By James White, as seen on Offworld
This Mother’s Day, I bought my mum a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Training. I wasn’t the only one. But what about Father’s Day? Dad’s not going to be impressed with something constantly reminding him how old he is. Nintendo and Level 5 to the rescue, then. This bundle, timed to coincide with…
If you took advantage of the crazy $1 Peggle sale that took place last week, congratulations. You’re not just the proud owner of one of the best casual games around. You were also part of an experiment. See, dropping the game’s price to $1 can be seen as part-experiment, part-protest on the part of developers…
Welcome to Toybox! We’ve decided to centralise most of our toy/action figure/adult collectible news into a single feature, which we’ll be running every week or two. This week, we’ve got Kingdom Hearts, a stunning custom Metroid statue and a Halo Mongoose. Halo Mongoose Due out in October, the Mongoose is built to accommodate McFarlane’s line…
While we’ve seen the month’s ten best-selling games overall, it can often be more interesting to break down game sales by platform, and see what the ten best-selling games were for each system. The NPD Group have today released that data to industry news site Gamasutra, and it shows tow key points. One, that multiplatform…
Seeing as The Sims 2 was still all over the PC sales charts, it should surprise none of you to find that the release of The Sims 3 sees the game dominating two of the three major PC listings. It’s only the Steam charts holding out against the gibberish-speaking virtual humans, and only then because…
You may have heard. Capcom’s Bionic Commando revamp has tanked, and tanked in a big way, selling only 27,000 units during the month of May. Which begs the question: why? After all, the same developers (Grin) released a Bionic Commando game last year that lacked the advertising, budget and horsepower of the “main” title, yet…
That button may look like a joke, an elaborate piece of stock art, or something out of Ghostbusters, but it’s not. It’s the emergency shutdown button located in a Microsoft server facility in Quincy, Washington. There’s a fascinating article over on the NY Times’ website about server warehouses, with the author taking a trip to…
Valve today released an update to theIR Source SDK, and included within were the source files for most of Team Fortress 2‘s original maps. Translation? It’s now a lot easier to edit Team Fortress 2 maps. Rather than forcing you to build your own map from scratch, which can be tricky, this update now lets…
Poor ol’ Prototype. You’d think June would be a good month to launch a solid piece of new IP and, with Activision’s backing, see it take the top spot. Thing is, The Sims 3 was released this month, and retains its #1 position ahead of the hoodie-clawing simulator. Something it’ll probably do for a few…
There were two big surprises to be found with Mario Galaxy: firstly, that it had a substantive story, and secondly, that the story was good. Pity, then, the sequel won’t be doing anything of the sort. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has said that, despite the love fans had for the first game’s plot (centred around…
We’ve heard how the PS3’s Cell processor can be used for not just games, but other things like cancer research. But prison breaks? That, we hadn’t heard. Until now. Apparently inmates at Rye Hill prison, near Rugby in the United Kingdom, had been “found to be using the consoles’ built-in wireless connections to chat to…
The original Operation Flashpoint did a good job of making you feel like you were part of not just a mission, but a war. ArmA II, from the same developers, looks set to do an incredible job. Those aren’t scripted sequences. Or cutscenes. Or background objects. That battle going on involves hundreds and hundreds of…
Square Enix have finally solved the age old question of “ass or crotch” with their Shiva design for Final Fantasy XIII. The answer? Give ’em both. While I’ve seen this thing in action before, most you haven’t. So take a look at these, showing Shiva in her Gestalt mode. The core design itself, in the…
While the rest of the world suffers under the tyranny of a single Wii colour, Japan has choices! First a black Wii & Wii Remote, and now a blue Wii Remote & Nunchuk. But wait! There’s a catch! The special coloured controllers are being offered as part of a Club Nintendo deal for Wii Sports…
There once was a time that Black Sabbath legend Ronnie James Dio was included amongst the list of guest stars appearing in Brutal Legend. That time has passed. But don’t worry. You should see who’s replacing him. While no official reason was given for the move, it may have something to do with this lawsuit,…
Last week, Microsoft’s Shane Kim told us that the launch of the 360’s motion-controlled camera system – Project Natal – would be as big as a console launch. Maybe he was onto something with that. Because 1UP are reporting a rumour that while Natal will be released next year for existing 360 consoles, it will…
Pokemon’s beauty lies in its simplicity. Much like other Nintendo RPGs. Pixels upon pixels, building a world that’s like a digital LEGO land come to life. Here’s Pokemon disassembled, pixel by pixel. Wonderful, isn’t it? One shot: Pokemon , pixel by pixel [Offworld]
The App Store is probably the single best thing about the iPhone. All those useful things collected in one spot where they’re easily accessible? Handy. Might Sony, then, be looking to open an App Store of their own? “Sources close to game development” have told Destructoid that Sony will be unveiling just that at this…
They say there are only two constants in life: death and taxes. Uh, no. There’s three. Death, taxes and Madden. So for all the pigskin fans in the house, here’s a ton of Madden 10 screens.
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