2006-12-26
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Demo / Trial
This has got to be one of the tardiest gifts in the history of gift giving! More than eight months after it was first released in April 2006, Funcom's adventure sequel Dreamfall is finally being treated to a demo version. And not just any kind of demo ... (more)
2006-12-26
Massively-Multiplayer Online Bans
In the hope that you had a jolly good Christmas and will have a matching New Year, we return with a few more playful news in these last few days of 2006. As usual, in this period, the big MMOs are competing to offer their players the mos ... (more)
2006-12-26
True Combat: Elite 049b Patch Gets 'Overhauled'
I must admit that I was looking forward for this minor release, only to find out that I wasn't fast enough to grab it at the right time. Groove Six Studio and Team Terminator apologies followed the recent situation where the released 0.49b version of T ... (more)
2006-12-23
Dropship Is The Name
The title bears all the proper connotations for those of you (me included) who lived under the impression that the upcoming project from Michael McCarthy (Troika) and Laidback Gaming is going to make it to the launch date as T-BAR 3/4, a title strangel ... (more)
2006-12-23
C&C 3: Kane Edition Announced
Electronic Arts sure likes to stir up the gaming scene. The latest announcement involves Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars: Kane Edition, a collector's edition additionally comprised of a DVD featuring a "backstage" documentary, deleted s ... (more)
2006-12-22
Sue you again, Nintendo!
The so-called "patent trolls" aren't the only ones threatening to put Nintendo in legal trouble, as we've seen last week. But we can't say this comes as a surprise either: after all the Wii-induced injuries that have been scandalously re ... (more)
2006-12-22
Test Drive Unlimited PC Detailed
While hoping (and hoping, and hoping...) that Atari have learned their lesson after the whole Driv3r fiasco, and that they will finally deliver a decent PC racing experience early next year, the publisher now reveals more info about Test Drive Unlimite ... (more)
2006-12-22
Sid Meier's Christmas! Present
Ho-ho-ho! Or better said, chu-chu-chu! Firaxis and Atari wish us a steaming Christmas, as they release the promised holiday scenario pack for Sid Meier's Railroads! tycoon, along with the latest patch bringing the game to version 1.10. S ... (more)
2006-12-22
Silent Hill 5, Resident Evil 5, Horror Bits And Pieces
Barely did we get to write about the (final?) Resident Evil: Extinction movie a few days ago, and now we stumble upon various bits and pieces of info regarding Capcom's next-gen game in the series, Resident Evil 5, and also about Konami's own survival ... (more)
2006-12-21
NetDevil Working On Toy MMO, Warmonger Shooter, And One More
For a company that has been around for nearly ten years, all that NetDevil has to show for today are two mediocre MMO games: the first (from 2001 and still running) is Jumpgate - which may very well be the first massively multiplayer space simulator un ... (more)
2006-12-21
iPod Owners Get Two New Games
Good news for those into Sunday afternoon games. EA has just released two new iPod titles, namely Soduku and Royal Solitaire. The first one is quite a celebrity among the fans of number games, now featuring five skill levels, and two different modes, w ... (more)
2006-12-21
Next-gen Lara And Third Tomb Raider Movie
Lara Croft's tenth birthday is still being celebrated for another few months, until its culmination with the Tomb Raider: Anniversary game in Spring 2007. And one of the latest reports covering this playful event has also touched on the subject of Tomb ... (more)
2006-12-21
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game In March 2007
As a kid, I was among the many faceless fans of the ninja turtles, mimicking all sorts of ridiculous martial moves. Although today I'm no longer a fan of super-heroes, or even mutant turtles, there are still plenty more people willing to ... (more)
2006-12-21
Virtua Fighter 5 Drops PlayStation 3 Exclusivity
Sony was betrayed yet again! This time, it's SEGA who's dropping the PlayStation 3 exclusivity, for the Virtua Fighter 5 game. In their announcement today, they say that the next-gen brawler will also be released on the Xbox 360, but adm ... (more)
2006-12-21
Children of Mana Coming To Europe On January 12
We briefly mentioned this yesterday as part of the Q1 2007 line-up for the DS and Wii, but Nintendo felt the urge to release a more lenghty announcement today, for the upcoming release of Children of Mana in Europe. This latest saga from Square Enix's ... (more)
2006-12-21
Armed Assault Demo Download
All right, listen up, maggots! Drop your Battlefield weapons and line up for this huge 845 MB download: it's the long awaited Armed Assault demo, and it's here to kick some bulletproof ass. Coming from the makers of Operation Flashpoint - one of the be ... (more)
2006-12-20
Medal of Honor: Vanguard Coming To Wii And PS2
Because EA's Medal of Honor: Airborne didn't turn out to be for the Wii after all (just for the PC, PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360), it was about time they revealed how the famed WWII shooting franchise would make its inevitable debut on the Nintendo Wii consol ... (more)
2006-12-20
Entertainment Software Association President Lowenstein Quits
Following an early report from a few days ago, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is now confirming that Douglas Lowenstein is resigning as president of the organization he's been leading for the past 12 years (!). He will be leaving the grou ... (more)
2006-12-20
The Release Of AoE3 Patches Temporarily On Hold
The preparations for the last cargo of patches have shifted into their final stage, but as other titles have already been updated, things are not so fortunate for the fans or the third iteration in the Age of Empires series. It seems that Ensemble Stud ... (more)
2006-12-20
26 Wii And 66 DS Games In Q1 2007, Delays, New DS In 2007
Nintendo is making sure to keep those games rolling out by the lot all through the winter, and into the spring of 2007. The Japanese publisher has already promised to release another 26 Wii games and 66 DS games in the first quarter of 2 ... (more)