Activision have announced the full, final tracklist for the upcoming Guitar Hero re-release, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. Let us all find out which songs from the previous Guitar Hero game made the cut. The 48 songs have been culled from older, guitar-only Guitar Hero games, which have been reworked to make them playable using all…
While it’s easy to think that – through the wonders of subtitles and the Wii Remote – making games accessible to the disabled is a recent trend, it’s not. It’s as old as the hills. This is the Hands Free, a controller setup manufactured by Nintendo for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It consists of…
Yesterday, Ghostbusters was being published by Atari, and was due to be released across PS3, 360, PS2, Wii and DS. Today, in a strange move, that’s no longer the case. Sony have swooped in late and signed a new publishing deal, whereby the PS3 and PS2 versions of the game will be released in PAL…
This picture of Manhattan, by graphic designers Jack Schulze and Matt Webb, shows what the island would look like rolled up over the horizon. Looks familiar, doesn’t it? That’s because the work, called “Here & There”, was partly inspired by Halo (which, it must be noted, was in turn influenced by the work of Larry…
Remember that Mother 3 handbook we told you about? My copy just arrived in the mail. And I’m lost for words. Presented as, basically, a strategy guide for the cult Nintendo title (which has never been released in the West), were this from Prima or BradyGames you’d be shocked by the quality and attention to…
It’s testament to the longevity of Civilization IV that, four years on from release, not only am I still playing it, but that 2K can repackage the game safe in the knowledge it will sell. The publisher has announced today the impending release of Civilization IV: Complete Edition, which will be out next week and…
Late last year, Ultima creator Richard Garriott split from NCsoft, the developers and publishers behind his latest game, Tabula Rasa. Sounds like the split wasn’t exactly amicable. While at the time it sounded like Garriott had – fresh from his trip into space – simply walked away for a new challenge outside of games development,…
Unlike certain other big-name gaming franchises, it looks like a Gears of War movie may actually get made. So how’s it shaping up? Screenwriter Chris Morgan has an update. Speaking with MTV, the Wanted and Fast & Furious writer says that a first draft of the screenplay is in, and that consequently the studio (New…
We’ve heard today that, as part of Microsoft’s already-announced round of 5000 job cuts, up to 75% of the workforce at Microsoft’s in-game advertising service, Massive, have been laid off. With advertising down across the board thanks to the economic slowdown – and with the opportunities presented by in-game advertising perhaps not as great as…
As part of the big Dawn of War II update announced last week, Relic will be releasing two new maps for the game. This is what they look like. Both maps are built for the game’s new 2v2 multiplayer mode, and while there’s nothing terribly new about them (they’re both built using Calderis assets, so…
A recent competition tasked the members of the Game Artist Forums with creating scenes from famous movies using Unreal Engine 3.0 and CryEngine 2. The results are dreamy. There were entries covering everything from Hellboy to Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, but the best are those we’ve selected below, with locations modelled from Blade…
To: Mike From: Luke Re: Where In Greater Los Angeles Is Brian Crecente? Thanks, Mike. Woke up this morning intending to do a full day’s work, not mash my F5 key into dust. Anyway, here’s what you missed while scouring the city looking for stray Crecentes in fetching red fedoras: I’M A MULLET! I’M A…
As we’ve pointed out with numbers, few Japanese publishers are as tardy with their European releases as Square Enix. So how’s the Final Fantasy XIII localisation coming along, then? In a statement that’s not exactly encouraging for European fans, Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase has told Videogamer: Obviously we would like to release [in Europe] as…
Console modder Ben Heckendorn has made quite a name for himself chopping machines apart and making them smaller, sleeker, more portable. Now you can do as he does. To help him sell his book “Hacking Videogame Consoles”, Heckendorn has posted on his website a series of design documents and shopping lists for some of his…
Seems that Fallout 3’s latest piece of trouble-plagued downloadable content, Broken Steel, has launched broken. Least, it is on PC. Shocking, I know. A ton of people keen enough to install the game as soon as it went live this morning have been met with the following message: Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic…
Somehow a fresh, unopened copy of Earthbound turned up on eBay the other day. Bidding was fierce. And at the auction’s closing bell, the winner had parted with, oh, over $1000. To be exact, the final amount was $1,025.01. For an unopened, store-bought copy of the 1995 classic, is that a steal? We’d say no,…
You know, back in the day, playing Blood Gulch for the millionth time on the original Xbox, I often wondered: why can’t there be a map in here that recreates Ocarina’s Hyrule? [via Go Nintendo]
It’s been announced overnight that Activision Blizzard‘s chairman, who is due to retire later this year, is to be replaced by the Chief Executive of partners Vivendi. The mega-publishers’s current chairman – Rene Penisson – will be stepping down because his “mandate expires this year”. His replacement, Jean-Bernard Levy, has been with Vivendi since 2002,…
Former “rapper” now “multimedia personality” Curtis James Jackson III has already been the star of two video games. But he wants to be involved in more! Just, not ones where he’s the star. Speaking with MTV, Fiddy says that he’s already had talks with publisher THQ about the possibility of some day being “a part…
Madden is…serious, kinda, but EA Sports’ other tentpole sports game, FIFA, is really serious. Take the game’s “World Cup”, which saw an amazing 500,000 gamers enter for $20,000 cash and a new car. Yup. 500,000. Emerging victorious at the top of that mountain of broken dreams was 22 year-old Frenchman Bruce Grannec, who beat Mexico’s…
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