- GAME INDUSTRY NEWS
GRAN TURISMO SERIES SURPASSES 50 MILLION SOLD Shipments of the Gran Turismo series of car racing games edged past the 50 million unit mark at the end of April, Sony said Friday. - 05/09/08 at 08:21 AM PST
GEARS OF WAR 2 GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE AVAILABLE TONIGHT Hurry back from your weekend party: Microsoft will reveal the first gameplay footage for Gears of War 2 over Xbox Live and all over the internets tonight at 11pm PDT. - 05/09/08 at 10:12 AM PST
KID ICARUS COMING TO WII SAY AT LEAST TWO SOURCES As E3 2008 nears and Nintendo keeps its poker face, two new reports surfaced this week suggesting (and near confirming) that Kid Icarus will soon be making a return to Wii, more than 21 years since the platforming game first appeared NES. - 05/09/08 at 08:59 AM PST
FRIDAY ROUNDUP: CALL OF DUTY 5, NIKO IN SAN ANDREAS, AND GUITAR HERO Also inside: New PS3 trailers for Killzone 2, Little Big Planet, and Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. Don't leave home until you soak up the breaking news and rumors! - 05/09/08 at 02:26 PM PST
REPORT: XBOX 360 TO GET NEW GRAPHICS CARD THIS SUMMER Xbox 360 Red Ring still got you down? A new report released late Thursday suggests that Microsoft is working on a second internal optimization to reduce overheating and mitigate the abnormal number of system failures once and for all. - 05/09/08 at 08:10 AM PST
BIOSHOCK MOVIE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED The film adaptation of the critically-acclaimed game will be produced by Universal Pictures, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), and written by John Logan (Gladiator), confirmed 2K Games on Friday. - 05/09/08 at 09:25 AM PST
NINTENDO WII FUELS JAPAN'S RICHEST MAN OF 2008 Maddening sales of Wii have made former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi the richest human being in Japan, says envy facilitator, Forbes Magazine, in its latest annual rankings. - 05/08/08 at 12:48 PM PST
MICROSOFT LIKES GTA IV BECAUSE IT SELLS XBOX 360S Company says U.S. sales for Xbox 360 spiked 54 percent last week, thanks to the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. - 05/08/08 at 12:11 PM PST
ROCKSTAR RELEASES GTA IV MULTIPLAYER GUIDE Due to a lack of included instruction in the game manual, Rockstar Games this week released a Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer "starter guide" to help players avoid online confusion. - 05/08/08 at 12:37 PM PST
KIDS HAVING TROUBLE BUYING M-RATED VIDEO GAMES Teenagers in the U.S. are having a more difficult time buying mature-rated games in stores than in past years, according to the results of an undercover operation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. - 05/08/08 at 12:59 PM PST
