People, if you want to impress us with custom action figures, don’t do Metal Gear Solid, or Grand Theft Auto. Do classic Lucasarts adventure games! That’s what Iain Reekie did with these Grim Fandango figures, which are amazing not only for the likeness, but for the fact that he did the entire sculpt. Then again,…
If you were excited by the prospect of Assassin’s Creed appearing on the iPhone, well, good for you. Just a word of advice, though: you might want to scale that excitement back a little. Why? Because the game isn’t a new title, developed with the iPhone in mind to take advantage of the platform’s numerous…
It was a respectable few weeks you had going there, Britain. Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Empire: Total War…pity it couldn’t last, then. Because this week’s charts look a lot more like last year’s dreary procession of fluff than this year’s showcase of genuinely interesting titles. Wii Fit, Mario & Sonic, Wii Play, Mario Kart…and what’s…
For a few months now, Xbox 360 users have been quietly venting about a “new” hardware fault with the console, where instead of displaying three red rings, machines would show an “E74” error. Just because it didn’t flash the iconic red rings, though, doesn’t mean it wasn’t bad! If you got it, your console would…
Hey, Netflix. We get it. If two surveys weren’t enough to get us ready for it, this job listing certainly has us convinced you’re interested in streaming moves from the PS3 and Wii. The position is for a “Engineering Leader-Gaming Platforms”, who will be responsible for “prototyping, testing and building the Netflix experience for gaming…
A new Company of Heroes expansion is out, and it’s doing well on both Direct2Drive’s and Steam’s sales charts. Probably will on the NPD ones, too, when they catch up. But those ones take longer to put together, so until then, you’ll have to look at a retail chart topped by…The Sims 2. And a…
Microsoft took a lot of flak last year for the way they handled some gay-related stuff on Xbox Live. And rightly so. But time heals all wounds, and Microsoft are trying to make amends. In the latest “Major Nelson” podcast, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb and Xbox Live cop-on-the-beat Stephen Toulouse reveal that the company have been…
Last year, 203 attendees at Nvidia’s Nvision ’08 set an official Guinness world record for the world’s longest LAN party, clocking up 36 hours of non-stop gaming. That record has now been broken. Over the weekend, 300 kids at the Cyber Fusion 2009 event in Malaysia set a new mark (a new “official” one, at…
Gearbox. It’s OK. So you changed the art style of Borderlands. It’s well within your rights! You are, after all, the ones making the game. You don’t need to fall over yourselves justifying the decision. Posted on the game’s official forums in response to what they must perceive to be an uproar, a statement attempts…
Hey, parents: if you’re buying a games console from Wal-Mart, do the right thing and check it out first yourself. That way, you’ll avoid what happened to poor little Eliso Tovar. See, Eliso was treated to a late, late Christmas present from his mum last week. She took him to a Wal-Mart in Manatee County,…
Microsoft have boasted that Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Lost & Damned has broken Xbox Live revenue records. But what does that mean for unit sales? The Cut Scene reckon that, according to “a good source”, the add-on has sold “around one million units on Xbox Live”. Microsoft can’t confirm this number, but it…
Despite being one of the founding members of the industry awareness board, it’s been revealed that Activision have now left the PC Gaming Alliance. Over the weekend, a couple of readers noticed that the company’s logo no longer appeared on the PCGA’s website. Contacted for comment, the PCGA confirmed that “a few members have decided…
Human history is the greatest story ever told. It’s also, courtesy of the attached social, political and religious significance, the most dangerous. So what happens when games try and tell it? All kinds of things. See, games do history a little differently. Other mediums, such as film, books and even comics, are re-telling a story.…
The DSi should do good business! And where there’s good business, there’s Activision, ready to exploit that business, in this case with a downloadable DSi title. That title is Mixed Messages, developed by port & handheld specialists Vicarious Visions. It’s a party game for 2 to 21 players, and works a little bit like Pictionary,…
RCTiger has been kicking around for a while now, but cost money, so we ignored it. Now, though, it’s free. And we do love free stuff. Especially when it involves real, remote-controlled tanks. Yup. Real tanks. RCTiger is a web-based game that puts you in command of a real, remote-controlled tank via a web cam…
The new Death Race is…well, the old one didn’t really need re-making. But it’s not all bad! It seems to go pretty well with Mario Kart. This sequence goes for waaaaaayyyyy too long, but after 30 seconds or so you should have a handle on it.
You may be unaware that The Sims 3 is out in June. But that’s OK. You are not EA’s intended audience. Those guys, well, those guys should by now be very aware. Because it would seem that Electronic Arts have been busy over the past couple of weeks covering what looks like every building in…
Here’s a baby. A real, proper baby. Playing Street Fighter II. And not just winning. Winning with a poetic sense of timing. Awww… Baby’s First Double German Suplex [Capcom]
Reader Nathan likes BioShock. Likes BioShock and is good with his hands. So, inspired by the little Big Daddy dollies in the BioShock 2 teaser, Nathan got to work. And this is the end result. If we hadn’t told you this was made by a reader, we could have told you it was on sale…
The future of the Halo franchise may not be as straight-forward as you’d imagine, if a Microsoft job advertisement is anything to go by. The listing – for a software development engineer – suggests that Microsoft are working on a Halo project that transcends the idea of a single platform or genre, and suggests they…
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