2007-04-17
Guitar Hero III Will Be Heavy Online, Also Coming To DS In 2008
It's been a busy year so far for both RedOctane and Harmonix, full of announcements, rumours, lawsuits and what not. Earlier this month, Guitar Hero II was finally released on the Xbox 360, hot on the heels of Harmonix' announcement of a new music game ... (more)
2007-04-16
Fallout IP Completely Sold To Bethesda, For $5.75 Million
"Yes, now there truly is no one else to blame", agrees Bethsoft's senior executive producer, Ashley Cheng, in the aftermath of last week's surprise announcement that Interplay has completely sold the Fallout intellectual property, trade mark and assets ... (more)
2007-04-16
Lost Planet Also Confirmed For PC
Well, well, well, look who decided to join the PC party! Lost Planet: Extreme Condition quickly became one of the most popular multiplayer action games on the Xbox 360, having already topped the 1 million sales mark since its release in January, and it ... (more)
2007-04-13
Ubisoft Acquires Sunflowers, Along With Anno Franchise
I just realized one of the main differences between Ubisoft and Electronic Arts: whenever EA takes over another company, it's usually bad news - or leads to a bad news, several years down the road. Whereas most of Ubisoft's acquisitions ... (more)
2007-04-13
BlizzCon 2007 Announced, WoW TCG Expansion Released
After taking a break last year, Blizzard will return in August 2007 with the second edition of their BlizzCon gaming convention, dedicated to the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises, "and the players who have helped make them so popular around t ... (more)
2007-04-12
Cedega 6.0 Launched For Your Linux Gaming Pleasure
Even though it utterly defeats the whole purpose of free quality gaming on Linux, Cedega does have the merit of being (one of) the most accessible software solution for playing Windows games on Linux. So it's with some pleasure that we received today's ... (more)
2007-04-12
Game Over For 20GB PlayStation 3, Indeed
Left with no other alternative than to confirm what was becoming more and more of a certainty with each passing day (and each missing 20GB PS3), Sony America finally confirmed that the 20GB model has been discontinued, and that Sony will no longer sell ... (more)
2007-04-12
Neverwinter Nights 2 Expands With Mask of the Betrayer
Today's most unsurprising - but nevertheless great - news comes from Atari, who are announcing the first expansion pack for Obsidian's roler-playing sequel Neverwinter Nights 2. Subtitled Mask of the Betrayer, the add-on is planned to be released in Fa ... (more)
2007-04-11
CellFactor: Revolution Free To Download Next Month
As widely predicted a while back, the so-called "physics processors" didn't really take off, the way graphics processors did last century, for instance. Or DVDs. Or countless other useful technologies, for that matter. But despite their ... (more)
2007-04-11
Grand Theft Auto IV Scans, Details Break Loose
Lock your doors and your kids, for the first solid details about Grand Theft Auto IV have broken loose! After unleashing the first game trailer a couple of weeks ago, the folks from Rockstar sat down with the Game Informer editors and gave them a more ... (more)
2007-04-11
Naruto Jumping On The PSP This Summer
More and more platforms are falling prey to Naruto's vigorous expansion into the field of gaming, lately. The Xbox 360, Wii and DS are all waiting for their fair share of action, but after today's announcement issued by Namco Bandai, it seems they will ... (more)
2007-04-11
Exodus from the Earth Rediscovered
Speaking of futuristic shooters, the Russians from Parallax Arts Studio are also working on one, called Exodus from the Earth. The game has so far kept itself behind the Iron Curtain, and last week the devs showed it at the Russian Game Developers Conf ... (more)
2007-04-10
Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta Launches On May 16, New Video
T-minus 36 days! Today, Microsoft and Bungie finally started the countdown to the beginning of the Halo 3 multiplayer beta, now officially set to open its doors on May 16. Those lucky enough to claim a spot in the beta will have a rather short-lived jo ... (more)
2007-04-10
Game Over For 20GB PlayStation 3?
Coming back to work after the Easter holiday, we were somewhat surprised to learn that one of the next-gen consoles seems to have been discontinued for good! Oh, all right, we may be exaggerating "a bit" here: it's not an entire console, ... (more)
2007-04-07
Resident Evil 4 Wii, Umbrella Chronicles Details, Screens And Trailer
What? So now there are two Resident Evil (Biohazard) games headed for the Nintendo Wii?! That's good, right? It has to be... And it almost is, but only until you hear the sort-of-bad news. First of all, the "new" Wii Resident Evil will actually be a re ... (more)
2007-04-06
Pandemic's Saboteur Website Explodes
For the last couple of weeks, Pandemic kept teasing us with a ticking timer set to explode on the Saboteur website - dedicated to their upcoming World War II stealth shooter revealed last month (story). The countdown reached zero last ni ... (more)
2007-04-06
Wii Gets USB Mass Storage Devices?
A flicker of hope is shining from Japan this week, for all of us who would like to have some sort of external storage device for the Wii, other than SD cards. Something to stick in the console's USB port, perhaps? Current USB storage devices don't seem ... (more)
2007-04-05
Brothers In Arms Storm The Nintendo Front, On Wii And DS
At long last, all of the three big World War II action franchises have embraced Nintendo's consoles, now that Ubisoft has just announced two new Brothers in Arms games: one for the DS, and another one for the Wii! Activision's Call of Duty and EA's Med ... (more)
2007-04-05
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts - Expansion, Not Sequel
Last month, the Games For Windows magazine set us on fire with a teasing bit hinting at a follow-up to Relic's distinguished Company of Heroes strategy game. And yesterday it was revealed (via a diminutive cover of said magazine) that the new game will ... (more)
2007-04-05
24 Years Later, Bruno Bonnell Leaves Atari / Infogrames
After spending half his life as the big boss of Infogrames - a company he founded 24 years ago in France, Bruno Bonnell has suddenly left the group this month. Prior to his departure, Bonnell was the Chairman, CEO and Director of Infogrames Entertainme ... (more)