Archive (Page 4461)

SCEA has announced that it has sold over 25 million PlayStation 2 consoles in North America to date, with 2.6 million of them enabled for online play and a million gamers using PS2 online gaming services.

The Phantom broadband game system is set to make its public debut at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles this May, with Infinium Labs confirming that the device will be playable on the company's stand.

The forthcoming PlayStation Portable will allow developers to create games that can be played both on the move and on a home PS2 or PSX console, Sony has confirmed - but the emphasis will be on new titles, not on ports of existing games.

Nintendo’s forthcoming Dual Screen handheld console set to feature short range, Bluetooth style wireless connectivity, according to comments made by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just prior to the DS announcement.

Broadband console proponent Infinium Labs has provided details of its complaint against news website HardOCP, focusing on a September 2003 article which it claims contains many false statements about the company and its CEO, Tim Roberts.

Stocks of the GameCube console are almost depleted in the United States following strong demand through the Christmas period and the start of the New Year, according to Nintendo, which says it is working to bring in supplies from elsewhere.

EA continued its reign at the top of the chart this week, with the US giant’s James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing making its debut at the top of the UK All Formats and single-formats charts in its first week on sale.

Nokia's N-Gage has come in for fierce criticism from publisher Electronic Arts, with EA president and COO John Riccitiello describing the system as a "dog" in an interview and stating that software shipments on it have been "non-meaningful."

The next game in the multi-million selling Grand Theft Auto franchise will be Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which is on schedule for a launch in mid-October and will once again appear exclusively on the PlayStation 2.

Publisher Electronic Arts has reportedly confirmed that its Origin Systems development studio in Austin, Texas is to shut, with around 100 employees being offered relocation to the Redwood Shores campus in California.

Although the specification for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox platform has not yet been finalised, the company has shipped early prototype development kits to some developers - using Apple PowerMac G5 systems as a basis.

Football title World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International has taken the top spot in the Japanese software charts this week, beating off strong competition from other major titles in one of the busiest weeks of the year to date for new releases.

British government body UK Trade & Enterprise is set to embark on a significant program of activity within the games industry over the coming year, and is working closely with trade bodies TIGA and ELSPA to this end.

Publisher Midway has announced a loss of some $28.6 million for the fourth quarter of its 2003 fiscal year, which ended on December 31, representing a deepening loss for the company as revenues plummet due to restructuring efforts.

Flash memory maker M-Systems has been signed up by Microsoft to provide a high capacity memory unit for the next-generation Xbox console, adding weight to reports that the system will not include a hard drive.