Gallery: Costumes of Comic-Con 2008

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• Fallout 3: will feature exclusive DLC on Xbox 360, Games for Windows.
• Resident Evil 5: they showed the world's first playable demo; online co-op mode was confirmed; the release date for North America and Europe will be March 13th 2009.
• Fable II is finished and will be out in October.
• Gears of War 2: A new mode was announced called "Horde," a five-player co-op mode taking on waves and waves of locust. GOW2 release date will be November 7, 2008.

Continue reading Highlights from Microsoft's E3 press conference

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Continue reading GDC08: Realtime Worlds shows off All Points Bulletin

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Gallery: GDC08: Blizzard's approach to MMOs

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PATCH NOTES: 2.4 Patch notes are up The Sunwell Isle is now available for play. This area includes a new quest hub and 5-player and 25-player instances. Join the Shattered Sun Offensive in shutting down Kael'thas' nefarious operations. This new force is comprised by both the Aldor and Scryers and is led by the Naaru. Players will take part in claiming Sun's Reach and setting up a larger base of operation to stop Kael'thas and the Legion.

PATCH NOTES HIGHLIGHTS: What you really want to know about the patch 2.4 notes Yeah yeah, the full patch notes are a good read, but why read those when we can pull the good stuff out? Here's what we thought was big in patch 2.4.

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Continue reading What you need to know about WoW patch 2.4: Sunwell Isle

What you need to know about WoW patch 2.4: Sunwell Isle originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Army of Two
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• Boogie
• Burnout Paradise
• Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles (PSP)
• Civilization Revolution
• The Club
• Crysis
• DDR Hottest Party (Wii)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Fable 2
• Fallout 3
• Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings
• Fracture
• Halo 3 campaign
• Halo 3 Game Films
• Halo Wars
• Hands-on with the new PSP
• HORI VF5 joystick for Xbox 360
• LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
• Marathon Xbox Live Arcade
• Mass Effect
• Medal of Honor: Airborne
• Mercenaries 2
• The Orange Box
• PlayStation Home
• Rock Band
• Joystiq hands-on: The Simpsons
• Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Stranglehold
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Thrillville Off the Rails
• TimeShift
• Unreal Tournament III
• Wii Fit: Joystiq toes-on
• Wii Zapper

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E3 featured content -- DO NOT EDIT originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Can't say anyone's too surprised, but apparently the general reaction to the Xbox 360 launch in Japan today was lukewarm at best. Microsoft does have first-mover advantage there on the next-gen console playing field unlike last time around, and they're hoping that will be the ticket to increased sales in a market that, if first-day reaction is any indication, may end up preferring to wait for the PS3 or Revolution to arrive next year.

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You know, people will turn an NES controller into just about anything, and lord knows we love 'em for it. This dude apparently got bored one Saturday and figured what else does one do on such a day but turn a cheap USB stick MP3 player into an NES DAP? Indeed. Witness the fruit of Martin's efforts, fully controllable by the NES controller's buttons and chargeable via USB, and then go figure out how to make yourselves more useful on boring Saturdays, will ya?

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This one's for the masochists in the house - hacker Neisha Stadelhofer documents how to boot up the venerable old (well, maybe not so venerable but certainly old) Macintosh System 7 on the PSP via the Bochs emulator, running vMac in FreeDOS ("yes, an x86 emulator running a 680x0 emulator on a handheld gaming console"). She reports boot time is on the order of four hours so, you know, bring a magazine (rack) or something with you if you plan to recreate this proof-of-concept hack.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Well, don't get too excited because this is just analyst speculation, here. But a report out of Piper Jaffray has Sony releasing a new version of the PSP in mid-2006 - one that includes an internal hard drive. A couple of reasons are given - one, that Sony wants to have something to counter a potential next-gen Game Boy from Nintendo, and two, that Sony wants to expand the multimedia capabilities of the console and go head to head with the iPod. The release could also act as a stopgap until the PS3 finally rolls out. Still, you gotta imagine Sony execs sweating under the collar about giving up that money-fleecing Memory Stick racket, so we'll be taking all this with that proverbial grain of salt.

