Gaming

If anyone was wondering why Take Two Interactive recently refused EA’s $2 billion acquisition offer, this should clear things up for you. Week one sales figures are in for Take Two’s recently-released and oh so highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV and to say the game is a success is an understatement. In the first seven [...]

Looks like someone is taking a page out of the Wii controller book. I4U News has revealed that Qmotions is currently working a snowboard controller for the Xbox 360. The input device is being developed with the blessing of Microsoft, and will aim to provide realistic boarding action for any snowsports-related titles on the console, [...]

 
Hoping to get your virtual PS3 world experience on by the Summer? Not so fast. The promised open beta for Sony’s Playstation Home service has been delayed yet again. Sony had been promising to deliver the Second Life-esque experience by the beginning of the summer, but is now saying that they need to extend the [...]

Not to be outdone by the Wii (unless we’re talking sales numbers), the PS3 is the proud recipient of this stylish LCD screen. The 7" screen attaches seamlessly to the top of your console unit, and comes complete with a matching pair of stereo speakers. How stylish! It’s manufactured by a company called Clearvision, who [...]

The Nintendo Wii continues to plow ahead of the competition, posting record sales month after month. According to a recent set of stats released by the NPD group, Nintendo moved 720,000 consoles during the month of April. Whoa! As if that number wasn’t impressive enough, things start to look even crazier when you consider that [...]

The Wii is a fantastic gaming system, but portable? Until now, the answer would have been a resounding No! Chinavision has just released a 7" companion screen for the Nintendo Wii. This little bugger clips on to the back of your Wii console, and sports a folding mechanism for easy stowage once you’re grown tired [...]

Whether or not you’ve moved on to bigger and better things, any FPS fan has to pay some respect to the Quake franchise. First person shooters are as popular now as they ever have been and id Software is preparing to take its popular FPS series to the next level. Quake Live, in case you [...]

Think Rockstar Games has a lot riding on the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV? You would be correct. According to Variety, is looks like the Take-Two, Rockstar’s parent company, is expecting to rake in over $400 million during the first week of sales. Whoa! That would equate to roughly 6 million units sold [...]

Get ready to wave goodbye to any shred of productivity you may have mustered this weekend. A native app version of Dope Wars is now available via Installer. iDope, as it is cleverly named, is an amazingly accurate port of the popular Dope Wars game. It offers all of the features we’ve come to know [...]

Remember how jealous you were in elementary school of the rich kid up the block whose BMW-driving parents actually shelled out $650 so that he could rock a Neo Geo? Remember how you had to pick up an extra bike route just to scrape together enough dough for Super Mario Brothers 3 while this kid [...]

Rumors, rumors, rumors. Where would we be without you? Today’s flavor comes to us courtesy of Bloomberg’s Japanese office. Their site is claiming that a newly revamped Nintendo DS should be on its way to retailers everywhere. According to them, the new handheld gaming system will be announced at this year’s E3 convention, which is [...]

Rock Band is a favorite around BGR World Headquarters, so we were quite pleased to see the following bit of news. The Rock Band online store has finally gone live, albeit only for our Playstation 3-toting brethren. The store features a large amount of downloadable content, sporting tracks from artists such as Nine Inch Nails, [...]

Better late than never, right? Sony has just announced that it will be releasing a massive firmware update for the on-board PS3 Blu-ray drives. The biggest change will be the upgrade to Blur-ray Profile 2.0, which will bring full online support for any Blu-ray titles that offer Profile 2.0 content. The first two titles with [...]