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Sony Freezing, Cutting Employee Wages
Sony have, for the first time in company history, “mothballed” employee wages and bonuses in an attempt to stem the company’s financial bleeding. This means there’ll be no wage increases over the next 12 months. For anyone, from the tea ladies all the way up to Sir Howard, and everyone (including the PlayStation folks) in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony And Namco Bandai Team Up To Create… Gundam Video On Demand Channel?
When Sony and Namco Bandai entered into the Cellius joint venture in early 2007, the companies didn’t say they’d just be working on games. No, Cellius would produce “interactive and ‘surprising’ contents.” They weren’t lying. Apparently, one of the first “contents” to come from the collective brain of Cellius is a video on demand-like service,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cities XL Screens, Vids Tease Endless Possibilities
Cities XL is a game that has one purpose in life: to fill the void left by Maxis and Tilted Mill with a city-building sim worthy of its predecessors. To look at these screens and videos, you might almost think that they’ve done it – right down to the shiny top on the Chrysler Building.…
By AJ Glasser Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Unreal Tournament 3 Goes Titanic On PlayStation Store
After suffering a brief delay, Epic Games will bring the Unreal Tournament 3 Titan Pack to content hungry PlayStation 3 owners tomorrow. What does it bring to the table? A great many things. The free download adds two gameplay types (Greed and Betrayal), plus “the Titan mutator, 19 maps, the Link Station and X-Ray Field…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shooting Game Capsule Toys In Glorious Color
Toy maker Yujin gave us a sneak peek at the third round of Shooting Game Historica capsule toys way back in October. Today, we have a release date and eye-blistering color versions of each. With some of the bigger names out of the way in the first two series, games like R-Type, Fantasy Zone, Gradius,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Is This Artwork From Mistwalker’s Next Game?
The official Mistwalker web site features brand new artwork from character designer Kimihiko Fujisaka, artwork that may be an early look at the role-playing game developer’s newest project. We’ve got plenty of RPG staples here: ludicrously unwearable armor, gargantuan swords, dragons, presumably tormented male protagonist. What we don’t have: much of an inkling about what…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Do Ghosts Believe in You?
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Do You Believe In Ghosts? A nurse came to my home today to give me a physical for my life insurance. That is surely a sign of my age. I can’t imagine you’d need a physical to get Death Lottery, I mean life insurance. I’d like to believe in ghosts,…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Picross 3D Already Spawning Sick Cubic Filth
Rittai Picross has been out for just a week in Japan, but the Nintendo DS puzzle game is already responsible for vile, user-created content. Pigs and bunnies… together? What kind of world is this? Like the 2D version of Picross for the Nintendo DS, users can create their own puzzles for others to unlock. There…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ex-Nintendo Man Howard Phillips Finds A Seat At Chair
Howard Phillips, former “President” of the Nintendo Fun Club and Nintendo figurehead, has a new gig. He’s the new studio director at Chair Entertainment, the development house snatched up by Epic Games last year. Phillips other gigs include a stint as one half of the comic duo Howard and Nester, a long-running feature in Nintendo…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
More MadCatz Street Fighter Tourney Sticks Coming
It’s unclear where else the Street Fighter IV fight sticks will be showing up, but Capcom is saying that they’ve been told they will soon be getting more of the MadCatz controllers. Many of you have kept your orders in place trusting that we would do everything we could to get you the much sought-after…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco To Spin Tales Of Graces, Tales Of Versus
You keep buyin’ ’em, Namco Bandai‘s Tales Studio is gonna keep makin’ ’em. The Tales Of series of role-playing games, that is. The publisher of said series has registered trademarks for two new entries. Expect both Tales Of Graces and Tales Of Vs. to appear on a console or portable gaming system within the next…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Atlus Announces Crimson Gem Saga Again
While Atlus originally announced the PlayStation Portable role-playing game Crimson Gem Saga last month, now that they’ve got screens and box art they’re announcing it again. According to Atlus, Crimson Gem Saga is a “Return to essential RPG fun” for the PSP. You’ve got your hand-drawn 2D graphics, an engaging fantasy storyline, and an easy-to-use…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sci Fi Channel Partners with Acclaim For Casual Games
Sci Fi has partnered with Accalim Games and ZooKazoo to develop a series of online science fiction and fantasy games for their website. The first game, Tales of Magic, is expected to launch on SciFi.com this spring. The deal is an offshoot of Sci Fi Ventures, a subsidiary of the television channel that hopes to…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Titmouse Games Announces First Game, Existence
This is Titmouse Games, everyone. Say “Hi!” The newly formed video game development arm of Titmouse today announced its plans to make games, starting with the original console action role-playing game Seven Haunted Seas. You may or may not know Titmouse from its previous work, including animation on series like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Afro…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Original Diablo Producer Thinks Diablo III Isn’t Diablo Enough
Someone fetch original Diablo producer Bill Roper a rainbow unicorn t-shirt, as the former VP of Blizzard North explains that Diablo III just doesn’t feel like a Diablo game. Roper worked with Blizzard back when there was a Blizzard North. His studio was responsible for the Diablo series, while Blizzard proper in Irvine, California worked…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
We Have a Pair of Playstation Air Force 1s, Want Em?
Yes, we have a pair. No, you can’t have them. Well, not unless you’re willing to make a donation. We’ll be auctioning off these amazing Air Force 1 Playstation 2 Tenth Anniversary shoes (size 11.5) on eBay later this month, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to anti-Teen Dating Violence organization Jennifer Ann’s Group.…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Beyonce Shills For Rhythm Heaven, Loves Guitar Hero
Nintendo’s latest spokesceleb? Beyonce! She’s hopefully going to sell millions of copies of the extremely bootylicious Rhythm Heaven when it comes stateside by kicking back with her Nintendo DSi and having fun on-screen. Beyonce’s celebrity endorsement of the Nintendo DS certainly isn’t the first. She joins other professional famous people like Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Vin Diesel Begged For Dark Athena Multiplayer
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena might have been a purely single player affair, if not for the begging of a large, muscle-bound bald man. Speaking with G4’s All Access, Vin talks about his gaming history for a bit before discussing his lastest run as Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Songbird Appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
The website for Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 has an interesting story up about how Thunderbolt’s Songbird, revealed today as appearing in the, was designed for the upcoming title. Steven Nelson (Senior Animator), Bryan Shutt (Art Director), Dave Phillips (Concept Artist) talk about how they settled on the look for the siren in the game. Songbird’s…
By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2009 - Reviews
Empire: Total War Review: A Whiff Of Grapeshot
Hrm. An Empire: Total War review. Where to start, where to start… It’s tough! Tough like trying to sum up War & Peace in Haiku. But let’s give it a shot! Sega and The Creative Assembly’s Empire: Total War is dense. It takes the existing Total War game model of turn-based strategy and real-time tactics,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009