November 6, 2006

Kotaku.com has published a hands-on review of the new Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess game for the new Nintendo Wii console. The review features many screenshots of the game, and describes gameplay in detail.

August 9, 2005

Tom's Hardware has published a PC game preview guide for the upcoming holiday season. The article takes a look at the newest upcoming games, including Age Of Empires III, Black And White 2, Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood, Call Of Duty 2, Civilization IV, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, F.E.A.R., Quake 4, and Star Wars: Empire At War.

June 2, 2005

ArsTechnica has published an extensive multi-part article looking at the technical insides of the Xbox 360. Among the features covered are the multi-core Xenon PowerPC CPU, the advanced GPU, use of procedurally generated geometry and real-time skin mapping, the multi-level cache architecture, VMX-128 vector processing, symmetric multi-threading, and more. In addition, there are plenty of comparisons to the architecture of the Sony PS3.

May 23, 2005

Bit-Tech has published a lengthy five part series of articles looking closely at SLI technology from NVIDIA. The articles look at motherboards, specific SLI graphic cards, game performance, optimum CPU selection, power supply requirements, and more.

May 18, 2005

Nintendo unveiled their new Game Boy Micro at E3 on Tuesday. The game device is about the size of an iPod mini, plays all the same games as the Game Boy Advance SP, but is lighter and has a much brighter screen than previous devices. In addition, the Game Boy Micro also supports standard headphones. According to Nintendo, the Game Boy Micro will be available in the Fall of 2005.

May 17, 2005

GameSpot has published photos and specifications for Sony's new PlayStation 3 game console. Features include a Cell Processor running at 3.2 GHz with 8 SPE processing cores, an RSX graphics unit running at 550 MHz, full HD video output at 480i/480p/720p/1080i/1080p, Dolby 5.1 channel sound with DTS, 256 MB of XDR RAM at 3.2 GHz, 256MB of GDDR3 VRAM at 700 MHz, 2.5" HDD slot, 6 USB 2.0 ports, MemoryStick port, SD port, CompactFlash port, three Gigabit Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, up to 7 wireless game controllers, full PS2 game compatibility, dual HDMI video ports, media compatibility with Blu-Ray/DVD/CD/SACD, and more. There are several video clips from the Sony press conference at E3, including clips of game demos. See the bottom of the GameSpot article for links.

May 13, 2005

After yesterday's announcement of the Xbox 360, a number of web sites have published detailed information about the Xbox 360 console and related games. GameSpot.com has a 10 minute video of the Xbox 360 in action along with game developer interviews.

May 13, 2005

Microsoft has finally published the official specifications of the Xbox 360. As rumored, the game system has three 3.2 GHz PowerPC CPU cores, an ATI graphics chip, and much more. See the specifications for additional details.

May 10, 2005

A few Japanese programmers have released a Game Boy emulator for the Sony PSP. Several videos of the program in action have also appeared on the web.

May 9, 2005

ActiveWin has posted detailed specifications for the Xbox 360. Media features include support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, and JPEG Photo CD. Video output support is 16:9 at 720p and 1080i with anti-aliasing. Other features include 3 symmetrical 3.2 GHz PowerPC cores with 2 hardware threads and 1 vector unit per core as well as 1 MB of L2 cache, an ATI 500 MHz graphics core supporting 48 floating-point shader pipelines, 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM, 256+ channel audio, 3 USB 2.0 ports, support for 4 wireless controllers, detachable 20GB drive, Wi-Fi ready networking, more than a dozen new Xbox Live features, and more.

May 3, 2005

Engadget has published a two-part interview with Bill Gates, where he talks extensively about the Xbox 360, Windows Mobile 2005, HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, Windows Media Center, IPTV, and Tablet PCs. The only topic not discussed is Longhorn.

April 26, 2005

Electronic Arts has announced that they are now shipping NBA Street Showdown and FIFA Soccer for the PSP game platform. Both games feature EA Pocket Trax which allow playback of game music. NBA Street Showdown features three-on-three streetball action. FIFA Soccer features multiple modes, including season, tournament, and challenge.

April 25, 2005

Tom's Hardware has published a long and very informative review of the Sony PSP game system. The article takes a close look at the device itself with special attention paid to USB, Wi-Fi, third-party accessories, and movie playback functionality. In addition, a number of top selling PSP games are also reviewed, including Ridge Racer, Lumines, Metal Gear Acid: Solid Snake, The Lone Wolf, Twisted Metal: Head-On, Wipeout Pure, Untold Legends: Brotherhood Of The Blade, and Spider-Man 2.

April 23, 2005

Supposed pictures of Microsoft's Xbox 360 have hit the web. Some sites are claiming that they are fake, while other sites claim validation by developers who have seen the real Xbox 360. You be the judge.

April 20, 2005

Sony Online Entertainment, the company that runs the multiplayer online games EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, has set up an auction for the buying and selling virtual goods. The service, called Station Exchange, allows players to purchase and sell virtual weapons, armor, coins, and high-level game characters using real money. The service is expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year for Sony. In related news, Microsoft announced earlier this month that it would allow micropayments within its Xbox Live service for players who want to purchase game items while playing.

April 19, 2005

According to a recent survey, in-game advertising revenue is expected to grow to $1 Billion per year by 2010, and to $2.5 Billion per year a few years after that. These projected revenues depict three different types of game related ad revenues: product placement in console and online games, games designed around specific products, and advertising placed in cell phone games.

April 11, 2005

Microsoft has decided to leapfrog Sony's May 16th announcement of the PlayStation 3 by moving up their own unveiling of the next-generation Xbox to May 12th and broadcasting it globally on MTV. The title of the program is "MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed".

April 9, 2005

According to GameIndustry.biz, Microsoft and Sony are both set to announce their new consoles on May 16th, only hours apart. According to news reports and speculation, the PS3 will use a Cell CPU, an NVIDIA graphics processor, and Blu-Ray discs, while the Xbox 2 will use a PowerPC CPU, an ATI graphics processor, and DVD discs. The official names of both consoles have yet to be announced.

April 4, 2005

id Software and Activision today released Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil for the XBox. According to the companies, the game features CG-quality graphics and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The game supports two-player cooperative play and up to eight players when played over XBox Live.

April 2, 2005

Tom's Hardware has published a review of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, along with a number of screenshots from the game. As the first major title to incorporate Shader Model 3.0 into its graphics engine, this game offers a glimpse of the exciting things to come.