Blu-ray won the format war. One HD game console (the PS3) already uses the format. The other one (the Xbox 360) doesn’t. Microsoft says it plans to keep it that way. We’ve heard this before. Microsoft isn’t going Blu-ray. Still, Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, lays out three years why the…
It’s OK, geography fanboys. We know the UK is technically part of Europe. But we’re dealing with two different dates here – one for Britain, one for the continent – so cut us some slack. According to several British retailers, Killzone 2 will be out in Ol’ Blighty on February 27. Sony aren’t coming out…
UK game publisher Eidos says Tomb Raider: Underworld sales are below forecasts. Eidos blames the cratering US economy. We blame the high kicks. According to the BBC, North American game retailers are already selling Tomb Raider: Underworld at a sizable discount — not a bad thing if you want to buy the game, but not…
Slim pickings this week, as the PlayStation store warms itself back up after a frosty, lonely winter. Just the one demo, some rubbish music game tracks and some practical, if unheralded, PSP content. Pick of the bunch is probably the LotR Conquest demo, along with the PSP’s Go! Explore stuff, since if you have to…
PC computer game Pangya is coming to the PSP and bringing a lot of costumes with it — about 1,300 costumes, actually. Like, this bikini outfit. Tecmo previously brought Pangya to the Nintendo Wii. Dubbed Fantasy Golf Pangya Portable, the PSP game allows up to 8 players for multi-play golfing. It’ll be out April 9…
We’re big fans of Flashbang. Big fans of Velociraptor Safari. And big fans of the iPhone! Best way to combine all three would be an iphone Velociraptor Safari, but this is almost as good. It’s Raptor Copter (iTunes link), a new iPhone game by Flashbang that takes the spirit of 3D, jeep-based Raptorcide and moves…
Remember when you were a kid, and going to Chuck E. Cheese. Play some Pole Position, a little skeet ball. Back then, it was something Atari founder Nolan Bushnell could be proud of. Now? Now, now it’s not. According to PennLive.com, the amount of violence (among adults!) at Chuck E. Cheese continues to be high.…
Let us find out. Video Game Price Charts have crunched the numbers to come up with which games, publishers and platforms had the best (and worst) resale values in 2008. Tracking the sale prices of games over both eBay and Amazon then comparing them to the original recommended retail price, VGPC’s results show that amongst…
Ask anyone with eyes, they’ll tell you: Valkyria of the Battlefield: Gallian Chronicles looks great. And now, it now only appease your pupils, but also your pockets. On March 5, the PLAYSTATION 3 the Best version hits Japanese retailers for ¥3,330 (US$37). Buy it, your eyes will thank you.
Cave Story Wii isn’t the same Cave Story you already know and already love. For starters, it’s getting a graphical facelift, character art and all. But that’s not all; it’s also getting downloadable content. Yes, posted on the game’s official blog yesterday was the following: We’re still working away at Cave Story trying to make…
Hilton Hotels — the PSP game. The Hilton Garden Inn developed an employee training tool called ULTIMATE TEAM PLAY (their caps, not ours.) Here’s a description of the game: ULTIMATE TEAM PLAY puts the player in control of key Hilton Garden Inn hotel roles including front desk, housekeeping, maintenance and food service. As players roam…
A government agent has accidentally leaked several gigs of personal, business and government files all over the internet, including business papers, possible insider schemes, horrid poems, pictures of ‘girlfriends,’ and an Xbox game proposal. Earlier this month, the Japanese bureaucrat opened several well-known trojans that are often embedded in files found in filesharing programs Winny…
New Resident Evil 5 Screens! That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are five screens and not a single one shows a zombie riding a dirt bike. Sloppy, Capcom!
If you’re a new PlayStation 3 owner, don’t look at this week’s PlayStation Store update as the standard. We tend to get much better than this. Sure, there are new games, but it’s light. There’s plenty of stuff to buy, actually, just not much in the way of freebies and . For the full list,…
Popular Japanese idol Shoko Nakagawa has varied tastes: Playing Final Fantasy VII, cosplaying Super Robot Taisen and putting her cat’s head in her mouth. She’s an otaku, but is she an otaku’s otaku? In an interview with Otaku USA‘s Patrick Macias, Nakagawa says she might not be considered an otaku by the hardcore. “I play…
Blizzard are in a pickle! They’ve got two designs down on paper for the game’s Protoss Dark Templar unit. And just can not decide which one to use in the game. So they want you to. For the next month or so, visitors to the game’s official website will be able to cast their vote…
A Nintendo patent from March 2006 shows that the company originally intended a Wii-mote style device for the GameCube. A patent drawing shows how the Wii Remote could link with the GC. A Wavebird-like adapter would be attached to the GameCube console, which would interface with the wand remote. There appears to be two separate…
Half-Life 2? Only one of the best games ever. Sadly, it’s getting on in years. It’s not ugly, by any stretch of the imagination, but in 2009, it can look better. Which is where the latest build of the FakeFactory mod for the game comes in. For a few years now, FakeFactory have been updating…
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has crunched data for December sales, and tallied up the ten biggest games in Japan. Wonder what’s number one with a bullet? Sure ya do! Here’s the list for the December 1 to December 28, 2008 sales period: 1. DISSIDIA (PSP) Square Enix Launch: 12/18/2008 December Sales: 660,262 units Total Sales: 660,262…
.html?r=1&type=wmv Couple of new Killzone 2 clips from the CES showroom floor (so excuse the quality). The first one, showing the game’s ragdoll death physics, is good for a chuckle. The second one? Shows some bugs. .html?r=1&type=wmv Not technical bugs, mind you. Bug bugs, in a clip showcasing some of the finer details of the…
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