2007-02-28
Prince of Persia Next-Gen Bits And Artwork
Come to think of it, there hasn't been any Prince of Persia game on the Xbox 360 yet, now has there? And we needn't even mention the PS3 in this case. But surely, Ubisoft must be cooking up something... In fact, the "next-gen Prince of Persia" is far f ... (more)
2007-02-28
Sony Responds To PS3 Backwards Compatibility Issues
If you're expecting to find out just how many PS2 games will be playable on the PlayStation 3 in Europe at launch, then I'm sorry to disappoint you. Or rather, I'm sorry that Sony still disappoints us all, with their latest comments regarding the recen ... (more)
2007-02-28
Capcom Gets Unreal Engine 3, Announces Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Just a few days after Activision's similar announcement (story), and one month after Square Enix also adopted Epic Games' middleware (story), fellow Japanese publisher Capcom is now letting us know that they, too, have licensed the Unreal Engine 3 tech ... (more)
2007-02-28
MotoGP '07 And Stuntman: Ignition Annouced By THQ
Another new game announcement this week comes from THQ, who reveal that... Oh, just a sec. Actually, make that two announcements, since they're both about racing games. So, as THQ revealed today and yesterday, they will be releasing Moto ... (more)
2007-02-28
The Golden Compass Game Points At Christmas 2007 // UPDATE
The Golden Compass is just one of the many new games already announced this week, and this one's coming from Sega. As the title implies, The Golden Compass will be yet another movie-to-game adaptation, based on New Line Cinema's upcoming theatrical rel ... (more)
2007-02-27
Electronic Arts, BioWare/Pandemic Bosses Reshuffle
To cut a long story short, Electronic Arts and the BioWare/Pandemic game development giant are both going through a change of CEOs right now, and both their new chief executive officers have a past history with Electronic Arts. The man t ... (more)
2007-02-27
Jack Thompson Begins Anti- Grand Theft Auto IV Crusade // UPDATE
Jack Thompson is losing it. In his latest letter we received today, he begins by referring to himself as "John Thompson, attorney at law", before continuing with his dreadful threats of filing suit to prohibit the sale of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto ... (more)
2007-02-27
Command & Conquer 3 Demo Download
Looks like the rumours from earlier this month were right, dead on. So as previously hinted, EA has released a demo version for their upcoming real-time strategy game, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, giving us an early look at the return of Westwoo ... (more)
2007-02-27
Conan Game Confirmed For PlayStation 3 And Xbox 360
The Conan gaming franchise has a long history that goes way back to 1984, with Conan: Hall of Volta. And yet, over the last two decades, only two more games have taken advantage of Robert E. Howard's barbaric character - namely Conan: The Cimmerian (19 ... (more)
2007-02-27
Darwinia + Multiplayer = Multiwinia
Anticipated by some, prayed for by others, and simply unexpected for the rest of us, Multiwinia was just announced today by the self-proclaimed "last of the bedroom programmers" from Introversion Software. Shortly put, this will be a mul ... (more)
2007-02-26
Sony Europe Hints At Full Gran Turismo 5 In 2007
Sony Europe just keeps sending in more and more press releases, dealing with the upcoming PlayStation 3 launch in PAL territories on March 23. But unlike last week's despicable announcement that the PS3 would be less compatible with PS2 games in Europe ... (more)
2007-02-26
Empire Earth III Announced, With New Screenshots
Over the weekend, Vivendi's Sierra division officially announced the latest instalment in the Empire Earth series, currently in development at Mad Doc Software - as previously revealed one week ago in a PC Gamer preview. At that time, the British magaz ... (more)
2007-02-26
Activision Gets Unreal Engine 3 For New Action Game
In a somewhat surprising (as in surprisingly late) announcement, publisher Activision announced over the weekend that they have entered an agreement with Epic Games, to license their Unreal Engine 3 technology. The main reason behind the ... (more)
2007-02-26
Leipzig GC 2007 - New Dates And Details
While waiting for the 2007 edition of the Games Developer Conference to begin next week in San Francisco, ze Germans send word that their increasingly popular Leipzig GC Developers Conference will take place between August 20-22, 2007, a ... (more)
2007-02-26
PS3 Oblivion Lacks Downloads, Elder Scrolls MMO Possible
Just a few days after Pete Hines told IGN that the PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS controller's tilt function is completely useless for Oblivion (though they could've used some rumble), Bethesda's VP of public relations and marketing had even more disappointing ... (more)
2007-02-26
American McGee's Grimm Project Slowly Unraveled
Former id Software designer American McGee, best known for the mind-blowing action-adventure game American McGee's Alice (and worst for attaching his name to the recent Bad Day L.A. political manifesto / gaming disaster), is hard at work on a new proje ... (more)
2007-02-23
Wing Commander Arena Confirmed For Xbox Live Arcade
Almost immediately after the recent surfacing of rumours regarding an Xbox 360 reincarnation of Wing Commander, Electronic Arts confirmed that the antique sci-fi series is indeed headed for Microsoft's console. Not as a full-priced title, however, but ... (more)
2007-02-23
Wing Commander Arena Confirmed For Xbox Live Arcade // UPDATE
Almost immediately after the recent surfacing of rumours regarding an Xbox 360 reincarnation of Wing Commander, Electronic Arts confirmed that the antique sci-fi series is indeed headed for Microsoft's console. Not as a full-priced title, however, but ... (more)
2007-02-23
Xbox 360 Now Cheaper Than Wii In UK
With no ending in sight to Microsoft's denials of any future Xbox 360 price cut, retailers from the United Kingdom decided to take matters into their own hands and offer their customers what Microsoft wouldn't: cheaper Xbox 360s. Way cheaper! As report ... (more)
2007-02-23
Nintendo Pulls The Plug On GameCube
As it stands now, the PlayStation 2 is the only "last-gen" console still left alive - and going strong. As you may remember, Microsoft pulled the plug on the Xbox production a long, long time ago (in July 2005), and now Nintendo acknowledges that they ... (more)