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Displaying items by tag: Games Console

Friday, 12 December 2008 16:05

Xbox man slags off PS3, oh the irony

File under: no surprise there then. However, it wasn't that fact that a Microsoft man was slagging off the Sony PS3 just before Xmas that caught my attention, but the irony of what was being said.

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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 21:10

Is the iPhone really just a games console that makes calls?

What's on your iPhone? The Apple iPhone App Store has released the top 10 applications, paid for and free, that iPhone users have downloaded during 2008. The results could come as something of a surprise.

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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 11:35

Microsoft claims Black Friday victory over Sony

Microsoft has claimed a three-to-one Black Friday weekend victory for Xbox 360 over PlayStation 3. If the figures prove to be correct, Sony's expensive console could be in for a walloping at the sales counter this Christmas.

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Friday, 28 November 2008 06:29

Panasonic set to Wii over HDTV competitors

Sony used free PS3s to shift Bravia HDTVs in a promotion earlier this year – now Panasonic is offering a “Bonus Wii” with every VIERA Full HD Plasma TV to boost sales in the most crucial Christmas season ever in the face of the global economic crisis.

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Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:13

Australia's first 'œNintendo Experience' coming Dec 11 at EB Games

With the lure of a free Nintendo DS or Wii games title for the first 100 people to enter the new “Nintendo Experience” zone at EB Games in Swanston Street, Melbourne Australia, on December 11, as well as the chance to win DS or Wii consoles, the Nintendo Experience looks set to be superlative!

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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 02:31

iiNet offers Xbox 360 games download quota free

iiNet has become the first Australian ISP to offer quota-free Xbox 360 game downloads.

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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 11:57

New official Nintendo magazine launched in ANZ

Nintendo, the gaming console manufacturer that has risen like the proverbial Phoenix from the Ashes over the past two years on the back of the phenomenal success of the Wii, has teamed up with a UK-based publisher to launch an official news stand magazine.

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 07:11

Xbox 360 price cuts no surprise in battle for supremacy

After the Nintendo Wii and PS3 launched in 2006, preceded by the Xbox 360’s 2005 debut, all three consoles now have excellent software libraries and plenty of users. While the Nintendo Wii still leads in total consoles sold, Microsoft has more than 300 games and great popularity all its own, a nice price cut pre-Christmas looks a very timely move.

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Monday, 27 October 2008 13:30

Pokemon Darkrai rises on Nintendo DS at Toys-R-Us and Target

The way of Pokemon is to “catch them all” and soon Australian Nintendo DS gamers will be able to catch the brand new pocket monster Darkrai for free at two major retail outlets. But who is Darkrai and how do you get him?

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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:41

Xbox 360 Red Rings of Death land Microsoft in court

This is the story that just will not go away. Microsoft has been sued for violation of consumer protection laws for continuing to sell the Xbox 360 despite being aware the hardware is (allegedly) likely to suffer the Red Rings of Death and fail.

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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:24

Xbox 360 construction in LEGO City

If you like those strangely amusing and compelling Xbox games that feature LEGO versions of Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and Batman then you'll love the Xbox 360 Gaming Zone that has just been built in the UK LEGOLAND theme park.

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Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:23

Microsoft finally provides Xbox 360 fix

I have experienced just how frustrating owning an Xbox 360 can be, with my console being repaired for a second time after being returned from the first repair in a totally broken state. Here's the inside skinny on how Microsoft put the X back into my box and reversed the red rings of death.

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Thursday, 02 October 2008 21:50

Nintendo's DSi - perfect or could have been better?

Nintendo’s upgraded handheld games console has been dubbed the DSi, coming with interesting new features that could well have been better, although only Japan will get it before Christmas, with the rest of the world missing out – until 2009!

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Thursday, 02 October 2008 15:17

Star Wars Force Unleashed gets downloadable content 'œsoon' - for a price

Are you willing to sell your soul to the Dark Side of the Force? If so, you’ve probably purchased LucasArts’ hit new game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. But now there’s news of upcoming downloadable content, some are annoyed it will cost more money, leading some to exclaim that today’s game purchases simply don’t end when you initially buy the game.

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Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:53

Xbox Pure was actually contaminated

Xbox Pure was meant to be the name of an upcoming Xbox 360, perhaps a slimline version or a new 360 successor, but has turned out to be a fake blog posting to see which games sites would run with it. With so many rumours online, was this a fair test of a gamer site’s fact-checking skills?

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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 00:49

Apple seeds new iPods, offers surprises - and disappointments

So those pics of the new iPod nano were spot on, as were the rumours about iTunes. The nano comes in 9 colours, there’s a new iPod Touch with speakers, volume control, Nike+ and 36 hours of audio, and OS 2.1 software arrives at last – but there’s no 64GB iPod Touch, and no 32GB iPhone 3G.

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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 00:36

How much would you pay to sit on a PlayStation 2?

In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...

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