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Xbox 360 DVD Drive Catches Fire
Note to aspiring modders when taking apart your Xbox 360, be careful otherwise the Xbox 360 DVD drive may catch fire! A modder by the name of iwemion was tinkering with his 360’s innards while a slip-up caused his DVD drive to catch fire: “So i had my Xbox 360 case open, and it was […]
Kinect Hacked By Two MIT Students
Two MIT graduates successfully hacked Microsoft’s Kinect in a bid to win $2000 prize money by Adafruit Indsutries. Adafruit Industries put up the prize money “because its directors believe that the technology used in Kinect is too useful to not be adapted to further uses.” The hack bypasses Kinect’s security measures and allows control of […]
CoD: Black Ops To Sell 20% Less Than Modern Warfare 2
Cowan & Company analyst Doug Creutz predict that Call of Duty: Black Ops will sell 20% less than Modern Warfare 2. Speaking in an investor meeting, the analyst said, “This includes an assumption that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops comps negatively against last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, despite the fact […]
“Comprehensive” Fallout: New Vegas Patch “Coming In Weeks”
Even with the latest Fallout: New Vegas patch, the game isn’t exactly bug free. Bethesda promises a a “comprehensive” patch due for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in the “coming weeks”. Mainly, it will fix the save issues among other bugs. “In the meantime, an incremental update for PC should be going up by early […]
GameInformer Review Scores, AC: Brotherhood, Black Ops, Hot Pursuit And More
The latest issue of GameInformer magazine has reviewed these three games and we have the scores below for you: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – 9.25/10 Call of Duty: Black Ops – 9/10 Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit – 8.75/10 Fable III – 9/10 God of War: Ghost of Sparta – 9.5/10 GoldenEye 007 – 6.5/10 via […]
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Over 6 Mins Of Leaked Single Player Campaign Video
Looks like a leaked video of Call of Duty: Black Ops has appeared on the internet, with over 6 minutes of single-player campaign. I received a tip from a certain reader (I’m not naming names) to the video link and posted it below. Obviously I’ve gone and watched the whole thing and now the single […]
Modern Warfare 3 In 2011 And Being Developed By Sledgehammer Games?
Activision has already confirmed that a new Call of Duty FPS is coming in late 2011. This could actually be Modern Warfare 3, according to Janco Partners’ game analyst Mike Hickey. Mike Hickey also believes that Sledgehammer studios could be working on Modern Warfare 3, instead of Infinity Ward. It makes sense, after the whole […]
Analyst Expects Call Of Duty: Black Ops To Sell Over 18 Million
Janco Partners’ analyst Mike Hickey believes that Black Ops could sell over 18 million units, generating $818 million. However, that is still short of the $1 billion-plus Modern Warfare 2 bagged up in sales revenue. Black Ops is due for release on November 9 for PC, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. source IndsutryGamers
Dead Space 2 Developer: Market ‘Not Rewarding’ Single-Player Only Games
Dead Space 2 developer Ian Milham of Visceral Games believe that the market is “not rewarding” single-player only games and the reason why Dead Space 2 will have multiplayer. Uncharted 2, BioShock 2 and a host of others have added multiplayer modes to their sequel where the first was single-player only. Speaking to ThatVGBlog, Ian […]
Analyst: Hot Pursuit To Benefit From Gran Tursimo 5 Delay, 4.2 Million Hot Pursuit Sales This Holiday
Gaming analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners’ predicts that EA’s Criterion-developed NFS: Hot Pursuit could sell 4.2 million units and rake up $185 million in sales this holiday. He believes that “the delay of Gran Turismo 5 will likely benefit the holiday sales performance of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.” NFS: Hot Pursuit releases on […]
Kinect Could Have Been On Mac Instead Of Xbox 360
Surprising? The magic technology behind Kinect is PrimeSense. Inon Beracha, CEO of PrimeSense has said in an interview that their first choice was Apple and not Microsoft. “It was the most natural place for the technology,” he tells Cult of Mac. Indeed, PrimeSense had already help several meetings with Apple executives, and Apple went so […]
New Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Video Shows The Rewards You Can Unlock
Remember Uplay rewards in Assassin’s Creed 2? They’re back in AC: Brotherhood. Watch the new video below which shows you how to get started with Uplay and what sort of exclusive rewards you can unlock. Sweet. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is out on November 16 2010 in the US and November 19 2010 in the UK […]
Cliff Bleszinski: Heavy Rain Is For Girls, Says Gears Of War Creator
Epic Games design director and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski believe that Heavy Rain would have sold better if Sony marketed the game directly to women. Speaking in an interview with BioShock creator Ken Levine posted on Irrational Games’ website, Cliffy B explained, “I hate to sound misogynistic but it feels like such a […]
New Call Of Duty FPS Coming Late 2011
Speaking in a post-earnings conference call, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said “We will launch a new first-person action title during the back half of 2011.” He neither named the game nor confirmed a developer for it. The latest Call of Duty: Black Ops is scheduled for release on November 9 for PC, PS3, Wii, […]
