The 3DS is Nintendo’s upcoming glasses-free 3D portable device. Not all gamers like 3D. Nintendo knows this. According to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto at a recent Q&A, “When Super Mario became Mario 64, the size of the audience shrunk.” Some players were put off by the leap from traditional 2D Mario platforming to a three…
This week, the price of a subscription to Xbox Live Gold went up. Want to know why? Here’s the reason Microsoft is peddling. “In 2002 it was strictly multiplayer gaming,” Xbox Live’s Craig Davison told Gamasutra. “Now we get those Call of Duty map packs before anybody else does. We’ve got Gears and Halo, of…
Shadows of the Damned, a game being worked on by Goichi Suda (No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil), has a new trailer out. Click through to see if it features leather jackets, demons and rock n roll. Well of course it does. Shadows of the Damned will be out next year on PS3…
Movies? No, MUBI. The streaming art house cinema service is coming to the PS3 this week, so grab the popcorn. On November 3rd, the service commences on the PS3 in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. The following week the service will launch in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain,…
The US Dollar is as weak as it’s ever been at the moment. That’s (generally) bad news for Americans, but for everyone else? It’s good news if you buy video games and like to save money. It’s long been a complaint from gamers in territories like Europe and Australasia that video games are disproportionately priced…
Katamari Damacy designer Keita Takahashi wasn’t happy at Namco Bandai. When leaving the company, he called it “so-so”. His reasons are a bit more melancholy than that. “The reason why I quit Namco was because I started to feel like I didn’t belong there any more,” Takahashi recently told website Eurogamer. Takahashi’s games, he noted,…
Last holiday season, reader Dave wowed us with his laser-cut controller ornaments. This year, he’s getting into the Christmas spirit early with these console ornaments. There are plenty of machines represented: NES, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, SNES, PlayStation, PS3, Genesis, Xbox 360, even the Nintendo 64, they’re all included. The pack will cost you US$35. And…
At the 2009 E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Nintendo revealed the Wii Vitality Sensor for the first time. The peripheral was M.I.A. at the following E3. And at a recent investors meeting, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata didn’t explicitly provide an update. During a Q&A session, Iwata was asked if Nintendo is still making big…
The Nintendo World Store in New York City has just reopened after its first major refurbishment since opening back in 2005. While both floors of the store have been given a facelift, as you can see via these photos from Wired.com, if you’ve ever been there you might need to have some of the changes…
Keiji Inafune of Mega-Man and Dead Rising fame made no secret that he hated his job. Late last week, the game designer finally left Capcom, a company he worked at for 23 years. The developer’s Osaka headquarters says why. “Due to the sudden upheaval in the market, it seemed necessary to drastically reform our game…
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Michael Jackson’s white glove, which he first wore when performing the moonwalk for the first time, became a trademark symbol of one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived. And it’s now free for purchasers of a Wii game! Ubisoft, the publishers of Michael Jackson The Experience on Wii, will be bundling a replica…
I Can Explain This Comment by: Adhominem Nominated by: Walter Kurtz After you have unprotected sex with your virtual wife, do you unlock Milo? GameStop Robber Shot Dead By Police Comment by: Fauxcused Nominated by: Optimistic Prime Let me take care of the obligatories: 1.) Would have been epic were it a headshot. 2.) Did…
Microsoft yesterday revealed a new Xbox 360 bundle for the holiday season, one which packs a 250GB console in with two games. It’s the same one as we’ve already shown you for the Canadian and European markets; namely, one that also packs in a boxed copy of Forza 3 and a token for a downloadable…
Popular puzzle game Angry Birds is all dressed up for All Hallows’ Eve. Nothing quite says “Halloween” like smashing pumpkins, green pigs in ghost costumes and birds flying through the air. Trick or treat! Angry Birds is a physics-based puzzle game for Apple’s iOS in which birds are trying to recover stolen eggs, and Angry…
The new Xbox 360 dashboard is clean. It’s very white. It’s also got a lot of indie developers for the platform upset with Microsoft, accusing the platform holder of putting their baby in the corner. Xbox Live Indie Games used to be somewhat easily found in the “Games Marketplace” section of the dashboard. Now? They’ve…
The United States Supreme Court building, Monday night. We’ll be inside on Tuesday, covering the Court’s first case about video games. It pits California against the game industry over a law that would make the sale of very violent games to kids illegal.
When Far Cry developers Crytek bought shuttered British studio Free Radical, many wondered how long it would be until we saw the return of the Timesplitters franchise. That time may be soon. According to a report on Eurogamer, Crytek UK – as Free Radical is now known – is “talking with various publishers about the…
Got a knock on the door this morning. Was the postman with my God of War III art book. Let’s take a look at the thing, eh? The book is available from Ballistic, and comes in three variants, one for $65, one for $129 and the one you see above for USD$300. [God of War…
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