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| Feb 7, 2020 | Garnett Lee joins Raw Fury to take care of business for indies | Look out indie developers, because this is Garnett Lee’s damn show now. Lee, an games-industry veteran, is joining indie-publishing house Raw Fury. In this role, which he is calling brand alchemist and marketing vanguard, he’s helping small... |
| Feb 16, 2016 | The Nintendo 3DS Is the Greatest Handheld Console of All Time | Illustration by Stephen Maurice Graham
Five years and the best part of 58 million units sold since its February 2011 launch, Nintendo's 3DS is the only handheld games console you need in your chunky backpack, subversive print-tote, or remar... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | How Much Does It Cost to Make a Video Game? | You pay $60 for many of the new games you play, but how much does a blockbuster game cost to make? Although it is a seemingly simple question, it is actually incredibly difficult to answer. Of all the opaque video game industry questions, t... |
| Aug 2, 2013 | Xbox One is built to last for 10 years while powered on, sources say | The PS4 remains small and sleek while sporting some truly impressive horsepower under the hood. On the other hand, the Xbox One is rather large and utilitarian — it’s not even as powerful as its smaller competition. Why? Well, it seems Micr... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Green Throttle, The New Startup From Guitar Hero Creator Charles Huang, Gets $6M To Redefine Console Gaming For A Mobile World | The concept of video gaming has changed a lot in recent years, as mobile devices have become ubiquitous. And while more types of people may indeed be playing more games more often these days, even though much of this is dubbed “social gamin... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Wii U Gray Market Is Frothy And Heating Up As Scalpers Sell Online | While Gamestop is reporting record Wii U preorders and sales, it looks like the Wii gray market is in full effect, driving prices of the console into the thousands as unyielding children barrack their parents into buying them the latest and... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Team Ninja studio head talks DLC costumes and Tekken vs. Dead or Alive | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Team Ninja, an in-house development studio owned by Tecmo Koei, is best known for its work on the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden franch... |
| Oct 21, 2011 | Nintendo 3DS Gets Camera Update, Charming Mario Editions | Nintendo has just wrapped a press conference going over some developments for the 3DS. The platform has seen strong but lower than expected sales, though the pricing do-over in August has spurred adoption. This update seems like a sort of h... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | Professor Layton Leaves The Nintendo Stable, Adds iOS To Supported Platforms | One of the biggest Nintendo DS franchises is coming to iOS. Level-5 has announced that Nintendo’s exclusive access to their Professor Layton franchise is ending, and they’ll be releasing a new game called Layton Brothers: Mystery Room for i... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | Microsoft Doubles Down On Media, Reveals New Xbox Content Partners | You already know about Verizon bringing live TV to the Xbox 360, but it turns out that was just the tip of Microsoft’s great big television-related iceberg.
In an effort to transform the television experience, Microsoft has struck deals wit... |
| Sep 2, 2011 | Call Of Duty’s $50 Per Year Subscription Service Heralds An Expensive Future For Gaming | The world’s largest game franchises have become businesses unto themselves. World of Warcraft supports a huge halo industry of gold farming and grey markets. Farmville and its ilk have turned microtransactions into millions. The teams devel... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Sony confirms PS 3 rumors, cutting price $50 to $249 | Sony has confirmed that it has cut the price of the PlayStation 3 video game console from $299 to $249.
Sony made the announcement at the Gamescom game event in Cologne, Germany, today, confirming rumors that surfaced in June. That price cu... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Sony confirms PS 3 rumors, cutting price $50 to $249 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sony has confirmed that it has cut the price of the PlayStation 3 video game console from $299 to $249.
