Game makers predict jingle bells at registers
... sell out, while sales of the pocket-sized DS game machine have risen almost 20 percent year on year. For that reason, Nintendo has no plans to cut the price of the $250 Wii, he said. Microsoft in September cut the entry level price for its Xbox 360 to ...
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October video game sales jump 18 percent
Hardware sales climbed 5 percent to $494.7 million, led by the Nintendo Wii, which far outsold every other game machine ... Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 sold 371,000 units. The console's sales were boosted by a significant price cut in early September ...
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'Gears of War 2' delivers guns, grit and grubs
... ain't broke ... ” could have been the design brief for “Gears of War 2,” which ships Nov. 7 exclusively for the Xbox 360. ... player campaign in “Gears 2” is substantial but ends rather abruptly, no doubt setting the stage for the next game. To ...
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'Fallout 3' is a no-brainer for game of the year
“Fallout 3,” out now for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, is a deliciously mutated role-playing game, fitting given the game's post-apocalyptic fiction. The well-worn conventions of the RPG genre — quests, loot and leveling up — remain intact ...
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Xbox UI gets a makeover
... New Xbox Experience,” which rolls out Nov. 19, will “change the face of home entertainment for every Xbox 360 ... My Xbox, Video Marketplace, Game Marketplace, Spotlight, Events, Inside Xbox and Friends. An eighth and temporary “Welcome ...
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