Late last year, EA shut down the Battlefield Heroes beta, claiming they had a little house-cleaning to do before it could be re-opened. Well, cleaning’s done, because the beta is about to come back. If you’re interested in testing the game out – and really, it does look like a lot of fun – you…
Ubisoft are the proud new owners of Massive Entertainment, the developers behind World in Conflict. And Ubisoft have just announced a release date for World in Conflict: Soviet Assault. Good news, as the release of the expansion was up in the air following the demise of former publishers Sierra. Well, good news for PC owners.…
You may have read on the internet earlier today excited, happy reports of Resident Evil 5 somehow supporting 16 players via system link multiplayer. The evidence? None other than the game’s box art itself. Problem is, it was a typo. An innocent mistake. Capcom Europe have since rattled our mailbox to let us know: It…
Job cuts are part of those restricting and cost reduction measures Sony plans to kick into high gear. Scariest of all, they involve a clinical sounding “headcount reduction.” Earlier today Sony stated a more ambitious company-wide cost cutting initiative would get the corporation back on track. For its motion picture, music and game divisions, the…
Now, whether it’s a new trailer we don’t know. According to website Final Fantasy-XII.net, the clues to what the site can be found by decompiling the game site‘s flash. Forum member byoushinn discovered two files called “ff13-trailer-sd.flv” and “ff13-trailer-hd.flv” in the official FFXIII site’s flash. So two trailers, we assume, one HD. The countdown site…
As we’ve already heard tonight, Sony expect to make less money from their games division, thanks to lower than predicted sales. But just where are sales lower than expected? Let’s take a look. As you can see on the right, although software sales for the financial year will be down, Sony had already predicted lower…
Developer Cave’s horizontal shoot ’em up arcade title DeathSmiles is getting a sequel. It’s called, you’ll never guess, DeathSmiles 2. DeathSmiles 2 will be officially announced at AOU 2009 arcade amusement expo according to a recent Cave financial report. DeathSmiles 2 is slated to be on display. The game’s prequel first hit Japanese arcades in…
We’ve already heard from Japan’s Nikkei Daily what Sony plans to do to cut loses. Now, let’s hear from Sony. Today Sony announced measures to improve profitability and drive growth — in short, start making money again. The three areas of focus according to the corporate giant: • Structurally reform Sony’s core electronics operations to…
In the latest Bionic Commando podcast, there’s a list of rejected Dead Rising Xbox 360 titles — plus a response why there’s no photography in the upcoming Wii version. First, Bionic Commando producer and former head of localization Ben Judd runs through the rejected titles for the original Dead Rising. Keep in mind, these were…
The Resident Evil movies were B-grade stuff. The upcoming Street Fighter movie does not look promising. But Capcom are making more movies, and Lost Planet is one of them. And on that, they are not messing around. Capcom’s Toshihiro Tokumaru – the company’s character boss – has revealed that the budget for Avi Arad’s adaptation…
Sony has announced a revision of its consolidated forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. How’s the gaming division doing? While the company is forecasting ¥260 billion (US$2.95 billion) in operating income losses and ¥150 billion ($1.68 billion) in net income loses. According to Sony, “In the Game segment, operating income (loss) is…
And by “Top 99”, they don’t mean the most eminent minds in their respective fields. So, with 2008’s list all done, did any games types make it? And by games types, we mean real people. Short answer is…yes. And sorry Nintendo fans, the Smile Machine didn’t make it. But these two did. Seems lonely men…
This morning, we kinda hoped Noby Noby Boy would be out later this month. “Any day now”, even. Sadly, tonight we’ve got word that it won’t be out this month. It’ll be out next month. On February 19. And it’s February 19 for a worldwide, simultaneous release. So, around a month or so. Not too…
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games was a big hit for SEGA. Big hits typically mean one thing: Sequels. According to this “exclusive” for Spanish Nintendo magazine Nintendo Acción hints at Mario and Sonic teaming up again for a winter games version of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Here’s a translation from…
Once was a time a graphics card handled just that. Graphics. But these days? Nvidia cards already handle physics processing, and by next year both Nvidia and ATI cards might handling AI as well. Speaking with Custom PC, representatives from both graphics card manufacturers say that “they’re working on GPGPU-accelerated AI in games”, and that…
That SEGA countdown clock (oh how we hate countdown clocks!) may still be counting down, but the game’s already been revealed in this week’s Famitsu. The game is called Pole’s Big Adventure and being produced by Takao Miyoshi (Phantasy Star Universe). The game is a tongue-planted-firmly in cheek send-up of retro side-scrolling Famicom games. The…
Of all their reprehensible practices, GameStop’s trade-in process may be the worst. Pity, then, that so few of you are avoiding it, as sales of pre-owned gear in 2008 were up, up, up. The company’s sales as a whole were up 22%. If you think that was driven by sales of new games over the…
Upcoming Yuusha 30 (Brave 30) has players save the world in four different game modes — 30 seconds at a time. Each mode has its own main character and gameplay mode: A brave warrior in a side-scrolling action game, princess in a shooting game, a demon king in a strategy game and a knight in…
The European community site for LittleBigPlanet has been updated to reveal what’s in store for the game’s DLC in the coming weeks. And what’s coming is mostly festive, partly in-house advertising. With Chinese New Years, Valentines Day and Groundhog Day all on the immediate horizon, the game will be celebrating with costumes for each holiday.…
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford (aka “Metal God”) has copyrighted the title of a video game: Metal God. Clever, huh. The trademark was filed on January 11 of this year and covers “computer games; video games; and game controllers for computer games.” Details about said games are scant, and it might be to protect “Metal…
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