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Will PlayStation 2 Survive Xbox Onslaught?
News Sony's experience in the console market and its presence in the entertainment industry will help its upcoming gaming console, the PlayStation 2, stave off competition from Microsoft, Sega and others, according to a new report.
[October 4, 2000, 14:01]
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. We've all talked about online console gaming the last six or eight years...
[May 14, 2002, 13:23]
Xbox Pictures Materialise On The Net
News A US gaming site has revealed what it claims are the first pictures of Microsoft's future gaming console, the Xbox, much to the annoyance of the software giant. The console's final design was due to be officially unveiled by Bill Gates at the...
[January 3, 2001, 16:18]
Sega Moves Away From Consoles
News Amid reports that Sega will stop selling Dreamcast as a standalone gaming console, the company is finalising plans to incorporate its technology into other devices, such as next-generation set-top boxes.
[January 24, 2001, 10:36]
Dreamcast's Next Target: Set-top Boxes
News Amid reports that Sega will stop selling Dreamcast as a standalone gaming console, the company is finalising plans to incorporate its technology into other devices such as next-generation set-top boxes.
[January 24, 2001, 8:20]
Microsoft Defends Xbox Console, Software Sales
News Microsoft has responded to analyst gripes that its Xbox gaming console is selling disappointingly, pointing out that the unit's sales nearly doubled in November and noting strong sales of software and the Xbox online kit.
[December 19, 2002, 16:04]
Xbox UK Launch Prompts Mass Sickies
News Microsoft's Xbox gaming console is due to go on sale at midnight tonight in stores across the UK, and those who pre-ordered one online should have theirs delivered in the morning. Stores across the UK will keep their doors open late tonight to take...
[March 13, 2002, 15:42]
Nokia Aims To N-Gage Gamers
News This will soon become reality -- Nokia launched its first mobile gaming device on Wednesday, throwing down the gauntlet to portable console maker Nintendo. The Bluetooth-enabled N-Gage, which resembles Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, blends the...
[February 6, 2003, 9:23]
Gaming's Battle For Your Living Room
News The new gaming box launches Microsoft's attack on living-room rival Sony -- an attack that could net the winner a hefty slice of the $4bn (£2.43bn) console gaming market. Rival Sega (Nasdaq: SEGNY), whose Dreamcast game console is the latest rage...
[March 8, 2000, 16:49]
The Battle For Your Living Room
News The new gaming box launches Microsoft's attack on living room rival Sony -- an attack that could net the winner a hefty slice of the $4bn (£2.4bn) console gaming market. According to sources, chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, will...
[March 8, 2000, 9:14]
Mobile Phones: The Next Game Boy?
News Gaming on mobile phones will not take off until the experience is on par with a 3D console, according to chip designer ARM Holdings, but this goal is not as far off as one might think. Wireless gaming devices could also be integrated with console...
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
Excite Europe Secures Dreamy Deal With Sega
News This is a significant coup for Excite, considering that the new 128-bit console, to be released 14 October, represents a real landmark in both gaming and the Internet, because it is the first-ever games console to provide Internet connectivity.
[September 9, 1999, 16:58]
US Report: Windows CE Lands Its Sega Dream Machine
News The new game console, called Dreamcast, is Sega's chance to reclaim its respectability in the video-game industry after the spectacular failure of the Saturn. Yet the public announcement of the new console - due out in Japan this Autumn and in the...
[May 22, 1998, 14:43]
A Year Ago: Gaming's Battle For Your Living Room
News The new gaming box launches Microsoft's attack on living-room rival Sony -- an attack that could net the winner a hefty slice of the $4bn (£2.43bn) console gaming market. Rival Sega (Nasdaq: SEGNY), whose Dreamcast game console is the latest rage...
[March 8, 2001, 6:01]
Gaming Companies Take Aim At Online Profits
News On the console side, publishers say they're happy with consumer acceptance of new online gaming services but need to find a business model somewhere between the current extremes of free online play and games that require monthly subscriptions.
[May 14, 2004, 11:50]
Hackers Make Xbox Into A Windows PC
News The Xbox Linux Project, as the group of volunteers calls itself, is attempting to circumvent the security built into the gaming console to allow it to be used as a normal PC. The developers want "to simplify the start into the world of computers...
[September 30, 2002, 12:49]
Intel Uses Imagination On Embedded 3D Graphics
News The PowerVR architecture is best known as the 3D technology used -- in an earlier incarnation -- in Sega's Dreamcast gaming console. The deal is also a boost for Imagination, which lost the gaming console market when Sega discontinued Dreamcast...
[July 25, 2002, 15:36]
ATI Puts 3D In Mobile Phones
News ATI recently landed a contract to build graphics chips for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox gaming console. The core is based on Imagination's PowerVR rendering technology, earlier used in the Sega Dreamcast gaming console.
[January 7, 2004, 16:35]
Stakes Are High For Xbox Online Play
News Microsoft on Friday will raise its stakes in the gaming market with an elaborate new online service for its Xbox video game console. Analysts estimate that building the global network for Xbox Live will account for at least a quarter of the $2bn...
[November 15, 2002, 8:10]
GameCube Launches In Europe
News As previously reported, Nintendo stunned the gaming community when, in response to Microsoft slashing £100 off the price of an Xbox, the launch price of the GameCube fell from £169 to a mere £129 -- just over half what Nintendo's N64 console...
[May 3, 2002, 16:40]
