Sony cuts price of PlayStation 3 to $410
Sony Corp said Friday it will slash the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20 percent, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.
The announcement comes just days after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would roll out an external high definition DVD player [...]
id co-owner says piracy killing PC gaming
“The death of PC gaming” is a rusty old saw that never quite goes away. Like similar predictions about the death of Apple Computer, it never quite comes true, but nevertheless it does continue to worry not only PC gamers but also PC game developers.
This was in evidence at the latest QuakeWorld, where id co-owner [...]
Clinic for game addicts swamped
A DUTCH clinic that has begun offering the world’s first treatment for computer game addicts has been overwhelmed with pleas for help from parents and children all over the world.
“It’s amazing, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Keith Bakker, the American director of the Smith & Jones clinic in Amsterdam. “The phone has been [...]
Amsterdam clinic offers gamers path back to reality
Addiction expert Keith Bakker hopes the serenity of a 16th century townhouse on one of Amsterdam’s canals will coax those snared in the fantasy world of online games back to reality.
The townhouse, where sunlight warms the honey-colored wood of the centuries-old floors, houses Europe’s first clinic for people hooked on playing online games.
It is run [...]
The Dude Tube
Will a gaming league lure boys back to TV? By the second day of the tournament the playing field at the Anaheim Convention Center is littered with pizza boxes and crushed Red Bull cans. Fans in baggy pants and baseball caps cluster around monitors for XBox and Nintendo consoles for Round 2 of the Boost [...]
Five and GameAccount to Channel Resources
Leading online skill gaming provider GameAccount, and UK terrestrial television and media station Channel Five, have joined forces to launch Five Play and Win, a dedicated skill gaming portal which will be accessible at playandwin.five.tv and www.five.tv
The unique partnership marks the first time a leading commercial terrestrial television channel has chosen to expand its platform [...]
Sony’s PlayStation 3 goes on sale
Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year.
The next generation consoles are on offer as “pre-orders” to Europeans for £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
The website says that because of an expected European shortage, it cannot guarantee delivery before Christmas.
The PS3 is the successor [...]
ATI starts first 1GB graphics card
ATI unwrapped its latest pair of workstation-oriented graphics chips – including what it claims is the first ever board to support one gigabyte of graphics memory. The FireGL parts are also the first products of their class from ATI to support Shader Model 3.0. The 1GB FireGL V7350 is accompanied by the V7300, a 512MB [...]
What Windows Vista will do for PC gaming
The launch of Windows Vista will not only fatten the pockets of Gates’ but it will also bring with it DirectX 10. “It will offer six to eight times the graphics performance of DirectX 9.0″
Set to ship at the end of the year, Windows Vista will be Microsoft’s first major operating system release since introducing [...]
