Wii Component Cables are Online-Only

You can’t just walk into a Best Buy and buy ’em. Good news: Nintendo’s confirmed component cables enabling 480p output will in fact be available at Wii’s launch. Bad news: much like the PS3, the privelege of playing in glorious widescreen is...

PS3 NFS Carbon Played for the First Time

Some PS3 titles shown to a few lucky gamers EA hosted a closed door event on October 19, and they allowed a few lucky gamers to play some of their PS3 upcoming titles. Nobody knows what those gamers had to do in order to get their hands on the PS3 controllers but the...

Savage 2’s 2006 Release Postponed

Beta testing scheduled for December The release of the fantasy/Sci-fi computer game from S2 Games, Savage 2, has been postponed. The games’ developers affirmed that they need more time in order to polish the game and make some final adjustments. Is that how you...

Insomniac Confirms Resistance is 720p

They aimed for 1080p, but it didn’t work out. The number of PlayStation 3 releases supporting 1080p HDTV resolutions will undoubtably increase as the hardware matures, but for launch games, limited development time is an issue. Insomniac Games publicly stated...

Rockstar’s The Warriors Developed for the PSP

The brawler genre will have its PSP representative Rockstar’s game, The Warriors, based on the 1979 Paramount Pictures classic film, will also be developed for the PSP system. Previously, fans of the genre had to purchase themselves a PlayStation 2 or an Xbox in...

Gears of War won’t turn in Germany

Epic Games’ sci-fi shooter meets same sales-limiting fate as Dead Rising; country’s ratings board refuses classification. Back in July, German zombie-haters were stymied in their quest to slay the undead when the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK)...

Xbox Live hits 4 million users

Online service for Microsoft’s consoles reaches new milestone; population expected to grow to 6 million by mid-2007. Next month won’t just ring in the one-year anniversary of Microsoft’s Xbox 360, it will also be the four-year anniversary of Xbox...

Neverwinter Nights 2 Gone Gold

RPG players will enjoy this upcoming release Atari and Obsidian Entertainment announced today that Neverwinters Nights 2 has gone gold. The game is scheduled for North American release of October 31 and European release on November 3. The game is developed by Obsidian...

PS3 Version of GTA 4 to Get Exclusive Content, Too?

Reports point to similar deal for PS3 version, Rockstar stays mum. When Microsoft announced that GTA IV would have exclusive, episodic content at X06, we wondered if that meant that the PS3 version of the game would have its own exclusive content. Eurogamer reports...

PS3’s Oblivion Content Coming to 360, PC

No exclusivity confirmed, Nov. 21date targeted. Bethesda Softworks indicated the additional content being worked into the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the hardware launch in November would not remain exclusive to Sony, and this...