Published scoops - Gaming

Zipper Interactive, the developer of the upcoming title MAG for the Playstation 3, has announced an open beta for the shooter starting January 4th. To celebrate MAG achieving gold status and being on schedule for its January 26th launch in North American and Asia, January 28 launch in Japan, and January 29 release in Korea...

Sony has big plans for the PlayStation Network, and those plans don't necessarily include the PlayStation 3. Saying that they are "evolving the PlayStation 3 into a platform for web services," Sony CEO Howard Stringer talked about going from a "closed system" to an open one.

Mercenaries Mode has been a fixture in the Resident Evil gaming series so it came as no surprise when Capcom announced the beloved mode would appear again in this week's release of Resident Evil 5 on PS3 and Xbox 360.

According to a new report from Media Control GfK International (cited by Video Business), global sales of video game software reached $32 billion last year, growing 20 percent in large part thanks to the booming Wii business. At the same time, sales of DVDs and Blu-ray movies combined fell by six percent,

Wii shipments in the month totaled 2.04 million, while Xbox shipments came in at 836,000.Sony (NYSE: SNE)'s PlayStation 3 ranked a distant third, with shipments of just 378,000 units, said NPD.

To save rhythm game fans the headache of figuring out which instruments work with the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series', the Guitar Hero World Tour community management team has launched an official compatibility chart.

The next chapter in George Lucas' ever-expanding franchise will be "Star Wars: The Old Republic," a massively multiplayer online game set thousands of years before Darth Vader was born. The game is being developed by BioWare, the Electronic Arts-owned studio responsible for the first "Knights of the Old Republic" role-playing game in 2003.

Each month, the NPD Group releases a limited set of video game sales data for the U.S. industry, including a closely watched list of the top 10-selling software titles. They include Grand Theft Auto IV, Metal Gear Solid 4, Call of Duty 4, Madden NFL 09 and Gran Turismo 5.

If the thought of a patch fixing all of Alone in the Dark's problems had you considering picking up the Xbox 360 title from the cheap bins, think again. When developer Eden started talking up the upcoming PlayStation 3 version, and all of the improvements it would bring to the game, it hinted at the possibility of patching up the original 360 release as well.

If an incredibly bored person with a time machine made a trip to see me in the summer of 2000, for the sole purpose of telling me about the amazing games and televisions and consoles that would all be out within the next ten years…well…I don’t know what I would’ve said.