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By Ernice Gilbert, December 22, 2011 10 News, PS3

Tweet According to Indianapolis prosecutors, a thief looking for ways to pay his tattoo bills broke into a man’s home, killing him and his 7yr old niece and made away with a PS3 console.

“Publishers Should Get Their Online Strategy In Place Sooner Rather Than Later”, Says Ian Livingstone

By Ernice Gilbert, December 4, 2010 3 News

Tweet When such a clear warning is coming from one of the fathers of U.K. gaming, Ian Livingstone, all should take heed. The man’s actually one of the founders of gaming in the United Kingdom, and he sees online gaming… Read More »

Hard Copies Aren’t Leaving The Scene Just Yet, Uttters Take-Two

By Ernice Gilbert, December 3, 2010 4 News, Take-Two

Tweet While many hold the belief that soon, games will only be delivered digitally, there are yet many big names in the industry who hold the belief that come the future, hard copies or packaged goods, will still dominate the… Read More »

ECA Set To Stage Washington Rally In Run Up To Historic Court Battle

By Ernice Gilbert, October 14, 2010 2 Hot, News

Tweet On November 2nd, oral arguments for the historic court battle, Schwarzenegger v. EMA Supreme, will take center stage in Washington D.C., and in a run up the the event, which could have dyer consequences for the gaming industry, the… Read More »

Blockbuster Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In US

By Ernice Gilbert, September 24, 2010 3 Hot, NCsoft, News

Tweet Facing increasingly stiff competition from video streaming companies like Netflix, Blockbuster’s filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, with shares of the once powerful game and video rental chain falling 17.5 pct to less than 7 cents.

Activsion And Bobby Kotick Aligns With Industry Against Proposed Violent Game Law

By Ernice Gilbert, September 22, 2010 6 Activision/Bilzzard, News

Tweet You’ve always said your hate for Activision CEO Bobby Kotick will never end. That might be true, but it doesn’t mean you can’t hate him less. The Activision boss have released a public statement regarding the upcoming Supreme Court… Read More »

Atari Is Like A Start Up All Over Again

By Ernice Gilbert, August 9, 2010 10 Atari, Hot, News

Tweet Atari, the once mega company that was an actual console manufacturer has seen its fortune spiral downhill drastically overtime. It’s brand is still recognizable, though, and according to CEO Jeff Lapin, who, by the way, is Atari’s fifth in… Read More »

Publishers Dirty Little Secret

By Ernice Gilbert, July 8, 2010 6 DLC, News

Tweet So it’s about one week before a game is made available at retail, the review embargo is still up and most a sites are respecting it. Suddenly, a website breaks the review embargo with no fear of being punished… Read More »

Apple: We Lost The Platforms War To Microsoft

By Fernando, June 2, 2010 1 Apple, Microsoft, News, Uncategorized

Tweet Since the Dinosaurs era there’s been fierce rivalry between long time competitors, Microsoft and Apple. History has taught us a big lesson about the platform wars and how they’ve evolved during the years. In a recent interview with “All Things Digital”,… Read More »

Xbox 360 Is Too “Hardcore”, Microsoft Owns “The Elite Of Gaming”

By Ernice Gilbert, May 31, 2010 4 News, Project Natal, Xbox 360

Tweet Most of the gamers who own an Xbox 360 are loaded with cash. Is that right?

Numbers Quencher: PS3 To Outsell Xbox 360 By 3.5 Million This Year Says Analyst

By Ernice Gilbert, May 27, 2010 0 News

Tweet Strategy Analytics has predicted the global market share for PS3 is expected to be around 31 percent for the first quarter of the year. Furthermore the firm expects global sales of said console to reach 14 million.

Rockstar’s Flourishing While Rest Of Industry Struggles

By Ernice Gilbert, May 21, 2010 0 News

Tweet These are hard times for the gaming industry, earlier in the week Sqaure-Enix announced that it laid off 400 people this year alone, and April’s NPD industry sales numbers were the most abysmal we’ve seen in years. But at… Read More »

At E3, Microsoft Will Hold Two Press Conferences

By Ernice Gilbert, March 25, 2010 1 Microsoft

Tweet E3 is coming folks, and with it monstrous reveals from the big 3: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. The companies are wasting no times hyping their respective press conferences and today, Aaron Greenberg revealed that Microsoft will be holding not… Read More »

Video Thirst: Tretton To “Bring The Heat” At E3, Promises Killzone 3

By Ernice Gilbert, March 20, 2010 0 Guerrilla Games, Playstation 3, Sony

Tweet GDC? What GDC? That was child’s play, E3 is when Sony unleashes its war arsenal for the world to see. This according to SCEA head Jack Tretton.

Nintendo Not Good At Making “Core” Titles Like Bioshock 2 & Dante’s Inferno Says Reggie

By Ernice Gilbert, March 16, 2010 7 2K Marine, EA, Nintendo Wii

Tweet In what I view as an extremely well spoken and informative interview by Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo with Industry Gamers, the NoA boss said his company is not good at creating “core” games and that not all “technically advance”… Read More »