Sony made the announcement at t... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | Diablo 3 DRM Requires Constant Internet Connection – Until You Crack It, Of Course | The limitations of online-only DRM are, perhaps, in truth only hypothetical. It’s possible to imagine a DRM scheme that must be online all the time, yet handles outages gracefully and never limits your play. Unfortunately, that DRM is not t... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Startup Roundup: Ohanarama closes $600,000 in seed funding | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | EA Begins To Pull Steam Availability, Push Origin Exclusives | If you were hoping to pick up a copy of Crysis 2 on Steam, you’re out of luck. The game is no longer available on Valve’s download service, though it was not (strictly speaking) pulled by EA. While EA has explained in a statement that the t... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Crytek Developer: New Xbox Coming At E3 2012 | Despite industry sources and commentators suggesting that 2014, or 2013 at the earliest, would be the timing for a new generation of consoles, one insider claims Microsoft is planning on revealing it in the next 12 months, also known as “in... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Ico And Shadow Of The Colossus HD Remasters Get Priced And Dated In Japan | The remastered HD versions of classic PS2 titles Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are finally within reach. Kind of. According to Dengeki Online, they’re going to be hitting Ye Olde Nippon come September 22nd, and will cost ¥3980 (~$50) indiv... |
| May 5, 2011 | Smithsonian Announces Art Of Video Games Exhibition Winners | Now here’s an exhibit I would be tempted to spend some time on. The Smithsonian has been working on putting together a collection of games for an “Art of Video Games” exhibition, exploring “the 40-year evolution of video games as an artisti... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | More PSN Developments: FBI, Credit Card Databases, And Hard Questions For Sony | The PSN debacle is continually evolving as the extent of the damage is made clear, though it should be noted that we’re still in the early stages and a lot of what’s out there is guesswork and hearsay. The good news is that the FBI is on th... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Sony Stops The PSP Go | I think we all knew this day was coming. A few retailers are reporting that their current stock of PSP Gos will not be replenished, and it seems that Sony has stopped producing the much-maligned handheld.
Andriasang points out that it’s not... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | Metal Gear Solid Now Has A Clothing Line | Now, you could of course always get promotional shirts and stuff with Solid Snake (or whoever he is) on them — I vaguely remember something like that for the original NES game. But now, my friend, now you can get Metal Gear inspired clothin... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | NES Classic River City Ransom Finally Getting A Real Sequel | While the original and beloved NES version of River City Ransom had a number of spin-offs in Japan, it’s only the first that actually came to the US and charmed a generation. There was a remake in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance, but we haven... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | A Closer Look At Playstation Home's Future | In the US, Playstation Home is rather mundane. Other than additions like voice chat and in-network game launching, it has been the same since its 2008 launch. That’s about to change according to statements made at this year’s GDC by Masami ... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Kinect Now Used For Medical Research, In Place Of $100,000 System | The Kinect has only been out for a few months and it has been used for a bunch of different purposes and even broke a Guinness World Record for sales. Now, Kinect can add another milestone to its resume: medical research.
Researchers at the... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Kinect Continues To Outsell The Move By Huge Margins | If I had to pick between the Move and the Kinect, I personally would choose the Move, but there’s no denying that the Kinect is just plain interesting — and novel. While the Move is essentially a really excellent Wii clone, the Kinect is a ... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Doom: The Love Child Of D&D And NeXT | We here at CrunchGear love John Carmack. His Quakeworld 2010 keynote remains one of our favorite no-nonsense tech talks, up there with the unveiling of the iPhone. So when he speaks, we listen with interest. Unfortunately, he wasn’t at GDC ... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Steam Gets "Big Picture Mode" For PS3 | Portal 2 may be coming to the PS3 and bringing cross-platform play and some Steam elements with it, but the Steam interface is really designed for mouse navigation, not analog sticks. Valve is looking to fix that with a special “big picture... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | PSP Price Cut Ahoy: From $170 To $130 | Sony has dropped the suggested retail price of the PSP-3000 (not the PSP Go, then) from $170 to $130. Buy the PSP, then use the $40 to grab the new Tactic Ogre. Done and done.
As mentioned, the PSP Go isn’t part of the price-cut, not that t... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Nintendo 3DS Now Available In Japan | We won’t be getting the 3DS for another month (it hits the US on March 27th), but in Japan, thousands of people are lining up to nab their handheld from retailers across the country. It’s safe to say it’s going to be a quiet, indoors weeken... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | ScentScape On-Demand Odor Accessory To Hit This Year | While some things can really add to the immersion factor — dimming the lights, wearing headphones, dressing up as the main character (kidding) — I’m skeptical of how much would really be added by this smell generator. Yes, smell generator.
... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Game & Watch Replica Available To Nintendo Devotees | If you’re a part of the Nintendo Club, a rewards system they have for registering products and filling out surveys, there’s a sweet new prize you can take aim at. This replica Game & Watch is “a faithful reproduction of Nintendo’s first... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Fox News Suggests Bulletstorm Is "Worst Video Game In The World" | The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the “violence in games” stone. The issue is, predictably, the horrifically violent M-rated Bulletstorm and its sexually suggestive achievements (“toples... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Nintendo's 3DS Industrial Design Subtleties, Explained | When I first saw the 3DS six months ago, and even later when I saw the official pictures, I pretty much just thought of the 3DS as a slightly chunkier DS. But of course the people in charge of designing it know better than that, and when yo... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | New Bionic Commando On PSN Won’t Let You Play Offline | This is really too bad; I was looking forward to this game, despite the unpardonable offense of getting jumping in my Bionic Commando. It turns out that Rearmed 2 has DRM that, like a few other games we’ve seen, prevents you from playing wh... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | Miyamoto: Yes, I'm Making A Mario For The 3DS | Not that this should shock any of you, but Nintendo has admitted that it’s working on a new, proper Mario game for the 3DS. So says the mighty Shigeru Miyamoto, who was recently profiled in the New Yorker. This is most welcome news, yes.
