2006-10-04
Final Fantasy XII Pirated Ahoy!
Nowdays if a game is pirated around its release, we think of it as normal. If it "leaks" one week prior to the official launch, it's usually an anticipated title. But when the pirated version gets a full month head start, it can only mean one thing: Fi ... (more)
2006-10-04
Age Of Empires III The WarChiefs Demo On The Loose
Ensemble Studios takes one step at a time, slowly reaching their deadline for another one of their anticipated projects. This time around is Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs, an upcoming RTS and T rated expansion pack for Age of Empires III, which wil ... (more)
2006-10-04
Korea - A Bad Market For Console Gamers
This is a fact, confirmed with every day of transactions on the game market. It's quite surprising that in a country geographically close to Japan, computers had always had a clear advantage. This means that the every full blow, represented by empty st ... (more)
2006-10-04
Heroes Of Annihilated Empires Is Gold
According to an official press release, the first part of GSC Game World's RTS/RPG trilogy, named Heroes of Annihilated Empires reached the gold status after a satisfactory completion of its development. Furthermore, Chapter I is already scheduled for ... (more)
2006-10-04
Need for Speed Carbon Demo Available On Xbox Live
An early morning update from Major Nelson today reports that the Need for Speed Carbon demo is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Indeed, this one's only for Xbox 360 owners, but we do expect a PC demo to follow sooner or later this month. The ... (more)
2006-10-04
EA Shuts Down DICE Canada
A couple of days ago, after Electronic Arts had completed the acquisition of Swedish developer DICE (Digital Illusions), I was wondering when the "Origin syndrome", a.k.a. "Westwood syndrome" would kick in. You know, closing down studios out of the blu ... (more)
2006-10-04
PlayStation 3 Overheating Leads To Fall Of Sony Shares
Repeated delays of the PS3, poor sales of the PSP and various other recent happenings have caused Sony's reputation to hang by a threat - and it too is about to catch on fire. Reports from the recent Tokyo Game Show claim that many of the PlayStation 3 ... (more)
2006-10-02
EA - DICE Acquisition Finally Complete
"Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment - an EA company". This is what the Swedish developer's placeholder website reads as of today, after Electronic Arts announced that they have finalized the acquisition of DICE. Which goes whithout saying, is the ... (more)
2006-10-02
ZoE's Possible Comeback On PS3
According to an unofficial declaration housed by UK games magazine PSM3, Zone of the Enders 3 will be released on PlayStation 3 sometime in 2007. The claiming is sort of auspicious, if we come to think about the fact that the return could herald the fi ... (more)
2006-10-02
DEFCON Demo At Your Leisure // UPDATE
The moment has arrived, and now we can finally enjoy Introversion Software's "war simulator", named Defcon. While the game can be bought via Steam or the producer's website, for those of you who don't want to jump right in, but take a "litte bite" befo ... (more)
2006-10-02
The Resurrection Of Commodore 64 Titles On Wii?
The U.S. Nintendo Power magazine reports that several Commodore 64 games could find themselves in the honorable (we'll see just how honorable) position of being emulated on the Wii’s virtual console. In case you haven't found yet some valid explanation ... (more)
2006-09-29
Halo Wars RTS In The Works At Ensemble
Speaking of well kept secrets, Microsoft continued their salvo of X06 announcements with Halo Wars - a real-time strategy game taking place in Bungie's Halo universe. Wow, who would've thought!... Oh, wait. Actually, somebody did predict ... (more)
2006-09-29
Ancient Doom Upon Xbox Live Arcade
From the depths of time, id Software's ancient Doom shooter has made a shocking surfacing at this week's X06 event, where it was revealed that the game is arriving on Xbox Live Arcade, effective immediately. The announcement came practically out of the ... (more)
2006-09-29
Tomb Raider 8 Planned For PlayStation 3
Well, the Eidos brand is still live and kicking thanks to SCi Games, so I guess we all know what that means... Indeed, a new Tomb Raider game is coming. A few years ago, as Lara was going through her midlife crisis, the prospect of another Croftian adv ... (more)
2006-09-29
Aspyr Will Serve Top Spin 2 On The PC
I don't think there's been any good - let alone great - tennis game on the PC since 2004, when the first Top Spin came out. But thanks to Aspyr Media, fans now have a reason to look forward to Q1 2007, when a PC version of Top Spin 2 is expected to be ... (more)
2006-09-27
DEFCON Has Gone Gold
Another day has passed, another announcement stirs up the gaming press. A declaration posted on the Darwinia website states that the PC global wargame called DEFCON, has entered its gold stage, offering as an "undeniable proof", one photo dep ... (more)
2006-09-27
The PS3 Version Of Virtua Tennis 3 Without Online Play
Sony's gaming system is still traversing troubled times. A few days ago, some rumors started to appear on the Internet, speaking about another change (an important one) that occured in PS3's "back yard", while earlier this month it was reveal ... (more)
2006-09-25
PS3 Games To Cost Over $75 In Japan? Perfectly Normal
Any moderately-sane gamer can tell you that if you're willing to pay over $75 for a single game, you got issues. Which only goes to show (was there ever any doubt?) that the Japanese are something of a special breed, as they're already used to paying t ... (more)
2006-09-25
LA Noire Revealed
An announcement covering few details about the new Rockstar Games next-gen franchise, hit the net. It speaks about the classic noire story transposed into a digitalized experience, a tribute to the old murder mystery movies, set in the 1940s. The maste ... (more)
2006-09-25
The Release Of True Combat Elite 0.49 Is Imminent
Friday September 29th, 2006, is the official date for the highly anticipated (at least in my case) release of an improved version for TC:E (True Combat: Elite). In just a few words, I'm gonna tell you that TC:E is a total conversion modification of the ... (more)