Blitz: The League achieves Platinum Game Status The web Blitz game, Blitz: The League, the M-rated football game that does not feature any players, teams, or logos from the National Football League (NFL) as it had in past years (due to the exclusive NFL licensee acquired by EA Sports for use in the famed Madden NFL Series) , has become a platinum Level hit for the Playstation 2 and XBOX an can be bought for just $20 like all other classic games that qualify... 

New reports show that according to some recent patents filed by Nintendo, the new Wii console will come with some sort of instant messaging service where gamers can check which of their friends are online and talk with them. It is also speculated that this feature will enable gamers to create detailed profiles with information about yourself such as your favorite games, information about yourself, and other details about yourself. Now these are just speculations... 

Sony has recently reported that the speculation that selling used Playstation 3 videogames was illegal is false and that they will not restrict in any way the reselling of games for their new platform. “We have definitely not been communicating that,” UK spokesperson for Sony, Jennie Kong confirmed. “It’s false speculation. We don’t have any further knowledge about this topic – either officially or unofficially, to be frank.” This... 

The popularity of the Nintendo Wii at the E3 gaming conference has led many game developers to looking seriously into launching new games for the console. 2K Sports recently announced that they would release the 2007 version of their popular 2K Baseball game series for the Nintendo Wii. “The reception this platform received at the E3 show, you know, is one that makes us take a real strong look at it,” Karl Winters, the CFO of TakeTwo Interactive... 

A new game is being released soon by Ubisoft Games which takes many popular hip-hop radio personalities and places them in a new street ball video game for release on all major consoles sometime in the future. Radio personalities and DJ’s at WUSL Philadelphia, WGCI Chicago, WMIB Miami, WHTZ New York, and many others have already signed on to appear in the game. “Bringing together the talents of both rap artists and radio DJs from the same regions... 

Many updates (125 exactly) have been made to the XBOX 360 today which has added 125 new features to the gaming console. Some of the new features that have been added are the features to take out a DVD disc and then placing it in the console again and watch the movie from where you left off without having to start from the beginning, displaying the artist, CD, and song title when listening to a music file, the ability to download multiple files from XBOX Live... 

The Nintendo Wii graphics were considered the worst of the next generation gaming consoles at this year’s E3 gaming expo and although Nintendo received much praise for other aspects of the Wii, they came lasting graphics. Now, sources tell us that the Wii is capable of displaying much better graphics than those that were displayed at the Expo in May. I think what you saw was just the tip of the iceberg of what the Hollywood chip can bring to the Nintendo... 

Recently, Peter Moore, and executive with Microsoft, caused concern for many XBOX 360 owners when he stated that the number of updates regarding backward compatibility for the new system would soon be coming to an end. These updates enabled gamers to play certain XBOX titles on the XBOX 360. “Nobody is concerned anymore about backward compatibility,” Moore said, “More are coming…but at some point you just go ‘there’s enough,’... 

Bill Gates continues to remain quite about a proposed XBOX handheld gaming device. It has been speculated that Microsoft will in fact launch a portable gaming platform in the very near future to compete with the Nintendo DS systems and the PSP, which has been out for almost one year now. Yet, while hundreds of thousands of gamers await news on the new system, Microsoft continues to keep gamers in the dark. It is unconfirmed what this product will look like,... 

Sony has recently launched a new firmware update for the Playstation Portable that contains to major updates. The first is the ability of gamers to download game demos directly to their Playstation Portable via the system’s Internet browser. These game demos are saved on the system’s memory stick. A modification also been made to the Location Free Player to improve the video quality of the machine. It was announced in the early part of the year...