→ February 9, 2010
Executive summary: We give Chime a ‘buy‘. The story behind the recent Xbox Live Arcade puzzler Chime is a pretty good one. OneBigGame, its publisher, is a new non-profit that releases games for charity. The goal is to get well-known developers to produce games for free and then pass the proceeds on various children’s charities around [...]
→ February 8, 2010
Traveler’s Tales and LucasArts have once again teamed up to bring the universe of Star Wars to videogame consoles in the form of those lovable swedish building blocks – Legos. After 3 highly successful entries – Lego Star Wars, Lego Star Wars 2 and Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga, gamers will be able to [...]
→ February 8, 2010
Peter Molyneux and his development team over at Lionhead have made some pretty amazing games in their tenure, but perhaps they are more famous for promising things in their games that never actually come to fruition. It was from this level of pre-release hype that some people believed the original Fable didn’t deliver. Mr. Molyneux [...]
→ February 8, 2010
Did anybody know Sunsoft was still around? Maybe it’s not common knowledge, but in any event, they’re still at it – y’know, the whole games development business. Over the weekend, they announced the impending release of Blaster Master: Overdrive, a re-imagining of the original Blaster Master released for the Nintendo Entertainment System all those years [...]
→ February 4, 2010
“War never changes,” is the familiar refrain intoned in the teaser trailer for the next big Fallout game, announced by publisher Bethesda Softworks today to be released this fall. The game is not an add-on, but a stand alone title in the Fallout series – though Bethesda’s head of marketing and communications Pete Hines has stated [...]
→ February 4, 2010
Today Sega announced the “Project Needlemouse” they’d been teasing for the last few months to be Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, a 2D game with 3D modeled visuals. Via an interview with GameSpot and a website loaded with time-locked menu items, Sega’s breaking the silence on their new downloadable game. “Needlemouse” being the code name [...]
→ February 3, 2010
Since 2004, EA Sports has been using their latest version of the Madden football software to predict the winner of the year’s super bowl. Only once has it been wrong, in 2008 when the Giants beat the Patriots 17-14. The simulation returned to form the following year, with the score of the Steelers/Cardinals game being [...]
→ February 1, 2010
Before I get into the gist of the review I feel it is worth mentioning that I am an unabashed Science Fiction nut. Be it films, books or videogames, I enjoy a genre piece more than any other. So when game developer BioWare announced that their first Xbox 360 RPG would not only be a [...]
→ January 29, 2010
Last year, Mistwalker head and Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi said that his company was working on a pair of projects, one or the iPhone and one for consoles. Last night Nintendo sent out a press release announcing the launch of a website for “The Last Story,” a game with scant details in circulation other than [...]
→ January 28, 2010
One of Sony’s most popular series, the God of War games have sold millions of copies and moved almost as many consoles – for the Playstation 2, yet come March 16th 2010 Kratos will bring his brand of bloody violence to the PS3 for the first time. God Of War 3, developed by SCEA, has been [...]
