Sony’s problems with its next-generation PlayStation 3 games console show no signs of going away. Reports coming out of Japan now claim that the region will only get 80,000 of the promised 100,000 units expected at launch.
Nintendo will launch its latest strike on the console games market this year by sending four million Wii units into battle. The majority of those next-generation games consoles will head to America in the six week period from its launch on November 19 to the end of 2006.
Having already impressed us by producing the first unofficial controller for Guitar Hero, The Ant Commandos (TAC) have gone one better and released a version with 10 fret buttons. The patent-pending design allows players to crank out their favorite Guitar Hero tunes using the top five fret buttons, then pull in tight to the base of the guitar for a rocking solo using the five extra buttons.
Nokia claims to have landed the world’s first mobile phone premiere by releasing action spy thriller Mission: Impossible III on the N93. The full-length movie will be available on exclusive memory cards on the same day the film comes to DVD.
Don’t be fooled by the headline, Goodmans isn’t taking old and tired portable DVD players out into the back yard and shooting them. Instead, it’s adding another slim and elegant model to its collection.
Satellite broadcaster Sky is running behind with its rollout of broadband because of the high number of people who want to sign up to the free service. Users who apply online or through the interactive option on their Sky TV system are told they will be contacted within 10 days.