Tag: console
Game over for Nintendo?
NINTENDO recently posted their first annual loss since becoming a public company, reporting a massive $530 million loss. They blamed the rising yen and price cuts on its consoles. Nintendo said sales dropped 36.2 percent year on year to 647.65 billion yen, adding that it “could not recover from a sales slump of Nintendo 3DS [...]
Disney’s social gaming plan
DISNEY is getting in on the social gaming action. DeNA Co., Ltd., Japan’s leading mobile social gaming platform operator, and The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd. (Disney) have announced this week that the companies have agreed to bring mobile social games to millions of players worldwide, through DeNA Group’s Mobage social gaming platform. The two [...]
Playstation 4 = Orbis?
RUMOURS are in full force today about the reported Playstation 4. According to speculation on Kotaku, the next Sony console may be released at Christmas time, will require a permanent connection and won’t be compatible with PS3 games. The website also pondered on the device’s alleged name, Orbis. “It’s also a name loaded with meaning. [...]
Mario is mathematically hard
IF YOU have ever struggled to complete classic Nintendo games, don’t feel bad – they are officially difficult. An analysis of the computational complexity of video games, including those in the Mario and Legend of Zelda series, proves that many of them belong to a class of mathematical problems called NP-hard. This means that for [...]
And the winner is…
PICK your controllers back up again, because the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards are over for another year. The biggest gaming event on every gamers calendar took place at London’s Park Lane Hilton last week and raised the bar yet again. Comedian Dara O’Briain hosted the event, which was attended by the likes [...]
Xbox 2013 launch?
MICROSOFT will be releasing their Xbox in 2013, according to the latest rumours. Its been widely reported in the past few hours that the firm may reveal the device to its Xbox 360 in June 2013 at the E3 conference and put it on sale that same year, said the people, who declined to be [...]
Gadget geek heaven
THE UK’s biggest and best consumer event, Gadget Show Live 2012, is now selling tickets for those who want to be a part of the tech hub. Taking place at Birmingham’s NEC from 11 – 15 April, the five-day event is the perfect place to see, try and buy the very latest tech – with many products making their debut.
Vita vital to gamers?
Has it settled into the gaming community though? According to an article in forbes.com “Pundits, worry that the era of the dedicated gaming console might be over, but fanboys defend the system to the death…
Jump into Mario’s world
NewsScoop caught up with Andy Robertson, respected writer for Wired.co.uk who runs the Game People videogame review site and tells us why Mushroom Kingdom has never been safer…
May the force be with you…
TODAY, Xbox 360 and LucasArts are excited to announce “Kinect Star Wars” and the Xbox 360 Limited Edition “Kinect Star Wars” console bundle will both be available on 3rd April, 2012 in the UK for £39.99 and £349.99 respectively.
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