SEGA has today announced SEGA Rally Online Arcade. It’s a new title based on SEGA Rally Revo and SEGA Rally 3. It will be released on the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade, with both versions supporting online multiplayer with up to five others. “We’ve blended our hit arcade racing series with the best elements from the console versions to bring our fans the SEGA Rally experience in compact,   Read More ...

Oddworld Inhabitants has announced a HD remake of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. UK developer Just Add Water will be handling development duties. “It’s basically Abe’s Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer,” series creator Lorne Lanning said. “So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they are not trying to reinvent any wheels. It’s like, ‘Can we make   Read More ...

Bethesda has redesigned the Elder Scrolls series’ menus for Skyrim to streamline the interface and apparently make something Apple would be proud of (closed off and controlled then). “You know in iTunes when you look at all your music you get to flip through it and look at the covers and it becomes tangible? One of our goals was, ‘What if Apple made a fantasy game? How would this look?’   Read More ...

Chart Track has released this week’s UK gaming sales chart: 1. DEAD SPACE 2 (EA GAMES) 2. LITTLEBIGPLANET 2 (SONY COMPUTER ENT.) 3. FIFA 11 (EA SPORTS) 4. ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHERHOOD (UBISOFT ) 5. CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS (ACTIVISION) 6. JUST DANCE 2 (UBISOFT) 7. NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT (EA GAMES) 8. WII FIT PLUS (NINTENDO) 9. ART ACADEMY (NINTENDO) 10. JUST DANCE (UBISOFT)

Microsoft has cancelled the free Xbox Live Gold weekend for most of Europe that was due to take place this weekend. The promotion was announced earlier this week. A few countries will still be able to jump in though, including: Russia, Poland, Greece, South Africa, Czech Republic and Hungary. For everyone else, there will be a free Xbox Live weekend at a later date to make up for the cancellation   Read More ...

Nintendo has unveiled some sales data for their 2010 games, with Donkey Kong Country Returns being a stand out surprise in the mix. The game managed to achieve a high 4.21 million global sales. Kirby’s Epic Yarn managed to get 1.38 million sales in Japan and the US so far, which is pretty good considering is yet to be released in Europe. Super Mario Galaxy 2 has sold 6.15 million   Read More ...

id Software and Bethesda have announced that QuakeCon 2011 will take place on August 4th-7th 2011 at the Hillton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. QuakeCon will once again host North America’s largest bring your own computer LAN party with thousands of gamers hooking up their systems to play against world class opposition apparently. Also expect hardware and software showcases from other companies as well as contests, entertainment, announcements, panels and   Read More ...

Nintendo has announced a new Wii Kirby game that looks like the previously unreleased Kirby Adventure for the GameCube. It’s a 2D classic side-scroller and we can confirm that despite our banner up there it has no yarn whatsoever, as opposed to Kirby’s Epic Yarn which had some of the best yarn we have ever experienced in a videogame. Super Smash Bros. developer HAL Laboratories is handling development duties and   Read More ...

Nintendo has announced a new Wii title called Pandora’s Tower. It’s not currently known what the game is all about, and the teaser website doesn’t really help either. All it shows off is an image of a woman with a tattoo. The game will be released in Japan this spring, and a western release hasn’t been confirmed yet. It has the subtitle “Until I’m by your side again”.

GAME has confirmed that they will be closing 19 of their retail stores. They haven’t announced which ones are getting the chop and when yet, but the move is part of a strategy that will see a total of 85 shops shut down over a three-year period. GAME has opened/relocated shops in the past nine months but dropped 25 stores that were in Debenhams.

Maxis have slapped a date on PC title Darkspore. It will be released on 29th March. The game is an action RPG that melds together Spore and the action/grinding elements of Diablo. It has Spore’s customisation engine, as well as four player co-op and competitive multiplayer too.

EA has announced that they will be releasing a PC demo of Crysis 2. The announcement follows PC gamers moaning that the demo was previously exclusive to the Xbox 360. Crysis was previously a PC exclusive series and we guess PC gamers wanted their loyalty repaid. We enjoyed the 360 demo, even though having just one map does get a bit stale. The game sort of feels like a more   Read More ...

SEGA has announced that they have delayed The Conduit 2 to 22nd April. The game was previously down to be out on 18th March. The Conduit 2 has had an unfortunate history of delays, with the title being pushed back from October last year to February 2011 to introduce new content and fix up the game from fan feedback at E3. The latest delay “allows for the team to continue   Read More ...

Activision has permanents banned PS3 Call of Duty: Black Ops cheaters from playing the game online. If someone has tried to cheat, they will get the following message: “Error – This console has been permanent banned from playing on the Call of Duty: Black Ops servers. For more information, visit www.callofduty.com/blackops/help.” The only way for people to play the game online again is to get another console. If you were   Read More ...

SEGA and PlatinumGames have confirmed that the game announced for Japan as “Max Anarchy” yesterday will be coming to the west as “Anarchy Reigns”. It will be released in Autumn 2011 on the 360 and PS3. It looks like an adaptation of MadWorld to us, but with multiplayer brawling also thrown into the mix. Expect Tag Team battles and a special Battle Royal mode. Apart from that Japanese video up   Read More ...