2007-01-23
Halo 3 Beta Invites This Week, More Bungie Updates
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)
2007-01-23
Driver 76 Announced For PSP
Instead of confirming the semi-official Wii version of Driver: Parallel Lines, Ubisoft is now surprising us with the announcement of Driver 76 - a new PSP game set to continue Reflections Interactive's intense driving series. Reminiscent of the kick-as ... (more)
2007-01-23
Pursuit Force Sequel Jumps On PSP And PS2
For Bigbig Studios, the action is the juice. And they just can't get enough of it! After blowing PSP gamers away in 2005 with their debut title, they now plan to spread even more urban chaos on a couple of Sony's platforms, when they return in full for ... (more)
2007-01-23
Crackdown Alerted As Gold, Demo Locked Up Longer // UPDATE
Overwatched by one of GTA's original creators - David Jones, now of Realtime Worlds - the new Xbox 360 action game Crackdown has gone gold over the weekend, and it should be released under the Microsoft Game Studios brand in just about a month, on Febr ... (more)
2007-01-23
Final Fantasy XIII E3 Demo, More FF XIII And Versus XIII Details
The PlayStation 3 may not have the largest installed user base today, but with a couple of Square Enix RPGs (and a certain Konami MGS game...), things will surely look a lot different in a year or two. The RPGs in question are obviously Final Fantasy X ... (more)
2007-01-23
Fallout 3(60) And Oblivion PS3 Make The News
Not a year goes by without Bethesda breaking some great news, and even though 2007 has just begun, we have already whitnessed the announcement of The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles expansion pack for PC and Xbox 360. Given Oblivion's planned release ... (more)
2007-01-23
Final Fantasy XIII E3 Demo, More FF XIII And Versus Details
The PlayStation 3 may not have the largest installed user base today, but with a couple of Square Enix RPGs (and a certain Konami MGS game...), things will surely look a lot different in a year or two. The RPGs in question are obviously Final Fantasy X ... (more)
2007-01-23
Inuyasha (DS) And Legend Of Heroes III (PSP) Released
As we promised earlier, today brings yet another RPG news, with Namco Bandai's announcement that two of their portable role-playing games are now available at retail across North America. These are Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel for the Nintendo ... (more)
2007-01-23
More RPG News: Hellgate 360, Blue Dragon, Two Worlds
With all the role-playing news we already had today, there's still plenty more left to talk about. After Fallout 3, Oblivion, FF XIII and FF Versus XIII, we now turn our attention over to three more ambitious titles - Hellgate: London, B ... (more)
2007-01-22
Nintendo Luminary Shigeru Miyamoto To Keynote 2007 GDC
Videogame development legend Shigeru Miyamoto will make a rare public appearance at the 2007 Game Developers Conference (GDC) for his first keynote since 1999. Dubbed “The Spielberg of Video Games” by Time Magazine, Miyamoto, Nintendo’s Senior Managing Di ... (more)
2007-01-21
"Gears of War" Juggernaut Continues With More Than 3 Million Units Sold
“Gears of War” has gone triple platinum, reaching the 3 million-units-sold milestone in just 10 weeks on store shelves, ending 2006 as the top-selling game among all platforms during the month of December. ...
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2007-01-20
WoW: The Burning Crusade - Was Vivendi Prepared?
Right after the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion went live a few days ago, we asked a similar question: was Blizzard prepared? Although the response was not entirely affirmative, the end result - as far as Blizzard is concerned - was mo ... (more)
2007-01-20
Steel Fury, UFO: Afterlight Demo Downloads
In November of last year, Steel Fury was emerging as a promising tank simulator, and arguably one of the only tank simulators currently worth waiting for. Although the game is still several months away from completion, Ukranian game developer Graviteam ... (more)
2007-01-19
The PlayStation 3 Price In Europe; Launching In March, Not April
With speculation on the rise about the European PlayStation 3 launch details, Sony has actually bothered to clear things a bit, ahead of their official announcement on this matter, which is expected to take place next week. As with any other big consol ... (more)
2007-01-19
Rockstar Co-Founder Leaves, Ex-Devs Form New Studio
Someone old, someone new, something shut down, born anew. Rockstar Games went through quite a few changes recently, starting with the appointment of a new COO at the beginning of this month, and continuing with the recent departure of one of its co-fou ... (more)
2007-01-19
Fritz Chess 10 Plans Opening In February
Along with the Chessmaster series, Fritz Chess is one of the best known and respected names in the genre. And much like the Chessmaster series, Fritz Chess has also reached its tenth iteration - Fritz Chess 10 - which will be released next month in som ... (more)
2007-01-18
Europa Universalis III Demo Download
Let me begin this news by taking you one year back, to when this game was first announced in an official manner by developer Paradox Interactive. In February 2006, they issues a very ambitious statement, claiming that Europa Universalis III would becom ... (more)
2007-01-18
BlackSite: Area 51 Sequel Exposed
Game Informer is at it again. The hype-inducing magazine's latest issue exposes Midway's plans for a sequel to their not-so-bad-at-all first-person shooter Area 51. The next episode - titled BlackSite: Area 51 - will apparently air during the summer of ... (more)
2007-01-18
Guitar Hero III By Neversoft, '80s Guitar Hero By Harmonix?
Two rumours have begun to take shape last week around the Guitar Hero franchise, in the pages of US magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM). One of them suggested that development of the third game in Harmonix' series is actually being ... (more)
2007-01-17
The Sims Stories Announced With 3 New Games
The Sims' neverending saga is bound to get even longer, now that Electronic Arts is lifting the veil off a new line of games, lovingly called The Sims Stories. These are intended to be "laptop-friendly games" (whatever that means), and, unlike the prev ... (more)