Rumor of the day: Tekken 6 for 360 [update 1]

Coming from several different sources is yet another rumor that a major PS3 exclusive is going to jump ship. This time it's the perennial combo crunching fighter, Tekken 6. Furthermore, Namco is already working on the title, and it will be available just after the PS3 version. Though Virtua Fighter 5 is nothing to sneeze at, industry watchers will know that Tekken is Sony's big name fighting franchise. Since its inception, no Tekken game has graced a non-Sony console, with the minor exception of Tekken Advance on the GBA. The info comes from an anonymous tipster at IGN -- supposedly the same person who leaked the Virtua Fighter 5 info. Could it be true? Company loyalty tells us no, but financial logic tells us yes. Namco brought Soul Calibur II to multiple platforms, only to have Sony snag exclusivity for Soul Calibur III. We're betting that Namco made a lot more money with Soul Calibur II (we're sure Link helped with that). Honestly, if Sony can't get PS3s into people's homes, publisher have no choice but to go multiplatform. This rumor is still tenuous for now, but it wouldn't surprise us if it was true.

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A Night Club For Halo Gamers In New York City

Late-night competition is fierce at a New York City hangout for hard-core gamers.

"This would be considered a slow Saturday night," Tang told me, surveying the crowd. Usually, a Saturday night would see 50 to 70 players, but Nyclan had an understandably lower attendance on the night before New Year's Eve. The space is divided into two rooms: a large front room for recreational gaming and a back room for competition, which was empty but about to fill up, Tang said.

A Night Club For Halo Gamers In New York City

Xbox 360 Wins Round 2, Wii For Round 3...Maybe

Sony won ’t be winning Round 3 in the next-gen console war because of stock shortages. Even by mid 2007 there’ll still be less PS3's on store shelves than what Nintendo sold of the Wii during the holiday season. So who won Round 2? Not as I predicted...but Microsoft came out on top again.

Xbox 360 Wins Round 2, Wii For Round 3...Maybe

Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars trailer

The next episode of the well known series Command & Conquer is almost here: Command & Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars. Release date: March 28, 2007.

Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars trailer

360 puts the X in Xmas

Xbox 360 came out on top in the US for Christmas, but Nintendo Wii fought a close battle.

According to research firm NPD Microsoft sold two million Xbox 360 consoles in the USA between the beginning of November and Christmas Day. Over the same period Nintendo sold 1.8 million Wii consoles.

Sony lagged behind with around 750,000 PlayStation 3 units, but that's not a bad figure considering the supply problems the console has experienced.

It would be interesting to see figures for Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2 though, which are likely to have beaten the more expensive next-gen hardware.

Source: CNBC

2006 GUG Video Game Awards - Results

"Next Gen" console of the year
XBOX 360: 81.08%
Wii: 18.92%
Total Votes Received: 37 (wow! no votes received for the PS3)

PS3 Game of the Year
Resistance: Fall of Man: 85.71%
Call of Duty 3: 4.76%
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3: 4.76%
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: 4.76%
Total Votes Received: 21

XBOX 360 Game of the Year
Gears of War: 40.54%
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: 32.43%
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas: 8.11%
Dead Rising: 2.7%
Fight Night: Round 3: 2.7%
Final Fantasy XI: 2.7%
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy: 2.7%
Madden NFL 07: 2.7%
Total Votes Received: 37

Full Results Here...

Preview XBOX Dashboard Themes Before You Buy

Matt Brett has put together a great site that allows you to preview different XBOX dashboard themes. From Matt's site: "The current state of the Xbox Live Marketplace doesn ’t give you an option to preview content before you pay and Microsoft’s online components for Marketplace content don’t do much better." Enter dashboardthemes.com.

Preview XBOX Dashboard Themes Before You Buy

Plenty O PS3s But No Takers

What I can tell you is that the Best Buy near my house had 31 Playstation 3s sitting in a lovely wall o' consoles this morning when I swung by the store. Many, if not all of them, were the 60GB model.

Plenty O PS3s But No Takers