Aspyr, a publisher best known for porting games to the PC & Mac, is today instead best known for supposedly firing a whole bunch of employees. According to a report on Big Download, “over 50 percent” of Aspyr’s workforce have recently been shown the door, with those remaining left to shamble around the company’s now-spacious…
Pac-Man Championship Edition, the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Namco’s classic arcade title, was far better than anyone was expecting. On Xbox. How it fares now it’s heading for the iPhone is anyone’s guess. I’ve played the original Pac-Man on iPhone and didn’t really like it, for the same reason I don’t really like most…
The World Cup is here, buy a big screen TV. Want to watch the Olympics? You’re gonna need a larger television. That’s how retailers typically do the hard sell. One retailer in Japan is doing something different: Using Final Fantasy XIII to promote TVs. Sofmap, a Japanese retailer with stores in Tokyo and Osaka, has…
With December 31 almost upon us, Google have released two lists, each showcasing the biggest iPhone games of 2009. The first has the ten top-selling games, and is dominated by established franchises and intellectual property. Indeed, only a single title – Firemint’s Flight Control – crashing the party. The other list highlights the ten games…
Gung ho, indeed. As seen on Famitsu.com.
That Dead Space 2 issue of Game Informer has hit people’s mailboxes, and it’s full of proper details on the game. Like the fact Isaac will now speak. Let us all take a look, yes? First up, the game is set on a space station called “Sprawl”, built upon the husk of one of Saturn’s…
The Square-Enix-published Cavia-developed action adventure NieR stars main character NieR and his AI-controlled partner Kainé, a character possessed by a demon and who likes to wear skimpy clothes. Kaine’s attitude and manner of speech are manly — but she/he/it emphasizes her female qualities through her racy fashion style. This aspect hasn’t been lost on Cavia,…
Project Natal has a name. Well, at least, a working title. But Sony’s motion controller does not have a name. Or a working title. It’s just…the motion controller. But does EA boss John Riccitiello know something we don’t? Speaking at the UBS 37th Annual Global Media Conference on Wednesday morning in New York, Riccitiello apparently…
You gotta admire the little guy’s spirit and gumption!
This is SurfaceScape, a project aimed at taking Microsoft’s “Surface” touch-screen table and bending it to the will of a bunch of tabletop gamers. Watch the clip below. Especially the first couple of minutes, with the practical demonstrations. Then imagine playing a game of Warhammer 40K on it. It’s like the perfect blend of video…
Nintendo graphics look fantastic — even on underpowered hardware, they’re great. Nintendo knows how to make characters and worlds with a strong visual flair. But what about hyper realistic graphics? The BBC put the question of why Nintendo’s games have a stylized look and not photo realistic graphics to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. His response:…
Look, I love Valkyria Chronicles. And am really looking forward to this sequel. And am all for honest screenshots. But seeing a publisher release screens of this quality puts a bit of a dampener on things. Before you ask, yes, these are proper screenshots, not magazine scans.
Let’s! We’ve already seen the U.S. television spot, so now why not check out a handful of the Japanese ones? It’s hallucinating-free.
Earlier this week, a French court dismissed Nintendo’s case against Divineo, a manufacturer of DS flash cartridges, on the grounds that Nintendo shouldn’t be locking people out of development on the handheld. Instead, the presiding judge advised Nintendo that it should adopt a more accessible development platform, like that you’d find on a PC. As…
You want boobs? Upcoming PSP game Queen’s Blade: Spiral Chaos has boobs. You don’t want others to see you want boobs? Fret not, this game has you covered. Literally. The Namco Bandai game, out later this month, features highly suggestive cutscenes — the game is rated 17 years-old-and-up, but nudity free. If players are watching…
Gizmodo have turned up an interesting job advert for Apple, the computing giants on the look-out for somebody to handle a project involving 3D graphics & environments, character design and multimedia experiences. All for the company’s iPhone. Now, on its own, that doesn’t count for much. While a project involving such things could be for…
Final Fantasy XIII would not be a Final Fantasy game if it didn’t was not packed with good looking dudes like Cid Raines and Rygdea. One of these screens, while new, does not belong. Oh, whichever one could it be?
Totilo thought The Saboteur was a little rough on PlayStation 3. Lucky. He could have been playing it on PC with an ATI graphics card, in which case it wouldn’t have worked at all. The game’s official boards have been flooded with complaints from users claiming that ATI’s 3k, 4k and 5k cards won’t run…
The director of action classics like The Killer and Face/Off, John Woo also dipped his big toe into video games with John Woo’s Stranglehold, a Midway title that was a sequel to his flick Hardboiled. The film reunited the director with his star Chow Yun-Fat. There are plans to turn it into a feature film…
If you were worried that Capcom would somehow skimp on the dramatic gestures when it came to Phoenix Wright Wii’s motion controls, don’t. They’re dramatic. As this enthusiastic family of legal eagles will now demonstrate.
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