Microsoft announced at Gamefest that the company will be releasing a new update this holiday season. It will be for their Games for Windows Live development tools, which allow developers to put their XBox Live Arcade games on PCs. It is still not known which titles will be available or how the system will work. Consumers want to know if the already-purchased XBLA title will need to be purchased again in order to work on PCs but this is again not known yet.  Users hope that there will not be …

Chinese IT firm Founder Electronics Co. is currently suing the developer of one of the most successful games ever, World of Warcraft. The reason stands in using some of its fonts without any permission. The company claims it lost around 132 million dollars (around one billion yuan) because of the unauthorized use of five fonts.
Founder thus filed an “interim claim” at a court in Beijing seeking for 100 million yuan in damages against Blizzard Entertainment, a Shangai based IT firm called The9 (they run the game in China) and Qinqwentuwen …

Nintendo is still dominating the UK video game scene. Of the top 10 selling games in the last week, 8 are exclusive games for Nintendo’s Wii or DS handheld console. What is interesting is that the other two titles are multi-format games that can also be played on Nintendo machines.Number one on the list was Transformers, a title based on the movie that is an all-platform game. Second place was held by DS title Pokemon Diamond and number three was Wii Play. Nintendo Wii is quickly becoming the biggest success …

Madden NFL 08 is set to appear in stores next week and is promising to offer finer controls over players, smoother visuals and an increase in dramatic action. Lead producer for Madden, David Ortiz declared:
When you look at how old the franchise is and how long we’ve been doing it, we are held to a really, really high standard. The industry says, ‘OK, another Madden game, what are they going to show us to make us think this a great game?’
Last year was not very successful for Madden. It …

Microsoft Corporation will cut the price of the Xbox 360 game console by around 13 percent in USA, in a move that is hoped to boost sales leading up to the holiday season (one targeted by many marketing strategies from different companies including competition). This move translates in a lowered price by $50, leading to a final amount of $350. We can see the move coming as a response to Sony Corp’s latest price drop of 17 percent off the sale price of the Playstation 3. Unfortunately for them this …

The Nintendo Wii is becoming more popular by the day. We now have an interesting situation: demand is higher than supply. To get your hand on one of the consoles you will have to be among the first to arrive at the stores when new batches appear. A Wii costs $250 retail price but you can find units being sold at prices between $350 and $600 on Amazon.com. Chris Byrne, an independent toy analyst declared:
“The PlayStation 1 was certainly a big introduction, but I don’t recall any game system more …

According to Microsoft Corp. the advanced version of their Xbox 360 video game console called Xbox 360 Elite will be launched in Japan on October 11. This is because Xbox 360 sales in the country are far less than that of competitors Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co. LTD’s Wii.
The Xbox 360 Elite comes with a built in 120-GB hard drive, six times bigger than that of a regular console and twice as big as a PlayStation 3. You can thus store on it thousands of audio files and even …

A recent poll organized for the readers of Edge Magazine and industry experts tried to put together a list of the top 100 games of all time. The first place was taken by a game that is 10 years old now: “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”. This was the video game that helped usher in a new era of modern 3D gaming.
To top it all up, Zelda is one of the only five games to have ever received a 10 out of 10 review by Edge. Nintendo …

 
If sitting at your computer to see how it plays Pong with itself has become boring to you, and nothing else excites you no more we have a answer for all your problems.One of the recent project at Teckjunkie will make the experience at the PC more real.The project has been dubbed Biopong, it has used a little bit of engineering knowledge, a kit from Think Geek, and a steady flow of blood to your extremities.It’s very simple, you just have to flex either of your arms to interact with …

The first ever “Tomb Raider” video game was a classic. This might be the reason why Eidos decided to do a remake of the original Lara Croft adventure and launches a “new” game entitled “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary”. It preserves a lot of the original story, environments, characters, enemies and weapons but a cosmetic makeover is of course done, puzzles are enhanced and the world is expanded. The game is launched for Windows PCs and Sony PlayStation 2. Versions for the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 are yet …

When the Nintendo Wii console was launched many thought that it will not be successfully because of the lack of graphical power it has when compared to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 or Sony’s Playstation 3 game consoles. Users did not see it that way and recent statistics show that more units of Wii were sold in the USA when compared with PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sales. The unique controller system provided by Nintendo’s console was the success of the device and its simplicity and wireless capability was very popular. Let …

Is there such a thing as video-game addiction and if so is it a psychological illness that can be treated through medical procedures? This is what a group of doctors is currently trying to discuss. The signs are common: individuals that keep staying in their rooms ignoring friends and family, showers, food while grades keep going down. If you see this with your child there is a big chance he is addicted to a video game. Some doctors consider such an addiction to be even stronger than cocaine so danger …

Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest in the very popular series, is set to be released in the fall but Take-Two Interactive Software is already set to gain money from it. In a special deal with Microsoft the gaming company will receive $50 million in order to create 2 special downloadable episodes that will be exclusive for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. In October the game will be available for both the Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 consoles. Microsoft hopes to gain even bigger popularity in the consoles war thanks to …

Ken Kuturagi, the chief architect of Sony’s PlayStation console just stepped down as the company is struggling to defend their once dominance in the video game industry. The former 56 year old Sony Computer Entertainment’s chairman and group chief executive will be replaced by Kazuo Hirai. Kuturagi was released a year ago from responsibilities as president but remained as acting chairman and chief executive. Now he will remain as an advisor at the gaming unit according to official Sayoka Henmi.
Ken Kuturagi is an icon among gamers and his departure is …

The inevitable occurred! Sony is forced to think about how much it can cut down sales price for its PlayStation 3 console. The competition (Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360) offers lower prices and this makes gamers want PS3 cheaper. Sony’s chief executive said in a statement:
“That (price cuts) is what we are studying at the moment. That’s what we are trying to refine. Nintendo Wii has been a successful enterprise, and a very good business model, compared with ours … because it’s cheaper. “
The PS3 price was lowered by …