You may have read on the internet earlier today excited, happy reports of Resident Evil 5 somehow supporting 16 players via system link multiplayer. The evidence? None other than the game’s box art itself. Problem is, it was a typo. An innocent mistake. Capcom Europe have since rattled our mailbox to let us know: It…
As we’ve already heard tonight, Sony expect to make less money from their games division, thanks to lower than predicted sales. But just where are sales lower than expected? Let’s take a look. As you can see on the right, although software sales for the financial year will be down, Sony had already predicted lower…
The Resident Evil movies were B-grade stuff. The upcoming Street Fighter movie does not look promising. But Capcom are making more movies, and Lost Planet is one of them. And on that, they are not messing around. Capcom’s Toshihiro Tokumaru – the company’s character boss – has revealed that the budget for Avi Arad’s adaptation…
And by “Top 99”, they don’t mean the most eminent minds in their respective fields. So, with 2008’s list all done, did any games types make it? And by games types, we mean real people. Short answer is…yes. And sorry Nintendo fans, the Smile Machine didn’t make it. But these two did. Seems lonely men…
This morning, we kinda hoped Noby Noby Boy would be out later this month. “Any day now”, even. Sadly, tonight we’ve got word that it won’t be out this month. It’ll be out next month. On February 19. And it’s February 19 for a worldwide, simultaneous release. So, around a month or so. Not too…
Once was a time a graphics card handled just that. Graphics. But these days? Nvidia cards already handle physics processing, and by next year both Nvidia and ATI cards might handling AI as well. Speaking with Custom PC, representatives from both graphics card manufacturers say that “they’re working on GPGPU-accelerated AI in games”, and that…
Of all their reprehensible practices, GameStop’s trade-in process may be the worst. Pity, then, that so few of you are avoiding it, as sales of pre-owned gear in 2008 were up, up, up. The company’s sales as a whole were up 22%. If you think that was driven by sales of new games over the…
The European community site for LittleBigPlanet has been updated to reveal what’s in store for the game’s DLC in the coming weeks. And what’s coming is mostly festive, partly in-house advertising. With Chinese New Years, Valentines Day and Groundhog Day all on the immediate horizon, the game will be celebrating with costumes for each holiday.…
There’ll be no more delays for the oft-delayed Killzone 2. SCEA have just announced that the game has gone gold, meaning it’s finished, done, and ready for release. February 27 is the day it’ll be out on store shelves across the US, and to mark the occasion, Sony released this giant picture of the box…
Background info: Australia has a Governor-General. Read up on that here. Anyway, she was in Afghanistan today, paying a surprise visit to Australian troops stationed there. Troops who were bored. So Governor-General Quentin Bryce flew in, said hello, shook some hands, dropped off a Wii and left. Bemused troops smiled, shook hands, waved goodbye, asked…
Been to a game’s official site lately? You probably have. Probably noticed while there that it was a bit crap, full of useless flash pages and 320×240 “screenshots”. Here’s five ways to fix that. Owen Davis, from Evolution Research, makes a living telling people that make websites how to do their job. We’re not normally…
Gotta love this harsh economic climate. It’s dragging executive shit-talking back to its 2006-07 heyday. Latest example? Aaron Greenberg’s response to Kaz Hirai’s “console leadership” quips to the Official PlayStation Magazine. Not liking what he’s read, Greenberg does not politely rebuff the Sony man’s point of view. He does not choose to ignore the man.…
Seen America’s. Seen Japan’s. Seen Britain’s. Now let’s see which ten games sold the most copies in…Australia. Anyone expecting a break from the Nintendothon, don’t bother, but the list isn’t entirely devoid of surprises. It’s Wii, Wii, Wii at both the top and bottom of the list (Big Beach Sports? Really?), but in the middle?…
The Halo series is, when it comes to shooters, up there with the best of the best. Only problem is, it’s so old. I mean, the last game came out in, when, 2007? That’s ancient! So let’s freshen the game up a little, throw in some features from games we’ve been enamoured with a little…
Valve’s Left 4 Dead is useful as both a chilling simulation of the zombie apocalypse and as a tool for encouraging cooperative play in an online shooter. Those and…weddings. Example: AJ plays Left 4 with his lady friend. Seeing as the game plays a special part in both of their lives, he decided to propose…
Click to viewFlickr user emilyskeith has a boyfriend who knows she loves Portal. Knows she loves to cosplay. Knows that, should she ever feel the need to cosplay as Chell, she’d need a suitably authentic ASHPD. So he made her one! A real one, made out of heavy, real materials. Calling it amazing would be…
We saw some fairly conclusive evidence last night that Kaz Hirai needs a good lie down. Today, though, we got some more, as the rest of his Official PlayStation Magazine interview hit the internet. You’ll find two things of interest. Here’s one: This is not meant in terms of numbers, or who’s got the biggest…
Want in on the Dawn of War II beta? Don’t want to pay “full price” for Dawn of War: Soulstorm, the only way you can currently get into the beta? Things just got easier. Valve and THQ have announced that the price of Soulstorm has been slashed by 75%, so if you want in now…
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reckon Microsoft will hold off on massive job cuts. But analysts speaking to Reuters think otherwise, and believe the company will lay off between 6000 and 8000 workers. And that might just be a start. While those numbers would put a dent in the company’s 95,000-strong workforce, McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Sid…
Outrun Online Arcade has us excited. But if you’re American and own a PS3, you may want to ease back on the throttle of your own white-hot excitement jets. For safety reasons. Because it’s been confirmed that while the game will be released on both Xbox 360 and PS3 the world over, in North America,…
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