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Blu-ray EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag God of War III demo shipping on District 9 Blu-ray 44 When I think of shrimp-like aliens who have been oppressed by South Africans, I'm always reminded of Spartan warriors who perform assassination missions for ancient Gods. This is why District 9 a... Analyst: 'Xbox 360 consumers are not begging for Blu-ray' 45 When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks, people listen. Earlier today, word went around that the executive had confirmed an upcoming Blu-ray player add-on for the Xbox 360 platform. What he actual... Microsoft CEO DOESN'T confirm 360 Blu-ray add-on (Update) 141 Gizmodo has an exclusive interview with Microsoft CEO's Steve Ballmer going up in full this Friday. Until then, they're releasing little clips from the interview and the one they have up right n... Uncharted 2 would be 'very different' without Blu-ray 63 I upset a handful of people (who must have been relatives of Sony, they were so emotional) when I dismissed Naughty Dog's previous assertion that Uncharted 2 was impossible on anything but a PS3,... Last call: Win a PS3 Slim and the Watchmen Blu-Ray 121 Goozex has kept me happy for some time now with its game trading services, and I was excited to hear that they recently added movie trading as well. Hooray! The list of reasons to leave my house ... God of War I & II in 720p coming in November to PS3 112 We had hints about it, and despite the fact that God of War III producer Stig Assmussen played dumb about it, here it is: God of War Collection is coming to the PlayStation 3 this ... FF VII: Advent Children Blu-ray dated for America 32 Square-Enix's "whoring of Final Fantasy VII" celebration all began with this little beauty, and it can be yours on Blu-ray this June 2. The movie sequel to the classic game will cost yo... Final Fantasy XIII may help the PS3 to break sales records 30 For Sony, it seems like titles in the Final Fantasy series and their console sales are forever intertwined. We saw it with the PlayStation and Final Fantasy VII, and then later with Final Fantasy... Shocker: The PS3 will always have Blu-ray 28 Analysts make me laugh my head off sometimes. Outside of being professional guessers, they also some up with some ludicrous ideas, such as the guy who last month suggested that Sony would release... Final Fantasy XIII: we're still good for 2009, hour-long demo in movie 14 I'm looking forward to my copy of the Japanese Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete for many reasons. For one, there are new scenes. And it's shiny and high-def. Oh, and... Movies and games on one Blu-ray disc? It's happening this year, promises Sony 24 Now this is an interesting concept, and one so obvious that it really is shocking nobody's tried it already. SCEA hardware marketing manager John Koller has announced plans to produce Blu-ray mov... Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete has English voice track 22 As a Final Fantasy fan, there's a lot of reasons to want the Japanese release Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. First, it comes with the Final Fantaxy XIII demo. And if you spend enoug... 2008: retail videogames outsold DVD and Blu-ray 14 More Halo 3, less Telladega Nights -- at least that's what consumer's wallets are saying. According to Media Control GfK International's 2008 wrap-up, packaged retail videogames outsold DVD and B... MS: Customers don't want Blu-ray Xbox 31 Despite long-standing rumors that Blu-ray compatibility would be coming to the Xbox 360 in some way, shape or form, Microsoft man Robbie Bach claims that customers don't really care for it, reinf... Rumortoid: Report says Xbox 360 to get Blu-ray 35 The Xbox 360 external Blu-ray drive rumor will never die. According to a report by XbitLabs, Toshiba and Samsung have been contracted to manufacture a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360. It also stat... Fancy features for Resident Evil: Degeneration Blu-ray release revealed 8 While we most certainly won't be playing Resident Evil 5 this year, we'll all just have to settle for the Capcom and Sony Pictures produced CG film, Resident Evil: Degeneration. Co-directed ... PS3 will outlive Blu-ray, claims Samsung 28 Electronics titan Samsung has given the Sony-adopted Blu-ray format what it believes to be an adequate life expectancy, one that would not see it even last the PS3's life cycle. Giving the format... Blu-ray won't give PS3 a long-term competitive edge, claims Olin 25 Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences president Joseph Olin has singled out Blu-ray as yet another difference maker that may eventually lose its edge, going the way of the third party exclusiv... Xbox 360 Blu-ray support could still happen 34 Probably one of the most painful lumps that Microsoft received this generation was when the announcement