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Warhammer Online Delayed

In their monthly newsletter for April EA Mythic (formerly just Mythic) have announced:
We have made the decision to move our ship date for the US and Europe to the first quarter of 2008. (Release dates for Asia will be announced at a later date.) Since our acquisition by EA, we have been afforded many wonderful [...]

Father Of The PlayStation To Retire

The creator of the PlayStation and, some would argue, father of modern console gaming is to retire on June 19th. Ken Kutaragi, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment will be replaced by president and COO Kazuo Hirai. Kutaragi will serve as SCEI’s Honorary Chairman and as an adviser to Sony Chairman Sir Howard Stringer.
Mr. Kutaragi was [...]

Lara’s Birthplace Gets Blue Plaque

The former headquarters of Core Design, original developers of Tomb Raider, has been demolished to make way for a new development of flats. The site at Ashbourne Road, Derby, will be commemorated with a blue plaque like those on the birthplaces and residences of other luminaries such as William Shakespeare, Mozart, Charles Dickens and Sir [...]

All-Pro Football Enlists Retired Players

EA’s Madden american football games have had the market sewn up for years, mainly due to the fact that they hold the exclusive license to use current NFL players and stadia. 2K Games have found a neat way around that restriction in order to challenge EA’s dominance of this particular video game sport. All-Pro Football [...]

Eyeing Up The PS3

Sony has announced that the PS3 is to get its own version of the PS2’s EyeToy. Boasting higher resolutions, higher framerates, and higher sensitivity than its predecessor. Packaged with EyeCreate, an image and video editing suite, the Playstation Eye will let you capture images and video clips in several different modes. Tha camera also [...]

KOTOR MMO On The Way

Bioware, the original developers behind the original Knights of the Old Republic, is rumoured to have formed a new team in order to create an MMO based on the ancient Star Wars universe. The rumour comes to light in the US EGM magazine and if true would cause alot of fan’s heads to explode. (From [...]

Wii Will Be In Short Supply Till 2009

We may see demand outstripping supply of Nintendo’s phenomenally popular console until 2009, says IDC research analyst Billy Pidgeon. He also says that consumers may lose interest if the supply situation doesn’t improve. Referring to the NPD March hardware numbers in recent comments to Home Media Magazine, Pidgeon said:
 “I’d like to see Wii hardware shipping [...]

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