Guitar Hero: Metallica due by Q1 ‘09

Earlier this year, Activision unveiled Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, thefirst installment in its billion-dollar rhythm series based entirely ona band. No sooner had the publisher announced the deal than speculationbegan to spread about what the second band-based Guitar Hero game...

Sterling-Rice Group Awarded Prestigious Gold Key by the Business Marketing As...

The Colorado chapter of the Business Marketing Association (BMA) presented the Boulder, Colorado-based Sterling-Rice Group, one of the nation’s leading marketing communication firms, with its prestigious Gold Key Award in the online communications ...

Microsoft-Yahoo: What's gonna happen to search in 2008

With the coming together of Microsoft and Yahoo, some of the smaller search players are up against some serious competition. It's not like they weren't in the first place...but the big question is...what's going to happen to companies dependent on search?Firstly; your life is...

Sony reports record profits as PS3 losses shrink

Japan's Sony Corp. said Thursday that its third-quarter net profit jumped by 25 percent to a record high as its video game division finally returned to the black. Sony is enjoying a strong recovery after being caught off guard in recent years by innovative new products such...

Will the Xbox 360 survive 2008?

Let's face facts here, the Xbox 360 in terms of sheer technology was a little....yes a little behind the PlayStation 3. Now looking back about what happened in 2007, which was a great year by the way for the 360, I can't help imagine what happens next? read more:...

Microsoft Cooking Up an Enhanced Xbox 360 Controller?

I should not have been talking about this until next year, but a story of a motion sensing add-on for the Xbox 360 controller forced me to interrupt my holiday break. First, let me tell you that the image floating around with supposed prototypes of a motion sensing Xbox 360...

Fire Breaks Out on White House Campus...its a real FIRE!!

D.C. firefighters have responded to a fire at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on 17th Street NW. There are few details at the moment, but as The Post relays, Alan Etter, spokesman for the D.C. Fire Department, told CNN that the "blaze appeared to have started on the...

Windows XP SP3 and Gaming: hot or not?

So here's the fact..Windows XP Service Pack 3 is faster...it speeds up windows xp by a good 10%. But how much of it good for gaming?Since SP3 was supposed to be mostly a bug-fix/patch consolidation release - unlike w/Vista SP1, Microsoft made no promises of improved...

MGM opens resort, raises stakes in Macau

MGM Mirage Inc. opened a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau yesterday with a celebration including fireworks and traditional dancers, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven increasingly crowded by global players.The $1.25-billion (U.S.) MGM Grand Macau, a joint...

PS3 will become Preferred development platform, Says Tretton

Looks like the PS3 is slowly starting to edge out the Xbox 360 according to Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has said that developers are starting to adopt PS3’s hardware as their base for developing multiformat titles, which are then watered down...

PS3 firmware version 2.10 coming 18th Dec - DivX included!!!

Stright from the UK PS3 site: An update to the PS3 system software was released on December 18, 2007. If you update your PS3 system, the system software version will be 2.10 and the following features will be updated. In order to download PS3 system software version 2.10, you...

Hydrabad based FXLabs acquires US online gaming firm

Hyderabad-based FXLabs has acquired US-based Interactive Media Technology Inc, a startup company that owns an online casual games portal, for $3 million (close to Rs 12 crore) in stock for ownership. FXLabs' move is targetted at becoming the country's leading end-to-end...