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Might Want To Wash That 360 Once You Get It Home
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Taken from the “storage area” of a reader’s local GameStop.
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So, How Many Homes Have A Games Console?
2:40PM Luke Plunkett | We hear a lot about how gaming has gone “mainstream” these days, that everyone is playing on a Wii, or a PS2, or whatever. Well, they’re not. More »
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The Console Market As Of Next New Year’s Eve, According To Activison
7:00AM Stephen Totilo | During Activision Blizzard’s conference call announcing its second quarter results today, the company shared its best guess for the console market circa 12/31/09. More »
Novint Falcon Soon To Confuse Console Gamers Too
7:00AM Mike Fahey | With the peculiar-looking Novint Falcon finally gaining some solid support in mainstream games, such as Valve’s Left 4 Dead, the company plans on bringing the 3D controller to consoles. More »
The Witcher On Consoles Will Get DLC And Just Generally Be Awesomer
8:20AM Stuart Houghton | CD Projekt RED have confirmed that the console port of ace PC RPG The Witcher will be propped up with some choice DLC and come with a host of improvements to boot. More »
Xmas Console Sales Affected By Piracy. No, Seriously.
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | It’s all fun and games using ‘Piracy’ to describe copyright infringement when you want to reframe the debate and equate the sharing of intellectual property with aquatic larceny, but what happens when your actual ship-based armed robbers yo-ho-ho into view? What then, Mr cognitive linguistics smartypants? More »
Casual Games Will Make Consoles Extinct – Clickz
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | “Digital Marketing” experts Clickz have a theory – casual games are becoming the dominant form of gameplay and are killing the console market deader than a particularly dead doornail. More »
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Energy Star To Release Eco-Specs For Game Consoles
2:40PM Stuart Houghton | As you know, Bob, Energy Star is a joint initiative of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy tasked with setting guidelines for energy efficiency. There is probably an Energy Star Logo on your computer somewhere, unless you live in the 1980s. More »
Consoles, Who Needs ‘em?
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Apparently not John Welch, CEO of casual games company PlayFirst. He says that the console per se is a “niche platform” and that they’re just too expensive to make. His argument: I think the biggest proof point in the death of consoles in my thesis is the Wii. The most successful, most difficult to acquire console in this generation is at least a generation old in hardware. The advances are in software and peripherals. Why do you need a box for that? If the real expansion is occurring because of what Nintendo has done, why do we even need a console? The technology could be adapted to run on your average set top box, at least in the next generation of set top boxes. Welch does concede that console are more streamlined and easier to use than, say, PCs. His crystal ball gazing is more along the lines of Google-type cloud that doesn’t even use hardware at all. Agree? Disagree? Q&A with PlayFirst’s John Welch [VentureBeat via EDGE] [Pic] More »
