2007-01-11
Vanguard Going Live Sooner Than Expected
When we learned that Vanguard was entering a new beta testing phase at the end of 2006, I never expected the final version to be ready to go live so soon, especially considering that there was supposedly going to be at least one additional beta phase b ... (more)
2007-01-11
Record Breaking Sales For Games In UK
The UK interactive entertainment software market hit a new all time high in 2006, according to ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) as it reveals annual performance figures today. ...
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2007-01-11
World of Warcraft - 8 Million And Counting
I know we're pushing it here, what with two consecutive stories on Blizzard's MMORPG and everything. But then again, they more than deserve it - now that World of Warcraft's population has passed the 8 million subscribers mark! They hit the previous mi ... (more)
2007-01-10
Subversion, From The Makers of Darwinia And DEFCON
Introversion rocks! I have come to believe that they're the reason why the saying "keep it simple" was invented. They always seem to keep it simple in their games, and in turn, their games always end up being superb strokes of genius: Up ... (more)
2007-01-10
LotR: The White Council And PS3 Coded Arms Cancelled?
Barely has 2007 begun, and a couple of cancellation rumours are already flying high and low. The first one was picked up by QJ.net via the German website GameFront, and it predicts that Konami's first-person shooter for the PlayStation 3, Coded Arms: A ... (more)
2007-01-10
Xpand Rally Xtreme, Sam & Max Ep. 2, Tortuga Demos, More Downloads
Playing a bit of a catch-up with the stories we missed around the new year's eve, I found myself adding a whole bunch of downloads today, including three demo versions, a couple of patches and several trailers. Starting off with the demos, we have Xpan ... (more)
2007-01-10
Carmack Hopes To Do Orcs & Elves For The Nintendo DS
For many of us, it was quite a shock when id Software's coder extraodinaire, John Carmack, decided to return to his old days of low-tech programming and made a role-playing game for mobile phones. The name of the game - as I'm sure you known by now - i ... (more)
2007-01-10
The New E3, Formerly 'GamePro Expo', Now 'E for All Expo'
Entertainment for All Expo... E for All... E4... yep, this sure is a better name for the future replacement of the once-glamorous E3 Expo, than the previous title "GamePro Expo" suggested by IDG last year. Although I still think that "Booth Babes for A ... (more)
2007-01-10
RIP 3: The Last Hero Review
"The people at White Elephant offer us a sample of bi-dimensional arcade shooter with satellite view, which despite its serious and over-elaborate story, provides only mind relaxation and a ghostly smile cornered here and there. Well, if we bring in th ... (more)
2007-01-10
Carmack Hopes To Do Orcs & Elves For The Nintendo DS // UPDATE
For many of us, it was quite a shock when id Software's coder extraodinaire, John Carmack, decided to return to his old days of low-tech programming and made a role-playing game for mobile phones. The name of the game - as I'm sure you known by now - i ... (more)
2007-01-10
MMO Round-up: Tabula Rasa Beta, Dark and Light Free
Aside from today's announcement that the Dark Age of Camelot: Labyrinth of the Minotaur expansion pack would be released in Europe on February 14, 2007 - marking the fifth anniversary of (EA) Mythic's MMORPG - there have also been another couple of MMO ... (more)
2007-01-10
Sony Claims Emmy Award For SIXAXIS, 'Emmy' Says NOWAI
The world was seemingly coming to an end on Monday, when Sony issued a perplexing press release claiming to have won a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for their PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS controller, despite Nintendo's "Wiimote" being a lot better sui ... (more)
2007-01-10
MapleStory Chibi MMO Headed For Nintendo DS
If you don't know what MapleStory is, you've been missing on one of the funniest, free MMO games ever to come out of Asia, and Korea in particular. First released in 2003 by Korean online giant Nexon, MapleStory could easily be described as a casual 2D ... (more)
2007-01-08
Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta Opens New Ways Of Entry
Just a few days into 2007, Halo aficionados are already being blessed with new ways of entry into the upcoming Halo 3 multiplayer beta. Officially, there are two new ways for their beta-dream to come true, but off the record... well, we'll get there in ... (more)
2007-01-08
Naruto: Ninja Council 3 - A First For DS
Any Naruto fans out there? Yep, I think I see a hand or two raised... Although, personally, I'm not into that kind of animes (not by a long shot), there's no denying that Naruto is currently one of the most popular animation series, so it was only a ma ... (more)
2007-01-08
Silverfall Official Blog And Interview
In just a couple of months, another Diablo wanna-be game going by the title of Silverfall will be unleashed upon the Action-RPG community by Atari (in the US) and Deep Silver (in Europe). I'm sure you have at least heard about it by now, and if you hav ... (more)
2007-01-08
PS3 Ships 1M In US, Wii Sells 1.2M In US, Xbox 360 Sells 10.4M
A few days ago, Lazard Capital's analyst Colin Sebastian estimated that Nintendo's Wii had beaten their earlier 1.2 million sales estimates, and that Sony's PlayStation 3 might have sold just 700,000 units. Well, we now suspect that at least one of the ... (more)
2007-01-08
Enemy Engaged 2 Helicopter Flight Sim Sequel Announced
Try as hard as I might, I can't think of one single, solid helicopter flight simulator released for the PC in the past few years. The last notable entries in the genre probably date back to 2003, and even before that, helicopter sims weren't much of a ... (more)
2007-01-08
All Hellgate: London Breaks Loose In Summer 2007
Slowly but surely, the light at the end of the hellgate is starting to shine ever so brighter, and by Summer 2007, Flaghship's over-hyped project Hellgate: London should be ready to step out of the shadows altogether. That, according to today's joint a ... (more)
2007-01-08
Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta Opens New Ways Of Entry // UPDATE
Just a few days into 2007, Halo aficionados are already being blessed with new ways of entry into the upcoming Halo 3 multiplayer beta. Officially, there are two new ways for their beta-dream to come true, but off the record... well, we'll get there in ... (more)