Gamer

Xbox 360 price cuts no surprise in battle for supremacy
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

After the Nintendo Wii and PS3 launched in 2006, preceded by the Xbox 360’s 2005 debut, all three consoles now have excellent software libraries and plenty of users. While the Nintendo Wii still leads in total consoles sold, Microsoft has more than 300 games and great popularity all its own, a nice price cut pre-Christmas looks a very timely move.


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Asus delivers “world first” Quad Core gaming notebook
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although high powered notebooks have been available for some time from the likes of Toshiba, Alienware, Dell and others, Asus says its quad core G Series gaming notebook is a "world first".


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Pokémon Darkrai rises on Nintendo DS at Toys-R-Us and Target
By: David M Williams

The way of Pokémon is to “catch them all” and soon Australian Nintendo DS gamers will be able to catch the brand new pocket monster Darkrai for free at two major retail outlets. But who is Darkrai and how do you get him?


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Nintendo’s DSi – perfect or could have been better?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Nintendo’s upgraded handheld games console has been dubbed the DSi, coming with interesting new features that could well have been better, although only Japan will get it before Christmas, with the rest of the world missing out – until 2009!


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Halo 3 controversy: Maddie, where are you?
By: Davey Winder

Halo developer Bungie stands accused of using the disappearance of 4 year old British girl Madeleine McCann to publicise the forthcoming Halo 3 expansion pack. Could anyone really be that sick?


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Xbox Pure was actually contaminated
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Xbox Pure was meant to be the name of an upcoming Xbox 360, perhaps a slimline version or a new 360 successor, but has turned out to be a fake blog posting to see which games sites would run with it. With so many rumours online, was this a fair test of a gamer site’s fact-checking skills?


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Microsoft gives gamers the Blues with SideWinder X8
By: Stephen Withers

Hot on the heels of Microsoft's BlueTrack announcement comes news that the company will be building the technology into a SideWinder gaming mouse. Don't bother asking Santa for one - it won't arrive until February 2009.


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I'm too sexy for your Nintendo
By: Davey Winder

Think geek and sexy girls (or guys for that matter) with very little on does not usually come to the front of your imagination. That could all change as controllers built into underwear make pressing all the right buttons much more interesting...


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Do PC gamers need a new online defence system?
By: Davey Winder

As BitDefender releases its GameSafe security product for online PC gamers into the UK market, we ask if it is actually all that new or exciting or necessary...


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Parents say chugging beer and watching porno less harmful for kids than playing GTA
By: Davey Winder

According to a new poll, parents are more concerned about their kids being exposed to video games than they are them either swigging back a beer or watching a porno flick. If that wasn't surprising enough, it seems that sex in games is a bigger parental turn off than virtual violence...


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Brits from Birmingham rule the gaming world
By: Davey Winder

The Olympics are about to start in Beijing and, to be fair, the British are not expecting to need too big a box to bring their gold medals home in. Shame, then, that computer gaming is not an Olympic event...


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Chinese man kidnaps himself for Wii ransom
By: Davey Winder

Just how far would you go to get hold of a Nintendo Wii? One chap in China thought that arranging his own kidnapping was the obvious route to gaming glory. It could have been worse, people have been killed over the Xbox...


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Nintendo: Devs knew about Wii MotionPlus, more storage coming
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

One of the big criticisms of Nintendo’s E3 announcement of the Wii MotionPlus add-on for more accurate motion control is that it kept the announcement to itself, leaving developers to learn about it through E3 – but it turns out that’s not quite the truth. An added storage option for the Wii is also being worked on!


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E3: biggest surprise was from Nintendo
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

For all the talk of new wireless motion controllers from Sony and Microsoft, the company that brought out a new motion controller was... Nintendo! That aside, it looks like there were plenty of new games launched, new online content, upgrades and a push towards more co-operative gameplay.


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PlayStation 3 opens up to in-game advertising
By: Davey Winder

Phil Rosenberg, Senior Vice President at Sony Computer Entertainment America has gone on record today to state that the "PS3 is open for the ad business" and how contextual in-game advertising is "positive for the games medium." What does he mean, and is it a good thing for gamers?


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E3: Sony should announce cheaper PS3s for the world (and Australia!)
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With the Xbox 360 getting nice price cuts, and the Wii still competitively priced, the pricey PS3 looms large as the most expensive console with games and graphics that aren’t all that different from the Xbox 360. E3 is the moment Sony should grab hold of with both hands to slice the PS3’s price!


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PS3 2.41 update arrives early as Microsoft calls Wii “novelty”
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although said to arrive on Wednesday, for many the PS3 2.41 firmware update became available on Tuesday, wiping out the frustration of waiting for a pulled 2.40 update that had caused some users to experience the pain of a “bricked” PS3.


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Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo set to shock and awe at E3
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

All three major console makers are promising big announcements at E3 to surprise us all, but in a shaky economic environment, will the gaming industry’s golden age survive? A major forecast says yes – but is it right?


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