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PlayStation 3 Online Community Matches 360

November 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Although PlayStation 3 is still third in worldwide sales, behind the Xbox 360 by about 5-million units, the PS3 community services now have as many online gamers as Xbox 360 says Sony. Sony posted on their blog saying, “with [...]

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Tags: Editorial · Microsoft · Nintendo · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360 · playstation 3

Rhythm Gaming Saturation Point?

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Rhythm Gaming is all the rage, or is it? Turns out Guitar Hero: World Tour didn’t meet or exceed the figures they hit with Guitar Hero III. Where GH3 brought in $115 million in the first week, GHWT brought in $67 million in the same time frame.
Why?
There are plenty of factors that could cut down [...]

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Tags: Accessories · Activision · Casual Games · Editorial · Nintendo · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360 · playstation 3 · rock band

Trials of a World of Warcraft Player: Entry Five

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts“The Grind”
With Wrath of the Lich King arriving last week it only made sense to jump into the new content “Lich King” style. Although we had initially reacted to the beta, playing the final content was much more fun with all of our guild and [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · Editorial · MMO · Trials of a World of Warcraft Player · world of warcraft

Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii: Who’s Winning And How

November 17th, 2008 · 20 Comments

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsPeople see facts and figures constantly and brush them off as, well, facts and figures. But, when people see charts and graphs they “oooh” and “aaaah” over them because the visualization is easy to understand. Now, thanks to the NPD Group and Deutsche Bank, people [...]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News

Future Gaming is Family Gaming

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Gaming is mainstream and growing, this is obvious to most video game enthusiasts. Even Jack Thompson has failed in taking down the industry in his efforts on video game violence and general FUD. In order to survive in a mainstream environment publishers and developers are going to target a broad demographic to make them as [...]

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Tags: Casual Games · Editorial · Family

Fanboy Turf Wars and Metacritic’s The Turf

November 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsGamers are passionate about gaming, love their games, follow the industry all while living and breathing all things game. This is the green pastures upon which fanboys are born. As we’ve seen at gamingpodcast.net, where we were hit hard by fanboy rage a few days [...]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News

Smart Business Choices During Economic Downturns

November 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Many game studios are being dropped following a bit of an economic downturn in the United States and globally. Activision has to deal with being agile enough to survive the economic times like anyone else and has dropped a few games that had great potential.
Gamers continue to ask the question, “why?” when some of their [...]

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Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Editorial · Industry News · electronic arts

Users Pwn MetaCritic Review Submissions

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Although we’ve found Metacritic a userful resource for game reviews, many folks have gone on a user submission rampage to discredit games that haven’t even launched yet. Their first attack was on LittleBigPlanet followed by Resistance 2, now their hitting Gears of War 2.

While Gears of War 2 has a Metacritic score of 94/100 the [...]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News · Xbox 360 · review

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 · Industry News · Microsoft · electronic arts

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 Xbox [...]

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Tags: Editorial · Xbox 360