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Date: Tue, 8. May 2012 06:45:49

Microsoft has confirmed that it will offer a $99 Xbox 360 bundled with a Kinect and two years of Xbox Live for customers who sign a two-year contract. This may be the future of console gaming.

Date: Fri, 15. April 2011 08:04:22

pcgfx805 writes "Game Informer has reportedly received word from 'multiple sources' that a new HD console from Nintendo will be debuting at this year's E3. They report on conflicting information regarding the power of the console compared to the other current-gen consoles, but go on to speculate that 'Either way it will offer competitive specifications.'" This year's E3 is scheduled for June 7-9. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 17. June 2010 15:06:29

Now that E3 attendees have had a chance to try out the new revision of Nintendo's portable console, critiques of the 3D effect and updated layout are starting to filter in. Opinion thus far has been mostly positive. Wired writes, "The graphics, which are much more advanced than yoursquo;d expect from Nintendo, left me pretty much in disbelief. They're on a level with Sonyrsquo;s PSP, probably even a little better than that. But the eye-popping 3-D effect makes everything that much richer." According to the Guardian's Games blog, it works "beautifully." They add, "You can perceive 3D only if the console is directly in front of you, but this is fine for handheld gaming. I actually found it pretty adaptable in terms of viewing from different vertical positions. It was much more sensitive if the handheld was turned slightly to the left or right, but really, it coped perfectly with the slight shifts and jerks you'd get on a morning commute." During Shigeru Miyamoto's annual dev roundtable, he explained how Nintendo felt that particular types of games, such as shooters, benefit more from the 3D effect than others, and how Nintendo hopes to update as many older games as they can to incorporate 3D gameplay in addition to 3D graphics.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F06%2F17%2F0430225%2FNintendo-3DS-Early-Impressions" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Nintendo+3DS+Early+Impressions%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcuiFv3" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/06/17/0430225/Nintendo-3DS-Early-Impressions?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1688966amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlTGrSXe-9Jhh34JUYwOQucFguk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlTGrSXe-9Jhh34JUYwOQucFguk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlTGrSXe-9Jhh34JUYwOQucFguk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlTGrSXe-9Jhh34JUYwOQucFguk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/W6EmfVjH26Q" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 8. June 2011 02:24:40

Yahoo! News - This morning, Nintendo announced the next generation of the Wii gaming console — or at least part of it! We were naturally anxious to get our hands on Nintendo's latest and greatest device, known as the Wii U. The Wii U ?

Date: Thu, 12. November 2009 03:27:04

S-4'N3 writes "The BBC reports that Microsoft has disconnected approximately 600,000 Xbox users from Xbox Live because the devices they are using have been modified, either with software or with new chips, to play pirated games. 'Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a "small percentage" of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide. Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console 'violates' the service's 'terms of use' and would result in a player being disconnected.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1821255/Microsoft-Disconnects-Modded-Xbox-Users?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/11/1821255"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1821255/Microsoft-Disconnects-Modded-Xbox-Users?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/emdk_eEUyEtLccGz2zzflWkkh1E/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/emdk_eEUyEtLccGz2zzflWkkh1E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/emdk_eEUyEtLccGz2zzflWkkh1E/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/emdk_eEUyEtLccGz2zzflWkkh1E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/k7nrGBSnauI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 6. July 2010 03:52:04

An anonymous reader writes "A combination of factors like console penetration, piracy, and the huge inherent variability in PC hardware setups have made the PC a third-class citizen for many gaming genres, especially the kind of high-adrenaline action games that were once the PC's bread and butter. Epic is a company that has been vocal in its shift toward consoles, with many controversial statements dropped over the years in reference to piracy being the reason. So it was with some surprise that we noted Epic's VP, Mark Rein, pointing out recently that the PC is as important as ever. Why the turnaround? This article suggests that the extended length of the current console generation will drive some developers back to the PC as new games push up against hardware limits."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F05%2F1429222%2FIs-PC-Gaming-Set-For-a-Comeback" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Is+PC+Gaming+Set+For+a+Comeback%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9ErDed" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/05/1429222/Is-PC-Gaming-Set-For-a-Comeback?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1708570amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fY2dzLvdd0c6lDen4O3dL6IBxg0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fY2dzLvdd0c6lDen4O3dL6IBxg0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fY2dzLvdd0c6lDen4O3dL6IBxg0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fY2dzLvdd0c6lDen4O3dL6IBxg0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/M4Sp8_YrlhQ" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 23. March 2009 15:05:23

Xbm360 writes "According to data collected by Joystiq as well as Google Trends, there's been a steady rise in reports and discussion of the so-called E74 error on Xbox 360 consoles since August of last year. The E74 error is related to video problems caused by either a faulty AV connector or, more often, a loosened ANA/HANA scaling chip. This is not the first time the Xbox 360 has experienced technical issues; in recent years many people have complained about scratched discs and over-heating consoles mdash; the 'red ring of death.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/0337244amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/23/0337244"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/0337244amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/sg8lxjapVNoUD47nAJuYcgCXIv8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/sg8lxjapVNoUD47nAJuYcgCXIv8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CLHVWUaibf0" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 24. September 2009 02:52:26

AP - Nintendo on Sunday will cut the price of its popular Wii console by $50, in a bid to broaden its appeal among potential new customers as it prepares to release the Wii Fit-Plus and New Super Mario Bros. games.

Date: Wed, 30. July 2008 13:04:30

AP - Nintendo Co.'s profit for the fiscal first quarter surged 34 percent as sales of its hit Wii console shot up, underlining the success of the video game unit in attracting novice players.

Date: Tue, 17. April 2012 08:06:22

zacharye writes "The next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles currently being developed by Microsoft and Sony will make the disparity between console and mobile gaming even more vast, adding more fluid animation support and a number of additional enhancements that will make video games more realistic than ever. But even when confined to the capabilities present in today's home consoles, new video game engines show us just how amazing gaming will be moving forward. Ctytek, the lab behind the popular Crysis franchise, recently released the CryENGINE 3 SDK 3.4.0 DX11 update for developers, along with a quick reel to highlight some of the engine's capabilities." Crysis 3 has also been officially confirmed. They're aiming for a Spring 2013 release date, and the game will be set within a dome in New York City that contains an 'urban rainforest.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.