5 June 2009
Push Square
There was some initial backlash to the PSP Go when the news leaked late last week. Even we couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed with the look of the system. Since then, it’s really grown on us. It looks every inch the piece of quality hardware we come to expect from Sony. More on the launch of the new Sony PSP Go

2 June 2009
Reuters
Franklin Paul and Kemp Powers
Videogame enthusiasts can expect new home fitness titles and a wave of updated sequels to big hits in the next year, two of the world’s biggest game publishers said at the annual E3 show in Las Vegas. Electronic Arts and Ubisoft Entertainment SA, which hosted showcases on the day before the annual show opened in Los Angeles, both stressed that they would deliver an improved slate of games for Nintendo’s Co Ltd’s Wii, the top selling videogame console. More on the E3 conference

2 June 2009
Reuters
Franklin Paul
Microsoft Corp on Monday offered a glimpse into a future where the Xbox 360 console is the centrepiece of any living room, and games, social interaction and communications are controlled with the wave of a hand. At a star-studded event at the annual E3 video game conference that drew appearances by Paul McCartney and Steven Spielberg, the company unveiled “Project Natal,” which uses a camera to track a user’s movements via full skeletal mapping. It also recognizes voices and vocal commands. More on the unveiling of Project Natal

7 May 2009
Joystiq.com
J C Fletcher
Would you like to have a downloadable collection of vintage console games on the DSi? We would too! Oh well. When the DSi was announced, Intellivision president and IP holder Keith Robinson decided to move a stalled DS version of the Intellivision Lives compilation to DSiWare.

However, Nintendo rejected the project. Apparently, according to an email Robinson received from Nintendo, WiiWare and DSiWare games cannot “run under emulation.” More on Nintendo rejecting the vintage console game collection

1 May 2009
TechDigest
Daniel Sung
A company in Kalamazoo called Rapid Repair has started running an iPod upgrading service. Currently, the largest pod that Apple supplies is the 120GB classic which’ll only bag you 24,000 tracks at the most - not really enough for any true file junkies out there. More on the Rapid Repair iPod upgrading service.

1 May 2009
Daily Game
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is in stores now - for your home video game console, that is. The X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, on which the game is based and which makes its theatrical debut today, but it’ll be quite a while before it shows up on DVD or Blu-ray.

So…presuming you want to scratch that X-Men Origins: Wolverine itch at home, Activision’s new PS3 and Xbox 360 game, developed by Raven Software, lets players harness Wolverine’s brute strength, regenerative mutant abilities and indestructible adamantium claws while battling powerful forces and uncovering the mysteries behind Wolverine’s origin. More on the newly released X-Men Wolverine game.

1 May 2009
Wired
Chris Kohler
The sales reports for U.S. videogame hardware rarely change from month to month: Wii on top, Xbox 360 in a distant second, PlayStation 3 in third. In Japan, it’s been a totally different story during 2009.

The past two years have seen Nintendo in a definitive first place in its home country, which on a total installed units basis is still rock-solid — one estimate says Nintendo has sold 8 million Wii consoles in Japan versus 3 million PS3s and 1 million Xbox 360s. More on Sony PS3 v Wii sales

1 May 2009
Techradar
E3 fever is sweeping the gaming world faster than swine flu in a Mexican piggery, with those all-too-predictable rumours flying around of an imminent ‘next Xbox/ Xbox 720′ from Microsoft, a high def Wii from Nintendo and (in addition to a UMD-free PSP) the final reveal of PS3’s motion-sensing controller from Sony, among many others. For more on the new PS3 wand, see here

25 April 2009
Marke Andrews
Vancouver Sun
Just as sales have hit a plateau for the Wii, Nintendo’s interactive video game system, the company has come along with a new device that is enjoying brisk early sales.

But a leading industry analyst believes the successful introduction of the Nintendo DSi, a hand-held game machine containing two cameras and an audio microphone, is more coincidence than financial planning for the recession. More on the success of the Nintendo DSi

24 April 2009
Rob Hearn
Pocket Gamer
If you’re a Wii owner, you may be looking forward to the long promised Wii video service. Well, if you live in Japan you’re in luck. If you don’t live in Japan, please return to your seat and wait for your number to be called.

The video service, called the ‘Wii no Ma Channel’, is due to launch in Japan on May the 1st. Of particular interest to us is that fact that it’ll be possible to transmit videos from the Wii to the DSi. You’ll also be able to download coupons onto your DSi and scan them in shops. More on the DSi’s availability on the Wii channel