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Sony will start receiving shipments of the Playstation 3 consoles this
month according to Taiwan’s XFN news story. Sony will be receiving
shipments from Asustek Computer who will help make the Playstation 3
consoles.
Sony will be selling the Playstation 3 beginning in November 17th,
2006, for the holiday shopping season. The price for the new
Playstation 3 will be US $499 for the model with a 20GB HDD, and US $599
with a 60GB HDD.
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How I became Mrs. PacMan - History of
Computer Games Including Pong and Pac-Man
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In a much simpler time and place, there was no hustle and bustle of the information superhighway. Chips and mice almost certainly came exclusively from a field in Idaho rather than your living room. And somehow, a young girl found love.
When computers first came into our homes in the early 1980’s, many changes were taking place in the world. Businesses were merely tapping the surface in their first experiments with the potential computers possessed. Computers were already on pace to take the home by storm. In a manner of speaking, it was an exciting time to be a part of the expansion of computing technology. However, I was preoccupied with other ventures involving computers. I wasn’t an accountant or a chess player. I didn’t need to compute large quantities of numbers quickly. I was simply looking for Mr. Right.
How
I became Mrs. PacMan - History of Computer Games Including Pong and Pac-Man
Choose the right Gaming System for You at the Price
that Fits You
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Dell unveiled
their latest gaming computer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
this year. The “Renegade” uses an over-clocked 4.26 GHz dual core
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition mode 955 CPU, and is Dell’s newest edition
to their XPS line of computers.
The Renegade
includes two 10,000 RPM 150GB Raptor hard drives and is cooled using
the standard XPS 600 cooling system. Dell uses FOUR of the GeForce
7800 GTX 512MB graphics cards in this system. Two of the cards are
plugged in to two x16 PCIe graphics slots in their nForce 4 based
custom mother board. The other two are run at a slightly lower
clock speed.
Choose the right Gaming System for You at the Price
that Fits You
New and Old Games for the Xbox 360 Console
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The Xbox 360 release is set for
this Tuesday November 22nd and it is highly anticipated.
It is expected to be this holiday’s hottest retail item. Microsoft
expects to sell between 4.5 and 5.5 million units by March.
In fact some stores have already
sold out. According to
Punch Jump
Wal-Mart “previously sold out of Xbox 360 bundles that ranged from
$579.06 to $719.24. “ The retailer has also has sold out of their
stand alone units for online sales. The X-box 360 will be available
in their stores at 12 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
The release of the 360 will
likely spark a “console war”. Other console makers including Sony
and Nintendo may lower their price trying to pull gamers from other
platforms. Sony lost 25 million in their game division in the last
quarter of 2004 as Microsoft’s original X-box finally outsold the
Giant from Japan.
New and Old Games for the Xbox 360 Console
EA Games Electronic Arts Inc
Announced Five Games for Xbox 360
October 3rd 2005
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EA Games & X-box
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EA Games, the
world’s largest video game publisher has announced new games for the
Xbox360 console. The Need for Speed, FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World
Cup, NBA Live 06, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 and Madden NFL 06 will be
debuted at Microsoft’s X05 event in Amsterdam on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
EA Games is
expected to release The Godfather, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and
a new game titled Burnout Revenge at a later date. Electronic Arts
is well known for their sports titles.
The Xbox 360
console will be available November 22nd, according to Microsoft.
This next generation console is expected to be very popular and MS
is expected to ship 2 million by the end of this year. The
popularity of the games could determine how well the console sells.
The Sony Play
Station is the primary competition for the X-box. Gamers complained
that there were not enough games launched at the last Xbox start.
Sony’s Play Station sold more consoles than Microsoft and held 68%
of the market share according to Red Herring. The X-box accounted
for a measly 17% of the sales. EA Games Electronic Arts Inc
Announced Five Games for Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 Price -
Features and Release Date
August 18th 2005
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Microsoft will release the new Xbox 360 with two configurations in
two price ranges. The more expensive configuration will include a
wireless controller, a 20 GB hard drive, headset and cable for
hooking up to high definition TV’s. It will retail for $399.
The less
expensive 360 will cost $299 and will only include a wired
controller. Microsoft refers to this configuration as the “Xbox 360
Core System.” The buyers of this system will have to purchase a
separate hard drive.
Both
configurations will include a free silver membership to Microsoft’s
Xbox Live online service. The silver membership will allow users to
access other online player’s profiles, and voice / text messaging.
Users will be able to download demos and trailers. An upgrade to
the gold membership will allow users to play against each other
online. The Xbox 360 Price -
Features and Release Date
Halo Xbox
Video Game set to become a Movie
August 24th 2005
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Halo set to
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An agreement
between Microsoft and Hollywood will bring the popular X-box video
game Halo to the big screen. In a deal work $5 million dollars plus
a percentage of box office receipts, Universal will oversee the
production and domestic distribution of the film while Fox handles
the International Distribution.
The movie, based on
a space based first person shooter video game, is expected to be
released in the summer of 2007. The final asking price dropped had
dropped from $15 million and 15% of the gross ticket sales after
other studios declined the offer. The new bargain was struck with a
10% cap of domestic box office sales.
According to
Universal the movie will be based on both Halo and Halo 2. The
movie will be centered around a science fiction alien-fighting
warrior named Master Chief. Industry insiders expect a new Halo 3
game to be launched around the same time as the movie.
Halo Xbox
Video Game set to become a Movie
Microsoft and Marvel
sign Exclusive Agreement for Online Game
July 16th, 2005
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Microsoft announced on July 14th
at the Comic-Con International convention that they joined with
Marvel Enterprises Inc with a licensing agreement. Microsoft has
obtained the exclusive rights to create and distribute massively
multiplayer online games (MMOG) using the Marvels Universe of Super
Heroes in their games. These games will be developed for the
Microsoft Xbox360 system and also for Microsoft Game Studios.
Marvel has a library of over
5,000 characters with the more popular ones being Spiderman, Xmen,
Fantastic Four and the Avengers. Anticipated release time for the
Marvel Super Heroes game is estimated to be around 2008.
MMOG’s have grown in popularity
since 1999’s EverQuest and in 2004 with the extremely popular World
of Warcraft, released by Vivendi Universal. The profit potential
for MMOG’s reaches new heights for games. The World of Warcraft
game costs $50 for the software and then the players pay $15 per
month to play online, which is now at more than two million
subscribers. This game is estimated to make more than $500 million
dollars in sales this year.
Microsoft and Marvel
sign Exclusive Agreement for Online Game
By
Dan Wilson
Best Syndication Staff Writer
PC Video Games
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