Extensive PS3-Wii-Xbox360 shootout

GamePro.com put up a really detailed comparison of all three new consoles. The winner surprised me -- after all the flak the PS3 has taken, they actually chose it. Can't say I disagree, though...

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Downtime for Xbox.com and Xbox Live

from xbox.com:

We've got some scheduled maintenance coming up and want to let everyone know that both the Xbox Live® service and Xbox.com will be offline and unavailable starting at midnight Pacific Time on Tuesday October 17, 2006 for up to 24 hours. We know you've got some questions, so here are some answers:

Q: Why? Why? Why?

A: Because we're adding some cool stuff. And we have to take the service and website offline in order to do it. We're not doing it to make you mad … really.

Q: What kind of cool stuff?

A: Secret cool stuff that we'll tell you about when we're back online October 18. Other stuff we'll be talking about later in the fall.

Q: Is this a Dashboard update?

A: Nope.

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Xbox 360 game Gears of War drops new website

Microsoft Game Studios on Thurs. announced that the new Gears of War website is live.

Punch Jump

Avoiding the high-def movie format war

While Microsoft and Sony are obviously hoping their respective high-definition movie support will give them an edge in the console wars, other companies are busy trying to find a way around the format war brewing between HD-DVD and Blu-ray. First, Warner Bros. announced a new layered disc format that would allow all three DVD standards to reside on one disc. Now NEC has announced " two new low cost chips" that will allow standalone players to more easily support all formats starting in April '07.

Joystiq

New Image Shows PS3 Potential

It's been a year of ups and downs for Sony but we're now just a few weeks from the arrival of PlayStation 3. Excitement is in the air, but if you're still not convinced, this image from TGS might allay those fears

Next Generation

Xbox Live Down Next week

Xbox Live, Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on October 17th. When the service come back, you will not have a dashboard update. That will happen later this Fall.

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Home-schooler Pays for College with MMORPG

News Flash: Home school kids have no life. Kid earns $35k selling weapons on some MMORPG. Mom actually encourages behavior and plays several hours per day. He already put 2 of his siblings through school.

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First Halo 3 Egg Found

The game hasn't even been released, yet the first egg from the game was found in the high-res promo pics. The Marathon logo has been found on the Halo 3 Assault Rifle. On an image that's almost 2500 pixels tall, the logo takes up a square that's 18x18 pixels, meaning that on a 720p screen, it would be all of 5 pixels on a side.

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Xbox 360 granted Good Design Award

Japan's Good Design Awards are handed out each year to well-designed products across a wide range of industries. Past winners in the game industry have included Nintendo's DS lite and Game Boy micro and Sony's PlayStation 2 and PSP. This year's nominees were examined carefully between June and September and the stylish design of Microsoft's Xbox 360 looks to have caught the eye of the judges.

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Flight Simulator X Real Life Comparison

A side by side video comparison of a landing strip in Flight Simulator X and it's real life counterpart.

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PS3 $399/$499 at Amazon

Amazon has the PS3 listed for $399 for the core model and $499 premium model. Price drop or pricing mistake?

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