Our dear Jereme has already previewed Epic Mickey but when Nintendo invited us to go and play lots of cool stuff with them, we were able to get our hands on the game itself for a much longer time period. After a mammoth talk and introduction from a designer on the game (whom was a rather nice chap), we managed to get Mickey under our control. Let’s get the Read More ...
Activision has announced DJ Tiesto will be making his videogaming debut in DJ Hero 2. He will be providing two mixes to the game and will be a playable character. He joins Deadmau5, David Guetta, DJ Qbert and others as playable DJs in the game. “DJ Hero 2 is all about bringing people of different backgrounds, ages and music tastes together to have some fun DJ’ing their favourite music. The Read More ...
Team17 has announced that PC title Worms Reloaded will be released on 26th August 2010. It has almost been 10 years since the last 2D Worms PC game apparently, with the series having sold 25 million copies over its 15 year lifespan. “Worms Reloaded has been a labour of love for the team given the legacy of 2D PC Worms™ titles such as Worms 2, Worms Armageddon etc. It has Read More ...
Richard Garriott, the man behind Ultima and Tabula Rasa, has won a lawsuit against former employers NCsoft. The jury awarded him $28 million. Basically, Garriott was suing the company for fraud as he claimed he was fired. NCsoft said his departure was voluntary. This forced Garriott to sell his stock options, and in this economy, he argued he was out of pocket. The court agreed with him and gave him Read More ...
Haden Blackman, the executive producer and writer for the Force Unleashed series, has quit LucasArts after 13 years with the studio. LucasArts is adamant that The Force Unleashed II will still make its release in October. “I’ve had a fantastic time working with the team at Lucasfilm and am really grateful for their ongoing support,” Blackman said. “While the decision to leave LucasArts did not happen overnight or come easily, Read More ...
Sony has unveiled this week’s PAL PlayStation Store update: PS3 Demos * Madden NFL 11 * Flower PS3 Games * Earthworm Jim HD (trial and unlock) (£7.99/€9.99) * Premier Manager (£13.99/€17.99)
Blacklight: Tango Down is a first person shooter too eerily familiar to this side of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. It’s an online only multiplayer focused shooter with all the features you could expect out of one. There is no single player campaign and thus leaves you with very little vested interest in the games maps and weaponry. Every aspect of the game will bring you a very good sense Read More ...
We’ve all done it at some point. Crowded around a TV, Xbox and Guitar Hero; half a bottle of whiskey flowing through the blood stream and some bizarre cocktail of God-knows-what in our hands, attempting to beat Hysteria’s complicated bass line on expert. Not all of us try and do this for a living, however. But for a few guys in Brisbane, Australia; the dream of playing Guitar Hero whilst Read More ...
Sony has come out to clarify the prices for the PlayStation Move in the UK. One normal Move controller will cost £34.99, one PlayStation Eye camera costs £24.99 and one navigation controller costs £24.99. You can use the DualShock 3 instead of the navigation controller for most games apparently, but we don’t know how you’re supposed to hold it whilst still clinging on to the cumbersome Move controller. Regardless, there Read More ...
Nintendo has confirmed that worldwide DS sales are down 44.7% year on year to 3.15 million for Q1 of this financial year, which ended 30th June 2010. DS software sales have gone down by 22.9% to 22.42 million. On the flip side, Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii has sold 4.06 million copies worldwide since its May/June release. That helped Wii hardware sales to go up 36.6% to 3.04 Read More ...
Valve has released an update for the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2. The update aims to stop players rage quitting, something which we never deemed fixable. Valve is starting to respond to what players what fixing, after the company requested them to give them feedback. Chargers and Tanks have been tweaked in Versus mode, with the scoring being changed for the Charger to encourage them to play properly. Read More ...
Sony has unveiled that the PlayStation 3 has sold 38.1 million units worldwide in their latest financial results. The company sold 2.4 million of the consoles in their first quarter, which ended on 30th June this year. That’s a rise of 118% from last year’s 1.1 million sales. PSP sales in the same time period declined to 1.2 million, falling from 1.3 million in Q1 2009. The PS2 is still Read More ...
BioWare has announced Golems of Amgarrak for Dragon Age: Origins. The DLC will be released on 10th August, and it tasks players with tracking down a missing Dwarven expedition indo an underground ruin. Apparently an army of golems was made down there, so it doesn’t take a genius to work out that the dwarves were probably axed to a bloody death. You will be able to import Wardens from Dragon Read More ...
Apologies for reporting on an announcement of an announcement, but Nintendo has come out and said that they will announce the date and price of the 3DS in Japan on 29th September. We played with the handheld earlier in the week and it officially comes hot girl approved, according to Nintendo.
Nintendo invited the UK’s media to come and play lots of exciting things yesterday. We were invited, and to kick off our coverage of what we got to have a look at is the Nintendo 3DS. When Nintendo first announced the device, people were left scratching their heads. A 3D based gaming system that didn’t require glasses was too much for some to take, with most people wondering if they Read More ...
