That damn Wii Fit. Always getting itself into trouble. If it’s not turning people into sex addicts, it’s attracting lawsuits from companies that make interactive fitness equipment. IA Labs, based in Potomac, Maryland, is suing Nintendo over Wii Fit, claiming it has been “irreparably harmed” by Nintendo’s alleged “continued infringement” of patents IA says it…
The Obama administration has sounded out Microsoft’s main man, CEO Steve Ballmer, on the possibility of the company producing a video game which would task players with balancing the US budget. Not as fun as tearing up a desert nation looking for weapons of mass destruction, I agree, but it’s just as important. Erskine Bowles,…
The original Xbox Live service was supposed to have been shut down at midnight. But midnight has now passed, and the people playing Halo 2 online in anticipation of its demise are…still playing Halo 2. We don’t yet know whether this is a last-minute hiccup or whether Bungie and Microsoft have made a deal with…
According to a “a mysterious source”, game site Destructoid is reporting that 2K games is planning to release a massively-multiplayer online title based on the world of BioShock. It is of course not the first time we’ve heard this; indeed, the last time we heard about it was from 2K itself, when back in 2008…
Yesterday, 2K jumped out from behind a bush, wearing a bloody clown suit, and surprised the crap out of us with a press release revealing a new X-Com game was in development. I was happy! Many of you, however, are not. It’s not the game’s seemingly retro aesthetic that has people upset. Nor is it…
Nintendo’s latest Pocket Monster series, Black & White, will be out later this year in Japan. Here are the first official screenshots from the game. You’ve seen some of these are scans, yeah, but scans can be crappy sometimes, and this was one of those times.
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A damning report from the National Labor Committe, released earlier this week, has highlighted atrocious working conditions at Chinese company KYE Systems Corp, which among other things manufactures control pads for the Xbox 360. The NLC’s report claims that KYE, an electronics manufacturer that supplies hardware for companies like Microsoft (the firm’s biggest single customer),…
This video, called Round 6, is for a video game that doesn’t exist. It’s simply a concept piece, done by an animation studio, with the aim of making “a high quality video game cinematic styled trailer”. The non-game is called Fragball, and as you can see, is a mix between extreme sports like Speedball and,…
A series of trademark filings, submitted in 2009, reveal that Electronic Arts and developer Starbreeze are (or at least were) working on a new Syndicate game. Syndicate, a real cult classic amongst PC gamers, was released in 1993 by Bullfrog, and tasked the player with control of a vicious futuristic company that uses cyborg soldiers…
Gears of War is a science fiction boys club. For boys who have no necks. So where, exactly, do women fit into all this? Why, they don’t. They’re all busy. Busy making babies. Giant, neckless babies. A great piece over at the Boston Phoenix, by Maddy Myers, points out the absurd gender inequality present in…
Seeing Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski on Jimmy Fallon the other night got me thinking, about two things. One, how great it was seeing a developer on international television. And two, how few other devs there are like him. I don’t mean in terms of his ability. I’m sure he’s worked hard on Gears,…
According to a suspiciously brief newswire report, 24 year-old Briton Amanda Flowers has become a “sex addict” after falling off her Wii Fit board. It seems that, courtesy of the fall, she’s developed a condition called persistent sexual arousal syndrome (which, we’ll have you know, is a real thing). Now any time Amanda is around…
Football Manager, Sega’s famous sports strategy sim that’s renowned across Europe for being so addictive it destroys marriages, is now available on the iPhone. Meaning that budding chairmen can now set strategies, trade players and pull their hair out while on the road, and not just in front of their PC. That’ll make the missus…
It’s April 14. If you own an old Xbox and play online with it, or still play original Xbox games on Xbox Live via your 360, you should know this is the last day you’ll ever be able to do so. As Microsoft promised earlier in the year, at midnight tonight the plug will be…
In 1994, some Iraqi students decided to develop a video game for the Amiga. It was never released on that system, thanks to economic sanctions and the demise of Commodore, but now, in 2010, it’s out on the iPhone! An unlikely story, we know, but the original development team – now scattered across the US,…
Splinter Cell: Conviction, out this week, is pretty good. It’s also been a long time coming, having been originally due for release in 2007. Why the delay? There was way more to it than hero Sam Fisher getting a new haircut. Like, the entire game needed to be re-tooled, its direction and mechanics changed. “I…
X-Com, the classic 90’s turn-based strategy game pitting mankind against alien invaders, is set to make a comeback as a first-person shooter, courtesy of the 2K studios behind BioShock 2. The game, which is actually called XCOM, is in development for the Xbox 360 and PC at 2K Australia and 2K Marin, and makes substantial…
We still don’t know what BioShock creator Ken Levine is working on, but we know what he’s not working on, and it’s not a new X-Com game. In a business piece in the LA Times today, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick tells the paper that Levine was “freed” from having to work on BioShock’s sequel, so…
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