Sony Japan just announced a couple of new PSP bundles, which combine the latest model of the handheld with a copy of Monster Hunter. Specifically, it’s a copy of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, and the PSP is one of the newer PSP-3000 units (sorry, too early for the PSPgo). The bundle will be offered…
It’s the little Xbox Live Arcade game that could. Despite a rocky launch, The Behemoth‘s delightful brawler Castle Crashers has just seen its millionth player log a score on the game’s leaderboard. For a game released by such a small team, that’s a tremendous achievement. Course, when you factor in people who bought the game…
Surprise, Empire: Total War players! Not only did you receive a major update today, but Sega also slipped some paid DLC out the door as well, with 14 all-new units available for $3.50. These units are, unlike the 14 visual tweaks contained in the update, brand new units. And they’re premium units too, the cream…
Lots of sites and magazines will tell you what they thought the best stuff at E3 was. Heck, we did! But only one set of awards are the result of the biggest outlets joining forces. And those are the Game Critics Awards. Voted on by editors from 29 publications, ranging from IGN to GameStop to…
Perhaps because they couldn’t be bothered, perhaps because they were becoming a joke, we don’t know. But The NPD Group have announced that they will no longer be releasing weekly PC sales charts. We’ll still get the monthly listings, but the weekly charts are no more. Leaving us with only the Steam and Direct2Drive charts…
Proof that in a world as big as Grand Theft Auto IV’s you can play it for months and never see all the game has to offer: apparently there’s a “recipe” for the production of methamphetamines hidden somewhere in the game. I’ve got no idea where, exactly, but it’s been revealed that during a playthrough…
Prior to the retail release of The Sims 3, the game leaked onto popular torrent sites. Hundreds of thousands of people then illegally downloaded the game. Which you’d think would make publishers EA really cranky. But it doesn’t. Not really cranky, anyway. EA boss John Riccitiello can see the positives in the piracy, and –…
Us, we’d like to see more Kane. And more Tim Curry. Still, EA would like to know what all of you would like to see in the next – and possibly final – Command & Conquer game. To that effect, a survey has been doing the rounds, listing several planned features for the title, and…
Over the weekend, a retail listing seemed to indicate Mass Effect would be getting some new downloadable content in the near future. Today, a BioWare announcement has confirmed it. Sadly, it’s only confirmed that an announcement on it will be here by Friday, and says nothing about what it actually is. Sounds like the weekend…
Product renders and marketing shots are one thing. It’s another thing entirely to look at a consumer electronics product in the flesh. So let’s look at the new Nintendo Wii and Wii Remote colours! Both the black Wii (and its associated peripherals) and the blue Wii Remote (currently a Japan-only Club Nintendo contest prize) were…
Some new screenshots of Modern Warfare 2 have been released. Most of the action seems to centre around the demo video we saw at E3, but there’s new stuff in there, including some hot skidoo action. The screenshots, over on Eurogamer Portugal, seem to be from a recent round of hands-on sessions for the European…
For the week ending June 20, The Sims 3 remained atop the British sales charts. No surprises there. But at #4? There’s something interesting. Ghostbusters. On PS3. It’s interesting because when a multiplatform game launches in the UK, the 360 version anecdotally charts around at number 2-4, while the PS3 version charts 6-10. If the…
Ah, the mighty Goro! Four arms, cheap moves, broken hearts. Ever wonder what he looks like in real-life? Wonder no more. While the rest of Mortal Kombat’s cast of in-game characters were digitised actors, Goro obviously wasn’t. He was, instead, a stop-motion miniature, whose moves were recorded on the 1990’s most cutting-edge recording equipment: a…
This looks like a screengrab from Halo 3’s Valhalla multiplayer map. But it’s not. It is, if you take a closer look, actually a fully-functional PC desktop. The radar monitors your outside temperature. The player indicators are links. The grenade icons launch programs. The ammo counters in the top-right show your unread emails and rss…
In Soviet Russia…they had video games. Not particularly special ones, mind you, but they had them. And those dusty old machines now have pride of place in a new museum in the Russian capital, Moscow. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (the Soviet ethic lives on in the place’s name, then) is home to versions…
Here’s a pleasant change from seeing your average celebrity gushing over a video game: seeing a celebrity troll on the Wii. Seems that while Shia LaBeouf – the star/destroyer of both the Transformers and Indiana Jones franchises – is a big-time gamer, he’s only a big-time gamer on the 360 and PS3. Which he seems…
But in a good way. See, my biggest criticism of PlayStation Home is that it’s sterile. Boring. But this Saturday night, that sterility will be temporarily relieved. By this…dance-off…thing. Apparently it’s a dance-off between humans and hamsters. Presumably with lots of grinding. And with a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man somehow involved. It’s all a little…
Ever since World of Warcraft launched, subsequent MMOs usually (EVE aside) go a little something like this: they launch, they do OK, then numbers slide, then they disappear. Not so for Lord of the Rings Online. Maybe because it’s based on Lord of the Rings, maybe because it’s actually good, we don’t know, but we…
The future of games distribution is digital. Whether that’s in 5 or 15 years’ time, that’s what’s going to happen. Your grandkids won’t be buying games in boxes. But don’t tell GameStop that! The retailer has said that an “addressable market” for the digital download of games – as in, one that needs addressing by…
While the campaigns that shipped with Left 4 Dead were all pretty good, you do get sick of them after a while. Which is where custom, user-generated campaigns come in. Next week, Valve will be updating Left 4 Dead so that these custom missions – like the Resident Evil 3 mod we showed you earlier…
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