Yeah, you read that right. 300,000 players. A job listing issued by Microsoft’s says exactly that, indicating that the game will be for the 360 and that it will be in “real-time”. The job is specifically looking for somebody who is “an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an…
It’s pure fantasy. Robots won’t ever actually rise up and go to war with humanity. You know why? Because the robots of the future will be governed by Asimov’s three laws of robotics. For those who don’t know what those are, know that sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov established three basic laws governing the programming of…
Activision’s latest attempt at re-igniting the public’s fascination with the Nazi occult will be put to the test this August, with the release of Raven’s Wolfenstein title for the 360, PS3 and PC. The game will be out on August 4, and while we wish it the best of luck, can’t help but yearn for…
Poor Europe. Americans have long been spoiled with up-to-the-minute PlayStation info straight from the horse’s mouth, in the form of the PlayStation.Blog, while Europeans got…Three Speech. Yuck. Today, that changes! Yes, Three Speech’s final post has been to announce that the PlayStation Europe Blog opens for business today, having first been announced last month. It’s…
UFC 2009 Undisputed is, by all accounts, a pretty great fighting game. Realistic, too. But there’s one thing missing from the game: renowned fighter Clay ‘The Carpenter’ Guida. And his giant hair. Believe it or not, Guida – who has an enormous lion’s mane stuck to his scalp – was apparently left out of the…
Here’s the first footage of Gladiator AD, High Voltage‘s new fighting game for the Wii. Bloody! Let’s just hope the MotionPlus-compatible gameplay is better than their grasp on history in that opening dialogue. More Gladiator A.D. Info
Never mind that BioShock was a game that told its story through broken furniture and level design. Book publishers Tor think you can wring a good novel out of it. Having already made good game-related money with their Halo series, Tor will later this year be releasing a novel based on BioShock, which will “take…
It’s a common complaint from gamers: there are just too damn many games coming out between October and December to give time to them all. But just how many games are there at Christmas? Research firm EEDAR have crunched the numbers and found out. In these graphs – the colourful kind, of course – you…
With Fahey’s life-long crusade nearing its rapturous conclusion, Activision have announced that Stan Bush‘s "The Touch" will be available as a free download for Guitar Hero: World Tour on May 28. That’s today! While I’d have preferred Lion’s rendition of the 1986 film’s theme, or even NRG’s Instruments of Destruction, I know not to look…
It’s not just Japan, North America and Europe that are bonkers for the Nintendo DS. Australia is too, with the local Nintendo outpost announcing today that the console has sold two million units since launch. In doing so, it became the fastest console in the country to ever reach the mark. That figure includes combined…
Been a while since we heard anything about Sony’s upcoming PS3 & PC MMO “The Agency“. But with E3 rapping at our chamber door, Sony have released a new CG trailer. The “not actual gameplay footage” disclaimer is genuinely appreciated! The lack of any genuine charm or humour in those characters, however, is less so.…
Now this, Media Molecule, this is more like it. Taking a break from promoting national holidays and PS3 games with their LittleBigPlanet content, MM will soon be releasing Sackboys based on 2000AD comics. This was teased over the weekend with a Judge Dredd movie poster, but in the intervening days images of several other characters…
While Killzone 2 made most PS3 owners happy, it couldn’t please everyone. Some people, for example, hated the game’s sluggish, “heavy” controls. Never mind the fact these were mostly fixed by adjusting the controller sensitivity in the game’s options menu. That was too hard for some people. So developers Guerilla Games are about to release…
After job advertisements and some exquisite leaked footage prematurely lifted the lid on the game last year, THQ have just officially announced Space Marine, a Warhammer 40K “Action RPG”. A few things to note: while the original material suggested that “THQ Australia” were working on the game, the official announcement says that Dawn of War…
When it launched in 2005, the Xbox 360 was, certain issues aside, a successful product. But it was also drab. Lifeless. Until, in 2008, along came the avatars. First officially unveiled at E3 2008, Microsoft’s Avatars were seen by many as an attempt to cash in on Nintendo’s success with their “Mii” characters, caricatures that…
Moazzam Begg, a British citizen, was arrested in January of 2002 as an alleged terrorist. He was held for three years in Guantanamo Bay, before being released in 2005. Now he’s helping make a game. Begg is acting as a consultant for Scottish developers T-Enterprise, who are currently working on a game called Rendition: Guantanamo…
Speaking with GI.biz, Peter Edward – PlayStation Home’s director – reckons that despite costing a bucket to develop, the priority with Home at the moment is not to make money. It’s to build a community. …our belief is that if you make the community happy, and get good content on to the platform, if you…
Give the Koreans shit about Starcraft all you want, sometimes they come out on top. Example: these Servbot coffee mugs, signed by Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune. They’re some kind of Korea-only promo item, and aside from the highly-coveted Servbot livery (and Inafune autograph), there’s an adorable Mega Man sketch at the base of the…
THQ have just announced “Homefront”, a first-person shooter that tells the story of a United States humbled by total economic collapse, then conquered by North Korea. So not based on a true story, then. Interestingly, the game has been written by John Milius, a Hollywood screenwriter (and total gun nut) who has worked on Dirty…
Later this week, Microsoft is due to host a big press conference in London. What’s on the table? Oh, full integration of satellite television with the Xbox 360. British site Rapid TV News claims that BSkyB (or Sky, as it’s more commonly known), the UK’s biggest pay TV provider, will announce tomorrow a deal linking…
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