March 9, 2005, San Francisco, Calif.—Today at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), Microsoft® announced the first details about its next-generation Xbox® video game system. Hardware, software, and services are being fused to power enhanced gaming and entertainment experiences. You can now view the footage of the GDC with some previews of the next XBox on xbox.com… It looks pretty nice I mean, look at these pics: it even (or should I say finally?) has a media player! Watch the Next XBox Video here View the official report here

Handheld gamers across the pond will have to hold out a few months longer than anticipated for the PlayStation Portable’s European release. Sony says it is delaying the European launch of its hotly anticipated gaming device by several months to ensure it can supply enough units for its U.S. launch. The PSP, a sleek multimedia gadget that Sony hopes will be its first big success in consumer electronics since the PlayStation 2 five years ago, is already on sale in Japan and will hit U.S. stores on March 24. Sony’s factories have been unable to churn out enough PSPs to launch them simultaneously...

Finally after much specalation the SWAT4 SP demo is out, and to me, much earlier then expected! I’m currently testing the game and will report back as soon as I have some results, hopefully posotive ones too!! I’m prettey excitied about this, and I may put the demo up on the server for download if neccesary. There seem to be some prettey packed download servers for the game at the moment, which is definately a good sign! “Serve and protect as a swat team member in this demo that puts you in the middle of a barricaded suspect situation, as a vehicle heist turns ugly.” A...

The undisputed boxing videogame champion of 2004 is back for another round! If you think you have what it takes to hang with the big boys, step into the ring with the pugilists of Fight Night Round 2. Shipping to retailers in less than two weeks, gamers will go head-to-head with the best of boxing including Bernard Hopkins, Middleweight Champion of the World and cover athlete for Fight Night Round 2, as well as legendary boxers Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield and Joe Frazier. See below for the entire list of boxers in their respective weight class in the game. Heavyweight: Roy Jones Jr James Toney Muhammad...

TOKYO–It appears Konami is working on a new installment in its Suikoden role-playing series. News of the development leaked Thursday in the online diary of veteran voice actor Makoto Terada, who mentioned clocking studio time for a Suikoden game. “At noon, I recorded voices for a game named Suikoden (Konami). In the evening, I worked on an anime named Erementar Gerad, which will be starting in April,” Terada wrote in his blog. Terada, who currently works under the pseudonym Mugi Hito, is known for his voice contributions to anime like Grappler Baki, where he voiced the character...

Over the last few weeks we have seen some significant improvements in the SWAT 4 infrastructure which is leading to the release of the game hopefully by April 2005. Over the last few days there have been some new releases such as the SWAT 4 Fansite kit, which we have obtained in order to start on the Usayd SWAT 4 Fansite. Another recent release was the SWAT4 coop video which has exposed more of the now quite hyped up game. There has also been rumor of a SWAT 4 single player demo which is hopefully coming out sometime soon! Thats all for our SWAT 4 updates, we are also working on a new Usayd Fansite...

Long-in-development MMORPG gets a new launch date, two months after its previous one. After missing its previously announced January 18 launch, the Matrix Online now has a new release date. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game is now set to go online on March 22 in North America. It was scheduled for a simultaneous launch in Europe, where it will now launch in April. Developed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s now-in-house studio, Monolith Productions, the Matrix Online is set in the titular artificial reality of The Matrix films. Players will create a character...

While internet news sources today have reported that Microsoft is readying to launch its next generation Xbox hardware in America and Europe in the fourth quarter of this year, Eurogamer has learnt that the specific timing for the machine’s roll-out is late October or early November, and merely weeks after the US launch. The exact date is yet to be solidified. Speaking under conditions of strict anonymity, senior American and British development, publishing and retail sources have confirmed the launch window in the past weeks. It is also now widely known among British sources that Microsoft...