First Banjo shots hit 'net - looking good and beary
Awesome Gears of War 2 gameplay footage released
WiiWare launches in US tomorrow - details
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Sony | 2 Comments »
First official mention of a PS3 outing for God of War here. The ad says the game is "coming soon" and has appeared on the back of the God of ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 2 Comments »
We can embed this one, and that's just great. According to this, Treasure shooter Ikaruga is listed on the Japanese developer's website as an 800 MS Point release any time ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Sega, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Tried to embed this too, but not for very long because you, like, can't. It's a new trailer for Sega's Viking: Battle For Asgard and there's absolutely no way this ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Eidos, MMO, PC | No Comments »
Here. We tried to embed it, but Filefront started having a fanny and we're boggle-eyed with typing. No idea how Funcom's MMO's going to play, but it certainly looks the ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in America, Sports, Wii, WiiWare | No Comments »
Says so here. It'll be releasing in the US on May 12 alongside the Wii downloads service. We still don't know when WiiWare's going to happen in Europe, however, so ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Arcade, Capcom, Fighter, Japan | No Comments »
Street Fighter IV continues to excel in the "taking the piss" stakes today, with news that Sagat and Balrog are in the arcade version, as seen in this movie. From ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Here. The shots are taken from five different maps from the online starter pack, namely Ambush Alley, Gronznyj Grad, Midtown Maelstrom, Urban Ultimatum and Blood Bath. MGS4 was confirmed today ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Mastiff, Sports | 2 Comments »
Mastiff boss Bill Swartz has given first details of the recently announced Major League Eating game, claiming that we're going to be "shocked" at the intricacies of trying to eat ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in EA, Sports, Trade | No Comments »
EA Sports boss Peter Moore has admitted that Fifa is the only franchise in the division's portfolio that has genuine border-crossing appeal. "This is our one truly global franchise, and we’ll ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Japan, PS3, Racing, Sega | No Comments »
According to this, a home version of Sega's arcade game Initial D Arcade Stage 4 is heading to PS3 in the form of Initial D Extreme Stage. Apparently the street racer's ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Platform holders | No Comments »
Gamecock's Sabotage has received a name-change, and is now called Velvet Assassin. "Rather than a trite, overused, and generic working title like 'Sabotage,' 'Velvet Assassin' captures the heart of what we're ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, Adventure, DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Here. There are a fair few images we haven't seen before there, and quite a big preview. Go look, if you like it cute, whippy.and non-Nazi. Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
According to this, the 360 version of the anticipated Call of Duty 4 patch is now live and available. If you're one of the thousands addicted to playing the Activision ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PC, PS3, Southpeak, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
SouthPeak Games just announced X-Blades, "a dynamic third-person hack-and-slash action title for next-gen consoles and PC, due for release in late 2008." X-Blades features an anime-style heroine and guns, blades and ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, EA, PS3, Shooter, Stuff, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
According to this, EA enlisted the services of a real-life mercenary called Richard "Woody" Mister to advise on dual-play shooter Army of Two, a man that both helped the publisher ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Politics, UK | No Comments »
According to this, the Met police has launched something called Project Gamerz with XLeague.TV, an initiative designed to keep involved with the community instead of selling it crack or burning ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in America, Stuff | No Comments »
The Iron Man of Gaming has been confirmed for June 19-22 at the Grapevine Convention Center near Dallas, Texas. Contestants compete over 10 games from different genres and eras and ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in EA, Internet, PC, Shooter | 10 Comments »
This looks very cool. Free games are the absolute future, although there may be a few developers that would disagree. Check out our impressions of Battlefield Heroes from GDC and ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, EA, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 6 Comments »
Here. We reported on the GDC presentation of DICE's upcoming first-person revolution this morning. The shots give a better idea of how the character moves in the game, and shows ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Stuff, UK | 2 Comments »
Guinness World Record’s Gamer’s Edition will be attempting the "largest gathering of games characters" on March 18, 10.30 to 11am on the Millenium Bridge, London. This involves you dressing up ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Codemasters, Connect 2008, MMO, PC | No Comments »
Any LotRO players attending Connect later this month are going to be walking away - virtually, obviously - with a free in-game Ranger cloak. Apparently This will be the first ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Capcom, Horror, Japan, Wii | No Comments »
Here. As previously reported, the GameCube port is unlikely to make it out of Japan, but still, they're pretty enough screens. Playing Resident Evil games in Japanese is always ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in GC 2008, Germany, Music | No Comments »
The humanity. Leipziger Messe announced this morning that Video Games Live - the games music orchestra show - is to kick of Games Convention this year, playing for the first ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
According to this, Blizzard creative boss Chris Metzen has said StarCraft II "feels like the best work we've ever done". He added: "It's been very, very rewarding to see this thing ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Australia, EA, PC, RPG | 2 Comments »
The PC version of Mass Effect will hit Australia on May 15, according to this. The new version's releasing in America on May 6, and there's still no word on ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Virtual Console, Wii | 2 Comments »
