Sure, that headline reads like “sky is blue”, but retail data firm The NPD Group today released figures showing just how reliant Nintendo software sales are on, well, Nintendo games. For the 2009 calendar year, total revenue for games sold on Nintendo platforms was $3.23 billion. Of which Nintendo games constituted $1.53 billion. Or, 47%.…
This Sonic mural is the work of Edinburgh-based artist John Arnott. It covers all four walls of these kid’s bedroom, and at first glance, is the stuff of childhood dreams. Or, if you’re stuck on this side with Robotnik and his crew, nightmares. Looking at the ginger kid’s Scotland kit – and the fact it’s…
Bungie this week released a large batch of concept art for the upcoming Halo: Reach, showing some soldiers, some Covenant, some trees, some snow and a Spartan with a little robot T-Rex arm. Some of this was featured in the latest issue of Game Informer, but since most of you wouldn’t have seen that, enjoy.
We’ve seen recently what it looks like playing board games on a futuristic table. Today, though, we’re going to look at a board game being played on a futuristic wall. Using advanced projector technology, this is how Settlers of Catan could look like in the year 2027. The hexagonal tiles are linked to projectors, and…
For a game in a series with such a long history, and such a passionate fanbase, Command & Conquer 4 has been humming along under most people’s radars. Something that should change pretty soon once the beta kicks off. C&C4’s community manager has posted on his Twitter account “C&C 4 beta will be going PUBLIC…
Selvaria Bles isn’t the nicest of characters in Sega’s Valkyria Chronicles, but she certainly makes for a nice figure. This piece, due for release at the end of the month in Japan, will sell for around USD$170. Expensive, yes, but on the bright side it’s highly detailed, and includes that crazy Valkyr lance that’s such…
Not content with kicking sand in the face of Wing Commander fans with the dreadful Wing Commander Arena, EA is now turning its attention towards bringing us a new game based on the Ultima franchise. Look, EA, when I said I’d like a new Ultima game, I meant a new Ultima game. Not…this. Meet Lord…
Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi popped into an Apple Store in Tokyo earlier this week to give a live demonstration of his upcoming version of Noby Noby Boy for the iPhone. There’s a lot of chit-chat in the above video, but skip to around 0:45 in and you’ll see the start of the demo action,…
EB Games gave us an inadvertent taste of Halo: Reach the other day. Cover blown, Bungie has now decided to let loose the rest of the game’s first batch of proper screenshots. Some of these will look familiar to anyone picking up the latest issue of Game Informer, but others – particularly the environment shots…
We often see concept art for games that are coming out, but how about games that are already out? Like, say, The Legend of Zelda, which was released in 1986? The latest in Nintendo’s series of “Iwata Asks” is up on the company’s British portal, and contains four rare, most likely never-before-seen (by you) pieces…
Kevin T. Singer is currently serving a life sentence for murdering his sister’s boyfriend. He’s also challenging the prison’s rights to take away his Dungeons & Dragons. Incarcerated at the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin in 2002, Singer had for two years been not only playing D&D with his cellmates, but had in his possession…
Samuel Lassoff, an attorney in Philadelphia, is taking Microsoft to court over claims that the Xbox 360’s currency system – Microsoft Points – exists to “unjustly enrich” the console manufacturer. The basis of Lassoff’s complaint will no doubt also the basis of many of your complaints over the system. Namely, that prices are engineered so…
Fresh off copying from Xbox Live with its “Uplay” service, Ubisoft is now taking a leaf out Valve’s book (The Big Book of Steam), introducing a range of new anti-piracy measures for the company’s PC games. Ditching the controversial “StarForce” system of digital rights management, Ubisoft will now be moving its PC game copy protection…
Monster Hunter Frontier, a 2007 PC game, is old. Old as the hills. But Monster Hunter Frontier on Xbox 360 is new, and so is this trailer. Cutting edge. Click to view
Super Street Fighter IV is a 2D fighting game. And what’s the best way to promote a 2D fighting game? With some classy 2D animation, of course. This trailer for the game was whipped up by GONZO, the Japanese animation studio behind stuff like Afro Samurai. And, yeah, it’s pretty great. Take that, Chun-Li. Click…
Transformers: War For Cybertron is an upcoming video game based on a toy line. There’s now going to be a toy line based on the game which is based on a toy line. Ah, cross-promotion. First hinted at via leaked prototype shots a few weeks back, there’s now been confirmation from Hasbro that a range…
Having abandoned the show to the Canadian wilderness in recent years, Microsoft is bringing its “X” event back into the limelight in 2010, with a showcase night planned to take place in San Francisco next month. The last proper “X” event was all the way back in 2006, when Peter Jackson was in attendance promising…
We were this morning pointed towards the Twitter account of a certain “veracious_shit”, who says they are a source close to Team Bondi’s long-in-development LA Noire. And veracious has some interesting things to say. Cataloguing the long, drawn-out history of one of the most mysterious games of this hardware generation, veracious claims to reveal a…
While God of War on PSP was a good enough game, the real achievement was in how developers Ready At Dawn managed to translate the console experience onto a handheld. But did you know they almost didn’t bother? In an interview at IndustryGamers, RaD’s Dana Jan said “There were early discussions of making Chains of…
According to a report on Bloody Disgusting, Warner Bros. Studios is looking to start production on a reboot of 1995 film Mortal Kombat. Having bought the rights to the franchise when it picked up Midway last year, BD say that Warner is looking to get Oren Uziel to write up a script for the project,…
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