- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 17, 2009 13:37 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Technology, Wii, Xbox 360

Aging hardware and a severe lack of quality titles have led to the Wii’s eighth consecutive month of shrinking sales, with US sales now down 37% on a year earlier, even as certain competing consoles enjoy record sales.
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It appears 2ch has been speculating as to the erotic potential of Microsoft’s upcoming “Project Natal” Wii killer, showing with the aid of Photoshop what it could be like if the system, which uses a complex sensor bank to track the motion of the user’s body, was used to play eroge…
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Sony’s product marketing vice president Scott Steinberg has been busy rubbishing Sony’s competitors as being “dated, dead, dumb terminals,” for whom he has “bad news” in the form of a resurgent PS3…
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Microsoft’s ongoing crackdown on pirates and modded Xbox 360s is said to have resulted in 600,000 Xbox Live accounts being banned from North America alone, with more to follow…
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Microsoft’s recent mass banning of users of modded consoles from Xbox Live apparently did not go far enough – banned users are now learning that they can no longer use their console’s HDD for any meaningful purpose, with installation to the drive no longer possible on a blacklisted console…
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Microsoft has irrevocably banned unprecedented numbers of modded Xbox 360’s from its Xbox Live service, stressing that piracy will no longer be tolerated, and happily pointing out that such units have voided their essential warranties.
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Fancy dress fighting game Tekken 6 may be a perfect multi-platform release in that both Xbox 360 and PS3 have all but indistinguishable graphics, but some quite embarrassing differences in load times for PS3 and Xbox 360 seem to suggest the Xbox 360 version is clearly superior…
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Despite being (mildly) inferior, the PS3 version of Bayonetta has sold over twice the number of copies the (slightly) superior Xbox 360 original has on its opening day…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 28, 2009 12:36 JST
- Tags: Australia, Encryption, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Microsoft, Police, Technology, Windows

The Australian government is accusing Microsoft of protecting child abusers by including powerful encryption in Windows 7.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 26, 2009 16:51 JST
- Tags: Events, Fail, Marketing, Microsoft, Sentai, Technology, TV, Video Gallery, Windows

Microsoft Japan’s CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi has been humiliated live on stage as Microsoft’s glitzy Akihabara Windows 7 launch event was turned to farce by a failure of the operating system’s glitch prone touchpanel support…
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The latest Dragon Ball video game, Spike’s Dragon Ball Raging Blast, is set for a multiplatform PS3 and Xbox 360 release on November 12th in Japan.
Observers have been quick to note some significant graphical differences between the two versions…
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The Japanese release of Windows 7 has seen OS-tan fans go wild over the highly appealing official Windows 7 mascot Nanami Madobe, who appears in the high resolution and high quality wallpapers included here.
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