Treyarch wasn’t really interested in the business of making cell phone games, at least not before the iPhone. But the tremendous success of Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies on the iPhone has the developer, best known for their hardcore console shooters, reconsidering. “We are very interested (in bringing more games to the iPhone),”…
A person writes in to UK Daily Star sex advice columnist Just Jane. He’s got some problems. He’s dodging the consequences by playing Xbox. Jane says that’s no good. The problem: He was caught having sex with his boss’ secretary in the boardroom, was fired, can’t get the courage to confess any of this to…
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Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Trauma. In A Sentence Trauma is the point-and-click love child of Kafkaesque confusion and Myst exploration. State Of Completion The PC game will…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: X10 Is it any good? Borrowing it from a friend. Enjoy the sixteen hour work day you have ahead of yourself, Crecente! 🙁 What you missed last night Imperial Hot Has Heard of Imperial Hot Most World Of Warcraft Players Don’t Go Past Level 10 Something’s Not Quite Right About…
Normally, I don’t write these until Friday Australian time. Yet here it is, Thursday night, and I’m writing up the PAL PlayStation Store update. What could possibly compel Sony to release it half a day early? Turns out, not much. The Heavy Rain demo is officially out, but then we told you how to get…
Cliff Bleszinski, designer of the Gears of War series, was rumored to be doing a horror game. He is not doing a horror game. “I’m NOT doing a horror game,” the developer, known as Dude Huge, tweeted. “I don’t know how that rumor started.” Well, I’ll tell you! It started in EGM’s “Quartermann” rumor column,…
Not only are used copies of Final Fantasy XIII not worth very much money, new copies of the game are cheap, cheap, cheap. Great news if you haven’t bought the game. The PS3 game went on sale on December 17 for ¥9,240 (US$102). Shops have been buying back the game for ¥1,500. Retailer Sofmap in…
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With 3D becoming increasingly dominant, people are starting to ask questions that they never would have before. Questions like: Are you considering releasing the game in 3D? That’s what some dude asked Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase. “We don’t know how possible it is to build the game in 3D but we are interested…
As of right now, you can use an Xbox 360 to play games, watch movies, listen to music and communicate with people. In the future, however, Microsoft would like you to also use it for health care. The R&D guys at Microsoft Research are hard at work finding ways for new uses for the Xbox…
The Hughes brothers, best known for their urban crime drama Menace II Society and more recently The Book of Eli, will be bringing the cyberpunk Akira manga to the silver screen, says New York magazine. The screen version will be penned by Iron Man writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.…
According to a report conducted by research company TNS and sports broadcaster ESPN, there simply aren’t enough ads in today’s sports games. Using EA’s major titles as an example, the report found that 38% of sports gamers spend as much time playing their favourite sports games as they do watching their favourite sport. It also…
Imperial Hot is our nickname for Square Enix president Yoichi Wada. Big important guy like him, managing an international corporation, he probably has no idea about the internet meme we started, right? Wrong. See Yoichi Wada has begun twittering (feel free to follow him, he’s @yoichiw) and answering questions in Japanese from regular folks. Questions…
EA has released some new screenshots for World Cup 2010, featuring England v Holland, Spain v Italy, USA v Mexico, Germany v Portugal and GIANT WAYNE ROONEY HEAD. Get a look at those nostrils. They alone could almost carry the weight of England’s expectations. Almost. On a side note, for USA fans, those won’t be…
By “shooters”, I’m not talking about third-person or first-person shooters. I’m talking shooting games. You know, bullet hell. Late last month, Osaka-based developer SNK Playmore, best known for The King of Fighters series, released a vertical KOF shooting game called KOF Sky Stage. The title features fighting characters like Kyo and Mai Shiranui in a…
Sensing that Capcom and Hasbro were never going to release an official version, Nicholas Endean decided to make his own Monopoly: Resident Evil Edition. And make one he has. No expense has been spared: two boards have been crafted, and Nicholas has even gone to the trouble if re-writing every single Chance and Community Chest…
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You may think that, in 2010, TV show Survivor was totally irrelevant. Without interest. And you’d be right, except for this: a submission tape from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter designer Christian Allen. Aside from designing video games, it seems Christian is also a wilderness nut, Alaska native, former Marine and bear shouter. Oh, and poncho…
Inazuma Eleven is the soccer role-playing game from Professor Layton and Dragon Quest IX developer Level-5. Embedded is the anime’s opening. The Inazuma Eleven debuted back in October 2008. The kids love it. レベルファイブの新卒者向け会社説明会にお邪魔してきました—目指すはエンターテイメントブランドとしての”世界一”（レイトン教授と魔神の笛） [4Gamer via ANN]
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