Source: IGN
Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo is planning to collaborate with electronics giant NEC on the creation of the GameCube's next-generation hardware successor. The home console, which sources have indicated could debut in 2005 against Sony's PlayStation 3, is still without an official title or codename.
Source: Games Asylum
Since the launch of the Xbox, Halo has remained the only genuine reason to own an Xbox. Nine months on, and the Xbox needs another killer app to satisfy the Christmas season. It seems Ubi Soft’s Splinter Cell is the only viable candidate, for the majority without Xbox Live. Fortunately the realism and style lavished on this Tom Clancy franchise may just pay off.
Source: Games Asylum
Melting ice caps, invading aliens, global warming and psycho killer robots. If films, books and video games are anything to go by the not too distant future is going to be pretty grim. But it's apparently not all doom and gloom. You see, Toxic Grind takes place in 2097 where BMXing is illegal. Just think - no more baggy jeaned teenagers hanging around outside McDonalds on a Saturday afternoon on their pavement cluttering BMX bikes. Brilliant!
Source: CNN.com
The much-anticipated release from the "Grand Theft Auto" franchise hits shelves this week, and based on our own expert's reaction, fans of the series should have plenty of fun after loading "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" into their Sony PlayStation 2.
Source: CS Nation
Prelude A few weeks ago, someone on the SoGamed forums made a little joke. They posted an obviously fake e-mail from Erik Johnson and then said something like "I wish." Okay, so my memory is as fuzzy as my hair after sitting in a bathtub with a toaster, but the point is that this e-mail was not real.
CS 1.6 will not revert to CS 1.3's jumping style, diagonal walk speeds, or weapon accuracies/balance.
Source: PC PRO
reaper: Team Xecuter
the teams site
http://www.x-ecuter.com/
The teams claim that their modifications opens the door to allow the Xbox to perform a number of tricks that Microsoft and graphics chip designer Nvidia would prefer it didn't.
Source: 2600
In what appears to be a first, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has made direct threats against a user of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network for simply downloading a pirated movie.
Source: CNet News
Yahoo on Monday will unveil a new service that lets users pay to play popular PC games, many of which are not available anywhere else on the Internet.
The company is hoping the service, called Games on Demand, will bring more of the die-hard gaming community to its site and drive demand for the new broadband service it launched earlier this month through a partnership with SBC Communications.
The Greek government has banned all electronic games across the country, including those that run on home computers, on Game Boy-style portable consoles, and on mobile phones. Thousands of tourists in Greece are unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison for owning mobile phones or portable video games. Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids electronic games with "electronic mechanisms and software" from public and private places, and people have already been fined tens of thousands of dollars for playing or owning games.
