The Phantom Gamestore alive? John Landino tells all…

When the world at large believes your product is vaporware, your company has never made a cent and your former chairman has been indicted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for promulgating a pump and dump scheme, it’s going to be difficult to convince them that you’re on the level.
Especially when your company pays [...]

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2008’s Top $200 Video Card Roundup

If you bought a new video card two or three years ago, you’ve probably noticed that newer games aren’t running as well right out of the box. Those GeForce 7900 and Radeon X1900 cards were fantastic when they were new, but game developers have caught up with more power-hungry graphics effects. Frame rates have [...]

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Tech News:Consumers have Spent over $60M on Blu-ray Last Week

According to Home Media Magazine, consumers spent over $60M on Blu-ray titles last week, representing 14% of the home media market. The 167% spike is due in large part to the Blu-ray release of ‘The Dark Knight’, which is breaking Blu-ray sales records around the world. Comparatively, the previous week, where ‘Wanted’ was the [...]

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New Wii Epidemic: “Wii Knee” has surfaced!

Adding to the list of growing Wii injury “epidemics”, doctor’s in the United Kingdom have warned new holiday Wii owners to take it easy, lest they get “Wii Knee”.
Researchers at the Leeds Teaching Hospital said that playing too much Wii can cause “painful strains and fractures” in all areas of the body, just not the [...]

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Wii Outselling XBOX 360 3 to 1

Sales have been just as blistering in Canada. Despite the economic woes affecting most Canadians, Nintendo still managed to sell more than 123,000 Wii consoles here in November – a 40-per-cent increase over the same month one year ago.
The red-hot sales in North America have seen Nintendo increase Wii production at least three [...]

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Here a few Reasons Why The 360 Will Kick Butt In 2009

The Xbox 360 has done considerable well through-out 2008, and ended with a bang with Gears of War 2. Microsoft, and its team look to be set for 2009, and what it has to offer, and could very well give other consoles a run for their money this coming year. Below we have five reasons [...]

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Microsoft’s Answer To Blu-Ray Is DMD

Whether you call it downloadable content, game add-ons or digital media distribution, the new wave of accessing information for console games is drastically evolving thanks to die-hard efforts of Microsoft and Sony. The industry is continually finding ways to break out of the reliance of hard-copied media formats. And even though both Microsoft and [...]

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Video game/Hardware Canadian Sales – November 2008 (NPD)

The NPD Group, which tracks the video game industry, reported Monday that 2008 sales in Canada including hardware, software and accessories were $1.6 billion through November – up 36 per cent from the $1.1 billion over the same period a year ago.
NOV 08 Hardware
Wii: 123K
X360: 74K
PS3: 41K
NOV 08 Software
1. Gears of War 2
2. Call of [...]

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Square Enix/Tri-Ace releases Star Ocean 4 Japanese Box Art/New Screens!

“Square Enix and tri-Ace have released the official Japanese box art for Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the Xbox 360. Oddly, it does not have the “Only on Xbox 360″ stamp on it as usual Xbox 360 exclusives do. Along with the box art, they’ve released a few brand new stunning screenshots. Hit the [...]

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Time Magazine insults games industry and gamers!

Time Magazine released their top 10 games of 2008 awards, but what should have been an celebration for games has actually turned into a backhanded compliment.
Since 1923 it has been one of the most important media outlets on the planet, with well-deserved respect in all corners of the globe. The magazine recently published [...]

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