Playcast brings console-free TV gaming
The days of the PlayStation and Xbox could be numbered, if a new video game service lives up to its promises and opens in the UK next year, states Times Online
A new company claims to have developed a system that will allow video games to be played in the home via existing cable TV networks, without the need for any extra hardware.
The proprietary system is the work of Playcast, a venture capital-backed company based in the UK and Israel. It claims its new system will allow video games to be played live on existing set-top boxes of on-demand TV providers, such as BT and Virgin Media.
2m use Facebook on Xbox
More than two million people logged onto their Facebook accounts via Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console last week, reports The Independent.
On 17 November, Microsoft enabled Xbox Live Community subscribers to use their Xbox 360 to connect to social networking sites Twitter and Facebook, as well as live radio streaming site, Last.fm, directly through their gaming console.
"In less than a week, nearly two million people logged into their Facebook accounts through Xbox Live to view photos, make status updates and check in on friends and family. Twitter was also abuzz with the Xbox Live community posting tweets from around the globe," Microsoft says in a release.
Women console gamers hit 11m
The president of Nintendo of America wasn't counting girls playing DS, moms playing PCs or sisters dabbling with the family's Wii when he announced there are more than 11 million females in the Americas who play consoles, says Kotaku.
At a BMO Capital Markets event for game companies and investors earlier this month, Reggie Fils-Aime put the population of female "primary players" of home consoles at roughly a third of the population of their male counterparts, based on Nintendo of America research.
These "primary players" are the main users of consoles in their homes, he explained. Of course, Fils-Aime brought this up in order to demonstrate how much of that market is dominated by female Nintendo console-owners: 80% or, roughly, nine million.
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