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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Arcade, Capcom, Fighter, PS3, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Good Lord. Capcom's release a set of new Street Fighter IV screens showing off the game's bosses. Bison, Balrog, Sagat, and Vega are seen here in glorious technicolour. We're not ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 16 Comments »
According to ChartTrack data, the 360 version of GTA IV was more popular than the PS3 game on the first day of sales. Approximately 335,000 Xbox 360 games sold yesterday: 274,000 ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Canada, PS3, PSN, PlayStation Store, Sony | No Comments »
SCEA put out a press release today saying it's to adjust prices on the Canadian PS Store to put them in line with the weaker US dollar. "We are continually looking ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Trade, UK, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this GI story, GTA IV has had the biggest UK launch day on record, as if that's any surprise. From the site: GTA IV first day sales were 609,000 ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Adventure, Capcom, Europe, Wii | 3 Comments »
Okami's coming out on June 13 in Europe, according to Eurogamer. Not a lot to add to that, really. Other than, "Make sure you buy it." Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Puzzler, Shooter, Valve | No Comments »
Speaking to CVG, Valve's Doug Lombardi's assured that Portal 2 won't be simply more of the same, and that the company is investing a lot of time into working out ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Journalism, UK | 2 Comments »
Ex-Paragon chap Nick Roberts has been appointed business development manager at Imagine, the UK magazine publisher's confirmed. Roberts takes control of all advertising, cover promos and advertorial on Wii and DS ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Atari, Galleries, Horror, PC, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Atari just sent over some new screens of the upcoming Alone in the Dark and a dev diary from lead designer HervĂ© Sliwa titled "Inspiration and Innovation". Find both through ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, PC, PS3, Ubisoft, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
Oli Eurogamer can speak French, and has worked his way through Joypad's Prince of Persia article to produce something a bit more readable than this. Taste: He heals the land by ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Sony, Strategy | No Comments »
First details of PixelJunk Monsters Encore on the US PlayStation blog, including a check list of features for the expansion and a Q&A with developer Dylan Cuthbert. Thanks, Destructoid. Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, PS3, Racing | 2 Comments »
According to this post in Criterion's site, PS3 Burnout Paradise players will soon be able to upload their save file and have it analysed. PS3 players with the recently-released Bogart software ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 18 Comments »
Speaking to videogaming247, DICE producer Jamie Keen has said that the EA developer was taken aback by the fierce reaction to plans to charge for weapons in Battlefield: Bad Company, ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in America, Koch, Trade | 4 Comments »
Koch's to open an LA office, the company's announced. The publisher, under its Deep Silver games brand, will be located at 2615 Pacific Coast Highway #225, Hermosa Beach, CA. "The opening ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Fitness, Germany, Nintendo, Wii | 2 Comments »
Following Eurogamer.net's Ellie Gibson "doing her thing" with Wii Fit on video, Eurogamer.de's Tanja Menne has posted her take on the Nintendo game. This involves her gyrating her hips, "jogging" and ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Galleries, MMO, PC | No Comments »
Cryptic's put out another three screens of its upcoming superhero MMO, Champions online. It appears we're in the post-coital GTA IV news lull: it's slower than Barry White screwing a ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Development, Nordic, Nordic Game 2008, Sweden, Trade | 2 Comments »
Siren and Silent Hill developer Keiichiro Toyama is to speak at Nordic Game 2008, the conference confirmed this morning, as will Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory. The programme's starting to ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, DS, Wii | 10 Comments »
In an email to videogaming247, Terminal Reality boss Mark Randel said that the DS won't be used as PKE meter in the Wii version of Ghostbusters as we mistakenly reported ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in PC, Shooter, Valve, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Valve's released a new map - Goldrush - and a heap of new medic Achievements for Team Fortress 2, as you can see here. There's a new item system included ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, GCDC 2008, Germany, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Epic president Mike Capps will keynote GCDC this year, say this GI story, with the speech apparently focusing on Gear 2 development. "Epic set the technological bar for next-generation games with ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in PC, Valve | No Comments »
According to this GI story, Yahoo! and Microsoft both rejected Steam after Valve pitched the pre-launch concept. "You know, we went around to Yahoo, Microsoft... and anybody who seemed like a ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, MMO, PC | 2 Comments »
EA is to close down MMO wierdy thing EA-Land, after moving all The Sims Online inhabitants over to it in late February. According to an official blog post, "It is with ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Development, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Epic boss Mark rein reckons there are distant plans to create another single-player Unreal. Remember them? "I'm sure that at some point in our future we will make another Unreal, single-player, ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, PC, Sports | No Comments »
Speaking to GameDaily, EA Sports supremo Peter Moore has admitted that he knows how painful his decision to can Madden on PC this year will have been to some, but ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in America, Development, THQ, Trade | 1 Comment »
According to this Gamasutra report, THQ has laid off staff at two of its wholly-owned developers, Phoenix, Arizona-based Rainbow Studios and Kirkland, Washington-based Sandblast Games. The Rainbow staffers were let go ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Galleries, PC, PS3, Sega, Sports, Xbox 360 | 5 Comments »
