Did you offload an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 at Circuit City while the retailer was imploding? If you did, we hope you wiped your personal details from the machine. Because Circuit City didn’t. Having read our post on GameStop’s Texas refurbishment centre, we were contacted by a reader who works in a similar facility…
Nintendo are making money off the Wii. We know. But if you’re not Nintendo, and you’re planning on releasing a Wii game (or re-releasing a PS2 game), how many do you need to sell? Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aime has a fair idea. Speaking in broad terms, he reckons the average Wii game needs to…
I’m not normally hot for console mods, as they’re often ugly, pointless or both. But this Dreamcast one catches my eyes because, well, it’s so damn eye-catching. Not only does it give you a Dreamcast that’s practically all screen, but it can run on batteries (with 3-3.5 hours of game time) and gives you a…
Sony Pictures Television want to make money off this while iPhone gaming craze thing. So they’re releasing a number of games based on Sony properties, like Ghostbusters and James Bond. We know nothing except projected release dates. Ghostbusters will be out in June, while the Bond title – called “Top Agent” – will be out…
Much was made of Microsoft’s attempt at gestating a user-created gaming platform on the 360 with their Community Games service. But six months on from launch, how well is it faring? Here’s a hint: not very. Statistics for the service’s games have been made available (and then collected by GamerBytes), showing how many times a…
Sega’s Storm-G is a ridiculous machine. Eight cabinets, two players per cabinet, 360-degree cabinet rotation, 185m/ph speeds and a $6.50 cost. It’s nuts. So let’s take a look at how it works! Once you get past the chit-chat from this rather excited Frenchman, you’ll see that, well, it’s a giant, mechanised bobsled. Sadly, there’s little…
Poor Okami. So loved! So under-bought. Today’s your chance to turn a little bit of love into a little bit of impulse buying, then, with Capcom having an Okami firesale in the company store. The Wii version? $20. The PS2 version? $20. At that price, if you haven’t played it, you probably should, because $20…
Like we said, going by Kmart’s retail system, it looks likely the PS2 is about to drop to the mythical $99 price point. This catalogue scan only makes it seem more likely. Taken from next week’s Target catalogue, you can see it right there, at $99. And for those still clinging to the prospect of…
Mike Tomich is a backyard scientist with a mission: to stop little kids from playing video games. Why? Beause he thinks that grabbing those big plastic controllers will deform their little fingers. Seriously. Citing “5 1/2 years of research” and a bunch of photos with lines on them, Tomich says that kids under the age…
Time to dust off your copies of Saints Row 2, kids, because developers Volition have revealed that three new pieces of downloadable content are on their way to the 360 & PS3. The first is called “Ultor Exposed”, and will be out on April 16. It will include three new missions, a new co-op game…
Wasn’t that news about Dead Rising 2 featuring multiplayer just great? Well, sorry, it turns out it may well have been wrong, with the lady responsible for the statement now issuing a correction. It was Laura Scholl (from tech company mental mill, who are helping with the game) who, last week, said Dead Rising 2…
As we told you at the start of the month, Midway are – despite poor sales and a bankruptcy filing – still finding ways to pay their top brass nearly $4 million in bonuses. Which a government-appointed trustee (who is overseeing the company’s financial and legal proceedings) is not happy with. Echoing similar government distaste…
According to IGN, there were whispers on the floor of the Game Developers Conference last week. Whispers about the Wii’s upcoming MotionPlus accessory, and how it would ship in a rubber jacket. “So?” So, unlike the rubber jacket that’s currently available for the main Wii Remote, this one “might ship infused inside of a jacket…
A friendly tipster has passed on this shot of Kmart’s retail database. To translate, it shows the PlayStation 2, and it shows that next week the console will be reduced to $99. The move will also, apparently, be first advertised by Kmart in a catalogue due to be circulated on April 5. Something we heard…
Here we are, years on from the first unveiling of Alan Wake, and what do we know? Almost nothing! So while these new details are hardly major, their rarity makes them satisfying nonetheless. An interview with Remedy Entertainment’s Oskari Hakkinen reveals that the game will, like Max payne before it, introduce a key gameplay innovation/gimmick.…
Jimmy Fallon promised more game-related stuff on the Late Night show, and in this interview with Hollywood legend Ray Liotta, Jimmy Fallon delivers. Given the chance to ask the man about his enormous body of work in the movie business, Fallon instead goes all gushy and bugs Liotta about his voice work as Tommy Vercetti…
More details have surfaced with regards to that “6000 zombies” claim that came out of a Dead Rising 2 talk at the Game Developers Conference last week. Firstly, that 6000 figure has a caveat. It’s how many will be rendered in multiplayer. The multiplayer that has yet to be officially announced by Capcom, and which…
More. Video game. Sneakers. Little different this time around, though, because they’re not Nikes. Not covered in any obvious logos or colour schemes, either. Then again, they don’t need to be. You can tell long before you read Puma’s desperate product description that these are Mega Man sneakers. That kind of electric blue isn’t going…
Previous press for Operation Flashpoint 2 has been a little unrealistic. Lots of suspect-looking screenshots. But there’s no fibbing in this video, showing naught but the real thing. Operation Flashpoint 2 [Gamestar, via VG247]
Like Dead Space before it, EA are serious enough about this “new intellectual property” thing with Dante’s Inferno to go making cartoons. So they’ve enlisted the assistance of Film Roman (the same team behind Dead Space’s Downfall) to oversee a Dante’s Inferno animated feature. All that’s known at this stage is that the film will…
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