When City of Heroes developers Cryptic were bought by Atari last year, it was said they’d be working on a single, secret game due in 2011. Now it turns out they’re working on several games. Atari’s yearly fiscal report has revealed that Cryptic “is working on the development of a series of new games based…
Last year, in a major coup for the fledgling company, Atari managed to hire former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison to serve as President. Now? Now he’s no longer President. According to a statement made by Atari as part of the company’s fiscal year report: Because of a shift of business operations to the…
Don’t believe everything you see on television — even when it’s reported by a major Japanese television network — and especially when reported by TBS, it seems. Earlier, it was reported by TBS News that the Ethics Organization of Computer Software had voluntarily agreed to halt the sale and manufacture of “rape-type” games. Too bad…
Having first teased the game a few months ago, id’s John Carmack has provided a slew of details on the company’s upcoming iPhone port of their classic PC shooter Doom. Carmack goes into exhaustive detaill on how the game has been nipped and tucked to both work and look good on the handheld, but the…
Here’s the first trailer for DJ Hero. Until now, I’ve tried to keep an open mind about the whole thing. But after seeing this? Hrm.
If her looks don’t kill, then her superhuman strength or her melee morphing arms will. She’s KOS-MOS from Xenosaga, and we love her. But do you love her? Rally the troops, tally the troops! KOS-MOS has made it to the final round. She’s up against robot assassin HK-47. Stiff competition. He’s a drone, she’s got…
Need pictures to go with the words explaining how DJ Hero will actually work? These screenshots should do, showing it works…well, a lot like Guitar Hero, really. Which is what you’d expect. As for DJ Shadow, who features in all these screens…well, I’ve seen Shadow live a few times over the past decade, and never,…
We don’t know if Mass Effect‘s Shephard is dead or a Geth or what. But we do know this is a brand new Mass Effect 2 trailer. Right here. On your computer screen. Lovely.
A few days ago a trademark for “Brink” popped up from developer Bethesda. What is “Brink”? It’s a game, and this is its teaser trailer. Let’s see there’s a futuristic city scape, an eye ball and some blood, but no gameplay footage. The title is multi-platform and will be out “Spring 2010.” That’s next year,…
4mm Games – the new studio formed by the two of the guys who founded Rockstar – have announced their debut game. And it’s called Def Jam Rapstar, a hip-hop karaoke game. As is par for the course with these stupid pre-E3 announcements, there’s not much else being announced aside from the game itself. No…
PC game Rapelay might have been released legally in Japan three years ago, but that didn’t stop it from causing an international brouhaha. It’s boiled over, the Japanese game industry has taken action. It’s planned for sale and manufacture of “rape-type” games to be banned. According to Japan’s TBS News, an industry governing body comprised…
Kojima Productions has been launching a seemingly endless stream of countdown clocks for an upcoming title. Ungh. Still! They seem to be offering clues. Let’s recap. To date, these letters have appeared on the Kojima “Next” site: “S” (or number “5”) “R” “P” “E” “C” “@” (or a lowercase “e”) “O” (or number “0”) The…
Wait, isn’t E3 next week? And isn’t this game kind of a big deal for Sony? Ah, whatever. It’s not the first game to blow cover this week, and it probably won’t be the last.
And it continues. On and on and on. Kojima Productions updated its countdown page today, revealing this image. Is it Raiden? Is it Gray Fox? Is it Sunny? Who knows? Hideo Kojima does, that’s who. Him and his minions. There are also new letters: C, O, P. There’s the number six, too. The site also…
Minor fluctuations in the currently tepid Japanese console race don’t make this week’s Media Create chart all that exciting, to be honest. A slightly slinking PlayStation presence and marginally expanded Nintendo one isn’t exactly thrilling. But neither was the software contest, which saw a pair of Nintendo DS titles beating out the Japanese release of…
Yeah, you read that right. 300,000 players. A job listing issued by Microsoft’s says exactly that, indicating that the game will be for the 360 and that it will be in “real-time”. The job is specifically looking for somebody who is “an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an…
Publisher Namco Bandai doesn’t seem quite ready to reveal its entire E3 lineup for 2009, but it has let us know which of its games are definitely going to be there. Any surprises? No, silly. Why would there be surprises in a partially-revealed lineup of games that Namco Bandai is showing off at E3? It’s…
Namco Bandai and tri-Crescendo’s role-playing game Fragile is coming to North American Wiis later this year, thanks to publisher XSEED. If you were a fan of Baten Kaitos or Eternal Sonata, this one’s for you. According to IGN, XSEED has picked up Namco Bandai of America’s publishing slack, with Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon…
MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band is getting a little heavier the week after E3, as the game’s community ‘zine has revealed that a dozen new Iron Maiden tracks will be released as downloadable content. The Iron Maiden track pack brings 12 classic tracks and new live concert performances to Rock Band and Rock Band…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Mini-Bash’s Favorite TV Show Is… I can’t believe we’re only three days away from what is shaping up to be quite a spectacular E3. There’s so much news that it’s popping loose before the show even before it gets underway. I think all of the big three are going to…
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