Tweet In an article on the hollywoodreporter.com, an industry source says Sony is set to release the 40-gigabyte Playstation 3 to compete with other consoles for the Christmas season. “We’re hearing Nov. 2 (for the U.S.),” said one industry source. It looks like this is the same 40-gigabyte model that will be released in Europe [...]

Tweet Sony will start selling a new configuration of their Playstation 3 console in Europe starting October 10th of this year. The new model will have a 40-gigabyte hard drive compared to the 60-gigabyte model out right now. Sony is listing the price of the 40-gigabyte model at 399 euros ($564.17 U.S.) and will lower [...]

Tweet Still from latest Halo live action short. Watch it after the jump. In 2005, Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox announced that they would be working with Microsoft to release a Halo film based on the success of the video game series. They named Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as the executive producers, who [...]

Tweet It’s official. Bungie is now a privately held independent company, meaning they are no longer owned by Microsoft. Although Bungie is not owned by Microsoft anymore, Microsoft still owns a minority equity interest in Bungie.

Tweet Pressure from Microsoft … unbearable!! Shield … can’t take … much more! Halo 3 sales figures have been announced and Microsoft states that it has made $300 million dollars worldwide and sales of the Xbox 360 console have doubled. The Halo phenomenon has hit its online play as well, with Xbox Live totaling close [...]

Tweet “I feel so much safer now!” Nintendo announced Monday, Oct. 1 that they are offering the Wii Remote Jacket Accessory free of charge for current owners of the Wii console.