Luke Plunkett

Xbox Live To Span Mobiles, Web “And Beyond”

Got a long memory? Long enough to remember Xbox’s “Live Anywhere” concept? Then you may be shocked to find Microsoft are still hiring people to go implement it. A Microsoft job posting, noticed by Ars Technica, is looking for a “LIVE Community Director”, who would be asked to… …manage [Microsoft’s] LIVE community strategy and execution…

The Wii Will Soon Play DLC Straight Off A 32GB SD Card (Who Needs A HDD?)

Who needs a HDD? Not Wii owners, that’s for sure, with news today that – beginning with Guitar Hero 5 – Nintendo will begin allowing proper, retail games (not just VC) to stream data from a high capacity memory card. This means that if you want to download in-game content – like songs for Guitar…

EA Trademarks Populous, Road Rash & *Squeal* Wing Commander

EA recently filed brand new trademarks for some real old stuff. Classic stuff, some from EA, some from older studios that EA gobbled up. Think Bullfrog. And, more excitingly, Origin. superannuation picked up four trademarks in all, for the following titles: Populous, Theme Park, Road Rash & Wing Commander. Populous and Theme Park are interesting,…

Might Want To Wash That 360 Once You Get It Home

Taken from the “storage area” of a reader’s local GameStop.

FIFA 10 Delayed A Few Weeks [Update]

EA Sports have announced that the North American release date for FIFA 10 has been kicked back a few weeks, from October 2 all the way back to October 20. The date pushes it perilously close to the release date for the series’ arch-rival, Pro Evo 2010, which will be out in North America on…

360 Update Brings Star Wars, BioShock Avatar Outfits

While drumming up support for the new 360 avatar marketplace, Microsoft showed off how your little guy could dress up as a character from Gears of War, or Monkey Island. Turns out those were just the tip of the iceberg. Now that the marketplace is live, we can see that there are clothing options available…

Pencils Out For This Street Fighter IV Concept Art

With the game now out, there’s not as much work for the Street Fighter IV dev team to do over on the game’s official blog. So they’ve decided to start posting some concept art instead. Proper concept art, too, with pencils and sketchbooks and everything. Very nice stuff. Wish more developers did this, instead of…

Microsoft: Halo Movie Still “On Hold”

There was an enjoyable rumour posted over the weekend that a Mr. Steven Spielberg was currently in talks to produce the Halo movie. A movie Microsoft will only say is “on hold”. Responding to questions we had over the Spielberg rumour (and indeed the future of the movie itself), a Microsoft spokesperson told Kotaku: We’re…

EA Looking At Classic Bullfrog Titles, Though Not For “Remakes”

Some of you may be too young to remember this, but back in the mid-90’s, Bullfrog were kings. Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Syndicate…everything Peter Molyneux‘s former studio released turned to gold. But then Bullfrog were sold to EA. And Molyneux went off and formed Lionhead. And…all people were left with was an innate desire to…

People Buying Less, But Playing More (Wii Excepted)

Times are tough. 2009’s gaming lineup isn’t as strong as 2007’s, or 2008’s. So people aren’t buying as many consoles as they used to. But those that already have one, well, they’re playing the crap out of them. Researchers Nielsen have conducted their latest study on people’s gaming habits, and have found that compared to…

DSi Selling Faster Than DS, Faster Than DS Lite, Faster Than Wii

Because it’s still “just” a DS, there doesn’t seem to be as much buzz over the DSi as there was the last DS handheld revision, the DS Lite. Just because there’s no buzz, however, doesn’t mean the thing’s not selling. As we’ve told you the third iteration of the DS has already sold 6.86 million…

Microsoft Responds To Crazy Games On Demand Pricing

Microsoft’s Games on Demand pricing isn’t exactly consistent across this orbiting ball of dirt we all call home. What costs $20 in one place costs $40 (or sometimes more) in another. So we asked Microsoft, why the discrepancy? Microsoft HQ said the pricing decisions outside the US were the responsibility of that particular territory. So,…

Least We Know 2K Boston Aren’t Working On A Wii Party Game

Normally, we wouldn’t care so deeply about merely the genre a developer was working on, but since the developer in question is 2K Boston – the team behind BioShock – yeah, we care. Because rumour has it – and has had it for a while now – that Ken Levine and crew are working on…

Bionic Commando Developers GRIN In Big, Big Trouble

Poor GRIN. For a little while there, people were excited with the games the Swedish devs were putting out! Then they went and released some awful, awful games. And now they’re on the brink of oblivion. In the wake of a round of layoffs earlier this year, it’s now being reported that the company have…

Nintendo’s Shameful, Inflatable Horse-Riding Wii Controller

Read that headline one more time. Then look at this picture. And prepare yourself for the eventuality that no, this is not a joke, meaning yes, Nintendo actually patented an inflatable horse-riding peripheral for the Wii. It’s a small, inflatable cushion with a dock for the Wii Remote. So that when you rock/bounce the horse,…

British Sales Charts: 1-1, Baby

The #1 game in the UK last week was a Nintendo title. No surprises there. But numbers two through four were not. Nor were they EA games, or even Activision titles. They were Codemasters games. Codemasters! With England in the grip of Ashes fever, Codies’ Ashes 2009 has sold like British hotcakes (hot scones?!), with…

Iwata Explains The Pitch For An Early Wii Vitality Sensor “Game”

You’ve had your laughs at the Wii Vitality Sensor, at least in part thanks to Nintendo’s utter inability to explain what the thing is actually for. Well, during a Q&A with analysts, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata has shed a little light. The concept for the sensor came about a few years back, around the same time…

Gran Turismo Car vs Real Car

While we can debate the merits of Gran Turismo as a game til the cows come home, nobody is going to argue against the fact it’s an excellent reference/shrine for car lovers. But just how good are Polyphony’s artists? Fansite GTPlanet has noticed that a recent batch of rendered art for the PSP version of…

Konami Re-Issuing Classic PS2 Titles (Metal Gear, ZOE, etc)

With no announcement and no fanfare, Konami Europe have begun slipping brand new copies of some of the company’s finest PS2 games back onto shelves in the United Kingdom “We’ve manufactured certain amounts depending on the title,” a Konami spokesperson has told Eurogamer, “and they’re being bought by wholesalers so will likely pop up in…

Six Days In Fallujah Devs Closing Down

When Konami said nothankyou to its publishing deal for controversial title Six Days In Fallujah, it placed not just the future of the game, but future of the game’s develpment studio – Atomic Games – in jeopardy. With no publisher support for the game, Atomic were always going to be facing an uphill battle to…