So, the new Transformers game is pretty good. Especially its dedication to fans of the original series. But we didn’t think it would be this dedicated. This is the game’s closing credits. Yes, it’s cel-shaded, and yes, that’s Stan Bush singing, the same man responsible for the 1986 Transformers animated film’s trademark tune About the…
One of the best-looking games due for the Nintendo DS is now one of the best-looking games due for the PS3, with this weeks’ Famitsu reporting that Level 5’s Ninokuni is getting a major facelift for a home console. What had been a quaint role-playing game for Nintendo’s handheld now, even in awful photos of…
In an interview with Japanese business paper Nikkei, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has said his company is looking at ways to automatically beam newspaper and magazine articles to a 3DS handheld. The 3DS can receive data while in sleep mode (powered on but the “clamshell” lid closed), and Iwata hopes that when a handheld comes…
While the last Civilization V trailer got us hot and heavy with menu footage, this one hits a little closer to home, dealing with the trauma and tragedy of Civilization addiction. This clip marks the return of Civanon, 2K’s great promotional campaign for the series that were it any other publisher and any other series…
GAEMS, which stands for Gaming and Entertainment Mobile Systems, may have one of the stupidest company names in the business, but they also have one of the more original products with this Xbox 360 “suitcase”. It’s a portable Xbox 360, 15-inch LCD screen (running at 720p) and a multiple speaker setup, all bundled neatly inside…
Nintendo’s E3 was very strange. Watching the parade of titles on show for both new and existing hardware, you’d never have guessed this was the same company that for four years had almost undone twenty years of good work. I mean that in a very selfish way, of course. With unprecedented sales of both the…
Custom, third-party controllers can often be a disaster of cheap plastic and tacky design, but these peripherals for upcoming Disney games, manufactured by Performance Designed Products, are an exception to that sorry rule. For Wii title Epic Mickey, this paintbrush and charging station are perfect for old-school Disney fans (if not discerning gamers), while for…
This is Rock Of Ages, to be published by Atlus and developed by ACE Team. Those are the guys behind Zeno Clash. This looks just as kooky, but in a completely different way. Gone is the jarring look of their first-person brawler, and in its place is something that looks like Paper Mario took a…
As expected, Microsoft’s Kinect made its second appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show earlier this evening. The first show, last year, went OK! This one, less so. First, Kudo Tsunoda may be the brains behind Kinect, but he’s also a giant dork. He probably shouldn’t be the public “face” of the thing (sorry!). Second, those on-cue…
Disney’s Prince of Persia movie may have had a slow start in the US, but it’s proving a much bigger hit overseas, with the film’s combined international box office takings now approaching the $300 million mark. $80.5 million of that amount comes from the United States, with overseas earnings currently at $213.1 million. With a…
Watch the debut trailer for Resident Evil: Revelations for the Nintendo 3DS, and in doing so you’ll see the same footage the press were treated to during the new handheld’s unveiling last week. There’s not much to go on, sadly, as a cinematic trailer with bad lighting is as poor a guide as to how…
While Microsoft HQ has yet to confirm an official recommended retail price for Kinect, the company’s own online store has no problems tagging the device at, yes, $150. What you’re seeing here is Kinect’s listing on the Microsoft Store, the company’s very own internet shopfront. Now, when retailers like Walmart and Best Buy say Kinect…
Intimidated by a $300 Prince of Persia statue? Try a $250 Prince of Persia action figure instead. This one even looks like Jake Gyllenhaal! While Sideshow’s premium statue looked like Clive Owen’s long-lost Persian twin, Hot Toys have got the chesty star’s look down pat, with smoky eyes and a beard so soft it makes…
Seems we’re getting a Crackdown 2 demo later today, which has accelerated levelling, 4-player co-op and even achievements.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’s most famous aerial sequence may involve an AC-130 Hercules, but as this clip shows, the real stars of the show are the game’s helicopters. All 147 of them. How do we know there are 147 helicopters? Because some guy has a blog called “Call of Helicopters“, in which every…
Designer Alex Varanese had an idea: what if the technology of 2010 had been around in 1977? It’s an idea he illustrates in these pictures, showing an iPod, mobile phone, laptop and portable gaming system decked out in a very Atari-looking livery of red, orange, yellow and woodgrain. While the phone, laptop and iPod are…
Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki was in LA last week for E3. Was he also there for game seven of the NBA Finals? Who knows. Probably not, as at the ten-second mark of this surprise, random clip he looks like he’s making a hasty exit from this joint, which has been overrun by celebrating…
Following on from DC Direct’s first line of Batman: Arkham Asylum figures, here’s a second series, this time featuring some villains that make more of a direct appearance in the game. While the inclusion of Scarface was a head-scratcher first time around, these four figures make much more sense, a new Batman joined by Zsasz,…
Earlier today, Japanese technology firm Digital Media Professionals sent out a press release confirming that they are the providers of the graphics chip for the new Nintendo 3DS. This chip is called the PICA200, an older GPU (it’s from 2006!) that DMP says provides “high quality graphics” with “low power consumption”. Handy for a handheld,…
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