In the News #16 – 1/31/2008

Daily news for January 31st, 2008.

The Japan release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl was not as smooth as it was planned. Some copies of the game were slightly defected. When the user would put the game in the Wii, the user would be asked to do a firmware update. On the defective disks, the update [...]

Rock Band announced for the Wii

John Riccitiello, CEO of EA confirmed in a conference call today that Rock Band will soon be coming to Wii. Though no date of release was mentioned, there was at least a general confirmation that it will eventually be released. No details on instruments or new song additions have been mentioned.
As soon as more details [...]

GTA-Division.com Troubles

UPDATE (7:35 Central Time): The Site has been fixed and new posts will start appearing again.
We are having some techinical problems with GTA-Division.com. It would appear that our news system is down or under maintenance. It isn’t letting us post any new posts. We will try and fix this problem by this afternoon.

In the News #15 – 1/30/2008

Daily News for January 30th, 2008.

Scheduled for a release in October of 2009, a SAW movie tie-in game has been announced. The game will follow the Saw movie plotlines. A teaser trailer was released at a recent Brash Entertainment press event.
A rumor that was crushed earlier today was that Halo Wars was going to have a port on the PC [...]

In the News #14 – 1/29/2008

Daily news for January 30th, 2008.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is hitting PlayStation 3 consoles on April 17th. The game will set you back $39.99 and will be available via download or disc. It is a Playstation 3 exclusive. Read more on IGN.

Valve has released its publishing and development tools – the same ones used on Half-Life [...]

In the News #13 – 1/28/2008

Daily news for January 28th, 2008.

Brand new screenshots have been released for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Go here to see them.

The 80GB Playstation 3 is officially being discontinued. 120GB/160GB may be on the way. Read more.

Consumers spent $9.5 billion on video games last year. That doesn’t include the hardware used to play them. Read more.

A new DS [...]

Mass Effect Controversy

We have all heard by now that Mass Effect was completely bullied and the sex scene was blown out of proportion on a recent Fox New’s Live Desk with Martha MacCallum program. The segement on Fox News was saying that there is full body nudity, a full sex scene in the game, and is being marketed to children. WRONG!
If you haven’t [...]

New DS color leaked

A new color for the Nintendo DS has been leaked onto the internet on CircuitCity.com. The color is a nice, shiney looking Blue-Black combination. It resembles the Crimson-Onyx DS color combination; but of course this one is a Cobalt-Onyx type color scheme. 
The listing for this DS has since been taken down off of the Circuit City site. While it was [...]

$9.5 Billion for Games in ‘07

Video Games saw quite a year in 2007. So many highly anticipated games came out. But these weren’t free you know. We had to pay something for all of those millions of games bought last year.
According to data from the NPD Group and the Entertainment Software Association, United States alone bought nearly $10 billion worth [...]

80GB Playstation Discontinued

It would seem that the 80GB version of the Playstation 3 is being phased out.
Last week, we reported on how Best Buy got a memo stating that the 80GB will no longer be restocked and only the 40GB will be sold. Here is a quote from that article:
“The 80GB version of the PS3 is going closeout [...]