Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Hot, PS2, PS3, Rhythm action, Sony | 13 Comments »
Raises our eyebrows, anyway, because we're addicted to ABBA. We don't know why. Best not to question.
Both PS3 and PS2 versions are listed on IGN, but there are some glaring ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Hot, PC, PS3, Rockstar, Rumour, Xbox 360 | 10 Comments »
Xbox World 360 is rumouring that Max Payne 3 is currently in development at Rockstar Toronto.
EGM's already published something similar, so this appears to be sticking. Unless, you know, Xbox ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, EA, Hot, PC, Shooter | 7 Comments »
According to this Kotaku story, EA's stopped work on C&C-based FPS Tiberium because, essentially, it wasn't up to scratch.
"EA has suspended work on Tiberium effective immediately," said Mariam Sughayer, EA ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Hot, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
We are beyond hot for this game. EGTV's got the next video in the Gears of War 2 promotion drive, which is a good look at the various new enemies ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Ubisoft, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Speaking to Boomtown this morning, Far Cry 2 multiplayer producer Gaetan Richard said that the map editor to ship with the game will provide almost the same functionality given to ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Hot, Trade | 4 Comments »
According to this Forbes article, the modern games industry is becoming increasingly less tolerant of the "core" gamer. That's you, probably.
"The ongoing paradigm shift in gaming is expanding the industry's ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 2 Comments »
Following overnight downtime for Xbox Live, Xbox.com has reappeared with a blockbuster new feature: all your Friends are now on one page.
Apparently Microsoft split Friends lists into separate pages a ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in India, Trade | No Comments »
Ernst and Young believes the Indian gaming market now has all the elements in place for huge future growth.
“Disposable incomes of the upper middle class are growing with the economy, ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in DS, Hot, Nintendo, Rumour, Wii | 16 Comments »
This Gamekyo story claims that Nintendo's going to show an old franchise update at its press conference this week. Like, dur. From the piece:
Nintendo seems to be hiding some more ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Development, Trade, UK | 4 Comments »
The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 has pinned Rebellion as the fastest growing UK developer of the year.
The company was also named the top independent developer in the country by ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Codemasters, Hot, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
That's it, pretty much. Codemasters and Front Magazine have teamed up to take pictures of Alex Sim-Wise branded with Rise of the Argonauts stuff. There's a six-page feature on it ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Adventure, DS, Nintendo, Puzzler | 1 Comment »
Level-5's released the first proper trailer of the next Professor Layton game, titled Professor Layton and The Last Time Travel. It's only just been announced, so that's fast work for ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Hot, Microsoft, PS3, UK, Xbox 360 | 17 Comments »
Microsoft's announced that sales of Xbox 360 have risen 214 percent in the past two weeks, and that the console is, according to the company, now outselling PS3 by 2:1.
The ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, RPG, Xbox 360 | 21 Comments »
Speaking to Videogamer, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has claimed that Fable II's online co-op has only been possible because of the way Live's structured, and that PS3's online offering isn't ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, RPG, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Lionhead technical art boss Ian Lovett has told Eurogamer that Fable II's original "visual mission statement" was that it was to be like Fable, "but done by Ridley Scott".
"The idea ...
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