Gaming mice, there’s a market for. Headphones too. But be honest, when has your regular keyboard ever stood in the way of you and a good time when it comes to PC games? I mean, unless there are keys falling off, or it’s covered in some kind of ooze, a $20 keyboard normally does as…
A few weeks ago, a list of retailers from which you’d be able to pre-order Battlefield 3, surely the biggest PC game of the year, was released. Popular online shopfront Steam wasn’t among them. At the time, that didn’t seem too big a deal. Other recent EA games, like Alice: Madness Returns, had not been…
Most games would be happy to sell three million copies in their lifetime. For Minecraft to have accomplished such a feat before it’s even been properly released is one hell of an achievement.
Kenzo Tsujimoto is the CEO of Capcom, one of the world’s most famous video game developers and publishers. But that’s not all he does! He’s also mad for a drop of the ol’ claret. Oh, and he makes a mean okonomiyaki as well. Okonomiyaki is a versatile Japanese treat, something akin to a pizza, sandwich…
Brian has a story to tell you. Of love, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Brian’s story is totally true. Only, Brian’s mum, don’t read it, OK? I’ve never seen a work of fiction take the worlds of childhood fiction, video games and teen romance novels and just…span them. Like a giant bridge. Like a narrative colossus…
The upcoming Modern Warfare 3 is being developed by Infinity Ward. Or, at least, what’s left of it. The Wii version, however, is being developed by somebody else, somebody just as familiar with the series, if not quite as popular with its fans. That developer is Treyarch, the team behind Call of Duty 3, World…
Reef Entertainment, publishers of games like Sniper Elite, Rogue Trooper and Shadow Grounds, have picked up the rights to release games based on the Rambo movies. Sadly, none of them will feature certified badass Segata Sanshiro.[MCV]
The fashionistas at fashion site Fashionary have come up with a range of 8-bit fashions based on their favourite designs from their favourite fashion designers. Fashion. Fashion. Some of those included are Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Gucci, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton. All iconic designs, now pared down to something you’d see in Swords…
A demo is like a sample sachet of shampoo. A piece of sausage a lady at a supermarket offers you. It’s a small, free thing, designed to lure you into buying a product. It is not, and never should be, a product itself. Yet Capcom is testing the waters in Japan with a paid demo…
A few years back, it was all the rage for musicians to sue Activision over appearances in Guitar Hero. Courtney Love was doing it, The Romantics were doing it, No Doubt was doing it, even Axl Rose was in on the action Now, Johnny-come-lately Adam Levine, lead singer for Maroon 5, wants a slice, suing…
Before the internet put the entire planet on the same page, there were certain nations on Earth that were a little…slower than others. Places where the latest trends would turn up late, or turn up filtered through a few different sets of hands. Australia was one of those places. Owing to our extreme isolation, particularly…
You wouldn’t think a turn-based strategy game would be the type of thing you could call “beautiful”, but that’s exactly what cult 2008 PS3 title Valkyria Chronicles was. Every aspect of the game’s visual design, from intricate vehicles to a unique “pencilled” graphics filter to some wonderful costumes was a feast for the eyes, and…
Glu Mobile has a game on the iPhone called Gun Bros. It’s an arcade shooter, I’ve played it, it’s pretty fun. It’s also, sadly, one of a litany of games that are free to download then gimped so you have to pay/play for weeks for the upgrades necessary to advance. Which is fine if you…
The new Xbox 360 S model has always been available in two finishes: a glossy, reflective surface on the “big” consoles and a dull, matte finish on the smaller 4GB version. This Fall, that distinction gets a little less clear. You’ll soon be able to have the option of getting the larger 250GB version of…
Sony warned you this might happen. That the PlayStation Vita would only begin its global release rollout in 2011, not that it would be out everywhere in 2011. Hope you kept that in mind! PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has revealed today that the PlayStation Vita will only be released in Japan in 2011. It’ll be…
The word “hype”, in this business at least, in most cases refers to the buzz surrounding an upcoming video game. For fighting game fans, though, it has a very different and not-so-specific meaning. Which this classy little clip, put together at the weekend’s EVO 2011 tournament in Las Vegas, does a very good job of…
It’ll take more than Facebook-with-guns for people to sign up for Activision’s Call of Duty: Elite service. Which is probably why the publisher is bringing original content from two of the stars of Arrested Development to the platform. Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, who played brothers Michael and Gob Bluth on the funny-as-hell TV show,…
The latest update to multiplayer shooter brought with it a few secret surprises, in the form of unique items inspired by those used in games like Quake, Fallout, RAGE and Brink OK, so with QuakeCon this week it’s a Bethesda marketing stunt (having published the last two Fallout games and owning id Software, the creators…
World of Warcraft’s player numbers have been stalled since late 2008, and in decline for most of 2011. That’s the bad news for the game’s developers, Blizzard. The good news? It’s not a massive drop, as at June 30 the game still had 11.1 million players. The past quarter the game’s subscriber base had fallen…
Nintendo might have shown the Wii U off at this year’s E3, but that doesn’t mean the console is gearing up towards a launch in early 2012. All we know for now is Nintendo plans to release the Wii U sometime after April 1, 2012. With declining Wii and DS sales and the lacklustre performance…
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