This isn't the first time we're hearing of a PSP-HDD configuration. Joystiq covered the same speculation from a different analyst in February.

[Thanks, DaGreasyGuide]

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Yes, we're aware this is entirely gratuitous given that we already knew the ceramic PSP was gonna be launching today. But, you know - we're big fans of gratuitous. Whaddya want?

Continue reading Ceramic PSP officially out

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Tiger Telematics seems to be under the impression that what's realllllly hurting the Gizmondo in the marketplace is its diminutive aspect ratio. Next year we're likely to see a new version of the console roll out in widescreen form which, as Tiger CEO Mike Carrender notes, will be "not dissimilar in the size to the screen of the Sony PSP." Well, maybe after they've worked through their screen envy they'll start to realize there may be some, uh, other factors plaguing their console.

Gizmondo to fight PSP with widescreen version originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:00:30 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

You're bummin' 'cuz your portable gaming rig just won't make it through that marathon session on your day at the beach. Bum no more, for $35 will net you a solar charger than can power your Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, or GameBoy Advance - in bright light (Mogwai!) the PSP gets a full charge in about 4 hours via a built-in 1800mAh Li-ion battery. This means the fun doesn't have to end on your next wildnerness retreat, kids.

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This could come in handy to swap out some new tunes on the go. The how-to essentially involves a shareware application called Dot Tunes to serve your iTunes library over the web. The interface includes a method for downloading new tracks, so you can suck down new tunes to your PSP from the local wifi coffee shop or wherever.

[Thanks, Mark]

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Chris Morris at CNN/Money has an interesting theory on Sony's insistence that the Playstation 3 will "be expensive" - are they bluffing? The advantage would be twofold: first, set consumer expectation high, then surprise them with something much lower, driving a potentially much larger buying rush. Secondly, lull Microsoft into thinking they can get away with sticking an extra high pricetag on the Xbox 360, scaring off some of its potential buyers. The other potential reason for crowing about high pricing expectations might be to force Microsoft to make the first move, thus prepping consumers to get beyond the cognitive barrier of paying more than $300 for a game console. And, you know, it's not like we would be shocked and appalled to discover than Sony totally played the media on this one - what do y'all think?

PS3 pricing strategy: is Sony bluffing? originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:30:29 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Gamepark is a company that apparently only releases products that are anagrams involving the letters G, P, and X, for on the heels of their GPX2 media player comes the XGP game console. It looks a little bit like the bastard child of a PSP and a Sidekick, so if you happen to own both of those devices, you might consider breeding them and seeing if you can make one of these.

Continue reading Gamepark XGP handheld game console

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This is still just a concept demo, but it is a working demo: DSpeak is basically Voice over IP calling using the wireless capabilities of the Nintendo DS. Using a connected headphone/microphone, DSpeak allows you to hold conversations with other DS users via WiFi, and the audio quality is reportedly "perfectly fine, as good as a mobile phone." Plus, you get little Mario and Wario icons moving their mouths when you speak - come on, Vonage, how you gonna beat that? The software itself will be available as a free download, and the booth boy told us that they'll be including headsets with DSpeak-compatible games (the headset will probably also be available for sale separately for some nominal fee). Otherwise that's about all we know-we couldn't squeeze a release date out of them, and no one at the Nintendo booth knew a damn thing about the actual technology they were demoing.

Continue reading Nintendo @ E3 - DSpeak: VoIP via Nintendo DS

Nintendo @ E3 - DSpeak: VoIP via Nintendo DS originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 May 2005 16:17:03 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Apparently Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. president Kaz Hirai was quoted in the press as saying the company hadn't yet firmly decided to go the traditional route by launching the PS3 first in Japan. He said they hadn't decided in which "territory" they'll debut the console, and even hinted that they might choose to unleash it on multiple markets at once. If they do go this route, it would be the first time Sony has debuted a console outside of Japan. Maybe they'll try to make it up to the European market for dissing them on the launch date of the PSP and launch the PS3 there first. Hey, may as well dream.

Sony to launch the PS3 outside Japan first? originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 May 2005 13:00:07 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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