You may have noticed that over the past couple of years video games marketing has become increasingly pervasive, many publishers intent on telling us as much as they can about a game before we can get our hands on it. But are they telling us too much? There once was a day that all you…
Here’s a video where a PSPgo is taken apart, piece by piece, to music and sound effects. It’s what a teardown would look like if Sesame Street did teardowns. Or Postman Pat, for that matter. TechRestore [via Engadget]
Not much has changed in a week in the UK. Wii games keep on selling, Modern Warfare keeps on shooting and Just Dance just keeps on dancing. And at the bottom of the charts? Welcome back, Grand Theft Auto IV. It’s been a while. Hopefully Mass Effect 2 can cause a break in the weather,…
French electronic artist Danger’s upcoming EP, titled "09/17 2007", will be out later this month. To tease it, he’s using 16-bit-themed game intros. Which are amazing. Makes you wish developers (*cough* Capcom *cough* ) would leave the 80’s 8-bit stuff be, and get their hands dirty on some 16-bit homages. Like a new-old Streets of…
Somebody at Microsoft has flipped a switch a little early, as most of Mass Effect 2’s downloadable content is already available. Available for free. For everyone. The GameStop-exclusive DLC, the stuff supposedly reserved for people picking up the game’s special edition, much of it is available for download right now on Xbox Live (note: you’ll…
Like many sprawling role-playing games, Mass Effect 2 is coming on two discs. Unlike other two-disc affairs, however, it’s taking a different approach when it comes to swapping said discs. Normally (this of course only applies to the 360 version of the game), you swap a disc halfway through a game. Or, if there’s four…
You know, reading that list of “lost” Tatsunoko vs Capcom characters the other day got me thinking: there’s plenty of room out there for more Capcom vs XXXX games. Yes, 2D (or 2.5D, really) fighting games are – Street Fighter aside – a niche market, but get the gameplay and characters right and they’re still…
New Orleans’ Tracy Porter was one of the stars of yesterday’s NFC Championship game between the Saints and the Vikings, making a key late interception off a Brett Favre pass. His secret? It was all in the haircut. While you obviously couldn’t see it on the field under his helmet, Fox’s sideline cameras picked it…
As you’d expect, upcoming Hollywood film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – based loosely on the game of the same name – will have merchandising tie-ins. Like action figures. These are those action figures. Due out in May, there’ll be a range of 4″ figures and a range of 6″ figures, along with…
Most game ideas on Earth are the result of collaborations. Many men and women working together to forge games out of a sea of ideas. Except, that is, for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. That’s pretty much all Hideo Kojima. “Well it’s strange, but not so many ideas come from the other staff”, the humble…
The Sims 3 wasn’t just the biggest-selling game at US retail stores for 2009. It was also, according to publisher Electronic Arts, the biggest-selling PC game in the world. Gathering data from North America and Europe, along with “internal EA estimates”, the publisher says this is the sixth time in ten years a Sims title…
The British Broadcasting Corporation is currently “courting” developers and publishers with the aim of turning a number of its key television series into video games. That means series like Doctor Who, Top Gear and creepy/popular kids show In the Night Garden are being shopped around, with the BBC looking to cover all bases, from Facebook…
First Clutch in a trailer, now Nick Oliveri-era Queens of the Stone Age…you certainly know the way to my heart, Electronic Arts. Or at least, the people making your cinematic trailers do.
Hey Halo fans, were you totally pumped after seeing that preview clip for “The Package” the other day? You were. Totally. Well, ere’s another preview, this one for “Homecoming”. It’s…yeah. Any of you see Gotham Knight? Same deal as Halo Legends; a bunch of Japanese studios put together a collection of animated shorts, all based…
You may remember the tangerine terror that was the Acer Predator. Well, that was the 2008 model. The 2010 model has now been revealed, and while it drops the “tangerine”, it certainly retains the “terror”. Dubbed the G7750-A64, I’m going to call it “Cylon #13” (or “Daniel The Toaster”) instead. It’s been upgraded with a…
Tony Hawk: Ride was a mess. And that’s putting it kindly. That hasn’t stopped the skating legend from working with the game’s developers again, however, announcing today the roots of their “next project”. “Just met with @robomodo about our next project”, Hawk wrote on his Twitter account, “and it’s already much better than I expected”.…
Word on the street is that Electronic Arts is going to have a big presence when Apple gets around to unveiling its tablet computer next week. So let’s take a look at some of the games we’ll hopefully be seeing. While conjecture has settled on the device being little more than a giant iPhone, both…
For PC users feeling uneasy about their current setups, we’ve got two sets of system specs for you today, one for BioShock 2, the other for Aliens vs Predator. First up, Aliens vs Predator: Minimum Requirements: Windows 7/ XP/Vista 1 GB System RAM (XP)/ 2 GB System RAM (Vista) 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4/Athlon 64…
I’m not sure if this is sad or impressive – probably a bit of both – but New Super Mario Bros. Wii has, in a little over two months, already managed to outsell Nintendo’s last Mario game, Super Mario Galaxy. NPD figures reveal that while Galaxy has sold 4.1 million copies in North America since…
While Tiger Wood’s recent trouser issues led many – myself included – to predict an end to his relationship with Electronic Arts, the publisher is sticking with the beleaguered star. So too, EA claims, is the game-buying public. EA Sports boss Peter Moore told GameSpot earlier today that when it comes to sales of Tiger’s…
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