A more dramatic and perhaps visible change will happen next year: TSMC plans to begin producing the Valhalla chip, which will be the foundation of the mid-cycle refresh of the Xbox 360, thus called ‘Xbox 2.5’ or simply ‘Xbox 540’ (360+180), in fall of 2009. We learned that this new chip is apparently much more than a die-shrink and end up as a system-on-a-chip design. This change is likely to enable to redesign the Xbox 360 casing and go towards a slim-design, much like what Sony did with the Gen1 and Gen2 PS2. We believe that TSMC will use a 45 nm process for this Multi-Chip-Module package (CPU+GPU+eDRAM).

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I'm Gamers score on my Xbox 360 live account is now 1335. The closest I will ever be to being 1337 :P

- GTA4 incredibly important for Xbox 360

- Factor 5 Wii engine 'does everything the PS3 did, and then some'

- Quake II homebrew released for DS

- Piracy threat looms for Sony.

- Xbox 360 failure rate at 16%, warranty provider reports

- Rumor: Next Xbox 360 chipsets are Opus, Valhalla

This is cool.

Through [hackers] voodoo, they were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. This allowed them to run their own code. They hope to use this "in" to provide native Wii homebrew access in the future.

Read more about it here

Violence, sex, things to see, things to collect, spectacular graphics and even better sound, a sense of humour, a sense of purpose, an insane logic running through every fibre - and enough swearing to get your telly banned by the BBFC. Killer7 creator Suda51 is back, all right.
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Never before have we played a game that felt so completely in love with being a game - text is rendered in an eighties pixellated font, your map's a sloppy digital display, the whole HUD ripped from Grand Theft Auto without mercy or apology; the ten best assassins table is the high score chart from a 1984 coin-op and the pause menu is like a scene from Tron.

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Official Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Video

- A Decade of Duke: The Brief Long History of DNF

- The following things have been accomplished since Duke Nukem Forever was announced on April 28th, 1997...

Videos from Duke Nukem 3D
- Duke Nukem 3D Boss Encounters
- Duke Nukem 3D Endgame movies

- 360 sales figures "way off" says Sony

- Japan: PS3 beats Wii in November

Joystiq have two excellent blog post about the different SKUs for the Xbox 360 and the PS3.

- Joystiq Holidaze: explaining the Xbox 360 SKUs

- Joystiq Holidaze: explaining the PS3 SKUs

- Musler: PS3 will catch up to, if not surpass, 360

- Sony exits future Cell development

- Third-generation DS "complete" says analyst

- Price cut boosts PS3 sales 250-300%

- No more NES support

- Sony officially bringing 40GB PS3 to US

- Xbox 360 and Halo 3 Blow Away the Competition as Industry Sales Skyrocket 74% - NPD

- Sony: No BC = more PS3 game sales

- Sony has a change of attitude?

- Analysts: September PS3 sales 'dismal'

- Microsoft's Xbox arm posts rare profit

- Nintendo's six-month sales, profit double

- Sony game unit's Q2 losses double

- Microsoft anticipates 7 million-sellers this holiday, 'at least'

- New 360 chipset on the way?

- PS3 a "waste of time" says Valve's Newell

- Joystiq hands-on: Wiimote Jacket

- Analysts playfully debate the impact of 40GB PS3

- Four, not three, "horses" in holiday console race

- PS3 warranty voided by surge protector - 'great' pay up $150 say Sony

- PS3 sees sales spike in Europe

- Sony to discontinue 60GB PlayStation 3 in Europe

- Sony drops backwards-compatibility forever

- Sony opens in-game ad unit

- PS3's Back-Compat Loss Explained, Analyzed

- Why the PS3's lack of backwards compatibility is upsetting

- Bungie Studios Becomes Privately Held Independent Company

- Halo 3 tops Japanese charts