that HD-DVD was officially dead went down. Most Xbox 360 fans recognized the high-definiti... Kmart ad for US greatest hits is colored in irony 26 We're still crossing our fingers that Sony will melt our faces off with a megaton announcement regarding Home, but something more likely to happen during Tuesday's press conference involves some ... Pioneer makes a huge Blu-Ray 46 Hideo Kojima is probably in tears right now. The newest Blu-Ray offering from Pioneer is a monstrous 400 GB disk. It is composed of 16 beautifully blue layers. Previously this feat was unavailabl... Blockbuster expands Blu-ray offerings 27 Nearly ten months ago, Blockbuster announced that they were going to drop HD DVD from their retail stores across the nation. Now that the format war has been officially over for almost two months... Never say never: Sony says that Microsoft is eyeing Blu-ray 27 Stan Glasgow, Sony US president, says that they are in talks with Microsoft to add Blu-ray drives to their hardware. And right now, the only hardware Microsoft has is the Xbox 360. This was annou... Format war over! Toshiba announces the halt of HD DVD 100 After much rumor and speculation, it looks like the Grim Reaper himelf has finally come for HD-DVD: In a press conference held in Tokyo, Japan today, electronics giant Toshiba announced they will... GameStop says goodbye to HD DVD 43 Destructoid has gotten word from an inside source (and confirmation - thanks Liqideos) that GameStop/EB Games will no longer be taking HD DVDs or Xbox 360 HD DVD players as of tomorrow. Ever s... Rumortoid: Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 Blu-ray player as early as May 2008 53 Admid cautionary tales from retailers and homeless men carrying cardboard signs decrying that the end is near for the HD-DVD format, comes news that Microsoft has already long since started work ... Blu-ray lands the big fish, Sony must be jubilant 72 Right about now, the executives at Sony who were initially sweating out their decision to include Blu-ray in the PlayStation 3 must be giggling like a bunch of little schoolgirls. What was once a... Netflix goes Blu-ray only, gamers continue gaming 39 Destructoid only aims to run this story as a public service. While the rest of the world is blu in the face from arguing about their HD format preferences, we continue to frag, level grind, and d... Xbox 360 HD DVD player price drops again 52 The Xbox 360's HD DVD player continues to drop in price, this time hitting $129.99 in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.I'll let you, Destructoid readers, speculate why the pl... A Microsoft/Blu-ray partnership? 'You never say never' 38 One of the better rumors out there among the incessant HD DVD/Blu-ray arguments is that Microsoft has been thinking of working Blu-ray into the Xbox 360. I never expected this to happen, but it d... Porn drops HD DVD, backs Blu-ray: Call for the bell, this one's over 125 As if the annoying hi-def format war wasn't already entering the end phase, today's news that adult film studio Digital Playground has decided to abandon HD DVD and stick solely with Blu-ray has ... PS3 owning Blu-ray buffs better off? 17 For gamers, the Blu-ray functionality included in the PlayStation 3 might just have been a side bonus. But now it looks like those that chose a PS3 as their Blu-ray playing solution might be bett... Microsoft is NOT considering Blu-ray: Rumors denied 56 Microsoft has stomped down recent rumors that it will consider Blu-ray support with the Xbox 360 following the death knell of HD DVD, Gizmodo reports. News that The 'Soft may create a Blu-ray pla... Updated: Paramount drops HD DVD (confirmed false) 43 UPDATE: NextGen reports that Paramount is denying any plans to drop HD DVD exclusivity.  A victor has yet to take the spoils!It seems as though the funeral march for HD DVD is picking up spe... Commence frowning, HD DVD owners: Warner Bros. to support Blu-ray exclusively 122 You read that headline correctly; Warner Bros. has announced today that it's going to side with Blu-ray exclusively and drop all support for HD DVD. However, we will continue seeing HD DVD releas... Put away Talledaga Nights, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children goes Blu-ray 39 Finally, here's yet another reason to own a Playstation 3.SquareEnix is giving Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children a shiny new coat of paint for its Blu-ray debut in 2008. There's no exact date ... Rumor: Blu-ray Profile 1.1 coming to PlayStation 3 before Christmas 43 Potentially great news for all you PlayStation 3 owners out there who are using the system as a Blu-ray player or plan to do so eventually: there's a new rumor floating around the 'nets saying ... Sony: PS3 selling three times as fast, missed out on uniting HD formats 31 Sony says that they're selling PlayStation 3 systems three times as fast. Try saying that three times fast! Sony Chief Executive Sir Howard Stringer says that PS3 sales have picked up since the l... Blu-ray will give birth to the second coming of Christ: Sony pushes the rays 61 If there's one thing Sony knows how to do, it's a crazy advertising campaign. It's something of a shock then that the new campaign is actually quite tame in comparison to the insane war veterans,... TGS 2007: Now the PS3 is a Blu-ray player. 