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Linux fuels game console plus
News We were thinking: wouldn't it be great if somebody created an open source game platform so that a guy like John Carmack [of Quake fame], or the next great developer of a new gaming paradigm, could get it to market a lot quicker and could get into...
[July 7, 2000, 16:49]
Microsoft may introduce game console in autumn
News Microsoft may pour billions of dollars over four years into developing and promoting a home video game console, code-named X-Box, said one person who has been briefed on Microsoft's plans. The new Microsoft console is expected to play standard PC...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
Old PlayStation tops US holiday game console sales
News As expected, Sony has the top-selling game console in the US at the start of the holiday shopping season. It is unusual for a game console maker to promote an old format after it introduces a new one, and Sony's efforts to position the PSone as a...
[December 6, 2000, 11:53]
Plans for Linux game console fizzle
News Indrema, which hoped to carve a niche in the lucrative video game industry with a console based on the Linux operating system, announced Wednesday that it is going out of business. The Indrema console was to use commonly available software...
[April 12, 2001, 11:07]
Microsoft bets $500m on Xbox
News US consumers who plunk down $299 for Microsoft's new Xbox game console, a system that will compete against Sony's PlayStation2 and Nintendo's GameCube, will get their hardware at a discount. Like other console makers, Microsoft is subsidising the...
[November 15, 2001, 16:23]
European sales drag Xbox off target
News Microsoft is unlikely to meet current sales targets for its Xbox video game console, owing to weak sales in Japan and Europe, according to a report released Wednesday by investment bank SoundView Technology Group.
[March 28, 2002, 8:43]
PlayStation 3 may run on Linux
News Pop open the bonnet of the next-generation Sony PlayStation game console or a BMW 745i sedan and you may well see Linux inside, said a member of the group promoting the growth of the open-source operating system.
[April 2, 2003, 11:44]
PS2 sales surpass 70 million
News Electronics giant Sony announced on Wednesday that worldwide sales of its PlayStation 2 game console have surpassed 70 million, despite a year-to-year drop in holiday sales. Microsoft is expected to disclose holiday sales figures for its Xbox game...
[January 15, 2004, 15:35]
Report: Xbox will be a loser for Microsoft
News Microsoft could lose as much as $2bn(£1.36bn) on its Xbox console, potentially selling the game console at a loss for three years or more, before breaking even in fiscal 2005, according to a Merrill Lynch report released Tuesday.
[March 7, 2001, 9:00]
Game industry girds for battle
News Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will launch new campaigns in the game console wars next week, with the main weapons this time involving online gaming and possible price cuts. Game players may even end up with some extra money for software, if console...
[May 14, 2002, 13:23]
MacDo
Downloads Fast paced arcade game based on the classic console game 'Mr Do' which was originally released in 1982. It has also elements of the very similar 'Dig Dug' which was also a classic console game.
[November 5, 2000, 7:00]
Australians make Xbox hack freely available
News An Australian company that manufactures and sells a "mod chip" for Microsoft's Xbox video-game console has released the design for the hacking tool under an open-source license. Mod chips are gray-market add-ons that, once soldered onto the main...
[June 25, 2003, 14:27]
Xbox mod chip delivers 'homebrew software'
News The first Xbox add-ons that purportedly allow the console to play illegally copied game software have gone on sale, but analysts say they're unlikely to inspire a Napster-like wave of copy infringement.
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Xbox faces the music with new software
News Microsoft announced the first non-game application for its Xbox video game console on Monday and unveiled a handful of high-profile games intended to boost the system's cachet among hardcore players. Non-game uses for the Xbox have been the subject...
[May 13, 2003, 7:55]
Dreamcast to 'doorstop' PlayStation
News PT, struggling game console maker Sega of America -- whose mascot is the electric blue hedgehog -- will kick off its next-generation console system, the Dreamcast. They have a lot of first-rate titles, and the purchase price $199 (£121.35) is a lot...
[September 9, 1999, 8:01]
Xbox Linux group seeks Microsoft seal of approval
News The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval. Currently, an Xbox must be outfitted with a "mod chip" -- a gray-market add-on that overrides security features...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
Xbox uncovered
News Since the success of the Atari 2600 of the 1980s, American companies have tried to jump into the video game console market with limited returns. Equal in size to a VCR, the Xbox could go down in history as the largest video game console ever.
[November 15, 2001, 11:04]
Xbox components indicate low sales
News Sales of Microsoft's Xbox video game console are likely to scrape the low end of current company forecasts, based on recent reports involving key component suppliers. That would bring sales in at the low end of the nine million to 11 million units...
[February 3, 2003, 9:52]
Xbox online pricing set
News Microsoft will spend $2bn (£1.4bn) over the next five years in its effort to make Xbox the leading video game console, a company executive said Monday. John O'Rourke, marketing director for Microsoft's games division, said the company will spend...
[May 21, 2002, 9:46]
Submerge
Downloads Create subtitled movies for your computer, mp3-player, cellphone or game console. Submerge can easily create hard-coded subtitled movies for your computer, mp3-player, cellphone or game console. Main Features Create subtitled movies that are...
[December 12, 2009, 17:10]
