It’s a Halo game without Bungie! It’s a real-time strategy game on a console! Halo Wars is all kinds of unexpected. So with a demo now out, feel to try before you buy/vomit opinions. It’s well over 1GB, and while at time of writing there were still a few kinks in downloading it (namely, despite…
I like the feel of the Wii Remote. Not too big, not too small. But I’ve got man hands! If you’ve got smaller digits, you might want/need a smaller Wii Remote. Which is where the Mini-Mote comes in. Designed and built by DHREK – the same guy who made that hemp Remote & Nunchuk combo…
As it appears we’ll see with every major (and minor) holiday the world over throughout 2009, Sony have announced that there will LittleBigPlanet downloadable content to help commemorate Valentine’s Day. On offer is a Valentines Day theme pack, which includes romantic stickers and decorations, and a Sackboy costume, unfortunately titled “McLovin Sackboy”. He’s a little…sparse,…
There’s a map pack for Halo 3 coming soon, and after that, there’s a singleplayer expansion, but after that? Is there anything more planned? Probably not, as Bungie are saying “goodbye” to the game. Chatting with IGN, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard says: Overall though, we are viewing the ODST campaign and the included multiplayer maps as…
EA own Mythic, the team behind Warhammer Online. EA are cutting 1100 jobs. How many of those are at Mythic? We don’t know. We do, however, know where Mythic are cutting jobs. Responding to persistent rumours concerning the scale of layoffs at the company, GM Mark Jacobs has posted on the game’s official site, confirming…
Lucasfilm make movies. Lucasarts make games. Rarely do the two ever actually meet, but today, they meet in these fantastic mock-ups, showing what Lucasarts games would look like as movie posters. Some do little but stretch the game’s cover art out into movie poster dimensions. But others? These Day of the Tentacle and Fate of…
Warner Bros. today continued their push into the video game market, buying Snowblind Studios, the development studio behind Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath. Kevin Tsujihara, Warner’s Home Entertainment boss, says of the move: This is a good fit for Warner Bros. and Snowblind Studios. The arrangement broadens our portfolio with quality games…
Look, it’s great for the staff at Time Splitters developer Free Radical that the studio found a buyer. Nobody likes to be out of a job. But did they need a name change? A condition of the purchase is that, as they are assimilated into Crytek’s (the studio’s buyers) European mainframe, Free Radical will no…
The kids at Something Awful saw this post on classic game covers, and took matters into their own hands. We will now bring the matter full circle, by presenting the best of their work. Amazing. Simply…amazing. There are plenty more to check out (including ones at higher resolution) at the link below, beneath the gallery.…
You thought the hub-bub over Diablo III’s aesthetics was over? It’s not over. That said, Blizzard have moved on from the “hurt deep” stage, and are now in the “coping through humour” stage. Responding to some commenters making jokes about including unicorns, rainbows and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the game, Blizzard’s Community Manager…
Despite its advancing years, Valve’s Source engine still looks good, and is still pretty useful for making games with. But can it help with anything aside from games (or machinima)? You bet it can. A research team at Britain’s Durham University have adapted the engine to create a fire drill simulator. Recreating the university campus,…
It wasn’t all bad news and leaky product announcements during yesterday’s EA conference call. Some good came of it. Like positive sales figures for some of EA’s riskier titles. Like Left 4 Dead, whose physical copies EA published, and which went on to sell 1.8 million copies. Or Rock Band 2, which sold 1.9 million…
Reader Sun Scramble was checking out Google Earth the other day and – on a whim, we’re sure – punched in 40°42’49.23″N, 73°59’51.44″W. Lo and behold, what did he see? A giant GTAIV ad. See for yourself, it’s right there, dominating the nearby streetscape in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Not a bad way to get some free,…
Confession: I used to work at EB Games. Helped people out with Nintendo stuff all the time. Nobody ever, ever offered to bring me a pie. [via Go Nintendo]
The PC Gaming Alliance today welcome two new members into the fold, as publisher Capcom and Southern Methodist University’s Guildhall program signed up to help defend the PC market against “oh, it’s dying” allegations. The Guildhall (already a member, but who are now joining the group’s board) is one of America’s biggest and best game…
EA ain’t what they used to be. Activision are top dogs now, and Nintendo aren’t kidding around either. So let’s see how much of the gaming market in the US & Europe EA still commands. The graph below is fairly self-explanatory. The percentage is the percentage of sales of EA games in relation to total…
It’s a strange headline, yes, but that’s how the world goes sometimes. Shacknews founder Steve Gibson has revealed that his site has indeed been bought by games rental outlet GameFly. Gibson – who claims the move has nothing to do with money troubles for the site – says of the surprising deal: GameFly has demonstrated…
Seems EA’s John Riccitiello didn’t get the memo that the “Battlefield Announcement Event” in the UK had been snowed out, because during this afternoon’s Q309 conference call, he went ahead and announced a new Battlefield game. Sadly for fans of the core series, it’s not one of those games. Instead, it’s a sequel to last…
EA’s John Riccitiello didn’t confine himself to announcing Wii ports during today’s Q309 conference call. He also gave a release timeframe for Mass Effect 2, saying that it’ll be out in early 2010. Interestingly, he announced the game would be appearing on multiple platforms, but didn’t get into specifics, leaving it unclear whether he meant…
During Electronic Arts’ Q3 2009 earnings call earlier today, boss John Riccitiello mentioned a Wii game we’d previously not heard about. That game was Dead Space Wii. It’s due out later this year, and is part of a plan from EA to bring a more “core” experiece to the Wii. Riccitiello promises that, despite the…
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