Tag: consoles
The Sims 3 headed to PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS, with added Facebook features
It was bound to happen sooner or later: The Sims 3 is headed to games consoles. Now you'll be able to take a little virtual girl or boy, buy them a little virtual house, furnish their little virtual house…
Hospital housing Yorkshire Ripper and Robert Napper given 22 Wii consoles
Broadmoor Hospital, an asylum housing criminally insane inhabitants such as the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe and murderer Robert Napper has been given 22 Nintendo Wii consoles. The total cost of the consoles amounts to £5,000 of UK tax payer's money….
Console gaming set to disappear?
Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada is laying preparatory foundations for what he predicts will soon be the death of console gaming.
Nine out of ten kids want videogames for Christmas
If there was ever doubt that gaming had become well and truly mainstream, it must now be officially extinguished. Nine out of ten kids aged between eight and eleven want something game-related for Christmas – a game, console, or peripheral of some sort…
RUMOUR: Xbox 360 price cut in the UK
Following hot on the heels of similar price cuts in the US and Japan, it’s being rumoured that the UK will see a cut in the price of Microsoft’s flagship console, the Xbox 360. Engadget have been sent a scan of a forthcoming Woolies catalogue which shows £30 being cut off the price of each model…
First sightings of the Gamepark GP3X handheld emulator
Disappointingly few people know that Sony and Nintendo aren’t the only purveyors of handheld games consoles (no I’m not counting that Gizmondo nonsense). Both of these companies also have a particularly unfriendly view of the homebrew applications, seeing as it tends to go hand in hand with piracy. Gamepark, however, is all about the homebrew scene. It has already released a number of handheld consoles of varying spec and is now gearing up to release a third – the GP3X.
NES console squeezed into light gun
Let’s see – a video games console stuffed into an unlikely chassis… It’s got to be Ben Heck up to his old tricks, right? Well, no, actually, but it’s clearly inspired by his many impressive works as it first showed up on the Ben Heck forums. This latest mod is a Nintendo 8-bit NES system, which forum poster GonzoMPM-1 has somehow managed to cram inside an old light gun controller.
80GB PlayStation 3 heading Europe in August, bundles to follow
We learned yesterday that the sort-of-new, sort-of-cut-price 80GB PS3 model was due for North America shortly. But what of little old Europe? Sony has since confirmed that the same model – a non-backwards compatible, larger capacity version of the current 40GB model – will be landing here on August 27th. The price is set at £299 / 399 Euros, the same as the current version.
Sony adds online movies and TV rental to PlayStation 3
At the ongoing E3 conference, Sony revealed its answer to Xbox Live Video Marketplace, adding online movie sales and rental to PlayStation 3 consoles. And to help persuade people make the most of the service, the company also confirmed that from September, current 40GB consoles would have their storage upped to 80GB.
