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by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:13
Gaming seems to be more popular than ever, doesn't it? It might surprise you, then, to learn that the percentage of U.S. households containing a videogame console has remained relatively the same since 1995. A recent report from Odyssey LP called "The Homefront Study" reveals that, while July 2008 saw the highest penetration at 40 percent, that's only two points higher than it was 13 years ago. But why read about data when you can look at a handy graph?
Data was collected from over 1,500 households in a survey asking about different types of home media. We wonder what happened in 1997 that caused a bunch of households to chuck out their consoles. Also, where is the mysterious data from 2006?
IGN suggests America throws a big party the day that 50 percent of our households own a gaming system.
Please post your penetration jokes in the comments below.
http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/924/924916p1.html ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:08
via IGN
In mid November Activision will release Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, the follow-up to the successful Nintendo DS Guitar Hero game developed by Vicarious Visions. The sequel focuses on a trip through the decades of music, featuring song sets from 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, and 1970s. Here's what you'll be strumming to:
- Alien Ant Farm - "Smooth Criminal"
- The All-American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret"
- Blind Melon - "No Rain"
- Blondie - "One Way Or Another"
- Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name"
- Boston - "Rock and Roll Band"
- The Darkness - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"
- Edgar Winter Group - "Free Ride"
- Fall Out Boy - "The Take Over, The Breaks Over"
- Foo Fighters - "The Pretender"
- Free - "All Right Now"
- Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
- Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie"
- Journey - "Any Way You Want It"
- Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
- Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"
- Los Lobos - "La Bamba"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama (live)"
- Paramore - "Crushcrushcrush"
- Queen - "We Are The Champions"
- R.E.M. - "The One I Love"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Can't Stop"
- Sammy Hagar - "I Can't Drive 55"
- Seether - "Remedy"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "Tarantula"
- Stone Temple Pilots - "Down"
- Veruca Salt - "Volcano Girls"
- Weezer - "Buddy Holly"
Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades hits shelves November 16. ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:04
The hub of the Dreamcast Scene over at Dreamcast ES have today announced a new meetup of the Coders from the Dreamcast and also GP32/GP2x and possibly even some Pandora Coders, heres the translated news:
Now is the time to announce so coveted that the next 28 and Nov. 29 will be held on the 5th MadriDC and DreamParty 2008 MadriDC. 10th Anniversary Dreamcast.
Brand new for this edition are many. The party will start on Friday at 18:00 and will be a party NON STOP, during the Saturday 29, access to the general public will be free and open from 11:00 until 17:30.
On Friday and Saturday starting at 18:00 will begin the anniversary celebration, only for those who register in advance will also be able to participate in all events that take place during Friday evening.
Among the most interesting developments this year will be the scene interactive, with Dance Dance Revolution, Samba de Amigo, Space Channel 5 and many other surprises.
* Giant screen projection and demos of games, as well as the projection of Shenmue and TRON.
* Wifi network with Dreamcast so you can take your portable everything that we're going to see in the Party.
* Contests, competitions, challenges and games to 1, 2 and 4 players.
* Presentation of Homebrew games and emulators.
* Friday Night of Terror with video games and Zombies.
DC CHALLENGE 2008: See for yourself such as video game machines and emulated in the original Dreamcast in the room will be available: Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commdore 64, Atari 800, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, NeoGEO , Super Nintendo, NES, Master System and MEGADRIVE.
The event this year will be in the C / Sarria 28, Metro Peñagrande BUS and that any move towards the Vaguada.
Soon, very soon many more stories and news related to the Dreamcast most important event in Europe in 2008.
A perfect combination of Retro Computing and Dreamcast with its infinite exhale that never ends for both rejoice.
YOU WAIT, there is no shortage!
More details --> http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=192 ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:03
via Computer and Video Games
Sony's PlayStation business has been booming over the last couple of months, although the rest of the company isn't doing as well as the platform holder would like.
PS3 sales hit 2.43 million during the second quarter of Sony's business year (July to September). That's up 85% on the 1.31 million sold during the same period last year.
PSP sales rose sharply too, up 23% from 2.58 million to 3.18 million.
