2007-02-05
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, A PSP Hit In The Re-Making
Following a couple of very well received (as usual) incarnations on Nintendo's DS handheld, the classic Castlevania series will make its PlayStation Portable debut towards the end of this year, with Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, says Konami. T ... (more)
2007-02-05
Mercenaries 2 Hired By Electronic Arts For Deployment In 2007
Venezuela, be afraid... be very afraid! The game that spread invasion fears among paranoid supporters loyal to Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez last year, just got one step closer to release, with Electronic Arts' announcement that they ... (more)
2007-02-05
Spore DS, My Sims For Wii And DS Confirmed
Ubisoft was the first big Western publisher to fully commit to Nintendo's Wii console early on, that much is true. But now their arch-rivals from Electronic Arts are aiming to become the #1 third-party publisher on both the Wii and the DS. Or if you wi ... (more)
2007-02-02
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos Multiplayer Demo Download
You thought that the first single-player demo for the recent strategy game Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, weighing 1.2 GB, was insultingly huge? If so, then congratulations, you were right. And now for the one hundrend points question: what foul metaphors w ... (more)
2007-02-02
Castlevania, Worms, Alien Hominid And More Coming To XBLA
Things may have been quiet on the XBLA front lately, but Microsoft is still just as busy ligning-up more Arcade releases. Just this week, they announced 10 new Xbox Live Arcade games, including titles such as Castlevania, Worms, Alien Ho ... (more)
2007-02-02
WoW: The Burning Crusade - Download It From The Official Website
The fans cried, and the blues took note and, this time, they also took action. Perhaps too late, some of you might argue if you're still waiting to receive your World of Warcraft expansion, but let's not forget that Vivendi also needed to make some mon ... (more)
2007-02-01
Saints Row Pumps The PlayStation 3 Full Of Lead
Saints Row was the first rushed attempt at launching a Grand Theft Auto clone on the Xbox 360 last summer. But rushed as it may have been, Volition (Red Faction, The Punisher) and THQ's attempt was nevertheless a pretty successful one. The game has sol ... (more)
2007-02-01
Universe at War: Earth Assault Is Petroglyph's Second RTS
"The year is 2012, and humans have just found out that they're not alone in the galaxy. Not only are they not alone, but the new arrivals aren't friendly in the least. The invaders are not here to conquer - they're here to harvest. Massi ... (more)
2007-02-01
Crysis And BF 2142: Northern Strike Beta Plans
Easy now, eaaasy, don't rush yourselves! If it's the Crysis beta you were getting ready to storm, you may stay calm for a while, because these "beta plans" ar more like "preparations for beta plans". From what Crytek's CEO Cevat Yerli said in an interv ... (more)
2007-02-01
PlayStation 3 And Xbox 360 Price Cuts? Yes And No
At least for the time being, as in the first part of this year, the answer to the question in the title is a definite "no". So the real question is, when will the two next-gen consoles become cheaper? For the Xbox 360, it would be normal to finally see ... (more)
2007-02-01
New Nokia And Dell Gaming Handhelds?
With no more solid plans announced for a future gaming console, by any of the "big three", we might as well turn our eyes over to smaller manufacturers of gaming platforms and try to guess what they have in store for our insatiable playfulness. One nam ... (more)
2007-01-31
World of MonkeyCraft - Join Ron Gilbert's Guild
Another Wednesday morning, another live maintenance 5-hours maintenance break on the European World of Warcraft realms. *sigh*... Well if we can't play WoW, at least we can always talk about WoW. Aside from the usual postings on the game's official US ... (more)
2007-01-31
Windows Vista Launches With 8 Casual Games
The thing we feared most is upon us. After years of paying the consequences for using Windows XP, just when we were finally getting along with Bill Gates' company, a new operating system comes along! As they promised last autumn, Microsoft launched Win ... (more)
2007-01-31
Blazing Angels: Secret Missions Announced For PC And Xbox 360
Ubisoft's Romanian studio is currently working on a follow-up to their aerial action game Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII. This may not come as a novelty to some, however Ubi is now offering us more details about this project, which is already prepar ... (more)
2007-01-31
Hour of Victory For Xbox 360 Details And Screenshots
Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Hour of Victory, Lack of Inspiration - who cares about patterns, when it's all out war! This week Midway continued their series of announcements with a new "cinematic" WWII shooter game exclusively for the Xbox 360, titled ... (more)
2007-01-31
Piracy Killed The NHL Eastside Hockey Manager Series
NHL Eastside Hockey Manager, the most prominent hockey management series (not that there's much of a competition) was buried alive - amazingly - not by EA, but actually by the "fans" who chose to download a pirated version of the last edition, instead ... (more)
2007-01-31
Ubisoft's Q1 2007 Line-up Confirms Driver For Wii
Along with the earlier announcement of Blazing Angels: Secret Missions, Ubisoft also sent along an updated games release schedule for this first quarter of 2007. Since BA:SM is once again listed below, we'll assume that the initial launch period set fo ... (more)
2007-01-30
Quake Wars Could Be Late Another Year
Last summer, Activision and Splash Damage took advantage of Quake Wars' entrance into the internal beta-testing phase, in order to sneak the game's release past the 2006-2007 New Year's Eve. But we never imagined even for a single moment that the testi ... (more)
2007-01-30
Two Worlds Delayed Yet Again
Barely did we mention it about a week ago, in a RPG news round-up, and now Zuxxez' and Reality Pump's fantasy RPG once again honors us with its presence in the following lines. Although ironically said "honors", since all that we have is a bad news for ... (more)
2007-01-30
BlackSite: Area 51 Properly Announced, With Pics And Trailer
Initially unveiled during the summer of last year as Area 52, and exposed in more detail by the Game Informer magazine this month, the Area 51 sequel finally received a proper announcement, along with the first screenshots issued to the online press, a ... (more)