One day after Sony announced a PS3 price drop and a new (yet Wi-Fi free) PSP for Europe, Nintendo revealed a new Wii model that is bound for the United Kingdom. This new Wii maintains most of the same functionality as current models, but some features have been removed in order to facilitate a lower price.

Those of you who don’t want anything to do with a new generation of consoles (besides the Wii successor) now have one more piece of hardware to worry about. According to Develop, Electronic Arts is currently in possession of the follow-up to the Xbox 360. The new console was believed to had been delivered in April and EA is in the software planning stages.

It seems like Nokia has finally gotten around to admitting announcing that its mobile phone-handheld gaming platform and service, N-Gage, is dead. Nokia is consolidating all future mobile apps into the Ovi store.

Nokia is essentially forgetting about the N-Gage name, allowing the site, games and N-Gage application to operate on the hardware that will currently run it but not supporting it on any new devices or developing any more games for it. Instead, the company is putting its focus into the Ovi Store and trying to compete with Apple’s App Store. Along those lines, Nokia announced that 200,000 people are signing up for Ovi each day (for 140 million worldwide users) and 2.3 million Ovi apps are being downloaded each day.

Today (October 15, 2009), Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) officially announced that it will be making available a 250 GB PlayStation 3 on November 3, 2009, in the US for the suggested retail price of $349.99.

The increased hard drive is intended to allow PS3 owners to download even more content (which, of course, would mean more digital sales for Sony via PlayStation Store) and personal files.

According to the press release, the 250 GB system will have “the same form factor and functionality as the current 120GB system” which will continue to be offered this holiday season. The announcement also noted that 600 million “pieces of content have been downloaded from PlayStation Network as of September 2009.”

Nintendo has found unprecedented success with the Wii. Yet, the system isn’t everything that it could, or should, be. It’s certainly a fine console, with quite a wide selection of quality games. But there are things that can, and should be improved.

Since Nintendo so likes to “update” its existing systems (DS, DS Lite, DSi for example), perhaps it’s time to slightly tweak future Wii systems. Some of these fixes or improvements could be implemented with simple firmware updates or channel releases, while others could be new additions to future Wii console releases…

Just when you thought the world was turning an evil eye towards video games, accusing it of converting children into violent thugs, rotting their brains and making them fat. Consoles like the Nintendo Wii have opened up a new way for the medical field to use the games to their advantage. With games being integrated into physical therapies that can not only improve a person’s hand-eye-coordination it may just help shed some pounds in childhood obesity.

According to an article published by the UK Press Association video games that engage children in any form of physical activity “may be an effective answer to childhood obesity…”

Ah, nothing makes me reminisce like stand-up arcade machines. A new company is bringing back the glory days of gaming with the Retro Space Arcade Cabinet complete with old game casings, old-school joysticks, buttons and even a trackball.

The Retro Space is packed with a computer that comes preloaded with 100 licensed arcade classics and several emulators. When not gaming (*gasp*) the cabinet can be used as a jukebox for a music collection and includes 1080p playback. As for the screen, it is a 24-incher with…

The notion that dedicated consoles will eventually become obsolete is beginning to gain some support. The logic behind this belief is simple: video games are going to be available on umpteen devices and in forms never imagined before in the not-so-distant future. Sandy Duncan, former VP of Xbox Europe also is among those who subscribe to the game console extinction theory.

He told That Video Game Blog that in the next 5-10 years video game consoles will cease to exist…

Just when gamers were gearing up for what could be the next bigger then life MMO, Microsoft, Marvel and Cryptic Studio’s Marvel Universe Online, news has come out that the future title that was to be an exclusive title for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, may be dead, or very near to dead.

While neither Marvel or the title’s developers and publisher has stated why Marvel Universe Online might be headed for the great beyond, all that is known at this time is, that production has hit serious, potentially stalling, development troubles.

While the Marvel Universe Online hasn’t been publicly canceled just yet, the future of the MMO that was to bring the entire Marvel Universe to life, where players would have created their own characters, interacted with many of Marvel’s greatest heroes and even…

Finally, a retail console that will play carts from more than one game system. Unfortunately for younger gamers – and fortunate for us lder gamers who horde their old carts – the Gen-X Dual System plays both 8-bit NES and 16-bit Genesis games.

The Gen-X has two top slots, one for each type of cartridge. I’m guessing it’ll play your original carts, which is nice if you are still blowing to get your games to play. (Much like shaking a Polaroid picture, that does not really work. If your games have troubles starting, you likely need a new data cable. Ask any game system repair tech).

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