Deciding that all that talent was going to waste on mere “art”, Valve are going to put Team Fortress 2’s fanbase to work, giving them the chance to craft their own in-game items, weapons and avatars. It’s part of the new “Contribute” site, which will allow TF2 fans to submit their own ideas for things…
There were plenty of terrible movies in 2009, but only one can be the terriblest. And, according to popular movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, that honour goes to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Yes, the Capcom/Kristin Kreuk disaster beat out other hopefuls like Old Dogs and Dragonball to claim the prize as the…
In Darksiders, you play as War, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The other three, though, you never see them. They’re away, at a volleyball tournament. If they were around, though, this is what they’d look like. Vigil’s Joe Madureira originally designed all four horsemen. He of course took some liberties; instead of…
Sony announced yesterday that Gran Turismo 5‘s demo “2010 Time Trial” has been downloaded over one million times since first released last month. For such a high profile title, that number’s a little…low, yes? Not to worry, as it only includes the download figures from the 17 countries participating in the actual “Time Trial”, the…
Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division (which includes the Xbox 360), has told the Financial Post that most of the world’s publishers are at work on games for Project Natal, the 360’s upcoming motion control peripheral. “We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based…
Games as book covers, movie posters as game covers…what’s next? How about new movies as the box art to old Atari games? Sure, why not. Aussie artist Robert Penney has re-imagined some recent flicks like Avatar, Cloverfield and Snakes on a Plane as games on a fictional, ancient “CVS” system. Prison Break is featured too,…
The Detroit Auto Show’s going down in…Detroit this week, and to help market some of the new cars on show get people back into Forza 3, Microsoft have released a new DLC pack for the game. The pack contains ten cars, some from last year, some brand new and on show in Detroit this week.…
Late-year surge aside, 2009 was a time of slight decline for Nintendo, spurred by a slide in sales for the once-booming Wii. And nobody felt that slide more than the company’s former boss Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi, who not only ran Nintendo from 1949 to 2002 but is also the company’s single biggest shareholder, was not…
Sure, for the most part it’s still way too expensive, but Microsoft keep plugging away with their Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360, adding three more games to the lineup for the month of January. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfare 2 is out today in all regions except Japan, while Kane & Lynch is…
We hear it a lot these days. It costs a lot to develop a game for the 360 and PlayStation 3. But have you ever wondered how much “a lot” actually is? According to research undertaken by M2 – the same guys responsible for the disturbance in the workforce study – the average cost of…
Finally, something to put a stop to the incessant rumours! It’s been announced today that Netflix’s streaming video service is officially coming to the Nintendo Wii. It’ll launch sometime in the Spring, and will be available to anyone with a Wii, an internet connection and a minimum $9 a month Netflix subscription. Like the PS3,…
On Monday, we wondered where all the 120GB hard disk drives for the Xbox 360 had got to. This GameStop promotion may help explain what’s going on. It’s offering a $50 GameStop gift voucher with every Xbox 360 Elite console sold. Out of the blue, not long after official price cuts and the holiday season.…
Look, Britain. Pull up a chair. It’s time we had a heart-to-heart. About Just Dance. And how it’s getting dangerously close to being the #1 game in the United Kingdom. I touched on how absurd this is last week, but it obviously didn’t sink in, so I’m going to re-iterate: it would be better to…
What is it with American publishers – Sony Computer Entertainment in particular – and ruining nice pieces of foreign box art that should otherwise have been left untouched? Take Heavy Rain, for example. Above is the PAL cover to the game, revealed a month or so ago. It’s dark, it’s mysterious, it’s slightly menacing. Exactly…
Well, this is different. Thanks to a massive injection of capital from General Electric, the SyFy network and a games developer are building a project in which an MMO and a TV show interact and “co-evolve”. The project has the name “One Earth“, and the game is being worked on by Trion World Network, who…
There have been many jokes made in the entertainment media about Tiger Woods‘ love life, but not so many about Tiger Woods’ video game franchises. So thank you, The Soup’s Joel McHale, for rectifying the situation.
In the two years since we last saw a figure from PlayStation 2 RPG Shining Wind, things have taken a turn for the worse for lovers of fully-clothed video game heroines. This figure, again from the Japanese master craftsmen at Kotobukiya, is of the Forest Goddess Elwyn. It’ll be out in April, and will cost…
So 2K Boston have reverted to their original name, Irrational Games. Good news for nostalgic PC fans. But what of the fate of the “other half” of Irrational, 2K Australia? After all, the Canberra-based developers were once Irrational’s second studio, shared the same name (before being renamed “2K Australia”), and worked alongside Ken Levine’s Boston…
We like this, Ubisoft. Instead of putting together a boring press release, or another unbearable developer diary, the latest Splinter Cell: Conviction reveal came in the form of a screenshot and…an excited little note? coop mode split screen confirmed! Is what the note said, with the screenshot showing, well, the fact the game has split-screen…
In terms of the number of people fired from their jobs, 2009 was one of the worst years in the history of the video game business. But just how many people were given the boot? A study by research firm M2 Research has estimated that 11,488 video game industry professionals were laid off from late…
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