Watchmen’s out this week. Not interested? You may instead want to spend those hard-earned Pounds/Euros/Dollars on Prince of Persia’s “Epilogue” DLC, then, or the delayed “Femme Fatale” pack for Street Fighter IV. Rounding out the week’s content is the usual parade of music game DLC, Burnout Paradise’s “Toy Car” downloadable content and a couple of…
Financial forecasts slashed, stocks plunging. Times are hard for Japanese role-playing-game maker Square Enix. While some other execs might pass the buck and make cuts everywhere except for their own salaries, Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada is not some other exec. In a recently released briefing from last month, Wada explained, “In recognition of the latest…
Sensing that there will be grown-ups willing to part with serious cash money in the wake of Resident Evil 5’s release, Capcom are continuing a long-running trend of theirs: releasing Resident Evil dress-ups. They’ve been a mainstay of Capcom’s Japanese marketing strategy for years now, and with Resident Evil 5 now out over there, it’s…
Upcoming disaster game I Am Alive was being developed by independent French Darkworks for publisher Ubisoft. Was because Ubisoft has yanked Darkworks off the project and is finishing the game itself. Multi-platform I Am Alive is set in Chicago after a major earthquake. It’s a more realistic take on the survival genre, showing in first-person…
Red Steel 2 is coming. But did you know the version we’ll be getting sometime in the next 12 months or so is the second Red Steel 2 that’s been in development? Yes, before the current version – in development at Ubisoft Paris – there was an older one, being worked on by Ubisoft Montreuil.…
Watch out parents! The DSi could put your kids at the mercy of child predators alert Arkansas police. A local news report points out the the DSi doesn’t only have a web browser, but it has a web browser and an embedded camera. Cue the hyper-active alarm bells! “Now not only can the children be…
EA’s exclusivity deal with the NFL is bad news. Why? Competition is good for the consumer. FIFA only got better as a soccer game, for example, because of competition from Konami’s Pro Evo. So those hoping to see a return to the days when other companies could make games that not only competed, but outperformed…
We’re giving away a copy of Xbox 360 game Race Pro. Racing stripes make race cars go faster. Face it, they do. Just look at Race Pro’s box art. Here’s the contest: Put racing stripes on something – anything*! Racing stripes on a phone? It goes faster. Racing stripes on a cat? It goes faster.…
Need a new reference point for the old saying “delusions of grandeur”? Look no further than Tekken 6 head Katsuhiro Harada, who thinks his game might help influence the way Microsoft makes the next Xbox. Yes, really. Speaking with British magazine X360, Harada said: It is a challenge to fit this game onto one DVD…
When Nintendo introduces a new product, it phases out the older model. Presently, though, handheld consumers have two choices: the DS Lite or the DSi. Does that mean eventually we’ll only have one choice? When game site MCVUK ask Nintendo’s David Yarnton if the company was planing on phasing out the DS Lite, he replied:…
Yeah, you knew the members of Metallica did some motion-capture work for Guitar Hero: Metallica, but did you know they did it while performing every song from the game "live"? So why didn’t they just film them, save themselves a few months of animation work? Probably as a courtesy. Digital James Hetfield is far spunkier…
Korean gamers don’t just love playing, but watching others play games, too! Korean network MBC Game has been broadcasting real-time-strategy game StarCraft matches for year. So broadcasting RTS Halo Wars makes sense. MBC Game also broadcasts Warcraft III, Tekken and Counter-Strike. As game site Siliconera points out, all three home consoles are available in Korea;…
Star Ocean 4 producer and frustrated erotic game developer Yoshinori Yamagishi really has faith in the power of video games to tell a story. Sure, there are challenges, but Yamagishi thinks game storytelling can eventually superseded other mediums. “As opposed to films, books and TV, as a medium it is more of a challenge to…
The Washington State Senate has gone to the trouble of approving a bill that serves as nothing but a tip of the hat for the creators of Penny Arcade, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Senate resolution 8640 – introduced on March 5 and passed on March 5 – honours the contribution the pair (both originally…
Maya Miyamae from Japanese idol pop group CoCo released on solo single. This is it. Yume e no Position (Chun-Li’s Theme) was released in December 1992 as Street Fighter II mania swept Japan. Catchy, no? No, sadly. 歌詞ついてたんだ [はちま起稿]
PlayStation 3 owners looking to get their hands on Red Alert 3 have been a patient bunch. And their patience looks to have been rewarded with a superior version of the game. Along with a bunch of free stuff that was only previously available to those who picked up the special edition of the PC…
The Dubai bubble might have burst, but don’t tell Microsoft. The company is rolling out an Xbox 360 corner of Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 3 Emirates Business Lounge. The new “e-zone” is slated to get a custom Xbox 360 racing simulator — along with Microsoft Surface. At least business execs have something to amuse themselves…
Valve are like master chefs: always dabbling, always sticking their fingers in the pot, making sure everything is just right. Which is why they released a big Team Fortress 2 patch today. There are bug fixes, there are gameplay tweaks, and there are slight changes to the Spy’s abilities, for whom side-stabbing has returned and…
With the release of Street Fighter IV, many places are seeing something they haven’t in a long time: Street Fighter tournaments. Take Malaysia, the country just hosted its first Street Fighter IV tourney, which apparently also marks the first SF tournament in ten years. While Street Fighter tournaments never died in places like Japan and…
Re: the Ghostbusters game, Sigourney Weaver is on record as saying she was never contacted about a Ghostbusters game. The game’s developers, however, tell a different story. Speaking at a press event in Stockholm, Sweden yesterday, Brendan Goss – from developers Terminal Reality – revealed that the Aliens star was indeed offered a part. Which…
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