Remember those sweet Terran Marine costumes from Starcraft II’s worldwide launch? They weren’t just conjured. They had to be made. Atelier Fantastic’ Art were the team responsible, the French costume and special effects studio commissioned by Blizzard to build not one, not two, but a ton of the suits for the various launches (and subsequent…
The one big surprise from yesterday’s 3DS reveals from Nintendo was the fact that, even in Japan, the handheld would be missing the 2010 holiday season. Turns out it wasn’t supposed to be that way. During a briefing session for industry analysts, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told those in attendance that his company had originally…
NECA make some nice Assassin’s Creed action figures, yeah, but Square Enix’s ones are nicer This is the Japanese company’s take on Ezio, the hero of Assassin’s Creed II, part of its Play Arts line of deluxe action figures. Due for release in November – just in time for Ezio’s second game, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood…
Beyond Good & Evil, one of the best (and yet under-appreciated) games of the previous hardware generation, is to receive a well-deserved re-release in high definition, Ubisoft has revealed. It won’t just be a quick and dirty cash-in, though; level textures and character models are being improved, it’ll run at 1080p and the game’s score…
The Xbox 360’s Fall Update will be with us soon, but for some, a preview went live earlier today, bringing with it a whole range of new additions and features. Those in the preview will already be testing all this stuff out, but for those who aren’t – and are only now joining us –…
Halloween is right around the corner, and while for some it means costumes and candy, for us, it means a few weeks of pumpkins with video game characters carved into them. That top shot of Red Dead hero John Marston looks pretty good. The shot below, of what the thing looks like lit up in…
Jens Stober thought making a game about the Berlin Wall would be a good way to help teach kids about one of the less pleasant aspects of modern German history. Other Germans disagree. Stober’s game, 1378km (named after the length of the border between East and West Germany), has ticked off a wide variety of…
The Nintendo 3DS has a cute little party trick, where it can take pictures of two people’s faces and combine them into a single image. A hybrid. Which would be cute were the first example not two Nintendo big-wigs. President Satoru Iwata and Mario designer Shigeru Miyamoto are the proud parents in this case, the…
Nintendo has released some new screenshots for upcoming Zelda title Skyward Sword. And is it just us, or are things looking a little…altered? The original screenshots released during E3 showed a game with bright blue skies and an even brighter green tunic on our hero. These screens, from what look like the same areas, are…
Whenever anything makes the jump to 3D, you can expect a load of gimmicks trying to show off the new tech. So it is with this new trailer for Metal Gear Solid 3 on the 3DS. Lunging snakes? Yup. Buzzing hornets? Yup. Aggravated sexual tension amongst a field of flowers? Yup, got that too. All…
To go with that gameplay footage we saw earlier, here are four new screens of the 3DS port of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. The first one is probably the most important, as it shows off the game’s dual-screen controls, with the new touch-screen inventory system on display. The rest? They show that…
Square Enix’s PSP shooter The 3rd Birthday was at the Tokyo Game Show, but its trailer was only shown behind closed doors. That was then. This is now, and the trailer is up for public viewing.
The decision to bring Xbox classic Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath to the PS3 and not the Xbox 360 seemed a strange one, what with the game making its name on the Xbox. Turns out there’s a very good reason for this. Developers Just Add Water have stated on their blog “we are NOT PS3 Exclusive. As…
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo will next month release this rather fetching custom DSi XL console. Due out on October 28, it’ll sell for ¥18,000 (USD$215), comes in a lovely box, and is emblazoned with an even lovelier little graphic to commemorate the occasion. With the 3DS on the…
Press play on this clip and you’ll see gameplay footage from just about every big title we know is coming to the 3DS, from Mario to Zelda to Metal Gear to Street Fighter to Resident Evil to… …Dead or Alive to Kid Icarus to Animal Crossing to Mario Kart to Starfox, they’re all in here,…
Resident Evil: Revelations isn’t the only BioHazard game on the way for Nintendo’s latest handheld; it’s been revealed at a press conference earlier today that Resident Evil: Mercenaries will also be released for the system. It’s not a new game, though; rather, it takes the popular “bonus” game modes (and maps) from Resident Evils 4…
Ever wonder why there were no Game Boy games made available on the Wii’s Virtual Console? Why, it’s because Nintendo was saving that for the upcoming 3DS. The company revealed at its 2010 press conference earlier today that the 3DS will have its own Virtual Console, from which you’ll able to download both Game Boy…
After months of speculation, Nintendo has today revealed the launch date for the new 3DS handheld at a press conference in Tokyo And that date, at least for the Japanese market, is February 26, 2011. The 3DS will retail there for ¥25,000 (USD$300). Two colours will be available at launch: “Aqua Blue” and “Cosmos Black”…
Finally delivering on something that really should have been made available last year, Nintendo today revealed a new controller that combines the original Wii Remote and its add-on, Wii MotionPlus, in the same casing. This confirms reports from earlier in the week that such a device was incoming. The new controller is called the Wii…
At the Nintendo Conference 2010 in Tokyo, the company has shown off the final, retail design of the upcoming 3DS handheld. And…it’s almost exactly the same (a colour change to the analog nub notwithstanding)! Not really that big a surprise, since the model present at E3 not only looked “final”, but also went down well…
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