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Apr 7, 2008

Say games made you evil and get paid

Wii News | Wii

A newspaper is offering cash for your stories on how videogames made you "turn to a life of crime."

A listing on recruitment site StarNow, a hub for actors and musicians looking for jobs, has appeared reading, "a national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person."

The listing comes in the wake of last week's Byron report, which made newspapers all across the UK, some with questionable ...

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Apr 3, 2008

72% of the US plays games

Wii News | Wii

A new study from the NPD Group has found that 72 percent of Americans play videogames, but the research firm says online gaming is still not fully addressed.

The number of gamers in the US rose from 64 percent of the population in 2006 to an all-time high of 72 percent in 2007, according to NPD's latest study, Online Gaming 2008.

Of the total amount of gamers in the US, over half play games online, according to the ...

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Mar 28, 2008

'Consoles to die in 5 to 10 years,' says...

Wii News | Wii

Former Vice President of Xbox Europe Sandy Duncan has cast his doubts on the long term future of the console market, claiming consoles as we know them will die out within a decade.Speaking in an interview, he said: "There is a definite convergence of other devices, such as set top boxes. There's hardly any technology difference between some hard disc video recorders and an Xbox 360, for example."In fact in 5 to 10 years I don't think you'll ...
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Mar 26, 2008

'It's time for gamers to grow up'

Wii News | Wii

American Chronicle writer Dave Gibson has joined the long list of writers hopping on the 'gamers are destroying the world' bandwagon - blaming lazy, television watching Americans for divorce, out-of-wedlock births and cancer (we made the last one up). "A society whose grown men seem to be more interested in the latest video game, rather than the survival of their nation or even of their own family--is doomed to failure," says the angry ...
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Mar 26, 2008

Wii success may lead to cheaper next-gen

Wii News | Wii

Analyst Billy Pidgeon with IDC tells Next Generation that in the wake of the Wii's success and the explosion of casual, community gaming, the PlayStation 3 could be the last of the state-of-the-art consoles. At launch, researchers estimated that Sony lost around $240 per 60GB PS3 sold. A pricey Blu-ray drive, state-of-the-art GPU and multicore Cell processor drove costs to new heights. Xbox 360's per-unit loss wasn't much better at launch at ...
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Mar 25, 2008

New Sonic game leaked

Wii News | Wii

The title of the new Sonic game has been doing the rounds on the trademark circuit for a while now. But as of today we can confirm that Sonic Unleashed is the next game in the blue hedgehog's shaky 3D platforming career - because half a ton of screenshots have been leaked to the internet. The official word from Sega is "no comment," but apparently the mass of screenshots appeared on a Sega FTP by accident, and now the internet is going ...
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Mar 25, 2008

Miss Bimbo: Ironic fun, or girl gaming gone badly...

Wii News | Wii

Parents up in arms about a new online game which encourages the use of diet pills, breast enlargement and taking advantage of rich male types. ...
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Mar 20, 2008

Have Wii and DS peaked?

Wii News | Wii

KBC Securities Japan has downgraded Nintendo's stock investment rating and target price due to concerns over a drop in demand for Wii and DS systems. DS and Wii sales are currently peaking in the US and Europe where Nintendo achieves most of its sales, according to KBC analyst Hiroshi Kamide, who said it is now "reasonable to expect a tougher trading environment." Bloomberg reports that Kamide has lowered Nintendo's stock investment rating from ...
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Mar 19, 2008

Greenpeace: Nintendo must clean up its act

Wii News | Wii

Environmental campaign body Greenpeace has once again slammed Nintendo for its policies on toxic chemicals and recycling. In Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks the 18 top manufacturers of PCs, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on tackling environmental waste, Nintendo remains bottom of the pile, having been the first brand to score a zero out of ten when it was first included in the ...
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Mar 19, 2008

Next week: it's the Week of Hate on GR!

Wii News | Wii

Gamers hate everything. Of all people, doing all sorts of hobbies, all over the world, gamers hate the most. Whether it's moaning about console prices or release dates, complaining that a game is too long, or too short, or too hard, or too easy, or too realistic, or too unrealistic. Or typing bile at each other on forums, or screaming it down the headset on LIVE. Gamers love to hate.So in celebration of this integral piece of gaming ...
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