2007-04-25
Excite Truck 2 Sequel Confirmed... As Fake
As I was browsing the usual "resource for games journalists" for my daily ratio of communiques a few hours ago, I briefly caught sight of a press release titled "Excite Truck 2", accompanied by what seemed like a pack of screenshots. "Goodie!!, I playf ... (more)
2007-04-25
Tom Clancy's EndWar, Ubisoft's New... Strategy Game!
Speculation has been on the rise about a new Tom Clancy game, ever since Ubisoft began their viral marketing campaign with multiple news posts on the official websites of various Tom Clancy games, and opened an intriguing rev64.com website, which redir ... (more)
2007-04-24
Football Manager MMO In 2008, Beta Next Month
There may not be any footy management game from Sports Interactive this year - or at least none that we know of - something that only ever happened once (back in '98), over the studio's 15 years of history. But boy, do they have a great reason for it! ... (more)
2007-04-24
Nintendo For The First Time Ever At TGS 2007
One of the gaming industry's golden rules is about to be broken! A rule that has stood the test of time for over a decade. And although we never really knew "why", we got used to the proven fact that Nintendo never attended the Tokyo Game Show with a b ... (more)
2007-04-23
PlayStation Portable Price Down To €170 In Europe
As you may recall from earlier this month, Sony cut the price of the PlayStation Portable console over in the US by $30, from $199.99 down to $169.99, amidst heated speculation - and hope - for a cheaper PlayStation 3. That price cut is still nothing b ... (more)
2007-04-23
Command & Conquer 3 PC Editor, Xbox 360 Demo
Paving the way for the upcoming Mod SDK that will let you create - and play - entire single-player scenarios (and campaigns, we assume), Electronic Arts have released the Worldbuilder for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars over the weekend. This is bas ... (more)
2007-04-23
Mass Effect Delayed To September?
Last time we mentioned it, back in March, Mass Effect was still one of the big huge Xbox 360 titles (alongside Halo 3 and PGR 4) whose final release date had yet to be confirmed by Microsoft. And despite BioWare's comments from GDC 2007, leading us to ... (more)
2007-04-20
Operation Flashpoint 2 Returns In 2008
I thought this would be the end of Codies' press assault for the day, but the Brits have unleashed another wave of media for their upcoming games, after the recent Code '07 event. You can see the new images now, in our screenshots section (browse until ... (more)
2007-04-19
Codies Shift Into Next-Gen Gear With Race Driver One
Moving on with today's trio of news from Codemasters, we have Race Driver One - the next iteration in their Race Driver series. As in the next-gen iteration, not the portable Create & Race game revealed yesterday. It doesn't seem to incl ... (more)
2007-04-19
Rise of the Argonauts Action-RPG Announced For 2008
Now that we got the petty news out of the way, it's time to move on to today's breaking trio of announcements made by Codemasters. Little did we know yesterday, when they revealed the first Race Driver game for the Nintendo DS, that they still had a fe ... (more)
2007-04-19
Silverfall RPG Gets PSP Version
Released less than a month ago for the PC by Atari (in the US) and Deep Silver (in Europe), Silverfall turned out to be a rather mediocre role-playing game. But despite its modest review scores, yet another publisher now announces plans ... (more)
2007-04-19
Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2 Fights Back For PS2
Namco Bandai returns with yet another Naruto announcement this month, this time revealing the sequel to Uzumaki Chronicles, their latest Naruto ninja combat game for the PlayStation 2. Appropriately titled Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2, the new chapter ... (more)
2007-04-18
Obscure II Will Scare Us On PC, PS2 And Wii
For some time now, the French devs from Hydravision Entertainment have been working on a sequel to Obscure, their survival-(not-so-)horror game from 2004, and recently they finally managed to sign with a publisher. We say "finally" because it's never e ... (more)
2007-04-18
Race Driver: Create & Race Announced For DS
The Race Driver series took an interesting turn today, when Codemasters announced the first entry for Nintendo's DS handheld, called Race Driver: Create & Race. As if that alone wasn't interesting enough, they say the game will be radically different f ... (more)
2007-04-18
UFO: Extraterrestrials Goes Gold
So it didn't come out in 2005, like supposed to, and it even missed the entire 2006 by a long shot. But after years of underpaid development over at Chaos Concept, UFO: Extraterrestrials was finally proclaimed "Gold" today by its publisher Tri Synergy, ... (more)
2007-04-18
Worms: Open Warfare 2 To Explode On The PSP And DS
Duck and cover, it's those crazy worms again! The chaps from Team17 are meticulously preparing another portable annelid invasion this year, with the follow-up to last year's Worms: Open Warfare. The new game, Worms: Open Warfare 2 (duh), will be publis ... (more)
2007-04-18
Beautiful Katamari Damacy Confirmed For PS3, Xbox 360
One by one, the rumours stirred one month ago by some photos posted on Xboxic are being confirmed by Namco Bandai. Ace Combat 6 was announced for the Xbox 360 soon afterwards (story), and although we're still waiting to hear about that Warhammer: Mark ... (more)
2007-04-17
New GTA IV Details, Off The Record
The tasty bits of info about Grand Theft Auto IV we got to taste last week were just the beginning. In fact, it now looks like some of the things announced in Game Informer's preview may not have been entirely true, and that Rockstar cou ... (more)
2007-04-17
Guitar Hero III Will Be Heavy Online, Also Coming To DS In 2008
It's been a busy year so far for both RedOctane and Harmonix, full of announcements, rumours, lawsuits and what not. Earlier this month, Guitar Hero II was finally released on the Xbox 360, hot on the heels of Harmonix' announcement of a new music game ... (more)
2007-04-16
Fallout IP Completely Sold To Bethesda, For $5.75 Million
"Yes, now there truly is no one else to blame", agrees Bethsoft's senior executive producer, Ashley Cheng, in the aftermath of last week's surprise announcement that Interplay has completely sold the Fallout intellectual property, trade mark and assets ... (more)