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Microsoft has announced a major upgrade of sorts to the Xbox 360. Gone is the beige iPodesque exterior and in its place comes the more ’stealth’ looking black unit with all black accessories.
More importantly the unit has gained a 120g hard drive and HDMI connection for true High Def loveliness but weirdly no […]

Sony have announced a new initiative at Game Developers Conference currently underway in San Francisco - the launch of ‘Home’ which they hope will rival Second Life. Owners of PS3’s will be able to access Home and chat with other users, buy clothes etc. in a move that Sony call Web.3.0 i.e. the fusion […]

Many commentators feel that Sony has been sliding for years, the main example being how they were completely sidestepped by Apple and the once dominant position of their Walkman brand is no more. From what I can see Sony lost sight of the consumer and in particular producing stuff that people want - I […]

Online gaming experiences tied to an intellectual property have been a bit disappointing - I was really looking forward to The Matrix on line a couple of years ago but it failed to really gain any traction. Likely that the poor sequels didn’t help! We all know about Second Life but this doesn’t really count […]

Seems Microsoft and Apple will be going head to head in a number of different ways over the next few months. Aside from the looming Zune / iPod war which may turn out to be an expensive mistake for Microsoft, they have also announced that XBox360 owners will be able to download movies and TV […]

November is going to be a great month for new tech toys, here at Wise Buddha Towers we are busy writing our Christmas lists.
Top of our request to Santa is the new iPod Shuffle which is all the incentive we need to hit the gym erm sometime in the New Year, this thing is really […]

XBOX 360 is about more than just gaming it aims to be the centre of your digital lifestyle at home. Microsoft have just announced an interesting deal with Epic records that is a big indication of their future intent. Read about it here.
It will be interesting to see how many people are prepared to let […]

A British study has recently concluded that playing video games can actually be a beneficial past time for young people as it helps them build social skills. As young people spend as much time playing games as doing their homework this is probably good news for parents.
Researchers at Brunel University used an online java-based gaming […]

Pretty innocuous sounding (and incidentally Microsoft’s 5000 patent) Patent No. 6,999,083 is interesting primarily for gamers and voyeurs but also has potential for advertisers.
The new technology being incorporated into the XBOX 360, its software, and the XBOX Live service and will allow people to join various games as a spectator. This seems to indicate that […]