Sales of the ageing PS2 declined, down 25% to 2.5 million, but that figure still topped PS3's total.
While we're rolling out the stats, the company also sold over 21 million PS3 games during the second quarter, 11.8 million PSP titles, and 23.1 million PS2 games.
So the PS2 is in decline, but it's still outperforming its successor in terms of hardware and software sales, a whole eight years after it was first released. That's pretty good going in our books.
While the PlayStation business performed well, things were less rosy across Sony's wider business during the three months in question.
The company's overall quarterly profit fell by 72% to $214 million and, according to Edge-Online, its share price fell to a 16-year low ahead of the release of the financial results. Ouch. ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:01
via IGN
Atlus is the latest company to stretch out a major game announcement into a full week of teasing.
It all begins in this week's Famitsu, which houses an ad for an all new DS game, Devil Survivor. The two page ad shows a view of Tokyo's skyline, only the sky is red and appears to be forming a whirlpool. The text on the ad promises details on November 7, also in Famitsu.
The full name for the new game is actually Megami Ibunroku Devil Survivor. The Japanese words before "Devil Survivor" also precede the Japanese version of that PlayStation classic, Revelations: Persona. The connection between the two games is unknown.
Expect full details some time next week! ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:00
In anticipation of many gifts that we are going to be dropping slowly on the occasion of the 10th anniversary, we are going ahead of the Journal DCiberia Magazine in 2006.
Among other things you can read about MadriDC 06, articles on Dreamcast, Programming, emulators, The Passion, death and resurrection, and any interview is a nice souvenir.
http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=191 ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 20:00
via Eurogamer
Kingdom Under Fire developer Blueside has announced Princess and Knight for the DS.
It's an action RPG with stylus-based controls, apparently, and boasts hand-drawn 2D graphics with 3D effects.
You can see what it looks like in our Princess and Knight DS screenshot gallery.
Blueside's promising customisable characters, weapons and abilities, and fast-paced combos in battle, as you take control of a brave knight who discovers he has special powers, and subsequently teams up with Mooki, a princess guardian.
As the slightly amazing press release declares, "It just takes a pen to shake the world!"
There's no word on a release date yet, but we'll let you know. ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 19:54
via Kotaku
Sony Computer Entertainment UK director Ray Maguire gives fans of Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3 and Tomb Raider: Underworld hope for the future of "exclusive" downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 platform. Each has promised DLC only for Microsoft's Xbox 360, but Maguire tells VideoGamer that "One thing to remember, nothing is ever exclusive."
He has a point. We've watched exclusivity deals dissolve more than once during this generation (BioShock, Final Fantasy XIII).
Maguire, who's been chatty lately, explains to the less big business strategically inclined, "Things get wrapped up for a period of time for a large amount of money and if it's a strategic decision by competition to do that then we have to live with that."
Sony, Mr. Maguire says, has better things to do with its money.
"I would much rather that we were investing money into making sure that we've got great R&D and we start producing games like LittleBigPlanet," he adds, "rather than paying other people a huge amount of money to stop people playing their product."
We're glad that Sony is investing internally, even if it means things like EyePet get greenlighted, but we'd bet some PS3 owners certainly wouldn't mind a well-secured exclusive or two of their own. For the record, we're 99.44% sure this doesn't apply to Metal Gear Solid 4, give or take a few percentage points. Haze, maybe. Definitely maybe. ...by Published on October 29th, 2008 19:53
News from theFoo
Some time ago I was contacted by a nice guy in the US. He asked me wether I would be interested in building a psp mod for his partner. She has limited use of one of her hands and as such cant use a psp, but she can however use a SNES controller perfectly (I've seen it, its quite a talent). So he asked if I would be able to add a SNES controller to a PSP for her.
Well at long last here it is.
by Published on October 29th, 2008 19:53
News from theFoo
Some time ago I was contacted by a nice guy in the US. He asked me wether I would be interested in building a psp mod for his partner. She has limited use of one of her hands and as such cant use a psp, but she can however use a SNES controller perfectly (I've seen it, its quite a talent). So he asked if I would be able to add a SNES controller to a PSP for her.
Well at long last here it is.
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