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The CES show last month, had it’s share of rumors and gossip. Now, one of the less popular rumors seems to prove itself as true. When it comes to Sony products you can never really know, but according to a well-informed insider, looks like Sony is getting ready to unveil an all new PlayStation
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the most talked about and anticipated game expansion ever made. The releaseddate was set to be end of 2006 with no other details about an exact date, thats how it’s been for a long while. For some reason, I’m not very surprised to hear the following statement:
Blizzard
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Even though Sony has announced a global launch of the PlayStation 3 gaming console, a new official statement from Sony indicate different plans. The console will not be available in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia until March next year. According to an official statement the decision to postpone the launch date
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With the influx of news about game consoles in the last few days (attributed to E3, of course), this is a special edition of the Daily Friction with updates about anything and everything among the latest news on game consoles hardware, games, prices and other information.

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PS3 price announced.
Nintendo Wii to sell for $250?.
Nintendo E3
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While browsing the hardware device managers on my workstation, I discovered an alarming “device”, this device is the Starforce software. Starforce is a very controversial copy-protection system by a Russian development company named Protection Technology. Various reports about malfunctioning CDROM devices, slower burning processes, unstable Windows systems and corrupted drivers surfaced after installing a video
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Videogames have a reputation of being violent. This has been the case since the begining of computer gaming. But a while ago a group of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Entertainment Technology (MET) program decided to develop a videogame with the aim of teaching and encouraging players to create peace. The players assume
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Blizzard Entertainmen Europe are celebrating the first anniversary of World of Warcraft, the worlds largest MMORPG that recently reaches over one million users in Europe. So Blizzard is launching a series of contests and events. Here’s the official announcement:
Among the events will be a fan art contest with the theme “One Year of Loving World
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Some leaked scans of Computer Games Magazine February 2006 Issue confirm the Draenei to be the new Alliance race in the Burning Crusade expansion pack to World of Warcraft.
This was pretty much bound to happen, no one believed the new alliance race coming out in the Burning Crusade, the new expansion pack for the very
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Not long ago I came across this post which basically claims that Sony’s PlayStation3 will go the way of Dreamcast. I must say that I strongly disagree. I took his (mostly unproven) points and wrote a rebuttal of sorts.
He says: The Xbox 360 is already out.
I answer: That could have a meaning when one console
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This is simply amazing. Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft MMORPG has said it has surpassed 5 million players worldwide. This is remarkable.
The subscription-based MMORPG launched approximately a year ago in North America, Australia, and New Zealand and has since released in Europe and Asia. This latest milestone comes on the heels of
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In this article by Games Digest the author suggests that the Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation3 battle is merely an expansion of the real battle over the next optical media storage standard. He write “Both Sony and Microsoft have bet everything, not on their consoles, but on the way they deliver games. Microsoft’s Xbox 360
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We’ve all seen the Xbox’s Black Screen of Death on various demonstrations and some display kiosks. The common belief among industry professionals and gamers alike was that most of these issues will be resolved prior to launch. Latest reports indicate that these problems continue to hunt the system. First buyers of the system are very
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Seems like EVERYONE is talking about the shortages in Xbox 360’s and a suppose limited supply. It’s gotten to the point where people are blaming Microsoft for doing it on purpose to enhance the hype.
As of now, all my sources near the valley and all around northern California say there are some shortages but no
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Here we go again: “In the latest saga over online gaming addiction in China, the parents of a 13-year-old Tianjin boy are suing the makers of World of Warcraft, blaming the game for the death of their son, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. The parents filed a suit against Blizzard Entertainment on Wednesday,
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