The Zune HD is out today. Doesn’t yet have much to do with the 360, aside from these Zunes engraved with logos and characters from current and upcoming 360 games. They’re part of the Zune’s “Xbox Series”. Which basically means you buy a Zune, then pick from one of ten designs (pictured below) that can…
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above headline is taking a liberty or two with a comment from Activision boss Bobby Kotick. Nope. Those words are straight out of the man’s mouth. Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday, Kotick said “The goal that I had in bringing a…
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (officially) announced yesterday that both WipeOut HD and WipEout HD: Fury are to be bundled together on a Blu-Ray disc and sold at retail. It’ll be out in Europe on October 16, and priced at £20 (USD$33). Even allowing for a wonky exchange rate, that’s a great price. No word on…
You may have noticed, you probably hadn’t, but the Nintendo Channel on your Wii has been updated, and it’s for the better. Take a look at that new UI! It’s clean, it’s useful, it’s a sign of what should be going down on all the Wii’s channels. And, behind the scenes, probably is. Updated Nintendo…
Not quite sure how this one slipped under the radar until today, but it’s been revealed that Bohemia Interactive and Black Element will be bringing us a remake of the ground-breaking 80’s classic Carrier Command. Built on Bohemia’s proprietary engine – the same one powering ArmA II – it looks set to excite anyone who…
The results of the Otaku USA readership poll were published in the most recent issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. Ready to have a look? Are you? The survey polled 800 Americans on things like video games and anime and manga. Website Umaguruma.com translated the published article — hat tip for that! Favorite Game 10.…
Video game sales are down! There is doom and gloom! Wailing and gnashing of teeth! The sky is falling! Unless, that is, you’re in the accessory or peripheral business. A comparison by Gamasutra, using NPD Group numbers, has shown that while software and hardware sales in August 2009 were down on 2008’s numbers, sales of…
There’s no Contra in Duck Hunt, but let’s imagine there was. Let’s fantasy. Let’s. If Konami made Duck Hunt [Infendo]
We point out the odd Steam sale here and there, but Steam isn’t the only digital download store on the PC. There’s also Direct2Drive, and for the next five weeks, they’re having one hell of a sale. See, the site is turning five, and to celebrate, a whole range of titles have had their prices…
Give or take, we’re about a week away from Tokyo Game Show. We’ll be there. Know who else will be there? People. Besides them. That’s right, Microsoft. The company has released a list of titles it will be showcasing at its booth at this year’s TGS. Some of the games will be playable demos, while…
Jimmy Fallon was at the MTV Video Music Awards. So was Jack Black, in character, as Brutal Legend‘s Eddie Riggs. Rolling Stone caught up with them as they asked the obvious questions. Sadly, Rolling Stone’s video player isn’t embeddable, so you’ll have to hit the link below to watch it. It’s about, oh, a third…
Beautiful, famous women in Japan get photo books. Bayonetta heroine Bayonetta is a woman, beautiful and famous. And she’s getting her own photo book. The SEGA Store lists picture book BAYONETTA Witch of Vigrid. It features high quality pix of Bayonetta in action taken with a high quality camera. Priced at ¥2,100 (US$23), the book…
The tri-Ace developed, Square Enix published Star Ocean: The Last Hope was released on the Xbox 360 earlier this year. The title is not an Xbox 360 exclusive, it’s coming to the PlayStation 3. Dubbed Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, the game will be hitting the PS3 February 4, 2010 and priced at ¥8,190…
Square Enix has released the Tokyo Game Show trailer for multi-platform mecha game Front Mission Evolved. The game is set 50 years after Front Mission 5. While that title was developed by Square Enix, Front Mission Evolved is being developed by Double Helix Games, the studio responsible for Silent Hill: Homecoming. Release date for Front…
PSP games are notorious for going easy on gameplay footage during trailers. Ditto for the Gran Turismo series. So it’s nice seeing Digital Foundry put together their own Gran Turismo PSP clip, which features nothing but real gameplay. And as you can see, film grain or not, when you see it in motion this looks…
DS titles Pokémon Soul Silver and Heart Gold went on sale in Japan on September 12. Pokémon DS games? Bet lots of people bought them. In they’re first two days on sale, Soul Silver and Heart Gold sold 1,408,980 copies of the game. The title sold out at locations across Japan, so the demand is…
With my 360/Windows control pad and flood of “ports”, I play plenty of “console” games on my PC. But if Spawn Labs’ new HD-720 (catchy!) works as advertised, I could be playing many, many more. It’s a set-top box which you plug into your console, and then connect to your home’s wireless network. Once hooked…
Keiji Inafune, creator of Mega Man and designer of Dead Rising, showed up at the studio of Halo developer Bungie. Bungie, Inafune says, is an “amazing studio”, and he was curious how Bungie made its titles to see if Capcom could ever add some of that je-ne-sais-pas to Capcom games. “I wanted to come down…
Armadillo Aerospace – the company founded and owned by id boss and Doom co-creator John Carmack – has a good chance of winning itself $1,000,000 after taking an early lead in NASA’s lunar lander challenge. Armadillo’s Scorpius craft is the first in a field of entrants to successfully complete the requirements laid out by NASA,…
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