Are You Being Illegally Forced into Buying a Mega Console Bundle?

Next-gen consoles are expensive enough by themselves, but anyone buying a Wii or PS3 this year (especially online) may have no choice but to buy several games, extra controllers, memory cards and other trinkets just to get their console of choice home. Gamers are being screwed by forced retail packages? We're not all millionaires. Get the details.

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Sony's PS3 has 10 Million more problems to worry about this Holiday season!

Peter Moore, vice president of Microsoft, confirmed the company's expectation to ship 10 million Xbox 360 units by the end of 2006, and 13 to 15 million by June 30, 2007.

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19 year old makes 150 grand per year playing Halo2

A professional video gamer knows as Tsquared, 19 years old, now earns $150,000 a year playing "Halo 2", not counting any prize money from competing. He founded a site helping noobs get better called Gaming-lessons.com. So parents, stop teaching you kids golf of tennis to get you rich, instead just get them some lessons in how to frag alien races.

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Gears of War Played On 20-Metre-High Screen!

Ok, get ready to be jealous. SPOnG-News spent yesterday afternoon playing Epic’s glorious Gears of War. It is, as was expected, nothing less than the most visceral, beautiful action game we’ve ever experienced.

Not only that, as you can see from the pic of our man Phil right here, we got to play it on London’s IMAX cinema screen. The game was projected onto a 20-metre-high screen by a 12000 Lumens Projector, in gloriously loud 5.1 Dolby surround sound.

SPOnG-News also spoke with Thilo, yesterday’s projectionist, who told us, “This is the
first time we’ve ever hooked up an Xbox 360 to a cinema projector and the effect was insane … like a total cinema experience but also interactive.”

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There’s a PS2 hiding in the PS3 to guarantee 100% backwards compatibility

Sony’s PS3 is embedded with the Emotion Engine (EE) microprocessor and the Graphics Synthesizer (GS) drawing circuit developed for its precursor, the PS2. Ken Kutaragi, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), revealed this today to confirm all 8,181 PS2 games will work on PS3.

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H3TV: LCD with "multiple" built-in Xbox 360s, for players

Aw snap, it looks like we've got some hot new competition in the um, all-in-one LCD/gaming console/sound system market. H3Enterprises -- the "first publicly traded company dedicated to the hip hop culture and lifestyle" -- is getting set to unveil its mysterious (albeit very gangster) H3TV on SpikeTV's "Video Game Awards." While the press release is quite ambiguous in describing the actual device, we're told that this off-the-hook unit will boast "the highest resolution in the industry" (likely 1080p), house "multiple Xbox 360 consoles" (saywha?), and include GenAudio's 4D "Astound Sound" -- which is proudly dubbed "the finest sound system available anywhere." The "multi-functional computerized television display" is slated to hit the company's own webstore, as well as be available through special deals with Mitsubishi and Circuit City, real soon. Hopefully H3Enterprises will hit us up with some juicy specifications soon enough, but until then, we'll just hope its stock rises above the ten cents per share mark that it's currently sitting at -- ya know, so they can actually afford to mass produce this dealio.

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Wii on the Assembly Line

Ladies and gentlemen, Nintendo's new generation console is all packaged and ready to roll. The Big N recently released official photos snapped from its North Bend, Washington manufacturing plant that showcase both the anticipated little white system and some of its games gliding down the assembly line. We've grabbed a handful of them for your viewi

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PlayStation 3 to get software update on launch day

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. will offer the first software update for its PlayStation 3 games console on Saturday simultaneously with the start of sales of the device.

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Sony: No Plans To Cut U.S. PlayStation 3 Price

Kaz Hirai, president and chief executive of Sony ComputerEntertainment America, told Reuters the company would stick with its planned price tags of $499 and $599 when the new PlayStation 3 consoles hit retailers' shelves in the United States on November 17.

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Free XBox 360 emagazine

A new emagazine for XBox 360 gamers: it's completely free and doesn't require registration. It's an interactive PDF, so all it requires is Adobe Reader v6+. The magazine has nearly 40 pages, including reviews of Gears of War, F.E.A.R., WWE SmackDown vs RAW, plus much more. It's been created by a set of professional games magazine people.

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World of Warcraft Trading Card Game Review

A good review of the new World of Warcraft Trading Card Game that doesn't just regurgitate the rules, but actually breaks-down elements of the game itself. Seems as though Upper Deck has done a good job translating the MMORPG game into the TCG genre.

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