In a stunning move Microsoft has owned up to it’s responsibility for all the Xbox 360 red-ring-of-death failures. Peter Moore has informed us, the great unwashed masses, that the 360 warranty is now extended to 3 years regarding the RROD issue specifically. They’ll also be reimbursing anyone who paid to have their 360 repaired because [...]
N’Gai Croal over at the LevelUp blog has a good piece on the various pre-E3 announcements and pronouncements that tend to happen in the ‘Friday Afternoon’ lull prior to the big shrunken game expo. While Sony and Microsoft seem to have some special announcements waiting to pounce, Nintendo – as the company with by far [...]
Siliconera has confirmed that the Hironobu Sakaguchi-designed Xbox 360 game Blue Dragon will have a demo available on Live starting July 20th in North America. Blue Dragon is the first major RPG project from Mistwalker Studios, which is the Microsoft-bankrolled effort to give the 360 some much-needed cred in Japan. Despite the fact that Sakaguchi [...]
MaxConsole (by way of PSM France) has an interesting titbit about the next version of the palindrome-tastic SIXAXIS controller. This may be an E3 announcement… As we know, Sony has settled their infamous lawsuit with Immersion some time ago. Meanwhile, Immersion’s mutant elves have been busy toiling away on their – hold on, suppressing a [...]
Ninja Theory recently set up one of those wonderful synergistic blog sites at IGN for the final roll-out of their PS3 opus, Heavenly Sword. This game is going to be a real heavy-hitter for the Sony machine. Not only is it in the same vein of the unbelievably popular God of War (although the developers [...]
