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New Elder Scrolls IV Screenshots
Bethesda Softworks today blew open details along with the first screenshots from the hugely anticipated next chapter in the Elder Scrolls series, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Currently in development for the PC with Playstation 3 and Xbox 2 versions touted, Oblivion is set in Tamriel’s capit...
- Posted Oct 26th 2004
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Xbox 2 News likely at 2005 CES
It has been confirmed Bill Gates will be delivering the keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 5th and it is quite possible, if not likely, that he will use this platform to reveal Microsoft’s plans for the Xbox 2. If Microsoft shows its hand too early...
- Posted Oct 19th 2004
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LionHead to develop next gen Games
LionHead studios, the firm best know for the series Black and White and more recently the Xbox hit Fable, have raised an estimated £7 million ($12.6 million) to help fund the development of several next generation console titles. The money was raised by a syndicate of private equity firms c...
- Posted Oct 19th 2004
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HD-DVD supporters pressure Microsoft
The next generation Xbox may end up using the HD-DVD media format if certain Japanese electronics giants get their way... Today at the CEATEC technology exhibition, near Tokyo, an NEC manager commented that they are working hard to get Microsoft to use the HD-DVD format in the next Xbox console. Du...
- Posted Oct 6th 2004
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DTS Surround sound for Playstation 3
Digital Theatre Systems have announced that the DTS Coherent Acoustics Surround sound format will be a "mandatory audio technology" for blu-ray discs, which Sony recently confirmed will feature as the medium for the PlayStation 3. Given the rivalry, Dolby is also more or less certain of...
- Posted Sep 30th 2004
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Power restrictions for PSP games
This apparent response to concerns over the battery life of the system - which is quoted as around 10 hours for music and two hours for movie playback - places the problem firmly in the developers' court. Sony apparently intends to include a "battery emulator" as part of the PSP developmen...
- Posted Sep 30th 2004
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Sony reveals a new smaller PS2!
Sony's PlayStation 2 has just got 75% smaller! Sony have confirmed, what has been widely rumoured for the past few days, that a new-look PS2 will be released in the UK on the 1st of November and will replace the current SCPH-50000 version of the console. While the machine won't, as had been expecte...
- Posted Sep 22nd 2004
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Cell Approaches Completion
Development on Sony, IBM and Toshiba's multi-purpose Cell processor has reached its final stage, the morning edition of Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reveals today. Company officials, while expectedly shy with details on the technology behind the chip, stated "It will be used in such ...
- Posted Sep 15th 2004
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Amazon lists PlayStation 3
Sony are the first to get major retail exposure for its upcoming machine with a PlayStation 3 page on the Japenese unit of Amazon. The online retail giant has posted a product page for the PlayStation 3 more than a year ahead of the console's expected debut. The page has no photos or links for p...
- Posted Aug 25th 2004
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Midway plans Mortal Kombat 7 for PS3
David Zucker, Midway Games CEO, has surprisingly revealed that a seventh Mortal Kombat beat-'em-up game is planned for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 2 and a third wireless platform. According to a statement made by Zucker at the RBC Capital Markets North American Technology Conference in California, the n...
- Posted Aug 7th 2004
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Blu-ray confirmed for the PlayStation 3
A Tokyo based meeting was held this week by the Blu-ray disc founders including Sony, Dell, Panasonic and many others, in which Sony revealed that it will be using the Blu-ray disc format in their PlayStation 3 console. The new Blu-ray discs can hold five times as much data as DVDs and are set t...
- Posted Aug 6th 2004
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Sony endorse Open Graphics Format For PS3
Sony are set to announce a new open interchange file format for the interactive 3D gaming industry called 'Collada', which will be used across middleware programs for next generation game development. This new file format is supported by several big names in the computer graphics and middleware indu...
- Posted Aug 1st 2004
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Sony to use OpenGL for PlayStation 3?
A recent Japanese article featured on ITMedia highlighted the possibility of Sony utilising the OpenGL API for the forthcoming PlayStation3. According to a report on EETimes, it’s claimed that Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) have become one of nine members of the Khronos Group consorti...
- Posted Jun 9th 2004
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Cell Ready for Sample Production
It was announced today by Sony that test production for the Cell chips will be beginning soon, in their new Japan-based Nagasaki plant. The test batch of silicon wafers, with a 300mm diameter, are mostly going to be ‘breaking-in’ the new 65nm (nanometer) manufacturing process which they ...
- Posted May 21st 2004
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PlayStation 2 reduced to $149
At Sony's Recent E3 event, Kaz Hirai announced that Sony's console will now be the same price as the Xbox. Sony Computer Entertainment America president and COO Kaz Hirai reminisced about the decade since the PlayStation's debut at the 1995 E3. Sony has since shipped 170 million units of hardware, ...
- Posted May 13th 2004
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PSU E3 2004 Roundup
The main news of E3 has been Sony unveiling the new PSP handheld and a discussion of the “cell” processor which is what is currently believed to be the PS3’s chip. Sony also took the expected step of lowering the price of the PS2 to $149. The PSP features a stylish 4.3 inch 16x9 LC...
- Posted Apr 12th 2004
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Dark Sector Trailer Released
Digital Extremes have released a trailer and screenshots of their next generation game Dark Sector. According to the Ontario-based developer, the sci-fi action game will be released on "next-generation consoles". However Digital Extremes representatives would not reveal whether or not the ...
- Posted Apr 3rd 2004
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