Famed filmmaker Steven Spielberg has looked into his crystal ball and has seen what’s to come: Virtual reality gaming. It’s the 1980s all over again! “Now we’re all playing at home and someday we’ll be playing directly on our TV sets, bypassing all of the platforms,” says Spielberg. The director, who says he’s a PC…
More platform exclusivity shenanigans! It’s just been announced that Tony Hawk: Ride – yes, the new one with the wacky controller – will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 in the UK. No idea how much this has cost Microsoft, or whether it’s a proper exclusive (as opposed to a timed exclusive), but we do…
Wii Fit. Well, fastest game to reach half a million copies sold, that is. According to independent market research group GfK Retail and Technology Australia, the game has sold over 520,000 copies in its one year on sale. The only Wii game that has sold more is Wii Play at 569,000 copies. Mario Kart Wii…
Doesn’t rhyme, and kinda throws of the beat, but whatever. Tell me you wouldn’t chant the same thing if you opened your lunch bow and saw this staring back at you. In case you were wondering, and are a fan of her work, yup, this is another masterpiece from Annathered, whose masterpieces we’ve featured a…
Sure, Namco Bandai’s Queen’s Blade Spiral Chaos makes suggestive use of milk, but the PSP game is also packed with pointy and bouncy things. Queen’s Blade is originally a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple of years. Queen’s Blade features only female characters, and…
Virtual On model kits have always been popular with giant robot fans, but with the recent release of Oratorio Tangram on Xbox Live Arcade, demand has increased. Hence, this new Viper II. Released by Kotobukiya, you can pre-order it now for around USD$50 from Hobby Search. As you can see, the detail is pretty great.…
Best known for its Bomberman games, Hudson has another hit franchise on its hands: Karaoke JOYSOUND Wii. Lock up your daughters, because the Japan-only title brings karaoke singing to the Wii. Since going on sale last December, the game has sold 250,000 copies to date. The title is a tie-up between the Wii and Japanese…
Once was a day parents had to do their jobs, and manually enforce the amount of time a kid spent playing on a console. Now, all they need is the GameDr. This awful thing attaches around the outside of the your console’s power plug, and claims to be tamper proof. It can be programmed to…
Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff is in jail for pulling off the biggest financial swindle ever. Nothing says white collar crime like a cell phone game. Dubbed Made Off, the game uses “cellupoints” in lieu of real money. Players can be a savvy investor or sleazy fund manager out to con as many and as…
Donning their historian caps, Maximum PC have gone through the archives and posted a complete history of perhaps the biggest thing to hit PC gaming in the last 20 years: the 3D graphics card. Some of you might be too young to remember this, but PC gaming wasn’t always a choice between GeForce and Radeon.…
Look, we all know that Square Enix like to milk the merchandising teet dry, but this, this is something else. Does the world really need a 20-disc soundtrack for, of all things, the SaGa series? Square certainly think so, because to celebrate the series’ 20th birthday this year, they’ll be releasing just that. A mighty…
A new year brings one thing: More Dragon Ball. You know what that means? More Bulma. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 are getting a Dragon Ball Z title called Raging Blast that appears to be a sequel to Dragon Ball Z Sparking! The Nintendo Wii is getting a Dragonball action game, which doesn’t appear…
When TF2’s Scout received his update, the ad on the game’s blog was done in the style of an old-school mail-away. And you know, some people actually responded. What’s more, Valve responded back. Yes, people stupid/smart enough to print out the coupon and send it in have been getting real letters in the mail. Real…
Square Enix has still only provided a rough release date for Final Fantasy XIII: Winter 2009. At the company’s financial briefing, it was asked about the Final Fantasy XIII release. Company honcho Yoichi Wada did stress that FFXIII sales were implied in the Square Enix financial forecasts. According to Japanese site Inside Games, when Wada…
Funny what happens when you’re the developers behind Red Orchestra and you go and release a new game about zombies. Your game goes to #1! Yes, Tripwire’s Killing Floor has maintained its run at the top of the Steam charts, strong pre-sales from preceding weeks continuing into strong sales now that the game is actually…
Battle damage brawler Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon is known just for that: battle damage. And since it’s girls in sailor suits and maid outfits, damage comes in the form of shredded clothing. Known as Battle Vixens in the West, Ikki Tousen is also a manga and animated series. The above image is taken from the…
Is it ever ok to pirate a game?
If Insomniac’s official Twitter account is anything to go by, then yes, we should soon be expecting Ratchet & Clank to be popping into the world of LittleBigPlanet for tea and biscuits. While we’re normally slightly sceptical of any and all messages blurted out across this season’s social networking weapon of choice, this message couldn’t…
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Last year, Atari announced it had buddied up with Rez HD and Lumines creators Q Entertainment for a pair of projects: the Live Arcade cash-in comp Qubed and the enigmatic “QJ.” Where are they now? Well, Qubed is still listed as a to be released title at retailers like GameFly. But QJ hasn’t made a…
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