Consoles

Wii update 4.2 may brick your console. Is it worth it?

  From /. games: Now, Nintendo has pushed a boot2 update to all Wii users, and the results are what was expected: users are reporting bricks after installing 4.2 on unmodified consoles. Nintendo is currently attempting to censor posts and remove references to homebrew. It is worth noting that the new boot2 does not attempt [...]

I’m tired of being so negative, but CCP is really making me angry!

  I haven’t been posting as much, as you may or may not have noticed. That isn’t so much because I haven’t wanted to, but more because I wanted to shift the focus of the site. Mainly just from the angry tone to a more mindful one. It is what it is. That said, fuck CCP. How [...]

Valve and Sony NOT sitting in a tree.

And I’m pretty damn sure there won’t be any kissing. Just a quick note in my continuing love story with Valve: “The PC and the 360 are just more straightforward. We can focus on what we want to do, which is make game experiences, instead of sweating bullets over obscure architectural decisions they make with [...]

A who done it, Witcher style.

  Or maybe more imporantly, who didn’t do it. It goes like this… Rumor goes around that CD Projekt cancelled the console version of The Witcher, laid off the entire team. Times are rough, these things happen. Except then we get word that things aren’t quite what they seem: "Basically, after a few months of not [...]

I see NPD Numbers

  Well, I see NPD numbers that Gamasutra saw. Here’s the interesting parts: To be exact, numbers cross-platform are: Madden NFL 09 sold 3.9 million, Burnout Paradise sold 592,000, Dead Space sold 421,000, and Mirror’s Edge sold 145,000. Wow. I knew that Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge weren’t successes for EA, but I didn’t realize that [...]