2007-04-04
PlayStation 3 Catching Up With Wii, In Japan
The contrast between the successful launch of Nintendo's Wii console, and Sony's lacking retail performance with the PlayStation 3, was most obvious at the end of January in Japan. At that time, Nintendo was selling four Wiis for every PS3 sold by Sony ... (more)
2007-04-04
SEGA Sheds More Light On The Wii NiGHTS Sequel
Earlier this week, SEGA have finally confirmed that they are working on NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams - the long yearned-for Wii sequel to their classic Saturn game from 1996, NiGHTS: Into Dreams. And today, they are revealing some more gameplay details on ... (more)
2007-04-03
Nintendo Joins 'E for All' Expo, Ticket Prices Announced
We're still over half a year away from the first edition of the new "E for All" expo, scheduled for October 18-21 in Los Angeles, and yet the show's main organizer - IDG World Expo, part of the International Data Group - is already setting the media on ... (more)
2007-04-03
Age of Conan Beta Sign-ups Begin
Despite the raging WoW mania that's still going strong, there are a few highly anticipated MMORPGs supposed to come out this year - and, sure enough, Age of Conan is one of them. If you happen to be among the many folks desperately waiti ... (more)
2007-04-03
My Kingdom For a Medieval II: Total War Expansion!
There's nothing surprising about a new expansion being added to the prolific Total War series anymore, but it's always great to see it happening. Or, in this case, to wait for it to happen. After The Mongol Invasion, Viking Invasion, Bar ... (more)
2007-04-03
PlayStation 3 UK Sales Dropped By 82% In Week #2
So much for conquering Europe, eh, Sony? Their enthusiastic launch of the PlayStation 3 on the old continent went down in the annals of gaming history as the fastest-selling home console in the United Kingdom. But that was only for the first week of av ... (more)
2007-03-30
Battlestations: Midway 'Iowa Mission Pack' Live, Sequel Coming
Like games and patches, even mission packs get delayed nowdays. Eidos was supposed to release this "Iowa Mission Pack" for Battlestations: Midway almost a month ago, but alas, those cursed "technical issues" prevented them from pleasing their (Xbox 360 ... (more)
2007-03-30
New PlayStation 3 With 80GB Hard Disk?
This may not sound like much after Microsoft's confirmation of the new Xbox 360 Elite model with a 120 GB hard drive yesterday, but it looks like Sony also had a similar initiative recently. And they could soon reveal a third PlayStation 3 model, with ... (more)
2007-03-30
Take-Two's Boss Is Down, Long Live Take-Two's Boss
While most people were busy drooling over the first Grand Theft Auto IV trailer last night, the series' publisher Take-Two was going through some changes... Some BIG changes! For several weeks now, it has been known that a powerful group of shareholder ... (more)
2007-03-30
Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer Is Here!
You can imagine the madness that ensued last night after Rockstar premiered the first Grand Theft Auto IV trailer. The game's official page came crashing down in no time, but luckly in a matter of minutes a dozen other websites were already mirroring t ... (more)
2007-03-30
F.E.A.R. PS3 Available In April, Interview Now
In one of those oh-so-rare twists of fate, the PlayStation 3 version of F.E.A.R. will be arriving sooner in Europe than in North America (four days sooner, to be more precise). And to spice up their launch press releases, Sierra / Vivendi also issued a ... (more)
2007-03-30
Take-Two's Boss Is Down, Long Live Take-Two's Boss // UPDATE
While most people were busy drooling over the first Grand Theft Auto IV trailer last night, the series' publisher Take-Two was going through some changes... Some BIG changes! For several weeks now, it has been known that a powerful group of shareholder ... (more)
2007-03-29
Ninja Gaiden PS3 Demo In April, New DS Game Revealed
Contrary to the current "trend" of PlayStation titles (also) moving to the Xbox 360, there's one franchise that's actually going the other way around: Ninja Gaiden - from being an Xbox exclusive in recent years, to leaving behind Microsoft consoles alt ... (more)
2007-03-28
The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles Expands In Stores
Oblivion sure is taking its time to expand... Soon it was released in March 2006 for the PC and Xbox 360, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion recieved the first official addition - the now-(in)famous horse armors. In the following months, Bet ... (more)
2007-03-28
Company of Heroes 2 Announcement Imminent?
We are always looking forward to any new announcement coming from Relic Entertainment, even though we have long since come to terms with the saddening thought that they may never make another Homeworld game again. Well, not unless THQ goes shopping at ... (more)
2007-03-28
Wii Browser In Pictures And Clips, Coming In April
Sony aren't the only ones deserving our anger these days, as you've probably heard about Microsoft's mishaps with the hijacked Xbox Live accounts due to their inapt customer service. And quite frankly, we still can't get over the fact that Nintendo hav ... (more)
2007-03-28
Mario & Sonic Meet For The First Time, On The Wii And DS
Everyone's favorite Italian plumber, Mario, is pretty used to playing alongside all sorts of characters from Nintendo's games by now. But one famous rival that Mario has yet to challege directly is Sega's speeding hedgehog, Sonic. These two have been r ... (more)
2007-03-28
Black Xbox 360 Elite In Pictures, HDMI Confirmed // UPDATE
Here we go again! It's only been a few days since we last wrote about the black Xbox 360, and despite all the commotion here in Europe after the launch of the PlayStation 3 this weekend (we'll get there, too, in just a bit), our attention has been caug ... (more)
2007-03-28
New Lord of the Rings Game Coming In 2008
Even though we never actually saw any in-game footage or screens from The Lord of the Rings: The White Council, we were disappointed to learn at the beginning of this year that EA's Tolkian RPG had reportedly been cancelled. But even if Electronic Arts ... (more)
2007-03-28
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Second Expansion Incoming
Another year, time for another Civilization! After the original Civilization IV came out in 2005 and the Warlords expansion followed in 2006, this year 2K Games and Firaxis are preparing a second expansion pack, announced today for release in July. 2K ... (more)