Microsoft XBox 360 head hints at Motion Control?

Xbox boss Peter Moore has hints at the Xbox 360 strategy for the holidays. Talks about "maintstream" appeal and says "we have plans...does not come as a surprise...strategy has been laid out for us years in advance, and you're going to see some of that this next holiday and beyond."



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EA Announces Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 12, 2007 – Electronic Arts Inc., (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 08 will be breaking new ground with two key features. EA SPORTS™ GamerNet* is a revolutionary game play system driven by interactive user created content. It allows gamers to save their amazing shots, holes or rounds, and post the content online for other users to compete against. In addition, players can now use Photo Game Face* to generate photo-realistic game characters with no artistic skill required, by uploading photos.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 will be produced by the EA Tiburon in Orlando, FL which is best known for the award winning Madden NFL Football and NCAA Football® franchises.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR is the world’s #1 selling golf video game franchise. With the EA SPORTS GamerNet system, players will be able to challenge creator posted content and be rewarded with online points. Utilizing Photo Game Face, players can take their created characters and style, dress, and accessorize themselves through the game’s already deep customization systems.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 will be available on the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system, the PlayStation®2 and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and PC.

Sony getting desperate; trying to come up with its own Wiimote

Sony's getting desperate to goose the popularity of its slow-selling PS3, digging deep into its idea basket to catch up to the popularity of the Nintendo Wii. Apparently the company's plan of attack is to develop a VR/3-D controller, illustrated in this patent application for a "handheld computer interactive device" spotted today



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Sony PS3 price cut expected - due to mountain of 3 million unsold consoles

“We think Sony will find it hard to get through the financial year (which began this month) without cutting the price of the console, and expect further game segment losses of over $1 billion during that period”, commented researchers from leading Japanese investment firm, Nomura, in a private briefing to clients this morning.



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GHII problems software based, patch inbound

Guitar Hero II, we've been writing about it nonstop since it was released. It was the major topic of our most recent Fancast. The song packs have outraged us. The game itself, however, is basically pure gaming gold. At least, it's gold so long as you have a functional guitar. Our own David Dreger, for example, has a broken whammy bar. Or does he? According to a recent statement from Activision, it looks like the whammy bar issue may actually stem from software, not hardware. Activision and Red Octane's support pages note that the issue is caused by an element of Guitar Hero II that was added to "ensure accurate scoring". In other words, it was placed there to prevent cheating. Activision plans to release a patch that should rectify the issue within the coming weeks. So, if you were planning on fixing that guitar yourself, you may want to wait for the patch. After all, if you fix your guitar, and then Activision patches the game, you may wind up with the same problem all over again.