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by Stephen Withers
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Classic shooters Centipede and Millipede are coming to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, along with strategy game Catan.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Watch out PS3 – Microsoft’s black Xbox 360 Elite, unveiled a few weeks
ago, is no longer just coming to get you ‘on paper’, it’s now on store
shelves and ready for battle.
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by Stephen Withers
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My recent complaints about the cost of games drew some thoughtful responses from readers.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Google goes gangbusters in releasing the latest version of a ‘Google
for your computer’, the Google Desktop that lets users search their
computers at the same speed they can search the Internet and easily
find all their files.
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by Stan Beer
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Ken Kutaragi may have engineered the phenomenal success of the first two models of PlayStation but it appears it is a case of third time unlucky for the CEO and chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment. With PS3 sales still limping along, the longstanding games console boss has been forced into premature retirement from his position at the beleaguered company.
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by Mike Bantick
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Microsoft have released Q3 financial figures. The Entertainment and Devices Division (EDD) seems to be dragging its feet, despite Xbox 360 shipments now topping 11 Million.
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by Stephen Withers
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Sony makes some bold claims for its forthcoming PlayStation Eye camera for the PS3.
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by Stephen Withers
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An update to the Folding@home software for the Sony PlayStation 3 should further improve the console's already impressive contribution to the project's number-cruncing capability.
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by Stephen Withers
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Am I just cheap, or are games too expensive?
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by Adam Turner
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Sony has come to the rescue of struggling Australian video on demand service ReelTime.tv, snapping up almost $1m of ReelTime shares.
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by Stan Beer
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The arguments continue to rage as to whether Blu-ray is winning the high definition video format war, with new retail figures showing that Blu-ray outsold HD DVD by more than two to one for the first quarter of 2007.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Forbes’ Roger Ehrenberg thinks the Xbox 360 is doomed because it has cost a lot of money so far, and hasn’t been a huge hit in Japan, but he’s forgotten about the future.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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NPD’s figures on US sales of games consoles, both next and last-gen, show the golden age of gaming that we’re in shows no signs of abating, with Nintendo enjoying four spots in the top 10, Sony with 3 and Microsoft with the Xbox 360.
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by Stephen Withers
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Version 1.70 of the PlayStation 3 firmware paves the way for Sony to release PAL-PS3-compatible versions of PlayStation 1 games, which may occur as early as next week.
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by Stephen Withers
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Xbox owning fans of video game classic Pac-Man will soon put their skills to the test in the Pac-Man World Championship.
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by Stan Beer
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A new sample of more than 3000 Australian consumers indicates that Sony will continue to dominate the games console space in coming years, despite being late to market with the PlayStation 3. The findings of the report The Connected Home in 2007 from Connection Research suggest that Sony is likely to sell more than 100 million PS3 consoles, emulating the success of the two earlier models, according to one of the authors.
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by Stan Beer
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On the first anniversary of HD DVD hardware and movies sold to consumers, the North American HD DVD Promotional Group claimed today that sales of dedicated HD DVD consumer electronics players reached more than 100K units sold in the United States, ahead of Blu-ray.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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With WiMAX being Intel’s attempt to get Wi-Fi on steroids as the next global wireless standard running a bit late, as the world is being covered with HSDPA 3.5G (and successor) networks, Intel explained why WiMAX is better than cellular networks and put on a demo that both failed – and worked.
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