A man with almost a year of playtime on a single character in the video game World of Warcraft has his character deleted by someone. Now he plans on suing the “criminal” for everything he is worth.

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We will be returing on Jan 8th from our Christmas break and will be mentioning a little of what we will be doing in 2007 on the next show. See you then.

Aside from the Wii recently flying past the 3 million mark worldwide with a relative ease, now its flagship title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has surpassed another milestone. Just a few weeks ago reports surfaced that the long-awaited title had reached 1 million units, well today that figure can double.

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Online, there are already gripes and legal threats regarding Wii-induced muscle aches, which is pretty much what you
’d expect from nerds who haven’t moved their bodies in years… I have equally little sympathy for [these] people…because they ignore the huge, on-screen warning that, before every game, advises you to move furniture out of the way.

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A Ruby script polled Amazon.com this morning to no avail.

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Can a peripheral that does not add anything to playing videogames win a best gaming peripheral award? According to IGN, yes

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Vivendi Games has confirmed Battlestar Galactica Online, an exclusive video game for the Xbox 360.

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Regardless of where you stand, it’s undeniable that this year was pretty rough on Sony, especially after the price of the PS3 was announced at E3. However, Sony does have one beacon of hope left, the PS2.

Business Week predicts that the PS2 will outsell the next-gen (now current-gen) systems through 2007, and maybe even 2008. They’ve been quoted as saying: ”Despite all the hype surrounding the PS3, its predecessor is likely to outsell it for two more years … The PS2 probably has the capacity to sell more than any other gaming console.”
I’d say it’s plausible that PS2 can hold the fort until PS3 can get some killer-aps under it’s wing. Although I still believe PS3 will have a lot of catching up to do next year.

 

Source: Joystiq

MAXCONSOLE - Playstation 3 - Internet Release groups says PS3 Backups are Playable, Exploit Found:

An internet release group known as ‘Paradox’ have released a game image of Motorstorm (JAP). Where they have a field saying playable in the NFO file, they say ‘Yes they are :)’. In the special notes sections, they also denote ‘And a question to all, is there a bug in the system software from the playStation 3(R) Yes there is Nothing to add more..’. Could the PS3 be exploited ALREADY? Perhaps.

MAXCONSOLE - XBOX 360 - Buy Crackdown in February and get an invitation to the Halo 3 beta:

This months Gamepro magazine has an ad which says if you Buy Crackdown in February, then you get an inviation to the Halo 3 beta scheme. There is a small note saying that this offer is in limited supply.

Hot off the back of Wii selling 3 million in only 5 weeks, Nintendo have announced that it’s dual screened handheld has now passed the 35 million mark in just over 2 years! Nintendo’s “New Ways to Play” strategy really seems to be paying off with record-breaking sales across all regions, especially in Japan where over 14 million DS units were sold

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In Japan last week, Nintendo continued to dominate selling 500,000 Wiis and 300,000 DSs. Nintendo related games accounted for 80% of all games sold while Nintendo consoles (the DS and Wii mostly) accounted for 70% of all hardware sales. As good as these numbers are, Japanese gamers still aren’t digging Zelda. It only sold 50,000 copies.

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Xbox Live has gone down across all games as of 7:00pm Central Time. So far there is no explanation for the crash.

Update 3: After 30 minutes of waiting on hold with customer service, we were told that the outage would continue until tomorrow morning. At first the operator tried to tell us that the outage was due to a Xbox Live update. Obviously an update would be something that is announced and not sprung on 4 million users at the drop of a hat. Let’s hope we can get some real answers soon.

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Have we really reached the point where we can blame literally anything on video games?

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Originally slated for Q1 2007, the 65nm processors for the Xbox 360 are being delayed until mid-2007.

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