It’s popped corks and slapped backs at Sony’s London Studio today, with news that the SingStar series has just hit the “20 million sold” mark. The first SingStar was released all the way back in 2004, for the PS2, and the series now spans over seventy releases across fourteen languages. Not bad for a game…
It all began 15 years ago today. On December 3, 1994, Sony released the PlayStation in Japan. The rest, as they say, is history. Yes, it’s hard to remember now, but there once was a time, before WipeOut, before Tomb Raider, before PaRappa, that Sony entering the gaming business didn’t sound like such a sure…
DVD rental firm Redbox are in talks with a number of publishers over the possibility of adding video games to the company’s range of DVD dispensing machines. Redbox boss Mitch Lowe says that he’s holding the talks in an attempt to not only expand the range of products they can offer, but also to try…
EA released today the specs for both upcoming Battlefield games on the PC, namely Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1943. Let’s see how your/my PC shapes up. Both games run on the same engine, so both share the same specs. And those are: Minimum Specs Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz Main memory: 2GB…
For a limited time (ie until lawyers take it down), you can get an app for the iPhone that lets you walk around pretending you’re stuck in a Mario game. It’s called iRwego (un hunh hunh), and is $1 (the $1.19 listed above is for the Australian store). My extensive hands-on impressions follow. Click to…
Proving you can’t keep an ill-conceived MMO down, the Hellgate series is back. And it’s moved on from London. And the English language. And now finds itself in Japan. Speaking Korean. March 2010? Best of luck to you, Hellgate.
Remedy Entertainment released a single screenshot for Alan Wake today. Just the one. Here it is. Alan, torch, darkness…yeah, it’s much like everything else we’ve seen from a game that will see you spending most of your time in the dark, with a torch in your hand. Love the Twitter advertisement, too. It was only…
That Brink video the other day was nice, but there wasn’t much shooting. Not very helpful for a game where you’re meant to be shooting things. So here’s two more. Shooting included. These are from the same demo we saw at E3. Back in June. Was kind of hoping to see something else by December,…
As is customary at this time of year, Google have released their “Zeitgeist” lists for 2009, highlighting the fastest-growing and fastest-falling search trends over the past year. As you’d expect, video games feature. According to the seach giant, here are the ten most popular gaming searches, which as you’ll see, have no bearing whatsoever on…
Hey, it’s not a sequel, but it’s something; EA announced this morning that Mirror’s Edge will be coming to an iPhone near you in January 2010. In making the move to Apple’s handheld, the game is now a side-scroller, though with 3D graphics and the full range of Faith’s moves like slides, runs, wall-runs and…
By day, Richard Hilleman – one of the creators of Madden – works at Electronic Arts as Chief Creative Director. By night, however, he builds environmentally-friendly supercars. Hilleman has worked closely with Capstone Turbine Corporation to design the CMT-380, a “high performance hybrid electric supercar” that runs on a combo of batteries and a “microturbine”.…
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I don’t like the name “Split/Second”. It’s stupid. Stupid like inFamous. You know what would be better? “Jerry Bruckheimer Presents: Burnout”. Not that that’s a bad thing. Explosions and cars look like they’re going to go together just fine. Click to view
The potential was always there. It just took one Rachel Pfeffer to take a step back, examine the nature of fingers and Pac-Man, and realise the bleeding obvious. Once for sale on Rachel’s Etsy site, for $106, this set of Pac-Man rings is of course already sold out by people who can shop faster than…
Here’s Street Fighter Alpha 2, as you’ve never seen it before: with actors (from a Japanese TV show), wires, obsessive attention to detail and an intro song they really needed to vet before letting the whole thing air. [via Capcom]
Before editing the entry earlier today, the resume of Oscar Carlén – senior lighting artist at DICE – included the words “Mirror’s Edge 2”. Of course, since being discovered it’s gone, but previously, it had said that Carlén was currently involved on two projects: Battlefield 3, which we already knew about, and Mirror’s Edge 2.…
These are the closing credits of Bethesda’s Rogue Warrior. And while he’s not technically rapping – they’re soundbytes from the game arranged almost perfectly – the effect is the same: it’s amazing. Completely, and utterly, amazing. [via Giant Bomb]
As a regular player of the game, I’ve had some kind things to say about Battlefield Heroes. As an online game, however, things can change at the drop of a hat. And EA just dropped the hat. The game’s economy, which had always walked the tight-rope between allowing people to play for free/very little and…
When Electronic Arts sacked 1500 employees recently, it also binned a number of titles in production at the studio. Not that they’re done trimming the number of games the company releases. Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit earlier today in New York, EA boss John Riccitiello said that despite plans to reduce the number…
We took a look at Microsoft’s “Avatar Guidelines” today, the company’s set of rules governing how avatars can be displayed in both internal and external (ie, catalogues) marketing programs. And they’re more interesting than you think. Sure, most of it is made up with the kind of stuff only marketing teams and graphic designers need…
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