2006-08-02
Wii Games, More Wii Games! At $49.99
20 Wii games - and that's coming from just three top publishers: Ubisoft (with 7 Wii titles, surprisingly), Midway (6) and Electronic Arts (7). The latest title to make the news this week is Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, which, in addition to the previous ... (more)
2006-08-02
No PS3 Games For Atari Until 2007, And For SNK Until 2009
From a couple of related stories that appeared this week on GamesIndustry.biz and Kotaku, we learn that Atari and SNK Playmore won't be jumping on the PS3 bandwagon just yet. Feeling too insecure about Sony's next-gen console, and especially about its ... (more)
2006-08-02
Guild Wars: Nightfall Prerelease Bonus Pack
Shortly after the first Guild Wars: Nightfall PvP preview event (which took place last weekend), ArenaNet strikes the iron while it's hot and announces a new retail package, offering Guild Wars players their first look inside the upcoming release of Gu ... (more)
2006-08-02
MiST land - South Becomes GFI Russia
Game Factory Interactive's previously announced plans of global consolidation have long since been put into motion, and the first results are already here. In their quest to combine all of GFI's studios under one brand, today they revealed a new name f ... (more)
2006-08-02
EA - $81 Million Loss But With Beat Expectations
Lately the company had parted to a lot of verbal sniping. It seems that the biggest third-party publisher in the world is the preferred punching bag for so many gamers. They are those who take potshots at it for everything from its movie-license tie ... (more)
2006-08-02
Shenmue Online Back On Track
Like we already know, and if you didn't you'll know now, the status of Shenmue Online has been flat lined for almost a year. All this came after a bitter fallout between publisher Sega and developer JC Entertainment. But now the project seems to be ... (more)
2006-08-02
Free Saint Row Demo
As a present or bonus, no matter how you take it, the fans could find in stores, for the past two weeks now, a Saint Row demo. Like I said, this is just a bonus for those who took the decision to preorder and purchase the full game....
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2006-08-02
Redick Goes Gaming
Many know the expression "Redick for three!". For those who don't know, Redick is of course J.J., the Duke Blue Devils superstar who has won numerous awards and multiple player of the year trophies. ...
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2006-08-02
Yoichi Wada In Interview
Yoichi Wada is first of all the president of the Square Enix. But he leads a double life as both president of the company and chairman of the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. He recently gave an interview in which he discussed the futu ... (more)
2006-08-01
Nintendo, EA, NCsoft Support Smaller E3
E3 is dead, long live E3! The king of all gaming shows has officially lost its crown today, as the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) confirmed that a "more intimate" event will be held next year, in place of the extravagant E3 Expo we all knew f ... (more)
2006-08-01
Sword of the Stars Goes Gold [Press Release]
Leading entertainment software publisher Lighthouse Interactive and developer Kerberos Productions today announced that their highly anticipated 4X strategy game, Sword of the Stars has Gone Gold. Lighthouse is happy to inform the many SOTS fans and ga ... (more)
2006-08-01
Quake 4 v1.3 Patches, Servers, SDK, The Works
Had it been another couple of months (and better sales for the original version), Raven might have turned this latest Quake 4 patch into an actual expansion pack: it's that full of new content. Not only does it bring a slew of gameplay changes and fixe ... (more)
2006-08-01
Your Own Spore Figurine, For A Fee?
People who got a chance to play Spore and design their own creatures, at this year's "last E3 as we know it", were also lucky enough to receive a surprising gift recently. As it turns out, Electronic Arts sent them (or at least some of them) real-life ... (more)
2006-08-01
Games Like Alcohol - Not For Minors
Another bill destined to restrict the rental or sale of games to minors has been stricken down today. US chief district judge James M. Rosenbaum upheld a suit deeming the law being unconstitutional. The suit was filed by the Entertainment Software A ... (more)
2006-08-01
Daxter Platform Licensed
The 3D platformer Daxter which was released on the PSP, earned quick high marks for its visual prowess and gameplay which retained much of the appeal of the game's PlayStation 2 parent series, Jak and Daxter....
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2006-08-01
No Unreal Tournament 2007 For Now
You probably remember that in October 2003, Atari announced that Unreal Tournament 2004 had been delayed...until 2004. Even so the game was scheduled for a February release, the latest installment in Epic Games' didn't make it to market until the middle o ... (more)
2006-08-01
Dead Rising Demo For Xbox Live
Live zombies and lawnmowers are not quite there, but they will be as soon as "Dead Rising" will get to be on the Xbox Live platforms....
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2006-08-01
PS3 Programmers Wanted For Crytek
The German developer is dropping a job to those who are interested and can handle it for a possible Crysis spin-off....
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2006-08-01
Alleged Nintendo Wii Specs And UK Pricing
I was initially willing to overlook this new piece of Wii speculation, which supposedly revealed the full list of specifications for Nintendo's next-gen gizmo. But since the story debuted on MaxConsole a couple of days ago, they updated their article w ... (more)
2006-08-01
The New Mini-E3
What we found out is that tomorrow the Entertainment Software Association, on short ESA will announce changes to the format and scale of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or we know as E3....
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