2006-12-06
Crysis Faces A Delay
No, it has nothing to do with those tragic events that pulled a curtain of questions over Germany. The people at Crytek are not working on a "non-violent" version that will feature pink paint bullets (perhaps white paint would be a somewhat b ... (more)
2006-12-06
SSX Blur Snowboarding On Wii
It's been known since quite a while that EA's SSX franchise would be coming to the Wii, but little did we care for snowboarding in the middle of summer. So today Electronic Arts officially revelead the game, called SSX Blur, in development by EA Montre ... (more)
2006-12-05
New Details Concerning The Hitman Movie
Good news lie ahead for all Hitman fans out there, despite the fact that the whole deal it's such an early presence. According to AintItCool website, and regarding the highly anticipated movie version of Hitman, a famous third person action game series ... (more)
2006-12-05
Eidos Picks Up Infernal And Ancient Wars: Sparta
Playlogic have been delaying their games like crazy over the past year or so. But luckily, Eidos stepped up and will help them publish a couple of PC titles, namely Ancient Wars: Sparta and Infernal (formerly known as Diabolique: License to Sin). Both ... (more)
2006-12-05
PSP Welcomes PSOne Games In An Unexpected Fashion
Sony Computer Entertainment America has just come up with a playstation download service, which appears to represent the first step in providing a long awaited link between all playstation systems. Although the project had barely passed the incipient p ... (more)
2006-12-05
ArchLord MMO Will Be Free To Play
Codemasters' MMORPG ArchLord will become free-to-play from January 4, 2007, the British publisher announced this week! So if you ever felt the urge to try it, all you will need to do is buy the game and... that's about it, monthly fees w ... (more)
2006-12-05
Halo 3 Beta Registration, Trailer Reveals Shield Grenade
Bungie was urging us not to panic a few days ago, saying that the "Halo 3 Beta will be available in the US, Europe and elsewhere in the world". But that doesn't mean that everyone can now enlist for the beta; because not everyone can. The registration ... (more)
2006-12-04
Sam Suede Cancelled, Al Lowe Out Of PC Gaming
Earlier this year, Al Lowe made an announcement which, at the time, seemed like the news all Leisure Suit Larry fans have been waiting for - that is, the *old* Larry adventure games, not the latest Magna Cum Laude piece of jelly, which was done without ... (more)
2006-12-04
Electronic Arts Gets More Bad Publicity
We've all heard before that there is no such thing as "bad publicity", but some publishers seem to be doing everything in their power to disprove that saying. Such was the case with Electronic Arts a few days ago, when they un-invited a Spanish gaming ... (more)
2006-12-04
More Next-gen Madness - The Japanese Wii Launch
Nintendo had one more stop in Japan this weekend, before finally bringing their Wii console to Europe and Australia in just a few more days. As expected, all available consoles were sold in Japan shortly after the console's launch this Saturday (Decemb ... (more)
2006-12-04
FlatOut 2 Demo Download
Aside from being one hell of an Arcade racer, among the very best for the PC this year, and in many regards what the original FlatOut should have been, FlatOut 2 was also the one game that ultimately saved Empire Interactive from a tragi ... (more)
2006-12-04
Galactic Command Announced By 3000AD
Remember Derek Smart, his 3000AD studio and their neverending Universal Combat series? Well it finally seems to be coming to an end (or at least a halt), because they just announced that their next space game will be called Galactic Command. They are t ... (more)
2006-12-01
Electronic Arts Buys Headgate Studios, Now EA Salt Lake
For starters, please indulge this self-quote from early October, when EA closed their DICE Canada studio, shortly after fully acquiring Digital Illusions: "Shutting down a measly DICE satellite may not be something unusual for Electronic Arts anymore. ... (more)
2006-12-01
Halo 3 Beta Registrations Begin On Monday
Monday is going to be a special day for Halo fans. First of all, December 4 will mark the beginning of the first registrations phase for the Halo 3 beta, which is expected to open its doors in the Spring of 2007. And also during that day ... (more)
2006-12-01
Gears of War VGA Bug Fixed, Noisy Player Banned
As any highly-successful and over-hyped game, Gears of War was bound to backfire at developer Epic Games. Out of the various issues players have been complaining about, mostly in multiplayer, one mind-boggling bug was causing the game to display at a s ... (more)
2006-12-01
Gran Turismo HD Only As Free Demo, Focus Shifting To GT5
Polyphony Digital has finally set the record straight as to the nature of their current GT project, called Gran Turismo HD Concept. After much confusion caused by their E3 2006 demo, we assumed this will be released as a full-fledged game, but that wil ... (more)
2006-12-01
Sony Responds To Analyst Predicting No PlayStation 4
As expected, there is more than meets the eye behind yesterday's top-level reshuffles among Sony's management team. But I don't think that any of us was so bold as to expect that these changes would ultimately lead to the death of Sony's hardware divis ... (more)
2006-12-01
Halo 3 Matches Already Being Played On Xbox Live?
Somebody is toying with us over at Bungie. Or at Microsoft. Or both. Just yesterday, we were being told that the first round of sign-ups for the Halo 3 beta would begin this Monday, with the actual beta testing set to take place in Spring 2007. But now ... (more)
2006-11-30
Relic Recruiting For A New RPG And MMO
Hmm, yes, role-playing or massively-multiplayer online games aren't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Relic Entertainment, but the Canadians are planning to change this and to challenge their fellow-countrym ... (more)
2006-11-30
Crytek Ready To Leave Germany, Just In Case...
It seems that the Germans really want to overtake the Americans, when it comes to aberrant measures taken against violent video games. As if it weren't aberrant enough to ban titles such as Quake or more recently Dead Rising. But if the real-world viol ... (more)