The good news: Battlefield 1943 is out, giving console owners a chance to blow each other up under blue skies and palm trees. The bad news: for a ton of people, it’s just not working. We’ve been hearing all day from readers who bought the game, fired it up, and couldn’t play it. At all.…
Microsoft are 100% behind the idea of allowing users to download full, retail copies of Xbox 360 games. But the PS3? Hmmm. Despite the fact Sony essentially pioneered the idea on home consoles, with games like Warhawk, GT5 Prologue and Siren (and EA’s Burnout Paradise) already available for download, when it comes to adopting the…
While Microsoft have seen fit to completely overhaul their console’s front end, Sony say that they’ll be nothing of the sort with the PS3. At least, not anytime soon. Chatting with PCWorld, Sony’s Eric Lempel has said: What we find is that people really like our current interface. We did redesign the PlayStation Store last…
Just in case you’ve ever wondered “what would Portal look like if it had been released in the early 80s”, now, courtesy of Joe Larson, you can find out. Click to view ASCIIpOrtal Update 2 ASCIIpOrtal update video 2 [ASCII Portal, via Offworld]
Cave Story seems to be getting bigger and bigger the closer it gets to a WiiWare release. Take, for example, these new t-shirts, due to go on sale later this year on Attractmode’s online store. The four shirts are pretty hit and miss, but man, that Balrog shirt is a hit. Apparently these are still…
Square Enix‘s takeover of British publisher Eidos wasn’t going to stop at just ownership. It’s running all the way through to publisher names, with “Eidos” given the chop in favour of the more ominous “Square Enix Europe”. So the name “Eidos”, which has long been associated with brands like Tomb Raider and Hitman, will no…
Milo sends us these snaps of his Left 4 Dead sackboys, and we are now passing them on to you. So…we’ve got reader-made crafts, Left 4 Dead and LittleBigPlanet all in one place? Yeah, this is good stuff. You can see more pics at Milo’s page here.
Sony have announced today that, later this year, the Japanese PlayStation Store will begin offering comics, which can be downloaded by PSP owners. There’s no word yet on a firm release date, or a price, or on which comics/manga will lead the charge, just a brief mention that they’ll be compatible with all models of…
Few weeks back, Activision boss Bobby Kotick had some strong words to say about the price of the PS3. Today, Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer has some strong words for people bugging him about a PS3 price cut. Responding to Kotick’s threats that Activision may “stop supporting” Sony consoles, Stringer says “He likes to make…
Here’s a new trailer for Bioware’s Old Republic, telling the tale of the Mandalorians. You know, those guys Boba Fett dresses up like.
Some people probably used the 360’s avatar creator when they first got hold of the New Xbox Experience, and that was that. One use only. But other people use it a bit more often. Xbox Australia have recently begun displaying their own localised version of the “top 10 games on Live” chart normally seen on…
While the console versions of Bionic Commando fell a little flat, Capcom must be hoping that the PC version – which now has a release date- is able to swing a little higher. Delayed until well after the console releases – a distressing trend we’re seeing more and more this generation – the PC edition…
This morning, a teaser trailer appeared for a mysterious new title. One featuring a giant robot’s…foot. It was heavy, it was clunky, and got many people excited it was for Mechwarrior 5. And hey, it just might be! IGN say that tomorrow morning they’ll be running an interview with a Mr. Jordan Weisman, who will…
Music inspired directly by video games tends to be fairly limited in scope. Chiptunes, hip-hop, some electronica, and the odd piece of folk. Sludgefeast are none of those things. They are instead a good, old-fashioned rock band. I picked up their album “Virtua Rock” a few weeks back in a second-hand record store purely because…
The iPhone (and iPod Touch) are selling like hot scones! And they play games! Problem being, unlike the PSP and DS, there’s very little in the way of quality control on Apple’s platform. So we get a lot of games. You could even say we get too many games, because it’s been revealed that there…
While there were giant bugs in the first Lost Planet, all I remember are snowstorms and robot suits. Looking at these new screens of Lost Planet 2, it’s OK, Capcom, I get it: in the sequel, there are giant bugs.
Eurogamer’s Spanish outpost reckon they’re in possession of some specs for an all-new PlayStation Portable, currently in the planning stages at Sony HQ. This isn’t the PSPgo. It’s a true successor to the PSP. They claim that the new handheld could output games on the same level as the original Xbox, and is built around…
From what we’ve seen of Katamari Forever, it’s looking good! But from what we’ve heard, it’s also sounding good, courtesy of its remixed soundtrack. As someone who owns the soundtracks to the first two games, I’ll be taking a good, long look at the soundtrack to this one (known as Katamari Tribute in Japan), which…
We thought WiiSpray – a Wii mod put together by a couple of German design students – was pretty neat. We’re not the only ones, as the judges of the iF Communication Design Awards are equally impressed. Held by German firm International Forum Design, WiiSpray was one of 377 finalists in the prestigious awards, from…
This is Gene Simpkins. Every day is a struggle for Gene, because he is one of only a handful of people in the world suffering from Moto-Nueral Demyelination. Otherwise known as Duke Nukem‘s Disease. [via Bitmob]
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