News

What It Will Take To Win The Next Console War

Veteran video game designer Soren Johnson doesn’t pick Great Motion Controls or Best Graphics as the most important weapon in the next generation of video game console wars. He picks the thing that Apple’s doing so well.


March 16, 2011
Mobile

Why Does The iPad Need To Kill Consoles?

Rovio’s Angry Birds is huge. Cultural touchpoint. The sort of thing Jon Stewart can joke about on The Daily Show without qualification. But that doesn’t make Rovio executive Peter Vesterbacka an expert on the videogame market. iPads aren’t killing consoles.


March 8, 2011
PlayStation

Game Consoles Transformed Into Hot Women Should Be More Exciting Than Hyperdimension Neptunia

In the future, all wars will be fought by Japanese anime women wearing revealing battle suits. For the console wars the future in now, thanks to Hyperdimension Neptunia.


February 9, 2011
News

Begun The Console Press Release Wars Have…

Kotaku AU

With the GfK results for 2010 being released today, citing a 16% drop in overall sales, both Sony and Microsoft were quick off the mark, shooting out press releases within 30 minutes of one another, each bursting with hyperbole regarding the incredible year they’ve both had. But who was the winner in this console arms race? I’m not sure. I’m so confused…


June 19, 2010
News

The Console Wars In Sexy Comic Book Form

When one gamer’s FoxBox630 fails, he trades up to the ESexy3. When the FoxBox630 returns from the shop, it’s war. This is Ryan Kinnaird’s Next Gen Warz, a two-issue comic series due in September from Image Comics.


June 10, 2010
News

Microsoft: Halo 3 Outsells Uncharted, Killzone & Resistance Combined

The public relations war we sometimes call E3 has begun a few days early, it seems, with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg taking to Twitter to fire a shot across Sony’s bow in the leadup to the big trade show.


May 18, 2010
In Real Life

The Origins & A Brief History Of ‘Fanboy’

The epithet “fanboy” may be one of the useful verbal barbs one can sling at the faithful follower of technology—consumer electronics, video games or otherwise—as the console wars rage on. Where did this catch all insult come from?


May 14, 2010
News

Nintendo Continues Hardware Kill Streak In Slow April

The Wii and Nintendo DS killed the competition in the United States last month, partly because the other hardware makers didn’t put up much of a fight. It was, bluntly, an ugly month for video game sales.


April 29, 2010
News

Firm: Sony Brand Less Valuable Than Microsoft, Cigarettes, Beer, Toothpaste

Millward Brown Optimor, a “global brand strategy” analyst firm, just stepped into a heaping pile of fanboy doodoo with its latest rankings of the 100 most valuable brands in the world, pegging Sony at 94th. Nintendo is 32nd, Microsoft fourth.


April 16, 2010
News

Pokémon Helps Nintendo Walk To March Hardware Domination

As it is wont to do, Nintendo dominated hardware sales in the United States in March, the Nintendo DS and Wii combining to move more than a million shiny new game machines last month.