Pixar is the…Pixar of the animation world. But who’s the Pixar of the video game business? Well, according to Pixar, two companies share that honour. “We’ve met quite a few of the Blizzard people actually – some of the cinematics team,” Pixar’s Andrew Payton tells GI.biz. “Blizzard and Pixar almost seem like mirror images of…
Good news, long-suffering FIFA fans on the PC! The current engine used on the 360/PS3 games is finally making its way to the PC, just in time for FIFA 11.
It may have had its cover blown yesterday, but don’t let that rain on your parade: Dragon Age 2 has made its public debut today. The game, shown off on the cover of the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, is an all-new title (despite coming so soon after the last game), stars a new…
Burger King’s triumphant return to the Xbox 360 doesn’t look to be anywhere near as cool as it was last time around. Last time, you could get a series of cheap, terrible games from the fast food retailer that despite their awfulness, still had a certain charm you can only find in tacky, expensive pieces…
Sadly, it’s not an actual work of pulp fiction, just a piece by Kelvin Chan. As seen on on Rocketraygun, via Gamesetwatch
Ni no Kuni, a joint project being worked on by Level 5 and animation legends Studio Ghibli, will be released in Western markets, Level 5’s CEO has confirmed. Speaking with Nintendo Power, Akihiro Hino says that his company is looking at increasing the number of games released in the US and Europe, with specific examples…
The release this week of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition has many people revisiting the lighter side of piracy in the Caribbean. If only real pirates had been that funny! Like Vikings, Pirates have always held a curiously romantic position in popular consciousness, people idolising the men (and women) involved and their exploits despite a…
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard’s decision to force users to use their real names on the game’s forum has some people in an uproar. Maybe those upset by the move should take it up with Korean lawmakers. That’s a theory put forward by Harvard student and former online security consultant Oliver Day, who points out…
Curiously, a new rating turned up yesterday on Australia’s Classification Board website for a game that was first released nearly eight years ago. Wonder why that would be? As you can see below, the rating is fresh as of yesterday, for what’s tagged as a “modified” version of the classic Grand Theft Auto title Vice…
Microsoft’s “Project S”, a secret strategy game that we uncovered earlier today, isn’t a Halo title. It is, however, being worked on by former Age of Empires developers. Robot Entertainment, a studio that was formed by ex-Ensemble staffers following the closure of the venerable PC developers, appears to be the team responsible for “Project S”,…
Flash game Centaurian already has one great trailer under its belt. But I think this “live @ E3” one is even better There’s just something about it. The horror, the bombed jokes, the furry cape, the vapid endorsements…it’s the anti-video game trailer, and for that, I love it. As a bonus, the game – which…
OnLive, a streaming service that hopes to replace both PCs and consoles as the gaming setup of the future, has its sceptics, who say it’s too laggy to work. Why listen to them, when you can listen to science? The boffins at DigitalFoundry have rigged up a PC and some testing units to see just…
New Halo game? That can mean only one thing. New Halo action figures. These guys are the first line of McFarlane’s Halo: Reach action figure series, and feature some of the Spartans making up the main cast of the game (except the lady one with the tiny arm). They’re the same size as the company’s…
There still aren’t any official Fallout figures. Shame. There are custom figures, though, like this one, which is pretty great. Based on NECA’s Hitman figure from a few years back, it’s the creator’s stab at recreating the (well, his) main character from Fallout 3. It’s nowhere near beardy enough to be mine, but I can…
Reader Ben was at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh the other day when he noticed something strangely familiar about the pub’s “wall of fame”. The Saucer has a wall where anybody that has had at least one each of the pub’s 200 beers is immortalised with a commemorative plate. It’s not 200 beers in one…
With FIFA enjoying on-the-field superiority over competitor Pro Evo, EA Sports’ series is going after the one area Konami still enjoy dominance: team and player editing. For over a decade, FIFA’s editing and creation tools have been severely limited by the game’s reliance on licensed content, the most you can normally do being to tinker…
Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s “Onslaught”, a new co-op “horde” mode against enemy AI, is now live and ready for download on the PlayStation Network in both North America and Europe
A few weeks back, the biggest “Furry” convention in the world went down in Pittsburgh. Here’s a group shot of some attendees, which we show you not because we’ve gone furry, but because there’s a spy in their midst. Take a look. Think of it as a Team Fortress-themed game of Where’s Waldo, his dorky…
It’s not until you look at the games of the past that you realise how easy the games of today really are. Nearly every game these days has a “very easy” setting, some like Bayonetta – with its optional one-button mechanic – taking this to extremes. But in decades past, a lot of games prided…
It’s one thing when a writer or sales analyst tells you music game sales are down. It’s another, all the more disheartening thing to hear it from someone who makes Guitar Hero games for a living. “Sales across the board were lower last year,” Neversoft project director Brian Bright told MCV. “Our rival might sugercoat…
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