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You are god. That’s the premise of iPhone app Pocket God from the two-man developer team Bolt Creative. But is it a heavenly experience or a hellish one? In Pocket God, players are a divine hand. As the first sentence of this review explains, you are god. And, as god, you can do pretty much…
It seems our warnings were for naught. And now Britain suffers, with Ubisoft’s Just Dance the best-selling game in the country. You’ve nobody to blame but yourselves. Well, not literally you lot. You probably went out and bought Army of Two, or Bayonetta, or Darksiders. No, you’re looking for somebody to blame, blame your mum.…
Whether or not famed director Sam Raimi does the Warcraft movie in the near future is anyone’s guess. Just in case he does, though, the movie’s engines are being kept running. Robert Tapert, producer on the project, has told iFM “It’s in development. We’re in the outline/story/script phase”. Which in movie language means early days,…
While the Wii Balance Board‘s usefulness as a fitness device are questionable, there’s no doubts over its ability to perform as a…rehabilitative “force platform”. That’s a device used by doctors to measure the balance of a person recovering from a stroke (or similar injury), employed when the patient is “relearning” how to walk. While lab-grade…
Looking through the assets on the Final Fantasy XIII game disk data, Japanese website MADOKA Park! apparently noticed something. Something naked. After looking through the disk and turning up character models for all the main characters as well as main Summons and weapons, the site discovered a character model for Oerba Dia Vanille, and she…
Going on sale in Japan on December 3, 2009, Wii title New Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold over 3 million games. In Japan, that’s not just fast for a Wii title, it’s the fastest. In its first seven weeks on sale, the game moved 3,002,753 units, making it the fastest title to hit the…
Apparently! Some people read Japanese game magazines like Famitsu when scans leak early onto the internet. Other people actually buy the print publications. But how many? The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association has released circulation numbers for domestic video games magazines. Data is between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009. Title: Weekly Famitsu Publisher: Enterbrain…
Over the weekend, Sony Computer Entertainment began operations in Vietnam, marking the first time the PlayStation brand has been officially sold in the communist state. Sony’s first sanctioned (as in, not privately imported) PlayStation products in the country went on sale on Saturday morning, with the120GB PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable (the PSP-3000) and PlayStation 2…
Upcoming Nintendo DS role-playing game Etrian Odyssey III: Visitor From Star Ocean from developer Atlus has been delayed in Japan. The game was originally slated for a March 4 release. Joining the typical dungeon crawling of the previous Etrian Odyssey games, the third installment will also feature ocean exploring. Atlus attributed the delay to “various…
Over two years on from the game’s release, every Team Fortress 2 class save the Engineer has received a major update. Does that mean, then, that there’s only one major update left in the game? No way. In an interview with Team Fortress 2 community site Community Fortress, Valve’s Robin Walker has said “We’ve got…
Last year in Japan, people bought tons of ’em, that’s what. Enterbrain, the publisher behind Japanese game magazine Famitsu, has released sales data for fifty biggest selling games of last year. The data was collected for the dates between December 28, 2008 and December 27, 2009. Where applicable, the data in the parenthesis is the…
So what if Yakuza 3 has been out in Japan since forever. It’s now on its way to the West, meaning we can get excited about it all over again.
This March, fighting game Kenka Bancho is coming to the silver screen in Japan with Kenka Bancho ~ Zenkoku Seiha (Nationwide Domination). It’s bringing hard-nosed facial posturing with it! The cute is provided by idols Erika Yazawa and Mai Satoda. Sneers by the dudes. Thanks, dudes! 里田まい『喧嘩番長 劇場版〜全国制覇』で「夢が叶った」 [Famitsu]
Revenues were down for most video game companies in 2009, and the big three platform holders were no exception. Pretty clear, but if you need it spelled out a little clearer, nice graphs tend to do the trick. Put together by NPD fetishist Matt Matthews over at Gamasutra, it shows the decline in revenue all…
Square Enix, the company behind Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, announced a ¥35 billion ($386 million) zero-coupon convertible bond. As Hiroshi Kamide at KBC Securities Japan points out, “convertible” means that these bonds can be changed to shares at some point before they mature. While Square Enix has around ¥80 billion in on hand cash,…
This is fun. A former EA executive last week went to town on the publisher’s business strategy and that of its boss, John Riccitiello. Rather than let the comments wash under the bridge, however, EA today responded. With snark. The former EA man in question is Mitch Lasky, who sold a mobile business to EA…
Unpaid Internet Bill Leads to Game-Blamed Stabbing Comment by: Segador Nominated by: (Starman) #number258 I watched a friend go from a quality individual to a fat, pasty, loser in 12 months thanks to his addiction to WoW. He lost his very good IT consulting job because he would stay up past 3am, then crash, not…
What a difference a decade makes. Speaking with Game Informer magazine, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has spoken of the massive disparity between how much Blizzard was worth in 1995 compared to the price Kotick paid in 2007. In ’95, the Warcraft creators were purchased by Davidson & Associates. For a sum that, in 1995, Kotick…
MTV’s Rock Band Network, an ambitious program aimed at letting “anyone” upload a song to the game’s store, will be launching tomorrow, according to the Wall Street Journal. In a piece on MTV’s plans for the store, the WSJ piece opens with “MTV Games is hoping to goose sales of its flagging “Rock Band” series…
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