Canadian developers BioWare are best known for its console and pc role playing games like Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic. Big rpgs that run on big hardware. BioWare boss Ray Muzyka, “We’d be intrigued by the idea of developing on Wii but we have nothing to announce right now. We do have…
Developer Bizarre Creations has made some terrific racing games. Take PGR, for example. Great game. Bizarre knows racing games. It also knows something else. According to Bizarre’s Ben Ward: I’m not going to mention numbers but not really, with the exception of Mario Kart, which has done very well because it’s a Mario Kart game.…
There’s been some confusion about Dragon Quest IX co-op play. Is it local only or does it using Nintendo’s WiFi connection? Just imagine playing DQIX with faraway friends! Square Enix PR clears up the issue with this: “From the beginning of development, co-op play hasn’t been via WiFi, but rather DS wireless play.” So there…
Today in Japan, McDonald’s is rolling out a Wi-Fi service today in its restaurants across the country. Here’s the television commercial. Fascinating. Customers who bring their DS units to McDonalds can download items and original content as well as play others via WiFi. Besides Pokémon mini-games and character downloads (Jirachi, anyone?), there are also McDonalds…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Flash Mob …but I can’t remember what it is. Don’t you just hate that? What you missed last night Konami Staffer Sues For “Discrimination” Koei Tecmo Working On Corporate Cross Over Game How You Might Kill Someone Important In Mass Effect 2 Microsoft Pulls Plug On Xbox Originals Harold Ramis…
The release dates we’ve been hearing for StarCraft II have been fourth quarter 2009. In an interview with Swedish game site Press2play.TV, StarCraft II lead designer Chris Sigaty says… …that Blizzard is going to try to get the game out this year. “However,” he adds, “we’re not going to ship the game if it’s not…
According to an Activision survey, a paid Call of Duty service would “enhance the multiplayer experience and provide exclusive access to a group of gameplay enhancements”. Those enhancements include things like early access to betas and expansions, exclusive character skins, exclusive game modes, better stat tracking as well as competitive play support. Does that mean…
Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity is the latest Japanese visual novel to be slated for the Xbox 360 in Japan. Originally, the text heavy game was an adult PC game, but the 360 version will be “clean”. Dunno about you, but man, my teeth hurt.
Back in the day, games used to be hard — especially Tecmo’s games. Before difficulty options became standard, Tecmo was making the most impossible games it could. What did Tecmo do to easy titles it developed? “Tecmo had the philosophy that the user would throw a game away if it wasn’t hard enough,” says former…
Konami Digital Entertainment employee Yoko Sekiguchi is suing the company for what she calls “discrimination”. The 36-year-old Sekiguchi negotiated soccer team and foreign player licensing for Konami’s Pro Evolution franchise. Last October, she took the company’s maternity leave, returning to work this past April. When she returned to work, she was demoted due to a…
When is thirteen minutes of direct feed gameplay footage not enough? When it’s God of War III, that’s when. God of War III is expected to be out March 2010 in North America.
Satisfied with how upcoming thriller Heavy Rain looks? Don’t be. Not one to be complacent, developer Quantum Dream says the eagerly awaited game still needs lots of work. “We’re still at the alpha stage and there’s a whole lot of work to be done,” said Quantic Dream’s David Cage. “There’s so much fine-tuning in the…
Here’s 90 second look at the Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Strike ~ film from anime studio Production I.G. Voice actors include Mamoru Miyano (who voiced Light in Death Note and Riku in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II) as Flynn Scifo, Mai Nakahara (who voiced Rena in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and…
Yesterday we meet Nolan North — aka “Mr. Video Game Voiceover”. Today, we meet his delightful Uncharted 2 cohorts, Emily Rose and Claudia Black. Rose and Frazier star as Elena Fisher and Chloe Frazier in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. We really, really loved the voice acting in the first Uncharted game. It was funny, it…
Japanese game makers Koei and Tecmo have merged, officially forming Koei Tecmo Holdings as of this April. But does that mean their games will merge as well? According to the summer issue of industry publication Nikkei Corporate Information: “Tecmo and Koei are combining titles to launch a new game. The aim is to bring in…
With classic comedies like Caddyshack, Groundhog Day and Analyze This, Harold Ramis has an impressive film director resume — which was almost tarnished by that disastrous Super Mario Bros. flick. “(Producer) Roland Joffe wanted me to direct the Super Mario Bros. movie,” says Ramis. “I took the meeting because I loved the game… I’m glad…
Who likes history? We do! Channel 4 has followed up its own 1066 historical drama with a flash game — a flash game that has been occupying way too much of our time, we might add. It set in the year 1066. England is in turmoil, invaded from the outside. Players try to outflank and…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Mecho Wars Watching a Japanese quiz show tonight (Hexagon — a guilty, stupid pleasure) when the announcer corrected a contestant who said Turkey is an European country. The announcer said Turkey wasn’t. Hrm… What you missed last night Here’s Your Dragon Age: Origins PC Specs Meet Mr. Video Game Voiceover…
The UK Government has adopted the PEGI (Pan European Game Information) standard as the sole game content rating system. PEGI has revealed its new ratings icons: Five age rating symbols that are colored green, yellow and red. Casual games get a “PEGI OK” mark, denoting that they are, well, okay for players of all ages.…
With exclusive Tales of Graces, Namco’s Tales franchise is coming to the Wii. The game is the 12th in the role-playing series. It’s expected up last up to 70 hours, making it a big, meaty JRPG experience for the Wii. Graces has a battle system that allows characters to freely pick from two different fighting…
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