2007-01-30
Battlestations: Midway Launched, With MP Demo
This week's most anticipated release, according to statistics from IGN's GamerMetrics website, is the sea, naval and underwater military action game Battlestations: Midway. Having looked like a very promising game for World War II fans s ... (more)
2007-01-30
Silverfall Download Demo
Deep Silver don't seem to be in any rush with launching the new hack'n'slash Silverfall, and apparently nor do they care much for data compression, since their game's demo version nonchalantly spreads over a whopping 1.5 GB (I bet that's way more than ... (more)
2007-01-26
Square Enix Adopts Unreal Engine 3
BioWare, Midway, NCsoft, Spellborn, 10tacle, Atari, Trilogy Studios, Mistwalker, THQ, Gearbox, Sony Online, Electronic Arts, NetDevil, even the US Army: these are just some of the developers and publishers currently using Epic's Unreal E ... (more)
2007-01-26
Just Cause 2 Officially Justified
As Che Guevara would have probably said after playing last year's subversive shooter Just Cause, it only takes 4.7 GB of explosive gaming goodness to start a revolution. Just one month after Avalanche Studios' action game was sucessfully deployed at re ... (more)
2007-01-26
BioWare Joins The PlayStation 3 Dev-Club
Last week, BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka made quite a revealing statement in an interview with CVG, stating that BioWare plans to add post-release and episodic content not only for Mass Effect (something that's been known about since early 2006), but also for ... (more)
2007-01-26
Halo 3 Beta Invites This Week, More Bungie Updates // UPDATE
Sure enough, there's been plenty of Halo 3 news piled up over the last few days, so there's no time to waste: let's dig in. First and foremost, as the Halo3.com website announces, the first phase of the Halo 3 Beta registration process is now closed, a ... (more)
2007-01-26
Unreal Tournament 3, Unreal Tournament III... Just Not UT 2007
Epic Games' plans to release a new UT game each year have long since gone down the drain, and even the upcoming Unreal Tournament 2007 - originally intended to be released in 2006 - couldn't keep up with the prolonged development time required for such ... (more)
2007-01-26
Thou Shall Not Make Violent Video Games, Says The Pope
I don't usually trust priests, especially if they're Shadow specced. But when The Pope takes the stage, I guess it's worth taking the time to listen. Especially if he has something to say about video games - which, mind-boggling as it ma ... (more)
2007-01-26
20 Million DS Sold In Europe And Americas, 3.2 Million Wii Worldwide
Nintendo began a tour de force on Monday, January 22, when they announced that the DS had sold a total of 10 million units in Europe, since its May 2005 debut on the old continent. This figure also includes the redesinged DS Lite that came out in June ... (more)
2007-01-26
Square Enix Adopts Unreal Engine 3 // UPDATE
BioWare, Midway, NCsoft, Spellborn, 10tacle, Atari, Trilogy Studios, Mistwalker, THQ, Gearbox, Sony Online, Electronic Arts, NetDevil, even the US Army: these are just some of the developers and publishers currently using Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technol ... (more)
2007-01-25
Sony Delays EU PS3 Launch... Details, Confirms March 23 Launch!
Scared you there for a moment, eh? Well, don't worry, they haven't delayed the European launch of the PlayStation 3 any more. But they did postpone their announcement that was supposed to give us all the juicy - and, best of all, official - PS3 launch ... (more)
2007-01-25
Air Battles: Sky Defender Signed By Wild Hare
Ah, what a wonderful day for flying... Actually, no, I'm lying. The weather's horrible outside, but I'm hoping you'll find this lousy excuse of an intro way better suited to your local meteorological condition. Either way, just pretend t ... (more)
2007-01-25
Sony + Namco Bandai = Cellius PS3 Studio
What do you do when you make a console - let's call it "PS3" - that's so expensive, and requires such huge game development investments, that most studios would spit you in the face and go back to making silly Wii games? Easy: you spit them back and ma ... (more)
2007-01-25
Gold Farmers Unite
You can imagine my amusement when I saw this story on some guy's Raph's website, about Korean gold farmers banding together, just as I was listening to "Africa Unite". But of course, unlike Bob Marley's song, there's absolutely nothing commendable abou ... (more)
2007-01-25
Every Extend Extra Exclusive Extravaganza
Lumines was one the PSP's biggest surprise hits, and to this day it remains the best-ranked game for Sony's handheld platform on GameRankings.com (although the new Sid Meier's Pirates! is also soaring high). After releasing the Lumines I ... (more)
2007-01-24
WoW: The Burning Crusade Is Fastest-Selling PC Game Ever
Over 2 million fans were prepared for the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion, from the very first day it was released one week ago. After checking their internal company records and consulting with their key distribution partners, Blizzar ... (more)
2007-01-24
Granado Espada, Top Korean MMORPG Coming To US And Europe
Not long after Gravity announced plans to bring Ragnarok Online 2 one step closer to the West, another top Korean MMORPG now sets out on the international path of glory. Granado Espada, as it's known in Korea, will also be released in North America and ... (more)
2007-01-24
Ritual Entertainment Acquired By Casual Games Developer
In a surprising and ironic announcement today, it was revealed that veteran PC developer Ritual Entertainment was acquired by a casual games developer. Ritual's new owner is MumboJumbo, a company that was founded by former Ritual CEO Ron ... (more)
2007-01-24
Virtua Fighter 5 PS3 Fights For Gold
By the end of February, the PlayStation 3 will get another "temporary exclusive" title, this time from SEGA, when their traditional Virtua Fighter series will be unleashed in next-gen format. Having already debuted in Japan at the arcade ... (more)
2007-01-24
GRAW 2 PS3 MIA, Xbox 360 Demo ASAP
Expanding a bit on the above abbreviations, there was something very dubious about Ubisoft's latest financial report they issued yesterday. While mentioning the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 sequel and how it's supposed to be released ... (more)