Following its launch in Japan on 25th June, data from MediaCreate in Japan showed that 359,690 units of Wii Sports Resort were sold in just 4 days and total sell through estimates topped 500,000 in the 2nd week and 600,000 in the 3rd week on sale.
Microsoft has announced that Xbox Dashboard update hit August 11.Loads of stuff is included: Games on Demand, improved Netflix performance with Movie Parties, Avatar Awards, Avatar Marketplace, game ratings, new Friends list, etc.Facebook, Last.fm and Twitter will arrive in the fall.If you are lucky, you can get a preview of it before it arrives.
Realtime Worlds boss Dave Jones told GamerzBid that he’d be pretty pissed off and very disappointed if action MMO, APB didn’t shift over a million units.
Epic Games Cliff Bleszinski doesn’t think Microsoft’s Project Natal will set the traditional gaming world afire. However, he still thinks it’s a pretty great idea. “If there’s any future Gears products [coughs elaborately], it’s not the kind of thing you tag onto a game like that, right?” he said on Major Nelson’s podcast. “So what you have is the 360 which has captured a lot of the video viewing audience [with] movies and Netflix, it’s captured a lot of the online gaming, it’s captured a lot of the hardcore games, so now you have your yoga programme, now you have your dodgeball thing, you have the creepy kid Milo who wants to drown you in the pond - you can do all of it.”“Will it replace traditional gaming? No, but it’s another amazing way that we can expand the gaming experience to a wider audience and enhance what’s already there,”
We all knew it was coming the question was when. With the release of Street Fighter 4 for the PC a variety of mods have begun to appear, and naturally one of the first on offer is a nude filter version which strips the characters of clothes, in this case Cammy… You can see the resultant battle below:
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote not only about the upcoming Microsoft Stores this fall to be placed near Apple stores but also about how Apple's lawyers wanted Microsoft to take down their Laptop Hunter ads. According to Kevin Turner, he stated and we quote "we got a call from the Apple legal department saying "Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices." According to Kevin, It was the greatest single phone call in the history that he has ever taken in business" Well to be honest, those darn commercials do work! In fact, if we were in Apple's situation we would've done the same thing.. only a lot sooner.
