Last Monday, Nintendo made Wii gamers aware that a new firmware update was available for download for the next-gen console. However, the transition to the new firmware hasn’t gone smoothly for some gamers. As with most firmware updates, the idea was not to bring trouble to the consoles, but to help improve the Nintendo Wii experience, without distrupting any current features.  Although this was the idea, it didn’t quite go to plan for Nintendo. After the firmware update had been released, Nintendo received a rush of complaints from angry gamers whose consoles had died after downloading this update. Despite Nintendo blaming the problem to be caused by consoles that have been modified by the owners, many of the complaints are…

Nordic Games have announced today that they will be joining the music game battle by introducing the first singing game to allow up to 4 players to sing all at the same time. The new game is called We Sing and it will be hitting the shelves some time around the end of October / start of November, allowing your family to sing their hearts out on Christmas Day. Nordic Games have made agreements with record labels such as EMI, Warner, Univeral Music as well as a huge number of independent record labels. With such a wide range of labels open to them, We Sing can provide gamers with such a diverse list of songs to play. When the game…

Game.co.uk have got a new competition running to run alongside their summer sales. From the 3rd till the 30th of July, Game are having a massive summer sale where you can pick up some pretty great deals. They say the deals will be updated every week, so keep your eyes on the Sizzling Summer Deals page. Currently there are 4 deals available: Arma 2 (PC) – £17.99 Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox 360) – £19.99 Guitar Hero Metallica Guitar Bundle (PS3, Xbox, Wii)- £49.99 Guitar Hero World Tour Full Bundle (Xbox, Wii) – £119.99 Those last 2 are particularly good. On he Metallica bundle you save £30 and on the World Tour bundle you save a massive…

A source from Ars Technica has released details about expected console price cuts and bundle changes that could be happening by the end of this year. The mole can’t be named but apparently he has a very good reputation for getting the right information involving price console price cuts. On the Sony side of the price cuts, it has been reported that the console giant is planning to reduce the price of the 160GB console bundle, cut down the amount of 80GB consoles going on sale, and finally they plan to release the 120GB Playstation 3 Slim console this autumn. The source also said that Sony are currently sending more 160GB consoles to retailers and also reducing the amount of…

A study carried out in April 2008 by Nielsen Company found that around 50% of all PC gamers were actually female, came as quite a surprise. However, if you look at some individual games it wouldn’t really come as a surprise because with games such as The Sims 3, the majority of the players are women. That aside, it now seems that these women are branching out on the console sector because a new study has been carried out by the NPD Group, a leading American marketing company, which has found that 28% of console gamers are women. This 28% is a 5% rise on last years results which found that only 23% of console gamers and women. NPD explained…