Electronic Arts this week let go a number of developers working on Steven Spielberg Wii puzzle tile Boom Blox, the company told Kotaku. The game might have been viewed as a “dud” at first, but the original Boom Blox went on to sell over 450,000 copies. When asked about the decision to let some of…
Warner Bros. & Traveller’s Tales – creators of the LEGO series of licensed video games – have announced that there are plenty more games left in the partnership yet. The publisher (and developer’s) deal with the Danish toy company has been extended to 2016, meaning we’ve got six more years of LEGO games based on…
Dead or Alive developer Tomonobu Itagaki left Tecmo over unpaid wages and started up a new studio. It was originally thought to be called “Tokyo Vikings”. It’s not. The new studio is called “Valhalla” as in Norse mythology. Valhalla is an enormous hall with over five hundred doors and outfitted with spears in the rafters.…
The writing is on the wall. With Infinity Ward’s leadership removed, and Activision announcing a raft of new titles, the market is about to be saturated with Call of Duty games. So we figured we’d lend a hand. Rather than simply release an endless stream of World War 2 games, which is what ruined Medal…
Vanquish is the upcoming title from Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series. As revealed in the new issue of game mag Famitsu, the title is a third person action shooter and has elements of cover. It is not a Gears of War-style cover shooter, however. Gameplay is fast and quick with the player…
The last note has apparently been played by Square Enix Music, rumors website Square Enix Music Online. At the end of last year, the group was disbanded for budgetary reason, leaving composer casualties that include: Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy XIII, Dirge of Cerberus, SaGa Frontier II) Junya Nakano (Final Fantasy X, Threads of Fate, Musashi:…
Super Street Fighter IV is $40. Seems steep for an update to a game that came out only twelve months ago. Let’s give Capcom a chance to try and explain. Speaking with Gamasutra, Capcom’s Christian Svensson has said that while it wasn’t easy settling on a price point (or even a means of delivering the…
Earlier this week, Bungie said it would be “dropping a multiplayer bomb”. It appears a Taiwanese site has dropped that bomb a little early, with the leak of what looks a lot like a new trailer for the game. Now, this may be an elaborate hoax, but if it is, it’s a cruel one. Because…
Before the brouhaha at Tecmo, game designer Tomonobu Itagaki made a name for himself making fighting games. He’s currently working on another title, which he hinted at last year. Does that mean we’ll see another fighting game from him? “Because I made the best fighting game in the world, Dead or Alive, at my former…
American McGee is a developer with an enormous imagination and…inconsistent execution. Yes, he’s the man behind Alice, but he’s also the man behind a string of disappointing titles ever since. So it’s with uncertainty we look upon his next game. Called “Red”, and following very closely in the spirit of his last work, Grimm, it’s…
The streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya are a battleground. For your money. Capcom’s hack-and-slash action game Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams might have been released in 2006, but that hasn’t stopped the Osaka-based game company from licensing out the game for a pachi-slot game, Shin Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams. Heck, that hasn’t stopped Capcom from licensing out…
Microsoft added two more titles to its range of Games on Demand titles today, with the release of Fallout 3 and Street Fighter IV onto the Xbox 360’s digital shopfront. Both games will be priced at $30, which yet again does little to engender people to forsake a tangible game box in exchange for a…
…before you cut your pinkie off! With Yakuza 3 coming out in North America and Yakuza 4 coming out in Japan, is there a better time to talk about Japanese gangsters? No, no there isn’t. These films are grounded in yakuza mythos, fantasy and, yes, fact. And like Hollywood mobster films, these motion pictures have…
On a day Microsoft made its first tentative steps onto Facebook, Nintendo has shot down the idea of any of its characters making a similar jump in a grab for the casual market. “I think we will continue to save Mario for our own platforms”, Nintendo of America’s Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president of sales…
If you thought finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was difficult, imagine doing it blind. Ontario, Canada’s Jordan Verner put out a message online that he was looking for assistance so he could complete The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. “It was basically a call for help to people online,” says South…
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Sadly, this is not a real game. Lucasarts and Traveller’s Tales aren’t that out of ideas. What it is, however, is the most amazing stop-motion Lego lightsaber battle you’ve ever seen. If only the real game had moved this smoothly! User fancypants put the clip together for an animation challenge on Lego fan site brickmotion.…
At 12 years-old Motoki Nishimura became a gaming recluse. At 17, he became an author, writing a book about his experience. Earlier this year, Nishimura published My Online Gaming Devil, which details his descent into online gaming when his parents divorced. “I didn’t care what happened in real life,” he told The Mainichi Daily News.…
Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released. “I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished”, a source told the video games website, reminding us all…
While something rotten has definitely gone down between publishers Activision and the bossmen of Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, it seems the studio itself is still a key part of the franchise moving forward. An internal memo distributed to members of Infinity Ward earlier today says that while the “brains” of the operation, Vince…
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