Resident Evil 5 broke some records last week. This week, it’s breaking hearts, as it hangs onto the top two spots in the charts at the expense of some fresher titles. Like Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS, which despite being a GTA game on the DS could only manage a debut in…
The iPhone is a slick looking machine. More and more developers are starting to make iPhone games, and the platform could give the PSP and the DS a run for its money. But, according to insiders, the phone itself might be developer friendly, but Apple is not. Apple is forcing a rather nasty contractual amendment…
With developers Bizarre Creations now at Activision, the Project Gotham Racing series is dead in the water. But fans of the dormant franchise may want to take a look at Need for Speed: Shift. I know, I know. It feels as strange to type that as it must be for you to read it. But…
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It’s a curly question. And an important one. And one that’s been asked, with VentureBeat polling the industry to find out just what it thinks will be kind of a big deal in the future. The answer? An overwhelming 66% of respondents to the survey’s questions (which looks to be many of the industry’s big…
The Nintendo DSi, Nintendo’s latest DS iteration, has sold 2 million units in Japan. Earlier this month, three new DSi colors went on sale in The Land of the Rising Sun. The portable console went on sale on November 1, and as of December last year, the console had sold 1.28 million units in Japan.…
SEGA confirmed that its Gearbox-developed Aliens: Colonial Marines is still alive and kicking. As of January, the game was slated for the April-June window. Last November, rumors swirled that Gearbox had dropped Aliens: Colonial Marines — which Gearbox president Randy Pitchford dismissed. In the late April issue of UK game magazine Powerstation, there’s a teaser…
Dante’s Inferno was a poem. Now it’s not only a game, but a movie as well, with the movie based not on the poem, but on the game based on the poem. Sigh. Anyway, this movie now has a writer. And that writer is…Mr. Dan Harris. Who aside from writing comics for both Marvel &…
The PS3 has been out for a couple years now. Developers are getting a better handle on how to make PS3 games. Sony has announced that developing for the system is getting easier. Sony Computer Entertainment introduced new developer tools this March in North America and Europe/PAL territories at US $2,000 and €1,700 respectively, and…
.html Sure, there are some serious question marks over things like latency, but come on. It’d be a mean, mean person who wasn’t even a little excited by OnLive’s potential to change gaming. Cloud computing, transcending the need for a particular console? Playable on your TV, your PC, or even your Mac? It’s ground-breaking stuff.…
Maximum Risky is equal opportunity — as long as it’s risky, it’s fair game. We’ve already posted posted Resident Evil 5‘s sexy secret Sheva costume. It’s only right and just that we bring you this. Over at NSFW site Humplex, there’s a Resident Evil 5 flash game that is short on the zombies and long…
You may never buy a new video card ever again. Actually, the only PC gaming hardware you might ever need will cost you less than a Wii, should OnLive’s potential live up to its promise. OnLive is a new video games on demand service that may just change the way you play PC games. The…
The trailer for Xbox 360 title Ninja Gaiden II was a pure gore porn, complete with bloody slicing and dicing. The trailer of the PS3 reworking Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 seems, well, different. For starters, the action scenes don’t look like a butcher shop. In place of decapitation, the trailer shows innocuous red slashes and…
Rolling Stone magazine have taken a little side-trip away from rock n’ roll, and done a more Time magazine-like list of the “100 People Who Are Changing America”. Four (well, five) are developers. First up is Will Wright, at #84. Sure, The Sims and Spore are big sellers, but they’re seen by Rolling Stone as…
Previously we brought word of a new Super Robot Taisen ad from Japanese geek princess Shoko Nakagawa. From the making of pictures, we gathered there was saluting involved. We just didn’t know how much saluting. Watch the actual ad and making of in the above clip. The ad is super short. And the making of?…
The PC Gaming Alliance (in conjunction with researchers DFC Intelligence) have released their report on 2008. How the year went down, in their eyes, for the PC market. And while you’ll find many of the numbers and facts here carefully cherry-picked to paint the PC industry in as glowing a light as possible, you’ll also…
Japanese anime, music and game company Marvelous Entertainment has asking for a number of its employees to retire. The exact number, according to Marvelous, is “in the range of 20” workers (about 17 percent). Those who voluntarily retire between March 23 and April 3 will receive a special severance payment. Their retirement would commence on…
Left 4 Dead’s first sizeable piece of downloadable content – the “Survival Pack” – is due for release next month, Microsoft have confirmed. Speaking with CVG, Microsoft PR say the Xbox 360 update will be out on April 21. No official word on the PC version, but you’d expect it to hit on the same…
Pitcher Curt Schilling has announced he’s retiring from Major League Baseball. During his career, Schilling posted a win-loss record of 216-146 and chalked up 3,116 strikeouts. In his official blog, Schilling wrote: “The game always gave me far more than I ever gave it… The game was here long before I was, and will be…
EA Sports meister Peter Moore has a Madden challenge for you. What game improvements can you detect in the first screen shot from Madden NFL 10? If you don’t know, the answer is forthcoming. Mr. Moore proudly touts that this year’s edition of the two-decade-old footballer is hitting the “real sweet spot of development for…
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