Sega's put out new screens for the amazingly titled, Beijing 2008 - the Official Video Game of the Olympic Games. It's out on July 31 in Japan - no date ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, PS3, Sports, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
It's after the link. Forgive our cynicism, but it looks exactly like Madden 08. Did Madden 08 have snow? We forget. Take a look, anyway. Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, PSN, Sony | 1 Comment »
According to a job posting on SCEA's site, the God of War team is looking for an "Online Gameplay Programmer". Not unreasonably, this has led the internet to speculate that ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Movies, Stuff | 3 Comments »
Director Michael Bay clearly isn't used to fighting on the internet. He's posted on a forum in response to game-film director Uwe Boll's offer of a boxing match, a message ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in PC, Shooter, Ubisoft | 3 Comments »
Ubi's put out two new Far Cry 2 screens on its blog. The shooter's looking very swish, as you'd expect, but we can't help thinking this is going to need ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Koei, PS3, PSN, Racing | 5 Comments »
According to this MTV piece, Koei will release Fatal Inertia EX as a PSN exclusive in late May. It's going to cost $30 in the US and will never be sold ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Movies | No Comments »
According to this Variety piece, an animated movie of Spyro the Dragon's in the works. Blimey. Velvet Octopus has a five-pic deal with producer Ash Shah, which includes two more 3-D ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Home, PS2, PS3, PSN, PSP, PlayStation Store, SingStore, Sony | 10 Comments »
A chap posting on the US PlayStation blog has unearthed what looks to be the first proper details of the SCEE May 6 event in London. As you can see here, ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Canada, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Xbox360Fanboy's posted the first GTA IV launch photos from Canada, right here. The shots are from Mississauga, Ontario and show men in queues near large buildings, a running theme, seemingly. ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Platformer, Ubisoft, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
There's a post over on the G4 forums translating the Joypad scans of the new Prince of Persia game will linked to earlier. Taste: Corrupted world needs to be healed. Story is ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Development, EA, PC, Piracy, Shooter | 11 Comments »
Crytek president Cevat Yerli has revealed in an interview with PC Play that Crytek will no longer make PC-exclusive titles. "We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Journalism, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
Gamespot's given GTA IV a 10, only the fifth in its history. According to this Digg story, the others were Chrono Cross, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Soul ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in EA, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
EA's put out a press release making first mention of BattleForge, a card-based, online-only RTS from Germany studio EA Phenomic. "BattleForge is the next step in compelling RTS gameplay by taking ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Development, Trade, Ubisoft, Ukraine | No Comments »
Ubisoft's confirmed that Ukrainian capital Kiev will be the home of its next studio, and that the publisher plans to employ 800 people in eastern Europe by the end of ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, PS3, Xbox 360 | 14 Comments »
We don't care what anyone says. CVG's got a new trailer of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is the stuff of legend. We're so playing it. There's some new ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, PS3, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
CVG's got it. As ever, it shows Bourne knocking the shit out of everything in his way, and that's fine. It's out on June 27 for both 360 and PS3. Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
A guy on this thread reckons he's contacted Rockstar about the GTA IV freeze issue and was told that erasing all game data, including saves, was a workaround. I had this ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Another GTA IV midnight launch shot, this time from Xbox360Fanboy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is probably our favourite so far: the bathos, the boredom, the way the guy at the ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Scaremongering buffoon rag, the Daily Telegraph, has posted an article clarifying this earlier story about a stabbing at a GTA IV midnight launch event in Croydon, saying that a man ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Kotaku's rounded up a bunch more GTA IV launch photos for the list, this lost being from Miami, Scotland, New York, New Jersey and Manhattan. It's a men in queues ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in EA, Horror, PC, PS3, RPG, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
BioWare put out a press release this afternoon saying that those that pre-order the game will not only get $10 off at certain retailers, but they'll also get a Dead ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, EA, PS3, Rhythm action, Wii, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
According to this Newsweek post, Guitar Hero Aerosmith means the band are tied into the franchise and won't be doing any Rock Band DLC any time soon. From the site: "It's ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Adventure, Codemasters, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 5 Comments »
The lovely people over at Gaming Today have posted some new screens of Codemasters' Rise of the Argonauts, which has been somewhat hidden for pretty much ages. From the site: With ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Asia, Hong Kong, Korea, Microsoft, Retail, Singapore, Taiwan, Trade, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this Bloomberg report, Microsoft has dropped the price of Xbox 360 in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. The price of a basic version will drop by 17 ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Crime, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 18 Comments »
A man was seriously stabbed at a midnight GameStation GTA IV opening in Croydon last night, according to this Local Guardian report, although on closer inspection it looks as though ... Read more..Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Trade, UK, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
According to this GI story, Play.com is now taking 80 orders a minute for GTA IV. "We're experiencing trading levels similar to what we would see in the run up to ... Read more..
