Ever since production wrapped on BioShock, people have been keen to know what Ken Levine‘s next project would be. Seems we’re finally, years after his last game shipped, going to find out. With a “new” studio under his belt and rumours of an X-Com revival still hanging in the air, BioShock’s director feels the time…
It seems our warnings were for naught. And now Britain suffers, with Ubisoft’s Just Dance the best-selling game in the country. You’ve nobody to blame but yourselves. Well, not literally you lot. You probably went out and bought Army of Two, or Bayonetta, or Darksiders. No, you’re looking for somebody to blame, blame your mum.…
Whether or not famed director Sam Raimi does the Warcraft movie in the near future is anyone’s guess. Just in case he does, though, the movie’s engines are being kept running. Robert Tapert, producer on the project, has told iFM “It’s in development. We’re in the outline/story/script phase”. Which in movie language means early days,…
While the Wii Balance Board‘s usefulness as a fitness device are questionable, there’s no doubts over its ability to perform as a…rehabilitative “force platform”. That’s a device used by doctors to measure the balance of a person recovering from a stroke (or similar injury), employed when the patient is “relearning” how to walk. While lab-grade…
Over the weekend, Sony Computer Entertainment began operations in Vietnam, marking the first time the PlayStation brand has been officially sold in the communist state. Sony’s first sanctioned (as in, not privately imported) PlayStation products in the country went on sale on Saturday morning, with the120GB PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable (the PSP-3000) and PlayStation 2…
Over two years on from the game’s release, every Team Fortress 2 class save the Engineer has received a major update. Does that mean, then, that there’s only one major update left in the game? No way. In an interview with Team Fortress 2 community site Community Fortress, Valve’s Robin Walker has said “We’ve got…
So what if Yakuza 3 has been out in Japan since forever. It’s now on its way to the West, meaning we can get excited about it all over again.
Revenues were down for most video game companies in 2009, and the big three platform holders were no exception. Pretty clear, but if you need it spelled out a little clearer, nice graphs tend to do the trick. Put together by NPD fetishist Matt Matthews over at Gamasutra, it shows the decline in revenue all…
This is fun. A former EA executive last week went to town on the publisher’s business strategy and that of its boss, John Riccitiello. Rather than let the comments wash under the bridge, however, EA today responded. With snark. The former EA man in question is Mitch Lasky, who sold a mobile business to EA…
What a difference a decade makes. Speaking with Game Informer magazine, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has spoken of the massive disparity between how much Blizzard was worth in 1995 compared to the price Kotick paid in 2007. In ’95, the Warcraft creators were purchased by Davidson & Associates. For a sum that, in 1995, Kotick…
MTV’s Rock Band Network, an ambitious program aimed at letting “anyone” upload a song to the game’s store, will be launching tomorrow, according to the Wall Street Journal. In a piece on MTV’s plans for the store, the WSJ piece opens with “MTV Games is hoping to goose sales of its flagging “Rock Band” series…
I think Uncharted 2 was the best game of 2009. By a country mile. Why? Because Uncharted 2 was also 2009’s best action movie. See, for me, the main appeal of the first game was never, well, the “game”. Sure, the platforming’s version of “auto-pilot” was fun, and enjoying a spot of Gears of War…
For all the money spent on securing the use of The Beatles, the Rock Band title of the same name is yet to outsell its predecessor, Rock Band 2. But is there a silver lining in that money pit? Maybe. MTV’s Scott Guthrie has disclosed that “more than 1 million” Beatles songs have been downloaded…
As we’ve covered a few times before, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is not only a nutty man, he’s a nutty man that hates video games. Hates them so much be believes they’re “poison”. “Those games they call ‘PlayStation’ are poison”, Chavez (left, in his Brotherhood of NOD costume) said on his weekly show Alo Presidente.…
When a game is as oft-delayed as Ubisoft’s I Am Alive, it raises questions. Has it been cancelled? Are there production issues? Does it need a better title? All of those are valid, but only one is the actual reason. And it’s number two! Step on down number two and, speaking through Ubisoft boss Yves…
It’s not just the Japanese throwing people in prison over R4 flash cartridges; Britain is in on the act too, with a man sentenced to prison for importing R4 carts. Yun Can Meng, a British resident, will spend the next twelve months behind bars after importing 26,500 of the cartridges, with the intention of selling…
Let’s play a game. Imagine you are not you. You are, instead, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai. And you have a dilemma on your hands. See, you are part of a massive corporation that for years now has been bleeding money. Meaning across the board, Sony has had to cut costs, trim the fat…
As is the way with most iPhone releases, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been set loose upon the App Store with absolutely zero warning or pre-emptive fanfare. One moment, we’re busy getting on with our weekends, the next, we simply receive word that it’s out. Early reports say that the game is as…
This is the Mass Effect 2 Limited Edition console bundle, announced today for the Australian market and selling for AUD$599 (USD$550). It includes a black Xbox 360 with a 250GB HDD, two wireless controllers, a headset and a copy of Mass Effect 2. No custom paintjob on the console, sadly, but the inclusion of a…
Heavy Rain’s Europe-only Special Edition, first announced last month, has now been shown off by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It comes in a fancy gatefold cover, treated to make the textured raindrops appear “real”, includes a promo code for the game’s DLC, some cute (and bloody) little origami and a big fold-out covered in notes,…
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