Edutainment Games Revealed To Be Useless For Getting Smarter

Games apparently not getting any of us Smarter

A new study involving a survey of ten year old children suggests that games such as Brain Training and Brain Academy don’t actually improve your intelligence. Alan Lieury, a professor at the University of Rennes in France, said that: “The Nintendo DS is a technological jewel. As a game it’s fine, but it is charlatanism… [Continue Reading]

NPD Releases December 2008 Sales Statistics For US Game Industry

NPD game industry sales for December 2008 in the US

The NPD Group has published some much-anticipated sales figures from the US game industry. The list includes numbers for both hardware and software sales. Nintendo stays on top of hardware sales with strong showings from both the Wii and the DS. Here’s the full list for your math-addled brains to digest: US Hardware in December… [Continue Reading]

Grapevine: Sony Is Conducting A Survey Regarding New PSP Features

Rumor: Sony asking gamers about new PSP's features

Here it is from the rumor mill, folks: Word has it that Sony is overseeing a survey asking gamers’ opinions regarding future PSP hardware and potential software functionalities that may appear on future systems. Someone apparently in the know sent word over that participants in the Sony-conducted survey had to rank some features that are… [Continue Reading]

Sony Will Post Losses of 1.1 Billion Dollars

PSP Sales go Down

For a company that’s been caught up in the global economic poop storm, more bad times are forthcoming. According to sources at the Nikkei business daily, Sony, whose profit estimates for the year were around US$ 2.2 billion, is expected to announce a loss of US$ 1.1 billion. This news drops in the context of… [Continue Reading]

CES 2009: PSP To Become Next Multimedia Remote Control

CES 2009: PSP being tested as multimedia remote

CES showed off a new application on the PSP that transforms it into a Wi-Fi remoter control that can handle networked audio streams from the Sony-brand audio receiver. With the application, users can adjust settings, set up and oversee playlists, and browse audio libraries right on the PSP. The XMB drives the interface in the… [Continue Reading]