Get ready to change your opinion about Mad Catz. The third-party controller maker may have made one of the best arcade sticks to ever grace these shores, thanks to its Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick. Not only does this stick have authentic Sanwa arcade parts, sturdy construction and an arcade-perfect button layout, it comes loaded with…
Japan’s best-selling Dissidia: Final Fantasy helped the PSP outsell the Wii this week, even though it couldn’t muster enough sales to dethrone the Nintendo DSi. Also seeing a big boost was the PlayStation 3. It even outsold the Nintendo DS Lite, still going strong in Japan to the tune of almost 50,000 handhelds sold per…
Good news. If you missed Activision Publishing president Mike Griffith’s CES talk this morning, you didn’t miss much. Outside of seeing double-bass pedals in action in Guitar Hero: Metallica, Griffith kept Activision’s 2009 plans quiet. Not so with the intro, which featured Neversoft employees wailing away at Metallica’s “Fuel” in the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica.…
Earlier this week, Sony sent us an oddly timed media bulletin, trumpeting the PlayStation 3’s value versus the Wii and Xbox 360. It also accused Nintendo and Microsoft of “peddling add-ons.” What say you, Microsoft? “First, I would say we absolutely would not want to trade places with Sony,” said Aaron Greenberg, group product manager…
Square Enix’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy returned to the top of the charts in Japan, after a week off thanks to previous champ White Knight Chronicles. How did the Level 5 RPG fare in week two? While the PlayStation 3 game slipped, it held strong in the top ten, slipping to sixth. We call that “legs.”…
3D gaming is huge at CES 2009. It’s a great gimmick that blows the mind of the buttoned down conventioneer glassy-eyed from looking at television monitors and cell phones that are 0.01% different this year. Chip maker Nvidia is attempting to lure in the mid-level manager still wowed by 3D displays, showing off Guitar Hero…
Miss Sony’s PlayStation press conference? You’re not the only one. Fortunately, G4 was there, cameras in hand, lens pointed directly at the stage, moments captured, off-screen video shot. What’s worth seeing? Previews of Resistance Retribution for the PSP, as well as inFamous and Killzone 2 for the PlayStation 3 with brand-new video, first previewed at…
Halo Wars! No, Robbie Bach isn’t bumping up the release and giving me early code, I’ll just be playing it as much as possible at CES. That and some Killzone 2. Embargoes be damned! Surely there’s no embargo on the six level preview at Sony’s CES booth, so I’ll be plopping down in front of…
Games! Or, I should say, games. Mostly older games, but games nonetheless. CES isn’t the place for four year-old tech like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. But that doesn’t mean they’re totally absent. Killzone 2, for example, is playable in Sony’s big booth, as is Resistance: Retribution. Microsoft brought pre-release builds of Warhammer 40,000:…
If you’re a new PlayStation 3 owner, don’t look at this week’s PlayStation Store update as the standard. We tend to get much better than this. Sure, there are new games, but it’s light. There’s plenty of stuff to buy, actually, just not much in the way of freebies and . For the full list,…
Radical and Activision brought a newly previewable build of the open world game Prototype to CES, showing it off in the THX booth. THX? Why? Well, Prototype is THX 7.1 certified on the Xbox 360. Obviously, Prototype sounded pretty darn good in the THX stage room. It had better, if Activision’s going to borrow demo…
Good news, girls. You’re getting new pink things! Technology is moving forward for things that girls like and we have proof from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Remember when all this stuff was white? Not anymore, as Girl Gear — which may or may not be an actual manufacturer or just an aftermarket pink supplier…
Sony dedicated one of the PlayStation 3s at its CES booth this year to show off its new partnership with Electronic Arts. The publisher’s newly announced space in Home, the EA Sports Complex, was playable. Yes, playable not just walk around-able, as we tried out the RC car racer EA Sports Racing, one of three…
Sony’s not just focusing on electronic wizardry it can sell you now, it wants to get you pumped up for products it will sell in the future. Like playing games in three dimensions. The electronics giant is dazzling CES attendees with a trio of 3D Bravia displays, purely for tech demo purposes. While the tech…
Sony’s CES booth holds promise for the wi-fi connected multimedia hound: a PSP that acts as a software remote for networked audio streams. While experimental and not yet confirmed for release, the software looks cool. The PSP basically acts as a cheaper software remote for your Sony brand AV receiver. It would give users the…
The exciting news that North American gamers will get Halo Wars a few days earlier than planned wasn’t exactly news. It was a mistake. It’s still landing on these shores March 3rd. Yes, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach misspoke during last night’s CES keynote. Nowhere in the world is Halo Wars‘ release date February 28th. It’s hitting…
Razer, maker of all things gaming, shiny and precision-oriented, have a couple of new wares readied for CES 2009 — the Razer Mamba gaming mouse and Razer Carcharias a “circumaural” headset. Oh yeah, they’re pricey! The Mamba, a sleek, “lag free” gaming mouse with the “world’s fastest 5600DPI Razer Precision 3.5G Laser sensor.” It’s got…
Sony announced at its CES keynote today that the PlayStation Network will get a big boost from MTV. The network is bringing 2,000 hours of quality* programming to Sony’s video service in February. While you may lament that that means nothing but an opportunity to pay for episodes of The Hills and Real Chance At…
Electronic Arts has the keys to Home. SCE head honcho Kaz Hirai announced the mega-publisher’s support of the PlayStation 3 virtual space at Sony’s CES keynote, with EA backing ’em up with a formal announcement. The EA Sports Complex is part of Electronic Arts’ “initial plans” for the PlayStation Home beta, bringing “exclusive new EA…
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai had some fresh PlayStation data for the CES crowd today. Probably most important to Sony’s PlayStation 3 fortunes are LittleBigPlanet sales, which Kaz says now total 1.3 million worldwide. Hirai also revealed that more than 300,000 user created levels have been made for LittleBigPlanet, with over two years of…
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