E3 is back. Gone are hotel rooms and discrete encounters, back is the cavernous showroom floor and bright lights. But will there be glamour? Will there be sizzle? The ESA (E3’s organisers) say yes. Speaking to GI.biz, the ESA’s senior director of communications Dan Hewitt has said: In response to the glamour and sizzle of…
In January, Microsoft started “reviewing” a few things. Cut some jobs, that sort of stuff. That “review” now shines its light on Rare, where belts are to be tightened, and jobs might be lost. In comments released to the British press today, the company stated a number of aims going forward that seemed a tad…
A rumour popped up today on Starmen.net claiming that Earthbound would never, ever be released on Nintendo’s Virtual Console. Made vague mention of potential lawsuits. But lawsuits from whom? Let’s take a look. Earthbound Central last week threw up a post outlining how many of the game’s tunes are catchy little homages to actual, real-world…
Been almost a year to the day since we first heard BioShock was making the jump to mobile phones. And we haven’t heard squat from it since. So let’s catch up with some footage. This was taken from the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, and shows what the 3D version of the game will…
Ever wondered what Mario would have looked like had Nintendo stuck to their background in making games out of paper and cardboard instead of going all electronic? Wonder. No. More. This is “Mushroom Kingdom”, by Ashley Buerkett. And no, it’s not really a game. It’s just an incredibly delicate, wonderful piece of papercraft. So you…
In 1990, Atari (the original Atari) were in bad shape. So they sold off their inventory of old cartridges. O’Shea Ltd bought them. All 3 million of them. They bought them so they could sell them on to you, the public. And where do they keep these millions of Atari cartridges? Why, in a 20,000-square…
Kristin Kreuk is playing Chun-Li in the upcoming Street Fighter movie. With the movie nearing release, she’s stuck on promotional press junkets. Today, she speaks with Famitsu about the difference between her and Chun-Li. “I think the most obvious differences lie in the physical appearance of the character”, she says in a video interview (link…
Stupid PR stunts are nothing new to this industry. We’ve had goats blood, we’ve had free, but troublesome gas. And now, we have a misguided attempt to have people name kids after a “game” character. Codemasters, under the impression that “Jason” is the name of a video game character and not, you know, the name…
Open up! Time for more game-related goodies from the showroom floor of the US Toy Fair. We’ve already seen a bunch of stuff, but tonight, we’re going to see a bunch more. HALO – We’re up to series six of McFarlane’s Halo figure range, and for series six, we get a number of new figures.…
Is it wrong to be more excited about Half-Life remake Black Mesa than we are about most proper releases this year? Course it’s not. Thing looks amazing. But when’s it coming out? Last we heard, it was simply “2009”. Which isn’t very helpful. What, early 2009? The middle of 2009? Or, in a worst-case scenario,…
In January, rumours surfaced regarding a special, limited edition red Xbox 360 that would be released in conjunction with Resident Evil 5. Over the weekend, that Xbox 360 turned up in retail databases. A reader – an employee of Toys ‘R’ Us – sends us this pic, snapped from his store’s database. If it’s correct,…
The New York Toy Fair kicked off over the weekend. And video games being big business and all, there were loads of new gaming figures on show. Loads. DANTE’S INFERNO – First up, though (and these are all courtesy of Toy News International), we’ll start with perhaps the most interesting figure of the weekend. Which…
Ethan Nicholas used to work for Sun Microsystems. That was, until he whipped up a little iPhone game called iShoot in his spare time. Now, he doesn’t work for Sun anymore, because he’s filthy rich. Unlike other major platforms (ie anything run by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo), Apple’s App Store for the iPhone (and iPod…
Initially, American PS3 owners wanting the Killzone 2 demo had to preorder the game to get access. Didn’t go down very well. So now, you can get hold of the demo for free. Consider this a backtrack. Of sorts. Sony announced today that if you’re set up with a Home account, and pop into the…
Ever wonder what the Mario games would be like if they were less like Mario and more like The Sopranos? Then maybe you should check out Super Mafia Land, an adorable Mario 2 tribute. Both presentation and controls are excellent considering it’s a free flash title, and after recent Mario dalliances with paper airplanes and…
With Fable II out the door, Lionhead will be working on new stuff. But what, exactly, are they working on? Who knows! It may, however, be one (or both) of these projects. Found on the website of conceptual designers Leading Light – who have worked with Peter Molyneux‘s team before – is mention of two…
LEGO and video games are nothing new. We have have LEGO Star Wars. LEGO Indiana Jones. Even LEGO Batman. But Prince of Persia LEGO is something new, and altogether a little different. During the New York Toy Fair over the weekend, it was announced that, continuing with their recent fascination with recreating famous movie scenes/characters,…
And again, the Red Alert 3 marketing team outdo themselves, somehow taking Ric Flair and his figure-four leglock and turning it into a heart-warming Command & Conquer-related Valentines Day message. It’s just one in a series of videos EA threw together for the day, some featuring British working class vixen Gemma Atkinson, others the slightly…
Kicking the pre-release marketing for Halo Wars into top gear, a second series of Halo Wars action figures have today been announced by McFarlane and Microsoft. Unlike the first series, these figures look a little more relevant to the units and events of the game, with one series featuring the UNSC FLame-Thrower Marine and another…
Midway filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Grim news, but it’s also a bit…vague. It’s hard to tell from mere words just how badly the house of Mortal Kombat is faring. So let’s use numbers instead. Short on alternate bedtime reading, GamePolitics have combed through the court records surrounding yesterday’s move and found the the list of…
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