Back in 2002, Nintendo were busted by the European Union for price-fixing. Their punishment was a €149 million (USD$200 million) fine, which is still one of the biggest penalties ever handed out by the EU. But for being such co-operative so-and-sos with the whole thing, a judge has reduced the company’s fines to “only” €119…
What go around. Come around. Despite Namco Bandai yanking development of Splatterhouse from developers Bottlerocket, the publisher has now hired many of those same developers to finish the game off. Guess Namco’s problem was indeed, as we suggested, with the “upper management” at Bottlerocket, and not the developers themselves. According to The Cut Scene, Namco…
You may know Lily Tomlin as the hard-faced mother from Nashville, or as that woman in Big Business who wasn’t Bette Middler. But today, meet the real Lily Tomlin: a Pac-Man fiend. [via GayGamer]
The story of Midway’s recent woes makes for grim reading if you read every story individually. But if you combine them into a single narrative and emphasise the characters, well, you’ve got a soap opera! Kris Graft over at Gamasutra has done just that, weaving the whole sorry tale into a drama starring “the old…
According to “sources close to the game”, the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum has been pushed back from its planned June release date to sometime later in the year. Speaking with Game Informer, the sources reckon the game will instead ship in the “fourth quarter of 2009”. Apparently neither of the game’s co-publishers, Eidos or Warner…
Hrm, don’t think so. I mean, first Lemmy, and now this? In one day? We’re into it. Heck, even the movie voice-over guy is into it.
A World of Warcraft subscriber has accidentally been given a powerful in-game item normally reserved for internal testing. And what’d he do with it? Why, he used it. Yes, instead of doing the right thing and returning the item (“Martin Fury”, an in-game shirt), he kept it and went out on a bit of a…
LittleBigPlanet developers Media Molecule must have a lot of knitted Sackboy plushies lying around the office, because they’ve just announced a deal where anyone living in Britain can get one for free. Yes, if your postal address is anywhere in the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, all…
Valve have implemented a great new feature within Left 4 Dead that, courtesy of Steam’s obsession with cataloguing data, is able to track and display your game stats. This new stats page can track you performance (kills, deaths, survival time, etc) over time, and show stuff like how often you use each weapon and play…
According to several sources, The Cut Scene is reporting that Sony are set to unveil a new motion-sensing controller, perhaps as soon as E3 next month. The controller – which reportedly uses “small LEDs” and a “small webcam” to track the players’ movement – is apparently similar in function to the Wii Remote, though because…
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developers GSC Game World have officially announced that they’re working on “Call of Pripyat”, the 2007 open-world shooter’s second standalone expansion. Due for release on PC this fall/autumn, CoP is set directly after the events of the main game, and tells the story of an attempted military takeover of the region. New features include…
File this under “insightful”: EA Sports boss and part-time tattoo aficionado Peter Moore has told Eurogamer that his brand is under-performing on Nintendo’s dominant home console. I think we need to continue to work on the Wii. When I look at the attach rate on the Wii of our software to where I think we…
Tucked away within Ubisoft’s financial results announcements from yesterday was news that Tom Clancy‘s H.A.W.X. had moved a million copies worldwide since launch last month. For what amounts to little more than a modern-day Rogue Squadron clone, which was lacking in even the backhanded militaristic charm of other Clancy games, that’s an impressive feat! Guess…
Introversion’s Chris Delay has – in a continuation of the company’s earlier decision to “tell all” about their recent operational dealings – posted an account of the company’s recent woes. In a candid piece, which describes 2008 as “a truly terrible year”, Delay opens up about a succession of mistakes the company have made, a…
“G-Man’s Last Breath” is a song by Jonathan Lewis, who it appears is as big a fan of the Half-Life universe as he is overblown rock epics. The resulting track is a tale of intrigue, drama and rock, as Lewis explores the mysteries of fatherhood, “Uncle Breen” and the ultimate nature of the relationship between…
I’ll be honest, while I liked Dawn of War II, I can’t even remember the game’s score. Never mind. I’ll refresh my memory by downloading the soundtrack for free. If you head to the game’s store page on Steam, you can pick up a copy of the entire soundtrack, which aside from having a lovely…
Just like you can’t kill a real superhero, it seems you can’t kill a City of Heroes character either, as it’s been announced that all the game’s expired accounts are being brought back online. This applies to both retail and trial versions of the game, and has already taken place, so if you’ve ever had…
Activision may be able to throw their fat rolls of cash at bands like Metallica and Aerosmith, but there’s one man who was approached by the company and turned them down: Prince. Yes, the man who is perhaps the greatest living American says in an interview with Tavis Smiley that Activision once approached him over…
Game Developer magazine have released the results of their patented “Game Developer Salary Survey”, which gives us an insight into just how much the average games developer gets paid. And the findings reveal that, provided a dev still has a job, most positions in the field pay quite handsomely. According to the survey, the average…
Being a Nintendo product, the DSi is big on shielding children from the evils of the world, perceived or otherwise. And the DSi is no different, shipping with an internet filtering program. But how’s it work? Built into the machine’s browser, it’s been developed by Astaro, a company that specialises in web security. Using “cloud-based…
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