video games - "xbox live"

Play as Ryu Hayabusa and experience the frenetic combat of Ninja Gaiden II

Surely we should really be filing this spot of gossip in the 'utter nonsense' tray, before setting fire to the entire stack, but what can I say? Its Sunday evening. Rumour from a 'friend of a friend' of CrunchGear, purports to confirm that Redmond will confirm a Blu-ray enhancement for the xbox 360 for release this Christmas.

Punch Jump Week in Review. Stories include: Sony this week released Qore, a new weekly game series to the Playstation Network. The program is said to offer exclusive news and behind-the-scenes looks at upcoming titles. Ninja Gaiden II developer Tomonobu Itagaki this week quit and sued Tecmo Inc. in a money dispute. He is claiming damages of 148 million yen. An analyst this week said that most stock of Wii Fit was in Europe due to the weak U.S. dollar. Wii Fit has held a sold out status at most U.S. retailers.

Speaking to the San Jose Mercury News, as quoted by gaming blog Kotaku, Microsoft entertainment boss Robbie Bach has said that the xbox is for the first time going to make money this year.

The spotlight is on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots this week. If you live in New York or California, be sure to check out the Metal Gear Solid 4 Worldwide Tour Events. For xbox 360 gamers, there's a new boxing game to check out, Don King Presents: Prize Fighter. Wii gamers, check out the creative shooter Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy.

Jacob Mazel of VGChartz writes: "NPD will report on videogame sales in the USA for the four weeks ending May 31, 2008 on June 12th at about 6:30 pm EST. The period covers all but the first few days of Grand Theft Auto IV & Mario Kart Wii sales, as well as the launch of Wii Fit. For the four weeks ending May 3, 2008, NPD reported USA sales were driven by Wii and DS on the hardware side, while PS3 and xbox 360 remained under 200,000 units for the month, despite the sales of Grand Theft Auto IV at the end of the period. Most of the dialogue for May will rightly focus on whether or not Grand Theft Auto IV pushed xbox 360 and/or PS3 over 200,000 in a four week month, and the type of numbers Wii and Wii Fit put up for the month. For May Vgchartz expects NPD to report: -xbox 360 outsold PS3 slightly for the month. Both sold about 200,000 units for the month. -Wii sales remain over 700,000 for the month. -Grand Theft Auto IV sold another 1+ million units on xbox 360, a

Matt Damon may play the most beloved amnesiac of modern cinema, but his Jason Bourne character actually spans five books by Robert Ludlum. Sierra recently released The Bourne Conspiracy, an xbox 360 and PS3 game that lets players experience key events from The Bourne Identity as well as many newly crafted 'back story' moments from Bourne's past. We toured High Moon Studios before the game shipped and left with an autographed....

Don King is 'normal' in name alone. Theboxing promoter is among one of the most confident, sensational and quote-worthy men in the history of the sport. Perhaps best known for his work with Mike Tyson, Don King remains very much in the game with today's hottest boxers, but this week will quite literally be 'in the game' for the first time, as 2K Sports releases Don King Presents Prizefighter for xbox 360. Ever the promoter, Don King carved some time....