2007-08-01
Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2007 Winners
Just to put this year's mini-E3 completely behind us, we make one final stop on the Game Critics Awards website, to find out which were the most remarcable games shown in playable form at E3 2007, at least according to 36 publications, more or less kno ... (more)
2007-07-30
Voltage - A Racing Game With... RTS Elements?!
Now there's a screwed up PR aberration! Probably trying too hard to get their futuristic, and otherwise bland, racing game out in the spotlight, today publisher Lexicon Entertainment announced Voltage as a "racing game with real-time strategy elements" ... (more)
2007-07-30
Dark Motif Adventures In Business With Adam Syndrome
Today we get acquainted with the young studio Dark Motif, thanks to an announcement revealing not only their new official website, but also their first project: an adventure game called Adam Syndrome, subliminally hinting at pseudo-history's first man. ... (more)
2007-07-30
The Godfather 2 Confirmed By EA Games Boss
It didn't happen at E3, but a shareholder meeting is fine, too. At the latest such Electronic Arts bureaucratic gathering, EA Games head Frank Gibeau confirmed - more or less voluntarily - that a sequel to last year's The Godfather game is in developme ... (more)
2007-07-27
James Cameron's 'Avatar' Also Made Into Game
James Cameron's grand directorial return, after a decade of absence (not counting all those post-"Titanic" documentaries), was sure to catch the opportunistic attention of the gaming industry. Even though his latest cinematographic project - the sci-fi ... (more)
2007-07-26
Activision Becomes Largest Third-Party Publisher In The US
For more years than we can remember now, Electronic Arts' domination over the third-party games publishing scene was so firm, that it became completely useless to point it out every single year. It was, but now it's over (finally), at least in the US. ... (more)
2007-07-26
Sam & Max Returning This Autumn In Season Two
It's no accident that the first episodic series was called Sam & Max Season One, and it's also no accident that the folks from Telltale Games have being hinting at it for a while: the sequel predicted by everybody was officially announced last night, a ... (more)
2007-07-25
World of Warcraft - 9 Million Subscribers And The Comic
Slowly but surely, World of Warcraft's population has surpassed yet another arithmetical and psichological milestone this week - that of 9 million subscribers, leaving just one final hop to the inevitable 10 million mark. The difference could be crushe ... (more)
2007-07-24
The Scourge Project Adopts Unreal Engine 3
Hot on the heels of last week's Unreal Engine 3 scandal (which began with Silicon Knights suing Epic Games), we now learn about a new game adopting Epic's technology. So, meet The Scourge Project, a shooter designed from the ground up as a cooperative ... (more)
2007-07-24
CSI: Hard Evidence Also Coming To Xbox 360 And Wii
I for one am not aware of any "pure blooded" adventure game released on the Xbox 360 or Wii, so it seems like the honor of adapting this classic PC genre for the two consoles will go to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Hard Evidence. As Ubisoft informs ... (more)
2007-07-23
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 Announced For PSP, Wii
The PSP exclusivity of the Medal of Honor Heroes sub-series will end just as fast as it began, with the second instalment announced late last week by Electronic Arts, logically titled Medal of Honor Heroes 2. Apart from Sony's portable console, this ne ... (more)
2007-07-23
Far Cry 2 Announced For 2008
Playing some game set in Africa is probably the last thing we need, in this devastating heat around here, but in this case, we'd be more than willing to make an exception. Because the title in question is the long awaited sequel to the first Far Cry on ... (more)
2007-07-20
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis For Wii
Last year, Rockstar proved that they're well capable of launching peaceful games as well, and that there's no need for controversies just to get our attention. Table Tennis for the Xbox 360 was the exception from the rule, a game as atypical for them, ... (more)
2007-07-20
Vigil Reveals Second Project - Darksiders: Wrath of War
Vigil Games (not to be confused with Sigil) became a newsworthy topic earlier this year, when their bosses from THQ announced that Warhammer 40,000 MMO. Back then it was already known that the young Vigil studio was also working on another original pro ... (more)
2007-07-20
Bully Is Transferring To Xbox 360 And Wii
Looks like Rockstar really didn't think much of the new mini-E3, because today they have announced yet another game that will be transferred from one console to another / others. This time it's Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit, which used to be a ... (more)
2007-07-19
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Prequel Coming
As said as done (or as promised as announced), GSC Game World indeed revealed a new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game at last week's E3. However, the new game will not continue the original, but will precede it in the same bizarre Zone formed around the Chernobyl nu ... (more)
2007-07-18
Gears of War And Viva Piñata Announced For PC
Returning from my absence motivated by domestic troubles right in the middle of E3, I will begin with the two major X360-to-PC announcements made by Microsoft. First of all, the long-rumoured PC version of Gears of War has finally receiv ... (more)
2007-07-13
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Stars Thanks to the Biggest Blockbuster Games of the Year
When Microsoft has said that a cut in price for its Xbox 360 video game console won’t be needed, the company has known what it had in mind. Its upcoming games, of course! And Microsoft has said it, but who would believe something before seeing it? The tim ... (more)
2007-07-13
Slimmer Game Console, Better Selling Game Console
Sony Corp. has decided to get its PlayStation Portable a little bit more fit for the gamers’ preferences. At the Portable’s fans’ demands and for better compete against Nintendo Co.’s DS, Sony has announced to release in September a slimmer model of PlayS ... (more)
2007-07-13
Violent Games Unlikely to Represent a Real Risk
Although people, and especially parents and non-gamers, think that playing violent video games will harm your spirit, a recent study is to prove that all those worries are senseless. This issue of violent video gaming is similar to the one of watching vio ... (more)