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28 February, 2008 | Comments Off

Blu-ray wins the format wars as HD-DVD is axed by Toshiba.

After years of the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD wars, Blu-ray has proved victorious after the HD-DVD founder, Toshiba, said that continuing to support the failed format was damaging the industry as a whole and so they have decided to axe the format. Toshiba stopped manufacturing HD-DVD players soon after the announcement and it is believed that the few remaining studios supporting the format will move to Blu-ray as there contracts with HD-DVD run out.

Recently Microsoft announced they will stop manufacturing the HD-DVD attachment for the Xbox 360 and have expressed that they may be making Blu-ray attachment in the future.

Slow page rendering at Mobygames these days?

Some of our regulars have noticed things bogging down recently when attempting to load any pages from our server. Word from up high suggests there’s a problem with our ad server slowing things down to roughly the speed of molasses.

This is the future. Clearly we shouldn’t have to go make a sandwich and a cup of coffee while waiting for a website to load anymore! One workaround is to disable the ads from your user preferences (that’s "prefs" in the top right, for those of you with user accounts) if you have a sufficiently high contribution ranking (125 points within the last year). That’s a carrot for our regular contributors that many folks may not even be aware of!

Commodore 64 added to Virtual Console

Well, I didn’t think this would happen, but the Commodore 64 has just been added to the Wii’s Virtual Console, meaning that now about nine systems have been added. Two games have been added to the European Wii Shop Channel so far, International Karate and Uridium, and will cost 500 Wii points each (?3.50). We have yet to see the following systems added: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/IIgs, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Tandy TRS-80/CoCo, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, and any other platform supported by MobyGames.