Panasonic has announced the “Jungle”, a pocket-sized (apparently) MMO/Online game player. The device features a display (obviously), a touch pad, QWERTY keyboard and a few other buttons scattered about. Also expect a mini HDMI port, a micro USB port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The system’s OS will be a custom Linux build. It will support the browser based Battlestar Galactica Online MMO from SyFy and BigPoint at launch, as Read More ...
Tim Schafer has hired Ron Gilbert to work on a new game with him over at Double Fine Studios. The duo created the Monkey Island games for LucasArts back in the day. Double Fine have a lot of things in the pipeline, with four games being developed for THQ. The first of that little lot will be Costume Quest. Gilbert’s title isn’t one of those four and doesn’t have a Read More ...
Peter Molyneux is one of those despicable people in the games industry who has a reputation for promising the world and giving underwhelming results. He’s also one of the masterminds behind what seems to be a paedophile simulator for Kinect. Yet this – in my opinion – pales under what his latest stunt has been. In a video posted today, which has been called anything from ‘adorable’ to ‘cute’, Peter’s Read More ...
We would like to take this opportunity to wish Nintendo a very happy 121st birthday. The company was founded on September 23rd 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. Back then, Nintendo was making playing cards before taking on toys to taxis. In the 1970s they settled on making video game consoles and software. Fortunately for us, they haven’t looked back (even through the wobbly GameCube period). Unfortunately for us, they created the Read More ...
King of Kong legend Steve Wiebe has taken back his Donkey Kong high score record from ultimate villain Billy Mitchell. The epic battle for the Donkey Kong arcade record has been raging across time and space for a while now. Recently (July) Mitchell took back the record, (probably through some dodgy videotape) and the world wept. The smug and boastful force had beaten the everyman. Now however, Wiebe has taken Read More ...
Nintendo is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario franchise with a flurry of press releases and promotional activities. Super Mario Bros. was originally released for the NES in 1985. Since then, more than 240 million games featuring Mario have now been sold. “Stimulated by advancements in technologies, we have always enjoyed creating the Super Mario Bros. games,” said Mario’s dad, Shigeru Miyamoto. “The series has always taken advantage Read More ...
Take-Two has confirmed that they made a profit in the third fiscal quarter that ended on July 31st, 2010. The company managed $354.1 million in sales, which is up from $94.9 million for the same quarter last year. Net income clocked in at $6 million, which is up from a loss of $56 million last year. Red Dead Redemption has been credited with achieving most of these numbers. The game Read More ...
Sony Computer Entertainment America has filed a lawsuit against an online distributor that was planning to sell the new PSJailbreak USB modchip. Sony believes that the device circumvents the PS3’s copy protection as it allows people to back up and play games copied to the system’s (and external) hard drive. The distributor in question is Zoomba LDC, and they have been accused of copyright infringement, violations of the digital millennium Read More ...
Sony has confirmed the firmware update that will allow the PS3 to play 3D Blu-rays will be released this October. Sony announced the date at IFA, a big old technology fair. The company also unveiled a few 3D bundles, with Alice in Wonderland and Michael Jackson’s This Is It in the mix. An exact release date for the update is yet to be confirmed, but we’ll let you know when Read More ...
Apple head honcho Steve Jobs has confirmed that Epic Games is working on their first game for Apple platforms. He was joined on stage at Apple’s press conference by Epic president Mike Capps today to show off “Project Sword”. It is a first-person action adventure game and will apparently offer “epic sword battles”. It will also support Game Centre. Epic will be licensing Project’s Sword’s engine out for other iOS Read More ...
Steve Jobs announced a new iPod Touch (amongst other stuff) during an Apple press event today. Jobs claimed that currently, the iPod Touch outsells both Nintendo’s and Sony’s handhelds combined. He went on to show off the new version of the devise that has the same specs as the iPhone 4, minus the phone bits and pieces. It has an A4 chip and a 3-axis gyroscope, alongside an upgraded Retina Read More ...
Atlus has been dissolved by parent company Index Holdings, according to a press release issued by the company today. Atlus are the folks that created the Shin Megami Tensai series and published a few Japanese RPGs in North America, including Demon’s Souls. Apparently, Index Holdings dissolved them to refocus on “profitable core areas”. It looks like the Atlus brand will continue on in some form or another, but there aren’t Read More ...
Ubisoft has announced that they have laid off 38 members of staff from Red Storm Entertainment. Red Storm was founded by Tom Clancy and Navy veteran Doug Littlejohns. The studio has produced quite a few titles, including Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 and America’s Army: True Soldiers. Currently, Red Storm is working on the multiplayer component of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier.
The UK will be getting its first videogame TV channel this November. It’s called Ginx and will be available on cable and satellite services. “For us it’s about light gamers,” said CEO Michiel Bakker at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Ginx will start out with game reviews, but will eventually feature more shows that will go into other subjects. The channel will apparently explore HD and 3D in the future. Ginx Read More ...
Warner Bros. has canned This Is Vegas, even though the game was less than a year from completion. The title formerly belonged to Midway, but they sold it after spending more than $43 million on the game. Some retailers pulled listings for the game last August, but Warner Bros. said the project was still alive at the time. Surreal Software, the game’s developer, was closed down earlier this year. The Read More ...
