That means the PS3 won’t launch until at least the end of financial quarter, which ends in April.
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Dean Takahashi, the gaming writer at the San Jose Mercury News, scores his second gaming scoop of the week after listening in on nVidia’s quarterly corporate conference call. He noticed that nVidia says they don’t expect [...]
The San Jose Mercury News breaks Microsoft’s public relations wall and pinpoints a malfunctioning chip that could be to blame.
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Pretty much every newspaper in the country is lighting up with the scoop that part of the Xbox 360 shortage has been caused by a German chipmaker called Infineon, which, along with Samsung, produces [...]
The developer continues to mirror Electronic Arts, laying off about 7 percent of its work force after a bad financial quarter.
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Activision has announced that it’s firing about 150 employees, or 7 percent of its total force, after disappointing results during the holiday season. The cuts don’t seem to be targeting any particular part of [...]
We’re so jealous — gaming site Kikizo publishes a detailed report on playable PS3 games from three different developers.
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The tone overall: optimistic, kind of excited, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. The guys at Kikizo had a chance to play around with the PS3 thanks to three kind game [...]
Another gaming expo, another chance for the PS3 to shine. Too bad no one knows if it’ll be playable at all.
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The PlayStation 3 will be a big deal at the Taipei Game Show next week — the only problem is, we’re not sure if it’ll be a playable system or just an empty [...]
Movies released by Sony Pictures Entertainment on the new Blu-ray DVD format will sell wholesale for between $17.95 and $23.45.
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Sony announced the price structure for Blu-ray DVDs released by its movie arm, Sony Pictures Entertainment. Older movies will sell to retailers for $17.95, and new releases for $23.45. This is the price for [...]
At a gaming event at Tokyo’s UK Embassy, the developer shows off a trailer full of realistic bullets, blood and gore.
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The game in question, called “Redwood Falls,” doesn’t have a publisher yet, but Kuju showed it off at a gaming event in Japan to demonstrate the realistic physics behind blowing every piece of [...]
The bright spot in an otherwise underwhelming quarterly report — we get to play more games at launch.
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Activision’s CEO made some big PS3 announcements in his conference call about the company’s sub-par holiday earnings — the publisher plans to release three unnamed PS3 titles at the system’s launch.
This is all slated as part of [...]
You know, we doubt they get any comfort from stock analysts saying that “it probably can’t get much worse from here.”
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Like Electronic Arts before them, Activision has turned in slumping sales figures for the holiday season, and for all the same reasons. But in a somewhat comforting analysis, The Motley Fool concludes that [...]
Our buddies at KeithWardMusic.com are running a great promotion and giving away an iPod shuffle, so we thought we’d help ‘em out.
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The premise is simple, and it goes something like this:
Put Keith’s link in your AIM profile.
Enter the contest for free.
Get a chance to win the iPod.
Keith does piano-driven rock, sort of a [...]