So says this. The two games are this week's VC update in all PAL territories. Super Turrican, developed by Factor 5, rocks up for the usual 800 Wii Points and supports ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in PS2, PS3, PSN, PSP, Sony, Stuff | 6 Comments »
We found him. Phil Harrison was at the 1 million PS3 party in London last night, and wasn't giving many clues about what happened to cause his resignation or where ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in EA, GDC 2008, Internet, PC, Shooter | No Comments »
It's DICE day. We got to see EA's Battlefield Heroes at GDC as well as next-gen first-person game Mirror's Edge, and it's all sounding promising. Great news arrives in these ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, EA, GDC 2008, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 13 Comments »
Our man at GDC was granted a viewing if DICE's "revolutionary" first-person action game Mirror's Edge at GDC last week. As you'll see, his mind was well and truly blown. The ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 14 Comments »
According to this, MGS4 will only include one language per region because of disc space. "Unfortunately because of disc space, we don't have the space to include other languages, other voice ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3 | 2 Comments »
According to this, MGS4 will be released on June 12 in Europe as well as the US. The piece says it's from an announcement, but we haven't seen it yet. Update: ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Eidos, SCi, Trade | 6 Comments »
Oh dear. According to this, SCi has announced radical restructuring plans which are to include sizeable lay-offs and a move to Canada to take advantage of all those lovely tax ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Development, PC | No Comments »
Speaking here, Flagship COO Max Schaefer has said that PC developers need to get over the whole "disarray" mindset and start thinking about how best to enjoy the massive PC ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Eidos, PC, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Eidos has confirmed a new Battlestations game, says this, titled Battlestations: Pacific, to release on PC and 360 The original, Battlestations: Midway, was all about being able to use multiple verhicles ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Namco Bandai, PS3, Xbox 360 | 6 Comments »
According to this, Lizardman, Kilik, and Xianghua are all to be included in Soul Calibur IV. Lizardman's the brutish guy with the sword and shield, and Kilik's the button-masher favourite ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Nintendo, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 5 Comments »
Scans of the GoldenEye XBLA article from UK mag Xbox World 360 are now available, showing some new screens and apparently blaming Nintendo president Satoru Iwata for the fact the ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Konami, PS2 | 9 Comments »
God. Contrary to this, the US Essential Collection version of the original Metal Gear Solid won't be ported to a PS2 DVD after all. The game originally came on two ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Adventure, Capcom, Wii | 6 Comments »
According to this, Capcom's got rid of the little black borders at the side of the screen on the Wii version of Okami. You really hae no excuse but to ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in 2K, Action, PS3, Rockstar, Take-Two, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
News from the GTA IV preview cavalcade last night says that the game is about 100 hours long and there'll be no cut down version prior to release. Thanks to ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 2 Comments »
Speaking to IGN, John DiMaggio - both the voice of Bender in Futurama and Marcus Fenix in Gears of War - has remarked about the second game in Epic's console ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in DS, Japan, PS2, PS3, PSP, Retail, Wii, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
We're just going to put that headline on macro. Here's Japanese hardware figures from February 18-24. Wii - 63,504 PSP - 53,373 Nintendo DS - 50,151 PlayStation 3 - 14,060 PlayStation 2 - 9,634 Xbox 360 ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Konami, PS3, PSN | No Comments »
Konami has confirmed that MGS4 will release in America on June 12. It's made no confirmation of a European date as yet. The publisher also included details on a pre-order program ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in EA, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
The February 29 embargo on the EA games at GDC is lifting, with Batlefield: Bad Company being the first to break cover. Impressions and shots here. Multiplayer is about capturing ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Development, PC | No Comments »
Cliff Bleszinski, the Gears of War 2 dev head now infamous for saying PC gaming is in disarray, has now decided that the PC Gaming Alliance Epic signed up for ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in 2K, EA, Rockstar, Take-Two, Trade | No Comments »
According to this, an SEC filing has shown that since EA put in a bid for Take-Two, the GTA publisher has received other "informal indications of interest in a business ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in GDC 2008, Trade | No Comments »
According to this, GDC attracted 18,000 visitors this year, a new record. The upswing in attendance has already fuelled talk from the organisers that press could be restricted next year. "This ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in America, Europe, PS3, Racing, Retail, Sony | No Comments »
SCEA and SCEE are obviously comfortable in their decisions. According to this, SCEA isn't going to be bringing the two European bundles we saw today to Europe. "On Tuesday we announced ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in 2K, Action, PS3, Rockstar, Take-Two, UK, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
We're getting a bit bored of this now. Two new UK impression pieces on GTA IV here and here. "Grand Theft Auto IV is looking superb," said Guy Gamespot. "Underneath the ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in DS, PS2, PS3, Retail, Sega, Sports, Wii, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this, Sega Superstars Tennis has been moved forward from March 28 to March 20 in Europe. The game's down for release on DS, PS2, PS3, Wii and 360, ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Nintendo, Retail, UK, Wii | 7 Comments »
According to this, Datel is going to release Freeloader for Wii in ten days. The device essentially breaks console region locks, so you can play games from anywhere in the ... Read more..
