Video Games News

It’s hip to remake old games, and Garland-based video game developer, 3D Realms, knows it — as it’s announced that it will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever, in late 2008.

Duke Nukem, the romantic story of a man who just wanted to blow things up, was revolutionary as a 1996 PC game called Duke Nukem 3D. The new game should be available for the Xbox 360, the PS3 and PCs.

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Sony has announced that it’ll be launching the "Satin Silver" model of the PS3 in Japan — thereby boosting its sales to seven consoles, instead of the previous five sold this year.

The Satin Silver PS3 will go on sale on March 6th for 39,800 yen, or £190, or ten thousand dollars, because, quote, "Sony has to make a profit somehow."

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Remember how Nintendo was supposed to die when it released the GameCube and got beaten to death by Sony and Microsoft? Well, it appears to refuse to do so, in fact, thanks to the Wii and the DS, Nintendo earnings doubled from the previous year.

How do you like dem silky-white, motion-sensing apples?

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If you call Second Life a game to someone who uses it, they would stare at you creepily and mutter, "It’s not a game — it’s a way of life." Well, that’s slowly — and creepily — becoming true. A brain-computer interface (BCI) system has been created by Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory which allows you to control your Second Life avatar by thinking. Hey, that is a lot like life!

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There’s no party like a Halo 3 party and there’s no Halo 3 party like a Halo 3 party without an Xbox 360 Master Chief controller, That’s right, Microsoft is rolling out special edition Halo 3-related accessories that will, if we know Microsoft, break within the first week of use. But who cares, right — we’ve all got a three year warranty!

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Over a year ago, Microsoft released it’s Xbox 360 and the people rejoiced. The controller is sleek and comfortable, the design is delicious, Sci-Fi goodness, and the games looked better than real life.

The problem, of course, was that the Xbox didn’t really work. At least, not for a very long time. Between a fan that sounds like a seizuring tractor and inner workings that heat up to degrees hotter than all the fires of hell — the Xbox 360 had some problems.

And now, Microsoft is spending 1 billion dollars fixing them.

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"Problems with the Xbox 360? What problems?" This was the gist of Microsoft’s response to a reprimand issued by Britain’s consumer affairs show Watchdog, accusing the company of making faulty Xbox 360 consoles. Microsoft retorted and expressed mild, corporately-controlled outrage at the accusations, which, unfortunately, happen to be true.

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You’ve all been thinking about it, you’ve all been waiting for it — and today, we here at Devlib are making it official. That’s right, today we’re announcing the world’s first Wii-rdest Wii-Struction Contest, where we ask you — our overly enthusiastic Nintendo Wii players — to submit the oddest thing you’ve broken while playing and throwing your Wii-controller in Wii-related Wii-bliss.

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With the pending release of Sony’s Playstation 3, Logitech has already released an accessory for the system that is guaranteed to blow minds and cool fingers. It isn’t easy playing ten hours of video games a day — it’s even harder when your palms start getting sweaty and in a fury of alien-shooting the controller slips out of your hands and kills a family member. Thankfully, Logitech is here to help with a gadget that, while seemingly silly, is going to sell like the delicious hotcake that it is.

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Nintendo, following in the path of such companies like Coors and Budweiser, has proudly announced the arrival of the updated version of the DS — the DS lite. iPod-white and Apple-futuristic, the DS Lite is a completely improvement of the original DS (released in October 2004) — and is guaranteed to get you drunk a whole lot slower.

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