Now isn’t the best time to be buying into the games mag business. Times are tough. But hey, if you’re not swayed by this harsh reality, Hardcore Gamer are for sale. And for only $42,000! And that’s not even the best part. No, the best part is that owners Double Jump Books are selling the…
We loved Gears of War 2. Nearly gave it our game of the year award! But one thing we don’t like is that, for some people, the game’s online play is all screwed up. Epic are aware that it’s screwed up, have heard your shrieking, and have today responded. Posting on the company’s forums, Mark…
For American readers, know this: British retailer Woolworths are done for. They close up shop today. But out in Woolworths warehouses across Britain are tons of Xbox 360 consoles. And Microsoft want them back. To that effect, they’re preparing to sue Deloitte, the administrators of Woolworths’ rotting corpse. See, as an administrator, Deloitte would be…
Masatomo Ueda likes Patapon. A lot more than you or I like Patapon. He likes it so much he’s not only got himself a Patapon tattoo, but made himself Patapon prey in the process. See? They’re marching, relentlessly, on their way across his shoulders to hunt, then kill, his face. Cute, but for the first…
Been looking for months now, but I just haven’t found a PS3 theme that beats the original wavy lines one that comes with the console. Well, I hadn’t. Have now. m0dus & orioto, a couple of kids on GAF, have whipped up this homemade Gunstar Heroes theme. All HD, all hand-drawn, like the Gunstar Heroes:…
Last year, Sony and Nissan teamed up to hold a Gran Turismo competition. GT racers would compete for a spot on a real race team. The winners are in, so let’s go meet ’em. Lars Schlömer is a German cab driver. Lucas Ordóñez is a uni student from Spain. Both are mad Gran Turismo fanboys,…
Yes. It’s another fancy PlayStation 3 for the Japanese market. Not content with lording it over us with their white and silver consoles, Japan will now also be getting this dragon-emblazoned Yakuza machine. Ryu Ga Gotuku fans will remember this was actually announced last year, but without any pictures. Now, we’ve got pictures. For the…
A lot of you seem to be big on the HP Firebird 803. Maybe for its looks, maybe for its hardware, maybe for its price tag, who knows. Whatever, let’s take a look at its guts! Amazing the difference an external power supply makes to the size of things, no? Gallery: Check Out the HP…
Turn those frowns upside down, Tribes 2 fans. While the game may be officially six feet under, a group of dedicated fans have brought Tribes 2 back to life, online multiplayer and all. The project is called TribesNext, and you can download and try out a beta version of the game now. The legality of…
There’s a new “project” running in Texas that sounds a lot more like a “game” to us. It involves cameras, the internet, people sitting at home and catching Mexicans. Fun fun fun! At a cost of $2 million, the system – called a “Virtual Stakeout” – involves a series of webcams placed along the Texas-Mexico…
The new Wolverine game was always going to be a brawler. A fighter. That’s what Wolverine does, he brawls, he fights. But what kind of brawler? What kind of fighter? Developers Raven have opened up. Speaking with EGM (yes, the article from this month’s mag is now online), Raven’s Dan Vondrak has spoken of the…
Oh look. It’s Eidos. In another PR cock-up. Which we’re posting not for the magnitude of it – it’s just a magazine reader poll – but for the ineptitude of it. Aussie mag Hyper – the country’s longest-running and most respected independent games magazine – are running a little readers poll, trying to find out…
MTV decided to find out. Using the Wii’s Nintendo Channel – which tracks the playing habits of 1.6 million Americans – they’ve yanked out some data on what games you’re playing, and for how long. The most-played game on the console (at least among those 1.6 million)? That one’s easy. It’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl,…
Valkyria Chronicles hasn’t done so well. Shame, it’s a gorgeous game. Can’t help but wonder what’d be like if Sega had managed to actually draw our attention to marketing like this before 2009 ticked over. Lovely, yes? No way we could refuse such a tempting offer. [Sega @ Flickr]
Holiday’s over, PC sales charts. You had a grand couple weeks off, now get back to work. We need to be shown how Blizzard are able to afford to sprinkle gold dust on the canteen doughnuts. NPD Sales Charts December 14-20 [via Shacknews] 1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 2. Spore 3.…
This 360 has mouse & keyboard support! Yay! Except, sadly, it’s not official support. Just the work of a modder. But hey, if he can do it, maybe you can do it too. And if you can’t, you can always buy it from him. XIM, the creator of the workaround, is selling the fix –…
Times are tough all over right now, but times are especially tough at Sony. They’ve only just announced plans to axe thousands of employees, and already The Times reckon things are about to get worse. While Sony are all “no we’re not” on the speculation/leak, The Times insist that next month (following the Consumer Electronics…
Dragon Quest IX is coming. Japan shall quake upon its release. While we wait out these last few months before it’s out, then, let’s take a look at about a gazillion new screenshots! Oh, and some new details as well. The game’s main character starts off as an angel. And that tanned girl? She’s tanned…
Upon their death, great men are afforded a sending off befitting of their stature. Pity Tabular Rasa, then, as EB Games in Canada seems more content to roll its lifeless corpse into the nearest ditch. Reader Shane sends these pics of a dumpster behind his local outlet. Those aren’t display copies. They’re sealed, retail ones.…
Don’t you go thinking just because it’s January we’re done with the “best of 2008” lists. Because we are so not. Latest comes courtesy of Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, and charts the years top Xbox Live games. First, we have the twenty most popular full-price games. Note the two games whose demos made the cut, but…
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