45 It was only a few weeks ago when Square-Enix called Sony out on its confusing marketing of the PlayStation 3, due to the fact that the machine was being pushed as a different type of system at di... Contest reminder: Destructoid is giving away an 80GB PS3 next week 51 As a public disservice announcement, we would like to remind all Dtoid citizens that the above high-def Talladega Nights player will be dispatched to one lucky rat bastard next week, sponsored by... Sony invites Microsoft and Toshiba to come aboard the Good Ship Blu-ray 48 Okay, so there's no Good Ship Blu-ray, but Sony would love for you to believe that Blu-ray is a massive battleship that dominates the waters, stopping to offer assistance to the little wooden raf... The HD format war isn't over yet: Paramount, DreamWorks go exclusively HD DVD 184 Just when you thought the high-def format war was nearing an end, something like this happens: Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation announced that they will release their DVD titles ex... Unreal Tournament III needs the Blu-ray legroom 46 Following in the confused footsteps of PGR4, good old Mark Rein of Epic Games has suggested that Unreal Tournament III needs the extra boost provided by vitamin Blu-ray to provide the full experi... Why Stranglehold pack-in Hard Boiled is hard-wired for the PS3 only 21 Gaming's resident journo-badass N'Gai Croal gets the scoop on how the pack-in of the 1992 John Woo movie Hard Boiled came to be, as well as why it will only be playable in the PS3. Level Up was ... A dream come true: five copies of Talladega Nights for free! 31 Well, they're not completely free. You have to buy a PS3 first, but hey - they're $100 off right now. You had better jump on them while they're hot, though. It seems there is a liquid... Blockbuster backs Blu-ray 47 Even though Blu-ray discs can be rotten (literally!), they are now the only high-definition format that Blockbuster is going to back. Blockbuster drives in what is probably the final nail in the... Blu-ray is a rotten format - literally! 76 Just when things couldn't get worse for Sony, it looks like karma has yet another surprise in store. According to several members of the AVS Forums, Blu-ray copies of The Prestige are startin... PS3 Gallery: Gran Turismo HD makes real life look soooo last gen 47 In one word: stunning. The latest screenshots of Gran Turismo HD are not only nearly identical to their real-life equivalents, but they are also crisper and better saturated in most cases. The a... Sony quick to point out that Blu-ray is winning the next-gen DVD war 41 My new BFF Dave Karraker just sent over a message with a not-so-gentle nudge to the fact that the Sony-backed Blu-ray format is, in some ways, a success in the next-generation DVD war. Karraker ... Jaffe calls Blu-ray in the PS3 a mistake 34 In our pal Geoff Keighley's newest edition of Bonus Round, the very outspoken David Jaffe speaks out on the PlayStation 3 and Sony's decision to include the pricey technology. Most of the... Ad: The PS3 is for movies, also games 37 Fanboys can have a field day with this one: Digger Key10000 snapped a pic of a controversially worded retail ad in the UK that positions the PS3 as a Blu-ray player that "also plays great g... Can an equally-priced Blu-ray player kill off the PS3? 24 Sony's one saving grace with the PlayStation 3 -- if it ever had one -- was the fact that it not only offered a high-powered gaming system, but also the cheapest Blu-ray player you could find... Look Ma, no disc! 9 Running out of space for all those Blu-ray movies you'll have to buy to replace your now archaic collection of DVD's? A hacker by the name of "hacked2123" cleverly developed a m... Get a PS3 in Japan ... on the cheap? 16 Not only is the new PlayStation 3 considered a little expensive for a console here in the States, but it seems like the PS3 may be a little too expensive for the peeps in Japan as well. Maxconsol... Time Warner CEO poo poos Sony's PS3 Blu-ray push 10 Buried at the end of an interview with Reuters, Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons said that packing a Blu-ray player in a PlayStation 3 won't help the new format's chances. Huh? I guess Par... Sony does what Nintendon't. Rip Blu-ray movies to your PS3! 25 In Sony's never-ending quest to convince each and every one of us that their new PlayStation 3 is actually a computer, it seems they left out any of their famous DRM to protect people from ma...		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