Weekly WrapUp: September 5-11, 2005
This past week brought us the World Cyber Games finals in the US, Xbox Live pricing for the upcoming 360, the acquisition of IGN by the infamous Ruport Murdoch and his News Corporation, plus a Joystiq user survey finding that about 15% of our visitors intend to pick up a Game Boy Micro upon the diminutive game machine's release. It was a busy week, so follow on for the highlights from each day.
Monday, September 5
- Joystiq Guide to hacking the GameGuardian lockout
device - Rumor: Resident Evil 5 IS bound for the
Revolution? - 250 Sony PSP's stolen en route to Limerick
- Miyamoto: Zelda, Mario games to have a
revolution - PS3's Blu-Ray drive to cost Sony $100+ a unit?
- 'Universal' PSP firmware unloader on verge of
release - IGF submission deadline approaches
- Tecmo urges gamers to collect bikini swimwear
- Nintendogs is a non-gamer phenomenon: Foxtrot
- Happy Bankruptcy Anniversary Acclaim – please pay $150
million
Tuesday, September 6
- Natalie Dee does disobedient Nintendogs
- Blizzard wins, gamers, pirates lose in BnetD
ruling - Analyst predicts MMOG implosion, WoW to lose 75% of
subscribers - 185,000 PSPs sold during launch weekend in UK
- Tokyo Game Show Hall Map, no GPS required
- OrigenXbox360.com — 2 rabbits, more fruit, no
answers - Lik Sang selling treasure trove of 90s era Nintendo
goods - Sony Playstation turns 10, well, sort of.
- New Project Gotham 3 screenshot...in 3D!
- Rag Doll Kung Fu game is finished, "Delivered!"
- Xbox 360 building obviously under construction in
Japan - The two versions of Perfect Dark Zero
Wednesday, September 7
- Most wanted game ports for the Nintendo DS
- Goldeneye mod for Half-Life 2 screenshots
- OrigenXbox360 — 1 rabbit, less fruit, still no
answers - GTA Liberty City Stories exposed!
- The Pac-Man pillow; now you can sleep in style
- Super Monkey Ball to go bananas on the DS
- Gameloft to port Lumines & Meteos to cell phones in
2006 - Virtua Fighter 5 arcade screenshot
- Rumor: is the PSP going mini?
- Bungie's Fight the Flood shirts tally over $100,000 in
sales
Thursday, September 8
- Xbox Live pricing and features confirmed for the
360 - Man's military service deferred for World Cyber
Games - MVP 06 NCAA Baseball spring release announced by
EA - Xbox 360 game prices: rumor wrap-up
- Game reviews systematically misjudge multiplayer
titles - Playboy unveils second annual Girls of Gaming
lineup - CNET Top 10 video games 1995 to 2005
- Conservative targets Take-Two CEO in bestseller
- MMOG crime on the rise in Japan
- Are games important?
- Tokyo Game Show to feature playable Xbox 360
games - Want a PSP, buy a PC
- IGN sells out to Murdoch's News Corp.
- Age of Empires 3 demo released, requires Windows
XP - Take-Two takes a hit in revenues; Civ IV to ship before
Halloween - New Sonic racing game promises to be eXtreme
- How to make a worthy collector's edition
- World of Warcraft expansion to be revealed at
BlizzCon
Friday, September 9
- OrigenXbox360.com — mysterious Latin phrase
revealed - Next-gen Sonic to be "re-invented" for PS3 and Xbox
360 - GameSpy helping to build online PSP network
- Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer for the PS3 to be shown at
TGS - Girl-on-Girl Gaming
- A Katamari website fit for a King of All Cosmos
- History Lesson: Nintendo and Censorship
- Guitammer gets downright brutal with rumble
device - Portable Xbox mockups
- DS surgery game set for release October 4th
- Talking to your children about video games
- Joystiq readers give Game Boy Micro a big fat thumbs
down
Weekend, September 10 – 11
- Xbox 360: The most hack-proof console ever?
- Joystiq: Liveblogging from Pret-a-PSP, NYC
- MetaReview: Madden 06
- Live from the World Cyber Games US Finals
- Founder of WAB (PSP Downgrader) arrested in France?
- Blizzard says 'No' to Warcraft on consoles... for the
moment - Gizmondo to fight PSP with widescreen version
- Mario does Javascript