Wii breaks Xbox sales record
The Nintendo Wii is the fastest-selling games console in Australian history, snatching the title from Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
In the first four days since its launch last Thursday, 32,901 Wii units were sold nationwide, said Daniel Morse, games analyst at GfK.
This compared with the previous record of 30,421 Xbox 360s sold [...]
vNES: play Nintendo games in your internet browser
There’s a great gaming site called “vNES – The Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System” that allows you to play nintendo games from the comfort of your favorite internet browser.
There’s no need for pesky emulators or nintendo download packages, simply select the game from the scrollbar on the left hand side of your browser and then [...]
Microsoft offering free repairs for all 2005 Xbox 360s
Those Redmond folks are sure on a good news streak. After announcing 1080p upscaling and a delightfully low-priced HD DVD drive for their 360, they’re offering a helping hand to early adopters who haven’t had quite as much fun with the console.
Microsoft is offering free fixes to all problematic Xbox 360s built in 2005, [...]
Play your own Xbox game
Microsoft is trying to turn hard-core gamers into Xbox programmers.
The company plans to show off on Monday a new set of developer tools that will let college students, hobbyists and others create their own games for the Xbox 360 console, for a Windows PC or both.
Dubbed XNA Game Studio Express, the free software is expected [...]
Microsoft to release 1980s games for Xbox
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Xbox 360 may exemplify the high-tech future of video game consoles, but the company is hoping some of its avid players still pine for the good old days of Pac-Man and Frogger.
Microsoft plans Wednesday to offer some additional updated versions of popular 1980s-era games through Xbox Live Arcade, an online service that lets people [...]
Rumour Mill: Portable Xbox Called ‘Zune’?
A revelatory piece by investigative journalist Brier Dudley in yesterday’s Seattle Times claims that J Allard’s much-hyped, hugely secretive “iPod-killer” will also play games as part of a full line-up of Xbox-branded products.
According to Dudley, the project is apparently code-named ‘Argo’ – the name of Greek mythological hero Jason’s ship, as opposed to, say, code-name [...]
Microsoft Booed Over Backwards Compatibility
Having numerous advantages over other consoles, one of the most important being the backwards compatibility, Xbox 360 has all the cards to become the most popular gaming platform in the world.
But since good things don’t last forever, Microsoft is about to commit a grave error and cancel their biggest advantage.
The statement made by Peter Moore, [...]
Xbox 360 100% Hacked, Runs Backup Copies of Games – Video
The Specialist has followed this up and it looks like months of hard work have come to an end, with the Xbox 360 firmware being well and truly hacked, the security details posted a few days ago are said to be proof as well as a video, this hack will not be made available publicly [...]
