2007-06-06
Wii Selling 5 Times Better Than PlayStation 3 In Japan
Yet again, last month, Sony failed to reclaim a single piece of lost ground in its next-gen race against Nintendo, over in Japan. Whereas, back in April, the PlayStation 3 was selling there once every... 4 Wiis or so, things got even worse in May, when ... (more)
2007-06-06
The First Fallout 3 Trailer
We left the best for last today - the day we've been waiting for from the bottom of our gas masks, ever since Bethesda started that countdown on the official website about a month ago. And when the time was up, they gave us exactly what they promised a ... (more)
2007-06-06
Assassin's Creed Targets The Nintendo DS?
Speaking of hope-giving product listings from GameStop, there's an even more interesting one that came to light this week. You know Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft's next-generation action project for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, right? But I wonder i ... (more)
2007-06-06
SimCity 5 Finally Ready To Be Revealed?
Reports about a new SimCity game in the works at Maxis go back over three years, when two of the studio's leaders (general manager Luc Barthelet and general genius Will Wright) confirmed that development on SimCity 5 had already begun in January 2004. ... (more)
2007-06-06
WorldShift Cyber-Fantasy RTS Game Announced
This may not be the ideal moment to announce this kind of a strategy game (with the genre's fans still drooling over the StarCraft II trailers and everything), but if the Bulgarians from Black Sea Studios saw fit to reveal their latest project today, t ... (more)
2007-06-05
Metal Gear Solid 4 Rumoured For Xbox 360, And Even Wii
Despite all the PS3 games betraying their exclusivity and (also) heading for the Xbox 360, Sony still retains the most important title solely for their next-gen console: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. That, at least, is the official story. B ... (more)
2007-06-05
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch & Lost Coast Free For ATi Radeon'ers
Since it's a pretty slow news day, it wouldn't hurt to bring back a great news for everyone who owns an ATi Radeon graphics card, which made the rounds while our main server was still recovering from its downtime. And the story is that anyone with this ... (more)
2007-06-04
Company of Heroes Devs Form Smoking Gun Interactive
Relic is one of the few veteran studios who managed to keep their games above a fairly high standard of quality, so we take no joy in seeing them lose developers. Especially when these are people who worked on last year's best rated strategy title, Com ... (more)
2007-06-04
Nostradamus Game Predicted By Microids
No, it's not going to be a game about guessing what kind of apocalyptic future awaits us, nor about when will EA stop milking their Need for Speed franchise with cheap arcade racing games (though the prophecy says NFS: Pro Street might be the chosen on ... (more)
2007-06-02
Al Lowe Returns In A New Leisure Suit Larry Game
There's just one tiny little keyword in that title that actually ruins the news we've all been waiting for: "Al Lowe Returns *With* A New Larry Game". That's not the case, unfortunately, so for now we'll have to suffice with Al returning *in* a new Lar ... (more)
2007-06-01
Warhammer Online, Gods & Heroes Beta Registrations Open
Umm... let's pretend we didn't have any MAJOR server problems for the last week, and get straight back to work. So, we'll start with a couple of new announcements made by Electronic Arts and Perpetual Entertainment, heralding the opening of registratio ... (more)
2007-05-24
No Gothic 3 Add-on From Piranha, But They Still Own 'Gothic'
We still don't know what were JoWooD thinking when they made the announcement that production on Gothic 4 has already begun (see yesterday's story), but the folks from Piranha Bytes / Pluto 13 were kind enough to explain us a thing or tw ... (more)
2007-05-23
Need for Speed: Pro Street To Be Annouced On May 31
You'd think that four street racing / car pimping Need for Speed games were quite enough; but with Electronic Arts, enough is never enough as long as they have a milk cow on their hands. Which the NFS series obviously is. Gone are the days of driving o ... (more)
2007-05-23
Gothic 4 Coming, But Not From Piranha
We're getting some very mixed emotions here, after JoWooD's latest announcement in which they confirm the production of Gothic 4. First of all, fans of the series will likely be disappointed to hear that original developer Piranha Bytes / Pluto 13 will ... (more)
2007-05-22
Crytek Opens New Budapest Studio, For Non-FPS Games
For a studio that launched only two games so far, Crytek is expanding at an alarming rate. Albeit there's nothing really alarming about it. While their well-established studio in Germany is hard at work on the upcoming Crysis shooter (among other proje ... (more)
2007-05-22
80GB PlayStation 3 Confirmed, But Only For Korea
Having initially denied the existence of an 80GB PlayStation 3 model, after it was speculated in March, Sony now confirms that such a model is indeed lined up for release, but only in South Korea, where the console has yet to launch next month. Until r ... (more)
2007-05-22
American McGee's Grimm Goes Episodic In 2008
When we think of American McGee, we try not to think about the last couple of games he smeared his name with - (S)crapland and Bad Day L.A. Instead, we think about Alice, that insanely twisted fairy tale action game he became famous for back in 2000. " ... (more)
2007-05-22
Deus Ex 3 In Development At Eidos Montreal
We waited and waited, but it seems that Eidos is still not prepared to properly announce the next game in the Deus Ex series, leaving us with the oh-so-brief revelation from a few days ago, made during an interview with Patrick Melchior (Eidos France g ... (more)
2007-05-21
Half-Life 2 Black Box Cancelled
What may seem like a terrible news at first, should actually bring us a sigh of relief. No longer shall we be confused about the black and orange "flavours" in which the next Half-Life 2 episode will be packaged, because Valve has cancelled the PC-excl ... (more)
2007-05-21
StarCraft II - Hell, It's About Time! // UPDATE - third trailer
We feel terribly sorry for those who were hoping that Blizzard would announce a World of Lost Vikings MMO today, but the game confirmed after years and years of very plausible rumours, is StarCraft II. The fans' enduring patience was eventually rewarde ... (more)