PC World – Sometimes it’s what a company say it’s not doing that grabs your head and twists it around. Case in point, Blizzard veep of game design Rob Pardo is flatly denying rumors the company’s been rapping with Microsoft about a hypothetical Xbox 360 successor (unimaginatively dubbed ‘Xbox 720′ by the mathematically literalist media).
PC World – Looking to scoop up a PlayStation 2? Starting tomorrow, April 1, Sony will cut the price of its gaming console to $100, down 25 percent from its current price of $130. Today’s announcement is the third price cut for the PS2 since Sony’s first discount in 2002.
AP – Now that we’re in the third year of the Age of Wii, Nintendo’s popular console is pretty easy to find. Which means that a lot more people are learning its unpleasant secret: There are a lot of terrible games for this system.
NewsFactor – Sony Computer Entertainment America has made the cut. The consumer entertainment-device maker cut the price of the popular Sony PlayStation 2 gaming console by 25 percent on Tuesday.
Investor’s Business Daily – Nintendo hopes to strengthen its lead in the handheld video game market with a higher-end version of its hit DS device.
PC World – Sony is cutting the price of its PlayStation 2 console by almost 25 percent in both Europe and North America, the company said Tuesday.
Reuters – Sony Corp said it cut the price of its older video game console, the PlayStation 2, by 23 percent to $99.99, effective April 1.