Posts tagged current-gen

Microsoft shrugs off PlayStation 2 price cut

by Griffin McElroy (Mar 31st 2009 5:12PM)

If you were holding your breath for Microsoft's response to the PlayStation 2's recently announced $99 price point, it's now safe to exhale -- Microsoft vice-president of interactive entertainment business Chris Lewis recently issued a calm, cool and collected statement regarding the discount, ...

Nielsen: PS2 is still the top-played system

by Kyle Orland (Dec 13th 2007 3:00PM)

While the game press and developers have largely moved on to the latest and greatest, the game players are apparently still stuck in the past to a large extent. Nielsen Media Research's recently released lists of 2007 consumer trends (PDF link) shows that 42.2 percent of console gaming minutes ...

Call of Duty 3 announced; leak confirmed [update 1]

by Dan Choi (May 6th 2006 10:26AM)

Call of Duty 3's just been confirmed, and it looks like we were right on the money with our early leak of the WWII-related game. Back in early March, we printed the following information (and a whole lot more) on the focus of an upcoming sequel: "'CoD 3' ... is being produced by Big Red One dev ...