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Gaming headlines February 7th and 8

February 8th
David Perry To Receive Honorary Queen's University Diploma

Report: Madden Lead Departs EA Tiburon

DICE: Mizuguchi Talks Artistry And Commerce In Concert

RealNetworks Q4 Games Sales Jump 30 Percent

Wii Pushes DS Into Third Place In Japanese Weekly Hardware Sales

Trinigy's Vision Engine 6.4 To Debut At GDC

Saling The World: Devil May Cry 4 Debuts Strong in Worldwide Charts

NCSoft's Garriott Talks Games As 'Pulp', Art

TV report: video games 'normalize' killing

Kiss your loved ones goodbye: Puzzle Quest 2 confirmed

Activision Bets Against PS3 In US

Studios Falling Over Themselves For BioShock Movie

Crytek Talks Crysis 2, Far Cry Movie and CryEngine 2

EA CEO Calls Spore The Greatest Creative Risk In The Industry

AIAS Award Winners To Get Recognition At GameStops


February 7th
Educational Feature: ‘Designer Advice’

Q&A: SOE, Live Gamer Reveal 'Live Gamer Exchange' Service

Nintendo’s Brawl Smashes Open Japanese Charts

Steam Hits 15m Users, Reports 158% Holiday Sales Growth

Report: Viacom Offering $1.5b For Take-Two

DICE Fight Club: Industry Vets Debate Retail Vs. Microtransations

Vicious Cycle Announces New Next Gen Console Engine


Report: Codebreakers Reveal Twisted Metal Move To PS3

DICE: Microsoft's Kim Takes Tough Questions On Console War

DICE: Team Blizzard On Building Its 17 Year Success

Activision Holiday Quarter Sales Rise 80% To $1.48 Billion

Gaming Headlines February 2nd-6th 2008

February 6th
Critical Reception: Capcom's Devil May Cry 4

New Street Fighter IV Characters Unveiled

Duke Nukem Forever Coming in 2008?

Mass Effect DLC Brings Batarians to the Mix

Screw GameStop - Donate your games to the troops in Iraq!

Midway Announces This is Vegas


Sega Announces English of the Dead

Bungie's next game is like, 'totally different'

Nintendo shares hit 7-month low on recession fears

February 5th
Digital Extremes' Sinclair: PS3, Xbox 360 "Not As Similar As You'd Like"

Metal Gear Solid Collection Confirmed

Pro Evolution Drives Konami Sales, Profit Rise In Third Quarter

THQ Sales Up, Profits Fall In Holiday Quarter

Conspiracy To Publish Wii Exclusive Puzzler Octomania

Future Invests In Games News Aggregator N4G

Foundation 9 Pledges New Quality Initiatives

Firaxis Explains Civilization Revolution Wii Postponement

Sony Confirms Silver PS3, First Greatest Hits Titles

Q&A: Rebel Monkey Talks Casual Space, $1M Funding

Nvidia To Acquire PhysX Developer Ageia

Command & Conquer Announcement Incoming

February 4th
David Jaffe To Keynote GDC 2008 Game Career Seminar

Sony Announces 1 Million Folding@home Users

PS3 Budget Game Line Planned In Japan, Western Version 'Likely'

Release This: Devil May Cry 4, Assassin's Creed DS Arrive Stateside

American McGee Confirms Unreal Engine 3 'Twisted Tale' Project

New Killzone 2 Concept Art

February 2nd
Dr. Kawashima declines $22 million in Brain Age royalties

Gaming Headlines January 31 & Feb 1

February 1st

Saling The World: Smash Bros, DMC 4 Take Over in Japan
DMC4 release date in the U.S is February 5th! :D

EA Reveals European Hardware Estimates

AIAS Announces Dr. Randy Pausch Scholarship Fund

Photo Finish For Hardware Sales In Japan

EA is most of the way there but needs some more time to Master the PS3

Nintendo is demented: Patented diagrams show some awful Wii gimmick ideas

Square Enix plans for world domination, acquisitions

New Playstation Home Pictures

Jim Ward Leaving LucasArts

Gameloft Announces Q4 Sales Of $38.2 Million

Smash Bros Not Working? Quit Smoking

Child's Play Raises Record $1.3M In 2007

January 31

Sony game's division turns a profit

New PS3 SKU practically confirmed by Gamestop

React's Guitar Hero pedals mean you're potentially taking this too seriously

Nyko reveals cord-free adapter for Wii Nunchuck, retrofitters rejoice

Inside Source Reveals the Truth About Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" Failures?

A blogger over at Seattlepi.com has posted an interview he did with someone who worked on the Xbox 360 project. The blogger claims he should be trusted because he was the one who broke the news about Bungie was leaving Microsoft and had all the details a full week before the official PR announcement. This should be taken as a "rumor" until confirmed.

Q: So what do you think the real failure rate of the Xbox 360 is? Some have estimated it as high as 30%. I got my Xbox in early 2007 and so far so good but what do you think the chance is that it's going to die on me one day.

It's around 30%, and all will probably fail early. This quarter they are expecting 1 M failures, most of those Xenons. Some of those are repeat failures. Life expectancy is all over the map because the design has very little margin for most of the important parameters. That means it's not a fault tolerant design. So a good unit may last a couple of years, while a bad unit can fail in hours. I have a launch unit and have not had a single problem with it. And it's used a lot. But I don't know anyone else with a 360 that hasn't broken, except you now. There's no way to tell when yours might die. But the cooler you can keep it, the longer it will probably last. So stand it up, keep it in free air, etc. :Note : Xenon was the code name for the first Xbox 360 mother board.

Courtesy of Seattlepi blogger, 8bitjoystick also posted on 8bitjoystick.com

Civilization put on hold for Wii

With its remote-controlled pointer simulating a mouse's point-and-click interface reasonably well, the Wii seems like an obvious home for the sort of PC ports that have always had trouble acclimating to a controller -- say, turn-based strategy games, for instance. So it comes as a small surprise that Firaxis has decided to put the Wii version of Civilization Revolution on indefinite hold. The game remains in development for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS, however.

"Development for the Wii version of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution is currently on hold," said a 2K Games spokesperson to IGN. "We are focusing our attention on creating the best possible Civilization experience for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS platforms."

Courtesy of 1Up

Brash announces Saw videogame

A short press release from Brash declares that the title will "pull no punches" delivering "the horrifying suspense and disbelief that has floored fans worldwide!" It also mentions that SAW will be built using the Unreal 3 engine and is currently in development for next-gen platforms only.

A small website promoting the game is currently up at www.whoisjigsaw.com -- though sadly it seems to largely consist of a news signup form and some rotating images right now."

I can only think of how much a horrible game this will turn out to be.

Courtesy of 1UP