has set itself the challenge of making generic hardware "unique" so as to build in meaningful surprises for their customers. According to Nintendo exec and Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, we should expect some jaw-ache after seeing the Wii successor, as it will "leave you all with your mouth open". Read The Full Story

Chinese eedoo Ebox console takes on Kinect with Lenovo’s cash

Chris Davies, Aug 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

A Lenovo spin-off team has apparently been working on a Microsoft Kinect competitor, planning to release the so-called Ebox in China as a motion-gaming rival to the Xbox 360. According to China Daily, the new firm - Beijing eedoo Technology Ltd - is targeting casual gamers with their camera-based system; the hardware is expected to be priced higher than the Wii but, according to eedoo president Jack Luo, "may be slightly lower than Microsoft's Xbox, which retails for $299.99." Read The Full Story

PlayStation controller buttons explained (by the man who designed them)

Chris Davies, Aug 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

The origins of the PlayStation controller's triangle, circle, square and cross buttons can't exactly be described as a mystery on a par with the disappearance of the Mayans, but we've always been pretty curious about where the four symbols came from. Now we know, thanks to a Famitsu magazine interview with Teiyu Goto, the man responsible for the external design of PlayStation consoles, their peripherals and accessories, for the last 17 years. In among detailing the distinctive dual-grip design, Goto says the four symbols were actually an attempt to keep things straightforward while rivals were using letters. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360′s Vejle SoC gets detailed: so good they artificially hobbled it

Chris Davies, Aug 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has come clean on the new SoC powering their refreshed Xbox 360 console, and the Vejle CPU/GPU combo is certainly worth a second glance. Produced for Microsoft by IBM and GlobalFoundries, using 45nm processes and designs from the company's own engineers, Vejle is in fact so efficient that an artificially-limiting FSB was added to scale performance down to previous 360 levels. Read The Full Story