First Banjo shots hit 'net - looking good and beary
Awesome Gears of War 2 gameplay footage released
WiiWare launches in US tomorrow - details
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Codemasters, Jobs, MMO, Platform holders | No Comments »
You could probably do this. If you can speak English, German or French, can go to live in Germany and play lots of games, then maybe ths is the job ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
See here. Atlus is to release Japanese all-girl fighter Arcana Heart for PS2 on April 8. The game looks the right side of awesome, and features 11 lady fighting types ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, Financials, Shooter | No Comments »
In EA's third quarter financial statement, just released, the company said it expected Battlefield: Bad Company and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames to ship in fiscal 2009. EA's financial year ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Financials | No Comments »
EA has issued financials for its third quarter - ending December 31 - showing a $33 million loss despite record revenues of $1.502 billion, up 17 percent on the same ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Sports | No Comments »
UEFA Euro 2008, the tournament version of EA's monster soccer franchise FIFA, will ship in the US on May 20 and in Europe on April 11. The real-life UEFA Cup ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Virtual Console, Wii | No Comments »
This lot have painstakingly worked out how much you save if you buy all Virtual Console games through your Wii as opposed to buying the real things second hand on ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Those Americans given to voting are going to have to pick candidates for presidential elections very soon, and should obviously eschew fly-by-night issues like defence and welfare and concentrate on ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Charts, Japan, Wii | No Comments »
According to Media Create figures for January 21-26, Wii Fit is still flying in Japan, leading the all format chart and having now hit sales of 1,283,000. Wii Fit sold ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Adventure | No Comments »
A slight departure from Saw and 2010, the rumoured Clash of the Titans game, but a movie tie-in from Brash nonetheless. The publisher said today it was making the game ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, RPG, Shooter | No Comments »
So says this, taken from a Gamasutra interview. "Then we have a second project that's in development," said Propaganda boss Josh Holmes. "We haven't made any announcements about it, but I ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Journalism | No Comments »
GamerTV boss Richard Wilcox is "delighted" that the Bravo show has acheived ratings of 220,000 in a single weekend and 1.25 million in December. “We’re delighted," he said. See. Told you ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in PSP | No Comments »
In case you can't work out how to make something as drop-dead simple as Skype work, this man from PSP marketing in the US is here to walk you through ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Rhythm action | No Comments »
According to this, American gamers will be able to buy standalone wireless guitars for Guitar Hero III in March. Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will be $69, with the Wii ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, Adventure | No Comments »
Text here, shots here. Looks as though IGN got a good look at Lara's latest, which has been tipped by UK journos as one of the best games on current ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Stuff | No Comments »
A scientist asked to come up with a "dangerous idea" has hypothesised that the reason alien species haven't managed to reach earth is because they're all doing what we're doing: ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Shooter | 1 Comment »
Missed this the first time round. That Eurogamer chat with Valve shows that the recently released maps for the PC version of Team Fortress 2 will also be made available ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Proof. You've always wondered, right? Xbox 360's best, Wii's second best, PS3's third best, or "worst". Now we can sleep at night. Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Shooter | No Comments »
Games Critics Award has announced its first annual Game of the Year Award. "Considering games across all platforms, released commercially in North America between January 1, 2007 and December 31, ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Strategy | No Comments »
1C Company's announced the third game in the "Of War" trilogy, Men of War, the first two titles being Soldiers: Heroes of World War II and Faces of War. It's ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action | No Comments »
A stealthy third-person action game for PC and Xbox 360 in 2009. From Black Lion. Shots and details here. "Shadow Harvest is a highly immersive 3rd-person tactical action game set in ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Shooter | No Comments »
Haze, the Free Radical shooter, will release on May 20 in America and May 22 in Europe, according to a bunch of retailers to be found here. Publisher Ubisoft currently ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Koch, Shooter, THQ | No Comments »
Koch is to publish S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, the company's announced, which begs a rather large question about what happened to THQ's involvement. Koch will handle the game worldwide. "Publishing the game ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Rhythm action, Wii | No Comments »
Publisher Majesco's just confirmed Major Minor's Majestic March for Wii. The rhythm action game's being developed by PaRappa the Rapper outfit NanaOn-Sha. From the press release: "Major Minor's Majestic March turns the ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in PS3, PSN | No Comments »
Devil May Cry 4 for free's probably pretty good. And Theme Hospital! It'll never get better than that. Devil May Cry 4 demo (free) MX Vs ATV Untamed demo (free) Fade to Black ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Racing | No Comments »
EA is shutting down the online part of the Xbox 360 version of the Burnout Paradise demo to free up server activity for paying cutsomers. "In order to enable the best ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Development, Internet | No Comments »
