Watch out, Hollywood! French game company Ubisoft is totally keen on the movie special effects business. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stresses that the company does not want to make movies per se, saying just that: “We don’t want to make movies, but the expertise we have is key to creating special effects, graphics and animation.”…
The organisers of the Electronic Entertainment Expo have released the floorplan for this year’s show. Let’s all take a look, shall we? Yup. There’s plenty of video game companies occupying plenty of floorspace with video game company booths. Just as expected! Nothing really stands out as being potentially incendiary (the “big three” being split amongst…
The King of Fighters XII is already out in Japanese arcades, but is coming to home consoles this summer. This is the latest Japanese trailer, complete with Japanese words. Watch it.
For a while there, it appeared that Funcom’s Age of Conan was on its last legs. Players were leaving, servers were closing. But still, the game lives on! Funcom’s latest financial report states that “a significant increase in new customers in Q1 compared to Q4 has led to a stable and solid subscriber base”, meaning…
Students at Vail Christian High School in Colorado are learning the importance of not driving while distracted. They’re doing this with the help of Mario Kart Wii. The high school created the “distracted and drowsy driving project” with the help of the Eagle County Sheriff’s Department, the Colorado State Patrol, the Eagle Country Fire Fighters…
The guys at LEGO gotta make money. So they license Star Wars, and Harry Potter, and Rock Band. But if they didn’t have to make money, we like to think they’d license Half-Life 2. Sadly, that probably won’t happen. Ever. So we’ll have to make do with these custom HL2 LEGO figures and playsets, exquisitely…
Assassin’s Creed II is a big game. Big games need big teams, and developer Ubisoft has assembled just that: an army. According to producer Sebastien Puel, there are 450 people working on the the sequel, and 75 percent of the original team is working on the game. Just how much bigger is the AC 2…
There has been speculation that the “leaked” Team Fortress 2 video from the weekend was not leaked at all. Speculation that, in light of events at Valve HQ today, seems entirely without merit. Incensed at the lapse in security, the company’s notoriously mean Team Fortress 2 blogger (byline says Robin Walker, but we have our…
Fans of either Gears of War or World of Warcraft (or both!) will be happy to know there’s now more things to spend their disposable income on, with the release of some new figures. The latest additions to NECA’s line of Gears of War line feature a Lambent soldier (which is a San Diego Comic…
The PS2 has an impressive catalogue of not only “regular games”, but also PC gal games (think Japanese dating sims) ported over with the adult scenes edited out. Called “visual novels”, these games are more reading intensive than anything else. There is a small, yet rabid, market for them; however, PS3 hasn’t exactly been fertile…
With the Nintendo DS now the undisputed heavyweight champion of the handheld gaming space, we got to wondering: what’s become of the humble Game Boy Advance? Is it dead? Ask yourself: when was the last time you saw a Game Boy Advance on a shelf? Or heard about a new Game Boy Advance game? Or…
When cutesy monster series Pokémon was being prepped for the Western market, localizers told Nintendo this: No way will adorable monsters be accepted by Americans. In a recent interview, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata reveals, “We were sent a proposal of muscle-bound characters to use if we wanted to do well in the U.S.” Nintendo didn’t…
Looks like Capcom’s travel lockdown may not be confined to just Keiji Inafune and Malmö, Sweden. Turns out Capcom Japan may yank all international travel over swine flu fears, which would include, yes, E3. Capcom have told British trade site Develop that the Japanese branch of the company are yet to commit 100% to attending…
Japanese game designer Goichi Suda has a “video game brand” called Grasshopper Manufacture. That company has made games for lots of companies, but did you know that Square Enix was a client? Via website Siliconera, here’s a breakdown of companies that Grasshopper has worked with, and the titles that were produced. Companies such as D3…
You’ve heard the announcement, you’ve seen what the controller looks like, you’ve already formed half-informed opinions on the whole thing, but do you know just how the new Tony Hawk peripheral actually works? Josh Tsui, president of Robomodo (the developers behind the game), told Crecente in his latest “Well Played” column that “Playing on the…
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How has it taken this long for someone to finally send us a video of Left 4 Dead‘s survivors playing a surprisingly appropriate L7 cover in Rock Band 2? It makes no sense. But this in-Rock Band representation of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse deserves kudos for mostly nailing the look and feel of…
Braid co-creator Jonathan Blow argues that the pursuit of innovation is a prerequisite for making a great game. Calling the zeal for innovation in games an idea he used to promote but now considers “a little bit misdirected,” Braid designer Jonathan Blow recently described a possibly superior design goal: In a recent interview with The…
Microsoft isn’t quite ready to confirm the existence of Forza Motorsport 3, despite leaks and teases to the contrary, but some retailers are already saving a spot for it with an estimated Fall release. The latest non-confirmation of an impending Forza 3 comes from the German version of Amazon, with the online retailer listing the…
In 2007, Sony settled a long-running dispute with Immersion, a company holding patents for control pad rumble technology. The world moved on. But now, the lawsuit (or at least part of it) is back. A guy by the name of Craig Thorner, an engineer who held a few patents related to rumble tech, was a…
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