You may already know that Nintendo’s sequel to the best-selling game of all time, Wii Sports, is already on its way to being a blockbuster in Japan. It sold 360,000 copies week one, five times more than the competition. Fortunately for Nintendo, the competition is itself. Last week’s software champ, Tomodachi Collection for the Nintendo…
During our visit to Blizzard’s headquarters, we were given a tour of the developer’s campus, a massive office complex that houses a giant Orc statue, an employee-only library filled with nerdy reference, and plenty of things kept top secret. Our guided tour through the halls of Blizzard took us through the mundane—the company’s fitness center—to…
Developer Croteam is bringing Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to Xbox Live Arcade this summer and, eventually, the PC. But what about the other platform capable of handling the seriousness of this first-person shooter, the PlayStation 3? Croteam CEO Roman Ribaric tells G4 that there was a PlayStation 3 version planned, but the developer…
If you don’t already have a PlayStation 3 and your heart isn’t a deep, deep black, consider Best Buy’s current offer, featuring one of the better value-added bundles, featuring both Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet and Pixar’s Wall-E on Blu-ray. That makes the actual hardware somewhat of a steal, considering these are two must have (or at…
Is Lionhead working on Fable III? In some capacity, almost definitely. Considering the success of Fable II, not developing a third game in the series would be throwing money away. But we didn’t expect this kind of Fable III “confirmation.” So who’s mentioning Fable III now? The New York Times, which is typically not wrong…
Friday, the Chinese government attempted to address the reported $500 million gold farming industry, said to employ some 400,000 workers, in the form of a ruling on the exchange of “virtual currency” for real world cash. Officially, China’s Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Commerce said that in-game monies “will only be allowed to…
The Wii version of Rock Band 2 now has access to nearly 350 downloadable music tracks, thanks to this week’s rich update, full of Pearl Jam, Mission of Burma, The Offspring and more. Sixteen new tracks will be available for download via Rock Band 2‘s in-game music store starting tomorrow, including new singles from Harvey…
Last Friday, we sat down with GameTrailers’ Geoff Keighley, Shane Satterfield and Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter to discuss the future of video game interfaces, from the Wii Vitality Sensor to Microsoft’s Project Natal. Someone taped it! In part one of our Bonus Round discussion, Keighley, Pachter, Satterfield and I touch on the Xbox 360’s…
id Software‘s annual gathering of Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein fans will happen August 13th to August 16th. And it will happen at a new location, the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. QuakeCon festivities were previously announced to throw down at the Hilton Anatole Hotel, but it appears that id Software and company have had a…
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard moved into its new Irvine, California digs in late 2007, 240,000 square feet worth of space in which to develop more Starcraft, Diablo and WarCraft. This year, Blizzard headquarters added some lovely Orc art. The bronze Warcraft statue measures some twelve feet in height. It moved onto the Blizzard campus…
Dustin Browder, lead designer on StarCraft II at Blizzard, says that the team is planning to have a publicly playable beta for the game that runs about “four to six months.” When that would go live, Blizzard still isn’t saying. But considering that we’re already six months into 2009, a four to six month beta…
Blizzard’s main campus is home to what might be the coolest (and nerdiest) library you’ve ever seen. The employee library, from which Blizzard staffers can check out books, software and more, is a great place to lose oneself. The Blizzard employee library is home to the informational—programming language texts, maps, historical reference—but it’s also filled…
This past week, Blizzard invited press to visit its Irvine, California campus to go hands-on with the latest and greatest build of StarCraft II‘s multiplayer game. That wasn’t the original plan. When we were first invited to Blizzard’s headquarters, we were going to get our first hands-on experience with StarCraft II‘s single-player game. We were…
Takara Tomy’s been pretty quiet on the rebooted Toshinden that it announced last October. We don’t know that much about the 3D Wii brawler, but at least we know now who is developing it. That would be Dream Factory, as rooted out by Siliconera. If you’re hoping for the best, remember that Dream Factory was…
I’m kicking myself for not having subscribed to the Official Xbox Magazine, as subscribers are due to get a free Left 4 Dead premium theme to zombify their Xbox 360s. Wait, do I subscribe to OXM? I can never remember. This nice little bonus for those of us who have turned their Xbox 360s into…
Looks like the new home of Mortal Kombat, Joust, Spy Hunter and other well-known Midway properties will be Warner Bros. after all. The media conglomerate looks to have won bidding rights to the publisher and developer by default. According to the LA Times‘ report on the matter, Warner’s $33 million bid for the better portion…
The rumors were true. Sega’s Aliens role-playing game, previously in development at Obsidian Entertainment, is as dead as games can get. The title’s developer and publisher both confirmed today that development on Aliens RPG has ceased. A posting on the Obsidian forums from a forum administrator, picked up by Giant Bomb, attempts to clear the…
Ninja Gaiden publisher Tecmo and Dynasty Warriors factory Koei were officially merged in April. But today, the two Japanese powerhouses spawned a European subsidiary. So we though we’d celebrate the good news with screen shots of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. Specifically, we wanted to upload these screens of Rachel, ones that we didn’t get around…
Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft both showed off new motion control at E3 2009 and both appear to have designs on launching those offerings in 2010. And some third party publishers already have Project Natal dev kits. THQ’s Brian Farrell tells G4’s The Feed that his company already has Natal development tools. They’ve had them…
Anyone not expecting a price cut on the PlayStation 3 this year? How about the Xbox 360? Well, if Ars Technica’s “Mole” is right—and it has been before—both consoles will be cheaper by the fall. A relatively easy prediction, yes, but Ars’ source lays out how it might go down, with the PS3 80GB model…
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