2007-02-19
Empire Earth III Sequel Revealed
When you see a primitive cart with oxes side by side with some futuristic aircraft and naval vessels in one single screenshot, there's clearly something rotten. The explanation for such a contradictory scene will be given to us by Empire Earth III - th ... (more)
2007-02-19
Eidos Montreal Development Studio To Open Soon // UPDATE
Late last week, Eidos announced their intention to open a new development studio, over the sea and far away, right in Canada. Québec. Montreal, more precisely. But don't ask us for the street address, because they guys are barely starting to form a new ... (more)
2007-02-16
Clover Studio (Okami) Ex-Devs Form Seeds Studio
No time to mourn the loss of Clover Studio, one of Japan's most creative studios that is just a few weeks away from being completely shut down by Capcom, because some of the developers that last worked on Okami and God Hand have already started anew. T ... (more)
2007-02-16
Command & Conquer 3 Single-Player Demo Soon
A few days ago, bits and pieces of information began to surface with regard to an upcoming demo version for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, and they just kept on surfacing ever since. Initially, it was revealed that the demo would premiere - as usu ... (more)
2007-02-16
Jack Thompson vs. Manhunt 2, From UK With Love
If Rockstar Games are back in the news, it means that so is Jack Thompson, attorney extraordinaire. Earlier this month we had a couple of stories about both of them - namely Rockstar's Manhunt 2 announcement, and Thompson's latest legal ... (more)
2007-02-15
Kane & Lynch Movie Signed By Lionsgate
Having created one of the best stealth-action franchises with their Hitman series, Denmark-based IO Interactive are currently hard at work on Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - a much more action-based game and, from what they have shown us so far ... (more)
2007-02-15
World of Warcraft's First Arena Tournament Begins Tomorrow
It's been a busy week for World of Warcraft so far, and it's only going to get busier from tomorrow! Apart from celebrating its second birthday in Europe on February 11, with a new "Love is in the Air" in-game event to coincide with Valentine's Day, an ... (more)
2007-02-14
Fight Night Challenges Wii Boxing
There are a couple of games in the Wii Sports package that I'm not too crazy about, and Wii Boxing happens to be one of them - although it can certainly be a blast in multiplayer, as long as no one gets hurt for real in the process. However, when it co ... (more)
2007-02-14
Hero, Insecticide, Mushroom Men, Fury Signed By Gamecock
Game-what? Did they just say "cock"? And there we were thinking that nothing could make us chuckle anymore after the Wii... Well, funny names aside, Gamecock Media Group announced their cocky entrance on the games publishing scene yesterday, and they h ... (more)
2007-02-14
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Confirmed For Xbox 360 And PS3
Well, well, well, looks like the rumours from last spring were right: Quake Wars really is coming to the Xbox 360. And not only that, but also to the PlayStation 3! id Software and Activision have just confirmed these two next-gen console versions of E ... (more)
2007-02-14
Lost Planet And Dead Rising Were Nearly Cancelled
It's pretty hard to imagine that two games as successful as Dead Rising and Lost Planet, both of which have sold / shipped over 1 million copies each, were nearly cancelled by Capcom early on during development. But apparently that was p ... (more)
2007-02-14
Apple And EA Talk About iPhone Games
While marveling at Apple's presentation of the iPhone from last month, there's no doubt that many of you also thought about how games would play like on the gizmo's touch-screen. And you're not the only ones. Even though Apple hasn't shown any example ... (more)
2007-02-14
Titan Quest: Gold Plated Immortal Throne
Fans of mindless hacking and slashing were hoping for Titan Quest to be the second coming of Diablo last year, but things didn't turn out that great for Iron Lore's action-RPG. Nevertheless, it was a good enough game to deserve an expansion pack, which ... (more)
2007-02-14
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed About To Be Unveiled
Lo and behold, the Star Wars game based on last year's jaw-dropping tech demo is finally stepping out of the PR shadows. As I'm sure you will remember if you saw the trailer, LucasArts leaked some physics-intensive footage for a next-gen Star Wars proj ... (more)
2007-02-13
EVE Online Scandal - Part II
Following last week's scandal that sent shock waves throughout the EVE Online community, and through the gaming world at large, the devs from CCP stood by their promise to return with more details in response to "recent allegations of developer miscond ... (more)
2007-02-13
Virgin's New Games Download Service, 'A World of My Own'
Virgin has abandoned the "hardcore" (i.e. non-casual) gaming scene many years ago, and to see them back in the news this week is, for me at least, quite exciting. They aren't here to reveal any new games, however, but to announce a new games download s ... (more)
2007-02-12
New Square Enix MMORPG Shifts Focus From PS3 To Xbox 360
Despite Final Fantasy XI's undoubted success as an MMORPG, I still feel like the Final Fantasy series truly belongs to the single-player realm. So when Square Enix first revealed plans for a new next-gen MMORPG some time ago (via a trailer shown prior ... (more)
2007-02-12
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. vs. PlayStation 3 Face Off Is Off?
I never thought that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would actually come out before Duke Nukem Forever, and I still have my doubts. And apparently so does THQ. Although they did set a "final" release date for GSC Game World's radioactive shooter for March 23 in Europe ... (more)
2007-02-12
Black Xbox 360 Photoed At TGS, Coming In April?
Not the autumn Tokyo Games Show, mind you, but "TGS" as in Taipei Games Show, from Taiwan - that's where TweakTown say they saw a black Xbox 360 being showcased a couple of days ago, and they got some photos to prove it. If this is real thing, however, ... (more)
2007-02-12
Runaway 2 Demo Download
Instead of the final version that we expected to ship this month, CDV presents us with just a chapter from their upcoming Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle, in a 430 MB demo verion. More commonly konwn as Runaway 2, the adventure sequel is once again be ... (more)