In a rather shocking revelation this weekend, an anonymous Nintendo rep revealed to GameDrift that a plan is running through the pipeline to colorize the, as of now, rather bland coloration of its hit console, Wii. The rep did not reveal detailed specifics, however did remark that a red and black console have been confirmed.
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Remember, before the PSP launched and some people thought it was going to be the Gameboy/DS killer? Yeah, that sounds funny now doesn’t? In Japan it’s a real challenge to even find a DS lite to purchase. As a gamer, (and a DS owner) this is great news. With such a huge installed user [...]

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Confused about what this IPTV stuff is supposed to be? Then watch these two videos, from 1up.com. Microsoft execs Chris Satchell and Albert Penello break it down and walk us through the interface. But, if your too busy to sit through the vids here it is in a nutshell.
-Turns your 360 into a PVR
-It’s dependent [...]

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I know what your thinking “But, don’t the Japanese typically not give a crap about FPS style shooting games” (Yes, I know GoW is 3rd Person-ish). Regardless, it seems they have taken a shining to Epic’s latest master piece. According to some reports, it has broken through the top 10 selling games in Japan. All [...]

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Despite, what some uninformed rumor mongers have been saying, every copy of Crackdown will include a Halo 3 Beta invite. No golden tickets or scratch off winners here. If you buy, a copy of Crackdown with in a month or so of it shipping you can be sure you are going to get hooked up. [...]

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It seems that the huge online retailer NewEgg is already selling Windows Vista OEM discs. They have the several different available versions, and have the 32bit Ultimate in stock for only $199.

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It may turn out to be just a rumor, but now at least you have something to set on that giant countdown clock in your room (or is that just me with the giant Halo 3 countdown clock). This rumor began with a posting on ActiveXbox, they claim to have got the information from “an [...]

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Before the PS3 launched Sony touted full backwards compatibility as one of their key features, unfortunately people found out this was less then true when they actually got the console. Many games (event very recent ones such as FF XII) suffered from unreadable text and massive amounts of jaggies. But, happily it looks like that [...]

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Looks like Nintendo is starting to break out the big guns on their Virtual Console. This week it was Zelda: Link To The Past and next week it’s going to be Super Mario Kart 64 (perhaps the greatest drinking video game ever IMHO). Hopefully, Nintendo will offer us many more N64 games in the near [...]

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It’s not easy to be a Sony fan these days because of some more bad news from Ubisoft. It seems the highly anticipated GRAW 2 was quietly left off a recent financial report announcing their Q4 lineup for the 2006-2007 fiscal year. 1up.com did some further investigation and received official word from Ubisoft, they [...]

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