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Nintendo 3DS not for children below 6

The eagerly awaited Nintendo hand-held 3-D gaming device, the 3DS, may not be suitable for children under six. The warning was posted last Tuesday on the video game company’s Japanese website, technology website PCMag reported. The 3DS enables 3-D gaming without the need of special glasses The webpage said that as the eyes of children

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PlayStation 3′s security hacked

Hackers have cracked the built-in security of the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), the BBC reported. The hack allows anyone to potentially run any software, including pirated games, on the popular game console. Last month at the Chaos Communication Congress – an annual meeting of hackers – in Berlin, a hacker group which calls itself ‘fail0verflow’

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Panasonic to reenter video game market

LONG after failing to challenge Sony and Nintendo game consoles, Panasonic Corp is preparing to re-enter the market as early as next year in North America by releasing a portable game player that provides users with online gaming on the go, according to sources. Panasonic, which marketed its first home video game 3DO Real in

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Don’t Flick Your Wii

Anyone lucky enough to nab a Nintendo Wii knows how much fun it can be to use the motion sensitive controller to box, golf, strike tennis balls, or just point Link through the brilliant world of Zelda. But it seems that some players are losing their grip on the slick controllers and sending them crashing

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Games Make A Smooth Next-Gen Transition

Transition years usually are tough on the video game industry. When last-generation machines lose their luster and the installed base of next-gen consoles slowly ramps up, game sales suffer. Not this time. NPD reports that games sales were up 11% so far in 2007, and that was before a holiday season that will see the

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