Just like the iPhone and iPod Touch, which are becoming increasingly games-focused as they mature, so too is Apple’s next “big thing” – rumoured to be a tablet computer – getting into games in a big way. According to Barron’s, who cite an analyst that’s claiming to have already touched the device, the Apple Tablet…
Back at GDC in 2006, Lucasarts showed off some footage of a “next-gen” Indiana Jones game. It looked great! Fast forward three years, however, and all we ended up with was Staff of Kings on Wii. Great. No, Lucasarts! We wanted the 360/PS3 version, the one with the Euphoria animation technology and the ability to…
A few years out from the release of Rock Band we’re still a bit confused as to what instruments work with which music game. Same goes for Guitar Hero. Fortunately, there’s now this official chart to help us out. We say “official” because it comes straight from the top: Harmonix themselves have put it together…
Not content with releasing a software development kit for Team Fortress 2’s maps and environments, Valve will soon be releasing the SDK for the game’s character models and animations as well. What does this mean? It means modders have access to some of gaming’s finest characters and can alter their appearance and movements as they…
Namco Bandai today released their Q1 2010 earnings report. And buried amidst the boring money stuff (net sales are down 15.8%) is something a little more interesting: game sales data. Listed were the publisher’s top five-selling games for the quarter ending June 30, 2009 (as in, only those sold during that three-month period, not lifetime…
There are some people who modify their own consoles so they can play imported games. That’s fine. There are others, however, who do so for reasons of piracy and commercial gain. Those people are not fine. 27 year-old Matthew Crippen, who is a student at California State University, sounds like he might (might!) be one…
According to Taiwan’s DigiTimes, Sony have recently “placed significant orders for key Sony PS3 components” from local manufacturers, waaaaay above the quantities they normally source. Interesting. They say it’s enough parts to produce one million PS3 consoles in the third quarter of 2009, which is apparently twice as many as were manufactured last quarter. DigiTimes’…
The people have spoken. Spoken angrily. And Sony have listened, removing the worst of the in-game advertising from WipeOut HD only 24 hours after it was first officially announced. “The ad has been removed from WipEout HD”, a Sony rep told Eurogamer, “and we are investigating the situation to ensure that any in-game advertising does…
Media Molecule, we fully endorse this continued move away from game characters and national holidays towards making LBP content a little more unique. A little more interesting. Case in point: this "history kit". It combines “objects, decorations, music, sounds, materials and 140 (zomg!) stickers” from a number of historical styles/civilizations, including Roman, Egyptian, Arabic, Oriental,…
Mekishiko916 likes Street Fighter, and is handy with circuits and a soldering iron. Combining those two, he’s come up with these amazing hand-made arcade sticks that aren’t just heavy-duty, they’re wireless as well. Being a patriot, he eschews Japanese components in favour of American HAPP parts (though you can ask for Seimetsu/Sanwa parts if you’re…
Last year, Leipzig was host to Europe’s premier games industry expo, which attracted over 200,000 people. This year? Leipzig’s Games Convention Online could only attract 43,000 punters. Why the decline? Well, it’s all in the name. Last year’s Leipzig Games Convention was a showcase for all things gaming, from consoles to handhelds to the PC.…
Persona has one of the most unique core mechanics in all of gaming. But the series’ finer points may be lost on newcomers, or those ignorant of its enduring appeal. For those people, then, there is this comic. Artist and Persona fan Hiimdaisy has penned this amazing, loooooong comic that does a great job of…
When you don’t hear about a game for months, you start to presume the worst. Like, that it’s been cancelled. We haven’t heard about This is Vegas for months, so has it been cancelled? Surprisingly, no, it has not. Despite being caught up in the implosion of Midway (the game’s former developer/publisher) and its own…
Times are tough, and money is tight. Who has $50-60 to spend on new games? Not as many people as there used to be, that’s for sure. Now $30, that’s more like it. Which brings us to the two latest titles in Sony’s Greatest Hits range for the PS3, Saints Row 2 and WWE Smackdown…
I’m a casual TF2 player. So the recent “random drop” system of awarding rare items was great for me! For high-end players, though, it wasn’t so great, and they got upset. If only Valve had seen that coming! In the future, hopefully they will, with the creation of a new “closed beta” for the game.…
Those Germans know a thing or two about upcoming game releases, because no sooner do the USK display a listing for a PSN version of Braid than we get official confirmation of the game’s PS3 debut. The confirmation comes courtesy of a representative from publisher Hothead Games, who told IGN that the game is indeed…
Here’s what last week’s British sales charts look like: Nintendo, Nintendo, EA, EA, Nintendo, Nintendo, EA, EA, EA, Nintendo. That’s what it says in the “publisher” field next to the top ten games in the UK last week. Nintendo and EA. You have to get to #12 to find a game not published by one…
You may think, by looking at the state of most of them, that making a video game cover is easy. It’s not! It’s hard, hard work, and is a process that results in a lot of unused artwork. Something Fluidesign, who did some work for Sega designing the box art for House of the Dead:…
Vicarious Visions, developers of the Wii version of Guitar Hero, have some good news for Nintendo’s long-suffering online gamers: Guitar Hero 5 won’t be using Friend Codes. Nope! Not at all. Instead, it’ll tap right into your Wii address book and share those contacts, cutting out a lot of frustrating data entry. Of course, that’ll…
Fat Princess is great fun, but also – at least at the moment – a pain to play over the PSN, courtesy of some choppy online performance. Developers Titan Studios hear your pain, however, and promise a fix is on the way. The cause of the issue is the game’s matchmaking, which is accidentally pairing…
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