Japanese dev legends Shinji Mikami and Hideki Kamiya have set up a home for new studio Platinum Games on Facebook, blogs and all. Platinum has been formed of former Clover ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Wii | 2 Comments »
A care home in Pontardawe, Wales has taken delivery of a "Nintendo computer games console", presumably a Wii, after evidence from the Alzheimer Society that solving computer-based puzzles can slow ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Puzzler, Shooter | No Comments »
Valve's Doug Lombardi has shocked precisely no one while delighting precisely everyone by confirming there are more Portal-based games on the way "There'll be more Portal, for sure. But the details ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, Xbox Live | No Comments »
Microsoft is currently fixing a mistake made with the Beautiful katamari demo announced yesterday, which was accidentally made only available to Silver Live members. "There's a Beautiful Katamari demo available on ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Retail | No Comments »
Despite the fact there's a GAME on every British street corner, US retailer Play N Trade "likes competition" and is planning on moving to the UK wholesale. "GAME has a very ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Codemasters, Trade | No Comments »
Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has revealed vaulting ambitions for Codemasters growth in this interview, saying the way for the company is as a global, top 10 power. “In terms of publishing ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Financials, PS3, PSP, Sony | No Comments »
According to this, Sony's dropped it's 07/08 PS3 hardware sales target from 11 million to 9.5 million, citing a slow start to the machine's life-cycle as a reason. The news ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Wii | 7 Comments »
Look here. Here's what's new, Mii fans: In the Posting Plaza, you can now easily find all the Miis you’ve posted. When viewing a Mii Artisan’s profile, you can now select to ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Financials, Sony | No Comments »
Right here. It's exhaustive stuff. This is the important slide, saying PS3 hardware and software sales for the quarter ending December 31 were up 195 percent and 391 percent respectively ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Trade | No Comments »
According to this, David Gardner, formally an EA mega-boss, is now the CEO of Infogrames, Atari's parent company. Gardner left EA last year after 25 years with the company to ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in MMO | No Comments »
EA's signed a deal with GigaMedia to handle Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. According to this press release, a date for the game is ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Financials, PS3 | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 profitability has driven record revenues for Sony in its quarter ending December 31, with net income rising 25 percent to 200.2 billion yen over the same period in ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Rhythm action | No Comments »
No, we don't know what it is. Internet people are suggesting it could be something along the lines of the orchestra conducting Miyamoto did at E3 a few years ago, ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action | No Comments »
Rockstar's started billing "wanted" posters for GTA IV's lead character Niko Bellic in New York. The poster advises the public that he's wanted for assault with a deadly weapon and ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
It is what it is. Go here for pictures of people queuing up to get their hands on Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Japan. Marvel at the way they're all ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Movies | No Comments »
Kotaku's got its hands on the first 32 pages of the Castlevania movie screenplay, and has kindly posted them on the internet. The film was in production but put on ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action | No Comments »
The recently spotted "2010" game from Brash could be the film tie-in for the upcoming Clash of the Titans movie, says this. Brash also confirmed it's handling the Saw game ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in RPG | No Comments »
According to this, the next issue of US magazine Play is to include a feature on FFXIII. Square's been quick to remind gossipers that a release for 2008 is speculation ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action | No Comments »
According to this and this, the PS3 version of Assassin's Creed is the fourth title for the system to pass the 2 million sales mark. The PC version slipped slightly ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Trade | No Comments »
The annual The Independent Game Developers Association (TIGA) awards have been announced, as has the news that Richard Wilson, a complete random with no previous games industry experience, is to ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Strategy | 6 Comments »
Never saw this coming. Microsoft has issued a statement stamping on persistent rumours that a Vista version of Ensemble-developed action-RTS Halo Wars is in the works to compliment the Xbox ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Puzzler | No Comments »
Sony's UK site is listing odd water puzzle game flOw as a PSP release, although with a release date for the download as "January 2008" a slip may be on ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Shooter | 1 Comment »
Epic boss Mark Rein has said in an interview that user-generated mods for the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3 - which still has no release date - is ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Action | No Comments »
Rockstar boss has pointed towards a more mature iteration of Grand Theft Auto in GTA IV in a demo here, saying the upcoming title's plotline generation is to be a ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Home, PS3, Sony | No Comments »
PlayStation Home has been shown for the first time since E3 last year, says this, at an Imagina 08 session in Monaco, revealing key changes to the virtual PS3 "world" ... Read more..
