2006-12-19
QuakeCon 2007 Already Announced
If my external memory serves me right, this is the first time in the history of QuakeCon that the famous LAN party is being announced so soon, in the year preceding the actual event. As tradition would have it, QuakeCon will once again be held in Texas ... (more)
2006-12-19
Litigations That Changed The Games Industry
Not a month (or week, at times) goes by, without some big legal confrontation making the headlines in this gaming industry of ours. Inapt politicians pushing for unlawful laws, crazed lawyer(s) seeking to ban violent video games, patent holders suing h ... (more)
2006-12-19
New Kingdom Hearts And Xbox 360 Games From Square Enix?
We thought that Square Enix' announcement of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS was enough of a shock for this last month of 2006. But immediately afterwards another couple of Final Fantasy Tactics games were also revealed, and guess what: there's mor ... (more)
2006-12-19
Line Rider Is Heading Towards Consoles
For all the Flash web games lovers out there, here's another announcement made to measure the overall expectations: the spring of "inspiration" never runs out. According to the Fun-Motion website, Line Rider - once a small project for an illu ... (more)
2006-12-19
Metal Gear Solid 4 Still PS3 Exclusive, Says Konami
Yes, we know it's been rumoured many times before, and Kojima already denied it back in Spring. But what can we do: over the past two months, there have been at least a couple of new rumours claiming that Metal Gear Solid 4 would one day make its way o ... (more)
2006-12-17
Severity Revealed
The following announcement is kind of "blurry", but lately don't they all are. According to a press release published in PDF format on the CPL (The Cyberathlete Professional League) website, Tom Mustaine, as in the former Ritual Entertainment ... (more)
2006-12-17
A New Super Mario War Game Has Been Released
A noncommercial fangame is just what we need on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. Thanks to the Smwstuff website, today we can play a newly announced and released version of the homebrew game Super Mario War, enhanced for both the PC and Xbox. The product i ... (more)
2006-12-15
New Flagship Seattle Studio Announces Mythos RPG
So determined are the folks from Flagship Studios to have the best possible multiplayer experience in their upcoming Action-RPG, Hellgate: London, that they have established a new studio in Seattle and began work on a casual online RPG, ... (more)
2006-12-15
Gears of War Hits 2 Million, Guild Wars Tops 3 Million
A couple of games have reached new multi-million selling points this week. First of all, according to a joint announcement issued by Microsoft and Epic today, Gears of War has just made history by becoming the fastest-selling next-gen game of 2006, and ... (more)
2006-12-15
Rainbow Six: Vegas Deployed, PC Patch, Xbox 360 Update
Only the PlayStation 3 and PSP versions remain to be released early next year, now that Ubisoft has deployed the PC version of Rainbow Six: Vegas to stores this week, following the Xbox 360 version a few weeks ago (and the long-since cancelled PS2 vers ... (more)
2006-12-15
Anarchy Online: Lost Eden Expansion Released
After taking a break in 2005 without releasing any more add-ons for their sci-fi MMORPG, Funcom is now back on track, announcing that the fourth expansion - Lost Eden - has gone live this week. Following the original Anarchy Online from 2001, The Notum ... (more)
2006-12-15
SCi Gets 11 Warner Licenses, Warner Gets 10% of SCi
As part of a deal announced today between SCi Games and Warner Bros. Entertainment, valued at 66.4 million Euro, the British publisher was granted 11 licenses which they'll be turning into games for various platforms, to be released from 2008 onwards. ... (more)
2006-12-15
Alien FPS By Gearbox, Indeed
Yes, that's right, Gearbox is guilty as previously charged by SEGA's marketing mix-up, for developing the upcoming Alien FPS announced a few days ago. Pretty much like Obsidian's Alien RPG, the shooter is also being developed for next generation platfo ... (more)
2006-12-15
Nintendo NOT Recalling Any Wii Straps, But Offers Replacement
Nintendo recently set out on an internal investigation, to try and figure out a way for calming people down while playing on the Wii, so they wouldn't injure themselves or their loved ones (i.e. TVs), due to improper (i.e. hyperactive) use of the Wii r ... (more)
2006-12-15
Top 100 Mods Of 2006
It's time for something different, and that something is this year's Mod of the Year awards, hosted by Mod DB website. It all started with a list of 4,000 mods for all sorts of games - including all the unreleased modifications - which currently have b ... (more)
2006-12-15
Dev News Round-Up: Perpetual, Red 5, Ritual, Empire, Ubi & more
There have been lots of dev / biz news over the last week, some of them pretty big stories, so I'll try to summarize most of the ones we haven't already covered. Kicking off this round-up is Perpetual Entertainment - who, according to a report on Gamas ... (more)
2006-12-14
An Update For Medieval II: Total War Is Coming
There's something lurking in the backstage of patching process. And that something is a hefty update for Creative Assembly's last entry in the Total War series. According to the Total War Community Blog, the developers have shifted towards completion r ... (more)
2006-12-14
Halo 3 Beta Codes Scandal, Multiplayer Team Leader Leaves Bungie
In two very distinct happenings this week, a scandal broke surrounding the European Halo 3 beta codes giveaway throughout the Xbox Community Network; and today we received a mail on behalf of Max Hoberman (the former multiplayer team lead for Halo 2 an ... (more)
2006-12-14
Jade Empire PC Bumps Into A Delay
The list of delays was bound to be altered length wise with another announcement set to stir up the gaming world. Okay, maybe I've slightly exacerbated the introduction, because we're not talking about a serious delay, but it still manages to spoil the ... (more)
2006-12-14
Assassin's Creed Reveals Its Sci-Fi Side?
Stop rubbing your eyes, 'cause those eyes don't play tricks on you. The following notification is based on a true and utterly valuable interview, in terms of mystification. We could call it an unfortunate case of listlessness, but it's an interesting t ... (more)