2007-03-20
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Set Sail This Summer
Familiar pirates will soon be fighting notorious villains on the decks and riggings of massive ships, exploring towns and jungle-filled islands, and avoiding perils at sea in adventures taking place on popular video game platforms. Scheduled for release o ... (more)
2007-03-20
Wii Hard Drive? Nope, Just Nintendo DS Headset
Give a gamer an Xbox 360, and he'll want a black one. Give him a PS3, and he'll ask for rumble. Give him a Wii, and he'll either say he needs DVD playback, or a hard drive; or both (and then some). Well, Wii fans may be getting their DVD ... (more)
2007-03-20
Tomb Raider: Anniversary Will Launch On Steam
Not just Tomb Raider: Anniversary, in fact, but a whole bunch of other Eidos titles for the PC will also be released through Valve's online distribution service, Steam. The first agreement between the two companies also covers complete franchise sets o ... (more)
2007-03-20
Saboteur Stealth Shooter Revealed, From Pandemic
If any of you grey-haired gamers remember a game called Saboteur on the ancient Spectrum or Commodore, then forget about it: the Saboteur revealed over the weekend is nothing like it, whatsoever. This one is developed by Pandemic Studios, who - as you ... (more)
2007-03-20
European PlayStation 3 Compatibility List Revealed Early
Sony Europe has just issued a press release announcing the launch of the European PS3 compatibility website, a few days earlier than expected. The list of PAL PS2 games playable on the PlayStation 3 both confirms and denies some of the recent rumours, ... (more)
2007-03-20
Devil May Cry 4 Confirmed For PS3, Xbox 360 And PC
After Mercenaries 2 last month (and Assassin's Creed last year), the PlayStation 3 has lost yet another major exclusivity today, as Capcom announces that their upcoming action sequel Devil May Cry 4 is now in development not only for the PS3, but also ... (more)
2007-03-20
Take-Two Possibly For Sale, Sues Jack Thompson
Earlier this month we wrote about a group of Take-Two shareholders trying to take down the company's current CEO, Paul Eibeler (story), in a corporate battle whose outcome was to be decided this week, at Take-Two's annual stockholders meeting. But that ... (more)
2007-03-19
IGN's Top 25 PC Games Ever
We don't usually bother to write about tops like these, since most of the time they're either pointless or just plain wrong, but this time we'll make an exception. The reason is that the "Top 25 PC Games Ever" compiled by IGN over the pa ... (more)
2007-03-19
Tetris Debuts On Xbox 360
I haven't given this much thought until today, but it's quite ironic that one of gaming's best known titles (at least to the "outside" world), now over 20-years old, is returning time and again on mostly every new console, with the same addictive gamep ... (more)
2007-03-16
SCEI Joins Stanford University Folding@home Program To Further Medical Research
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced that PS3 computer entertainment systems will have the capability to connect to Stanford University’s Folding@home program, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding ... (more)
2007-03-15
Robbie Williams Goes Live On Xbox 360
A fresh communique issued by Microsoft today announces an exclusive collaboration with Robbie Williams (.com) to bring music videos and "extra exciting content" to the Xbox 360, through the Xbox Live online service. Fans of the former Ta ... (more)
2007-03-15
Lineage II Interlude's Primeval Isle Presentation
A whole new chapter in the Lineage II saga is about to begin next month, as The Chaotic Chronicle comes to an end, making way for the new Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne. The bridging link between these is the upcoming free content update known as "Inte ... (more)
2007-03-15
Sam & Max: Season 1 All-in-One Coming To Retail
With just a couple of episodes still left from Sam & Max: Season 1 (currently at episode 4), the devs from Telltale Games are looking forward to releasing the entire package at retail this summer, thanks to the newly announced partnershi ... (more)
2007-03-15
No Unified Friends List For Wii Games
We were barely starting to get excited at the prospect of playing Super Mario Galaxy in 2-player mode, after the game's website reportedly updated the number of players from one to two this week, and now we can take that excitement and shove it where t ... (more)
2007-03-15
Halo 3 In September And PGR 4 In November?
As we get closer to the summer of 2007, the games lined-up for release on the Xbox 360 will become more and more resounding, cultimating with an avalanche of really big ones during the pre-holiday season. The most hyped game is still Halo 3, as expecte ... (more)
2007-03-14
FlatOut Xbox 360 Details And Screenshots
Not long ago, publisher Empire Interactive decided it was time for them to step in the next generation of consoles, and announced their Xbox 360 debut with FlatOut - the franchise that practically saved them from bankrupcy. The new proje ... (more)
2007-03-14
Opoona, A New Wii Game From Koei
"What the world needs right now is not another Wii game" - I'd love to live in a world like that, really. But as it stands now, our playful little world needs a lot more Wii games, and if at all possible, original Wii games. The Japanese company Koei h ... (more)
2007-03-14
Halo 2 PC And Games for Windows Live Launching On May 8
Just a couple of days ago, during an interview with GI.biz, Valve's Doug Lombardi was questioning Microsoft's commitment to PC gaming in the long run, arguing that their "Games for Windows" (a.k.a. "the PC isn't dying") initiative may be ... (more)
2007-03-14
Capcom Making Treasure Island Z For Wii
Barely did we find out about Koei's Opoona earlier today, and here we are now learning about yet another original - more or less - game heading for the Nintendo Wii console. This one is called Treasure Island Z, and if we were to take a wild guess (det ... (more)
2007-03-13
The PSP2 Rumours Keep On Coming
Even after last week's GDC, where Sony insistently denied rumours of a redesigned PlayStation Portable in the making, the same rumours stubbornly keep on coming. Or at least they do on Kotaku, who claim that there's "no denying it" and that the new PSP ... (more)