Microsoft ended its E3 press conference today with a giant bang: A new Xbox 360, with a slimmer profile and built in wi-fi will be on store shelves later this week. The new Xbox 360 will feature a 250 GB hard-drive and will go on sell for $299 later this week. Also following the announcement , Microsoft announce that old 360 Elites will now be $249 USD, whilst the Arcade will be $149 USD.
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Activision released the debut trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops. This long awaited trailer was release during the NBA Eastern Conference final. Treyarch is the developer of the latest installment of the Call of Duty Franchise. The game will take place in during several years of the cold war. Several details of the game have been publish, here is a list of a few deatails You will be able to play at least two characters in multiple international conflicts. Four-player co-op is confirmed. The game is likely to play out over a long period of history. As black ops teams were privy to superior intelligence ...
Ubisoft recently announce that Assassin's Creed 2 will be receiving downloadable content. Ubisoft, today release further details about the two new sequences in the DCL. The Battle of Forli will release in late January for $3.99, and will feature Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza fighting alongside Ezio to defend against the Orsi brothers. This new mission revolves around keeping a Piece of Eden from the Templars. It consists of six new memories, including one with Leonardo's underused flying machine.
Enterbrain, a Japanese magazine company, reports that the PS3 has crossed the four million mark in Japan, selling over one million consoles in nine months for a total of 4,020,563. Several analyst believe that sale for the console will rise in thanks in part to the recent price drop, the release of the PS3 Slim, and Final Fantasy XIII.
The PSP Digital Comics store on the PSN will launch in several countries today. According to a PSNComics tweet, the US will receive access at noon Pacific time or 3PM EST. The European PlayStation Blog states the comics store will open at 5PM GMT in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. At the current moment the store is down in Ireland.
Earlier this week, a few European GameStop listings for 250GB PS3 bundles were leak by employees. Today, both SCEE and SCE UK confirmed the hardware packages and included games. Europeans will have their choice of two bundles, both of which will be made available throughout October. One of the bundles includes Need for Speed: Shift, while the other includes FIFA 10. Read the whole story »
The ESRB has once again leaked details for upcoming as yet unannounced titles. This time, the ESRB has let information trickle out for two games, both titled Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron , one is for the Nintendo DS and the other for the PSP, Kotaku reports.
Sir Howard Stringer has really big plans for PSN, commenting that as long as PSN is tied solely to the PS3, the network would never be able to reach its full potential. It’s set to reach …
Pre-ordering Halo 3: ODST at participating retailers will net you a token to unlock Sergeant Johnson as a playable character in the new Firefight mode. Find a list of the participating retailers after the break.
