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It seems like one good month in terms of sales was enough to raise the optimism of Sony’s officials about the future success of their embattled gaming platform. Last month, boosted by the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, PS3 sold 405,500 units in the United Stats.PS3 has outsold its main rival, Xbox 360 in 2:1 report, but still trailed behind Nintendo Wii, which sold 666,700 units. However, in terms of global sales, PS3 is far behind Nintendo and Xbox 360, which both have already surpassed the 10 million units milestone. Still, it seems like Kazuo Hirai is optimistic about the future of PS3...
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The gaming console world has seen some dramatic changes as Nintendo’s Wii has gone past Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and reached the number one spot in the US sales chart.According to The NPD Group's June sales figures, North America has recorded Wii console sales of about 666,000 last month, bringing the total number of sold units to 10.9 million. The company managed to reach this incredible number in only 19 months. These new figures indicate something that Nintendo is probably very proud of: the Wii is now outselling Microsoft’s Xbox 360, launched one year ahead of the former. Up to this point,...
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Capcom has just announced that Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is in development for the Wii and most probably will be released this winter. In Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, the Wiimote will be used to shoot and slash the zombies. The action of Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop will take place in a shopping mall form the small suburban town of Willamette. Frank West, an overly zealous freelance journalist, thinks that the mall will be a bastion of safety but it turns out to be anything but. In fact the mall is the home of the armies of zombies and Frank needs to fight for his life. If...
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In a keynote delivered at the Gamefest 2008, Chris Satchell,
chief technology officer of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business
Group offered new details about Microsoft’s XNA and a new initiative called "Xbox
LIVE Community Games”
Released last year XNA Game Studio 2.0 is a development toolset,
thanks to which anyone can create games for Xbox 360. The first version of XNA
was announced and released by Microsoft in 2006. Practically with this toolset, anyone can become a successful
games developer.
Chris Satchell said community games that have been submitted
by...
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During the Gamefest 2008, Microsoft Game Technology Conference, the company announced the launch of Xbox LIVE Community Games, the new space especially created in order to give users the chance to create and share original Xbox 360 content.Anyone can now develop an Xbox 360 game; authors must then send their work to Microsoft's peer-review website. Once the game is approved, it is passed on to the Community Game storefront; as Microsoft keeps about 30% for itself, game creators can get up to 70% of the revenues their games make. As Microsoft general manager Boyd Multerer explained, the...
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