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Microsoft wants you to have an 80′s style arcade party for free, complete with Pizza, free arcade game downloads and free 80′s tunes.
Simply send an e-mail with your Xbox Live Gamertag to xlmail@microsoft.com, subject: “Arcade Party,” and Microsoft will get you your free stuff including a Papa Johns pizza,…

According to this post at Kotaku, UMD format movies have been pulled from the shelves at Target stores this week. The format has struggled for acceptance amid sluggish sales of the only device that can currently play the format, the Sony …PSP.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony completely

Sega of America has announced the release of it’s mech-combat game, Chromehounds… for the Xbox 360. The game features 13 multiplayer modes and Xbox Live support for up to 20 players. In addition, the game has a single player mode where players experience “an alternate future where the Cold War

This could be a huge breakthrough (if the manufacturers will adopt it, that is…)
The Nikkei Net Interactive reported over the weekend that Ricoh …is working on a single device which can play both Blu-Ray and HD DVD disks.
The device is a diffraction plate which, when placed between the

From the “early adopters get screwed” file… The folks over at MaxConsole …have received copies of an anonymous and a (fuzzy) image of a purported HDMI port on what looks sort of like the back on an Xbox 360 MOBO. While having a digital A/V port would be a nice

A report claims that members of the Blu-ray camp, including Pioneer, won’t be ready to launch products in Europe until next year. Further reports show there’s a problem producing enough laser diodes for Blu-ray burners, and consumers will have to wait till January 2007 before Blu-ray really kicks off. I…

I recently stumbled upon this nifty optical filter, called the Tvbeeboo.… This device suction-cups onto the front of TVs or monitors up to 23″, and difuses the images in such a way to turn your old TV or monitor into a really cool ambient lighting source.
The Tvbeeboo retails for

The folks over at Nintendo/Touch Generations… thought it would be a nice gesture to send a birthday gift to President Bush for his impending 60th birthday. The gift: A Nintendo DS Lite and what could possibly be the most appropriate gift ever, a copy of “Brain Age.”
Now certainly, that’s

In a recent interview with PSM magazine, Kaz Hirai, president of Sony …Computer Entertainment America, was quoted as saying:
Generally speaking, over the past twelve years or so, there has been a consumer expectation that disc based games are maybe US $59 on the high end to US $39 on

The folks at GoNintendo are reporting that someone at Sports Illustrated Kids jumped the gun and published the Nintendo Wii’s… launch date. The article also accurately reflects the PS3′s launch date of November 17th (which has been officially announced.) Of course, this Wii launch date has not been made official