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Entries from November 2008

Studios Closing: The Good, Bad and Ugly

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Gamers around the world are going to feel the pain in the 2009 holiday season after the economy shakes apart many great development studios. Electronic Arts feels the pain of being a public company as their investors complain about lackluster revenue, THQ deals with closing studios to extend their runway and other firms will lose […]

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Tags: Editorial · electronic arts · Industry News · Microsoft

Circuit City Denied Sony Shipment, In Transit

November 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Circuit City seems to have a problem paying their bills or so it seems, as Sony stopped their shipments mid-transit and returned them before hitting the distributors command center. In this unfavorable market climate, with the holidays around the corner, it seems bad for Circuit City to lose the trust of Sony. Sony is afraid, […]

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Tags: Industry News · Sony

Will Xbox Live Survive 2008 Holiday Stress?

November 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

This year many gamers will open new consoles for the holidays and many of those same gamers are going bring their console “live” on Xbox Live the same day. Traditionally we’ve found Xbox Live falls under the weight of the holiday rush much like Apple’s iTunes. Will we repeat history again? Although a fully loaded […]

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Tags: Editorial · Xbox 360

Blu-ray Doesn’t Validate Your Console, Sony

November 2nd, 2008 · 34 Comments

Is Blu-ray dead? Tech Sites around the Net are calling it a “death spiral” and we’re now looking at the downfall of the winning high definition format. Many non-PS3 Blu-ray players are still in the USD $200.00 range, a bit high for mass market adopters, and people aren’t planning to run out and buy a […]

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Tags: Accessories · blu-ray · Editorial · Xbox 360

Games 2.0: User Generated Gaming?

November 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a world driven by the Internet, global economics and the short attention spanned reader we’ve been bombarded with social networks and 140-character micro-blogging. We’re constantly finding ways to promote ourselves, promote our brands or tell people what we’re eating for dinner. Is this obsession with ourselves and our creativity bridging into video games? It’s […]

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Tags: Casual Games · Editorial

Trading Used Games, Like Fraud?

November 1st, 2008 · 6 Comments

David Braben, founder of Frontier Developments, says retail outlets that buy and sell pre-owned games are “essentially defrauding the industry.” Although multiplayer gaming might not be a huge threat, the single player experience in games may die out because gamers play the game quickly and resell it back to places like GameStop for others to […]

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Tags: Console Games · DRM · Editorial · Rant