Anyone fancy a free copy of the rather excellent Chime, for the PC? I’ll be dumping ten Steam codes via Twitter later tonight.[UPDATE – All gone! Sorry!]
We’re live at EA’s Tokyo Game Show press conference. Why don’t you join us, see what EA has to show. There are a few technical difficulties in the venue, so instead of our fancy liveblogging tech we’ll be doing this the old-fashioned way. So, yeah, hit F5 to refresh! – The first game being shown…
Fresh from Japan and some pre-Tokyo Game Show festivities, here’s a trailer, screenshots and some art for EA’s sequel to Alice.
The Wii sure ain’t what it used to be, this handy chart highlighting that for Nintendo’s home console, 2010 hasn’t been as happy as the glory days of 2006, 2007, 2008 or 2009. The image below shows the twelve worst months for Wii hardware sales since the console launched in late 2006. Four of those…
Someone has gone to the trouble of concocting a fake trailer for a live-action Pokemon movie, complete with in-progress watermarks and surprisingly decent special effects. We love it. The moody music, the dramatic over-acting, the impressive evolving effects; as an exercise in fan fantasy, it’s a blast. A real movie like this, today, would of…
As Nintendo of America begins to stretch its legs in its swank new offices in Redmond, Washington, the company’s old offices – and a piece of gaming history – are now nothing but a pile of rubble. The building where the company began its assault on the American market with the Nintendo Entertainment System –…
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are two of the most important video games ever made. Bundling the two together and remastering them should be cause for class and dignity, right? A Swedish retailer has posted up what appears to be the box art for the now-confirmed collection (hardly the first time Webhallen has jumped…
Sony has patented a means whereby you can play PS2 games on a PS3. And they’re some kooky means. Rather than releasing (or, well, re-releasing) a new model of the PS3 that’s PS2-compatible, or a firmware update allowing PS2 games to run on all PS3s, or porting PS2 games to the PlayStation Network so they…
The next time someone says the Modern Warfare or Halo series have sold a ton, point them towards a fat little plumber with a red hat. Having made his first appearance as Jumpman (in Donkey Kong) nearly thirty years ago, Mario has since appeared in over 200 games. When you’re in 200 games – and…
Tellart have built a version of Frogger that you don’t play with a controller in front of a TV. You play with your feet, on the street, as it should be played. Of course, for safety reasons it should probably be played on the footpath, not somewhere with cars, but hey, this is still awesome.…
Sure, two Boba Fett tattoos on one arm may be “a bit much”. But when one is a 16-bit rendition of New Zealand’s finest bounty hunter, that’s OK in our books. This gentleman was spotted at last month’s Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, and while the inspiration is surely Lucasart’s excellent “Super” series of games…
There are large action figures from Final Fantasy XIII, now see those of a smaller, cheaper and less posable variety. In December Square Enix will be releasing a series of small PVC figures based on the latest role-playing game in the Final Fantasy series. They’re small, and you can’t move them (well, you might be…
With the game out soon (November!), it’s nice to finally see a proper trailer devoted to its singleplayer campaign. This collection of in-engine footage not only shows you the real game, it also shows you Ezio’s extended suite of moves for the singleplayer component of the title, something that’s been largely (though not entirely) overlooked…
That’s not meant as a slight against the game’s playerbase. You shouldn’t trust anyone involved with the handling of large amounts of cash, whether they play massively-multiplayer online games or not. A player by the name of “Bad Bobby” has shafted the space combat and trading game out of credits worth around USD$45,000 after pulling…
Gore Verbinski, director of Pirates of the Caribbean, was signed up to do a BioShock movie. It turned out to be too expensive, and now there’s a new director. Shame. The expensive one sounded awesome. Quint from AICN took a tour of Verbinski’s GORE studios last week, and asked around about the fate of the…
Ah, this might be what Apple was talking about when it claimed it was the “number one portable game player”. While the comment made recently by Steve Jobs raised eyebrows – mostly because he never backed it up with figures – research from NewZoo shows that while Apple’s iDevices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) are the…
Valve’s Steam service quietly added a novel new feature over the weekend; the ability to add funds to a “Steam Wallet“, giving you an online account balance just like you get with Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. The minimum amount you can add is $5, with further increments available at $10, $25, $50 and…
The fighting game nuts at Eventhubs had men on the ground during a recent location test for the Japanese arcade release of Super Street Fighter IV, where attendees say that, yes, Yang and Yun have been added to the roster. This was rumoured a few weeks back, and without pictures or official word from Capcom…
Capcom reckons that the 3DS version of Street Fighter IV will be a “perfect port”. In terms of gameplay, of course, not graphics. Nintendo’s new handheld may look great for a handheld, but expecting 360/PS3 graphics from the thing is a bit much. While these screens may look a little jaggy, remember, the same rule…
The fourth Resident Evil movie, Afterlife, opened in the US over the weekend, and went straight to the top of the box office charts. Now, killjoys will point out that it opened competing against, well…practically nothing. And that, being a 3D movie, its inflated ticket prices blew out its box office takings. But it’s too…
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