Mi... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | Game Developers Conference Panel Suggests PC PlayStation Move Development | A panel at this year’s Game Developers Conference has the Internet (or, at the very least, the CG chatroom) spinning around in circles with excitement. The panel (ctrl-f for “move”), “Update on PlayStation Move Development,” says the offici... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Walking Dead Multi-Platform Game Could Be Feasting On Your Brains Soon | Rumor has it that Telltale is working on a Walking Dead title for multi-platform play, basing the game and art on the well-known (and much beloved, at least by me) comic book.
Do want.
Writes 1Up:
According to an invitation we received Wedn... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | What Super Mario All-Stars Collector's Edition Could Have Been | A few weeks back, we were talking about our favorite things, and John selected the new Wii re-release (wii-release?) of Super Mario All-Stars. A great game, to be sure, but I felt that it was rather neglectful of Nintendo not to make much m... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | Nintendo 3DS May Be Crippled By 3 Hour Battery Life | The Nintendo Japan site disclosed the official specs on the 3DS, and while overall it looks good, there is one thing that might be a deal breaker for some. Apparently, it takes a whole lot of battery life to power a 3D screen, even one the ... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | PS3 Cracked Open Even Further With "Root Key" Discovered | Just a few days after the PS3’s security was deemed an “epic fail” at a hackers’ convention, famed system breaker GeoHot has published what is described as the “root key” for the PS3, a hex sequence that identifies code as legitimate. I’m n... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | OC ReMix: From Fans To Game Maestros | In the niche realm of videogame music, fans are as intense about the medium as they are with any other musical genre. There are plenty of sites out there that index original works, torrent trackers that offer up collections, and YouTube vid... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | Did The Xbox 360 *Really* Usher In The Era Of HD Gaming? | Flickr’d
It’s the end of the year, and that means many publications are rolling out their annual “best of” list. I don’t know if *we’re* doing anything along those lines, but I *do* have a bone to pick with 1UP. They’ve a delightful little ... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | PrimeSense, Co-Creator Of Kinect, To Lead Open Gesture Tech Organization | The Kinect, hit-or-miss as it may be when it comes to actual gaming, has certainly inspired the community. Everything from multi-touch surfaces to feeling up a virtual lady has been created, in just the two short months since the accessory’... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Microsoft Denies Knowledge Of Kinect Sex Game | Remember that kinda creepy Kinect sex game that we told you about a few days back? Well, Microsoft has issued an official response regarding it, and they are essentially denying any involvement or approval of the product.
In an official sta... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Did Super Mario All-Stars Deserve More Than A Collectors Edition? | You’ve probably seen some reviews and hype surrounding the re-release of Super Mario All-Stars for the Wii. It’s Mario’s 25th birthday, and Nintendo appears to have put out a memorable edition of the game. But is that really all they ought ... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | Portal 2 Delayed In Shortest Delay In Valve History | Valve knows that they’re notorious for not quite getting things out on time, and so it is with tongue firmly in cheek that they announced “the shortest delay in Valve’s proud tradition of delays,” which puts Portal 2 out in April instead of... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Activision drops the hammer on Bizarre Creations’ 200 employees | Bizarre Creations, the creator of games like Project Gotham Racing, learned the hard way today what happens when you release a game to even mediocre reception.
In another sign that the video game industry is still somewhat fragile, parent c... |
| Nov 6, 2010 | Kinect Selling Out Nationwide | It looks like Microsoft’s big investment might make a return. Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and GameStop are all reporting they are selling out of the Kinect hardware, though there are some 360 bundles still available. While some gamers might b... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Opponents make their case on violent video games before the Supreme Court | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As the nation goes to vote, the divisive issue of video game violence has finally made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which holds o... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Opponents make their case on violent video games before the Supreme Court | As the nation goes to vote, the divisive issue of video game violence has finally made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which holds oral arguments today on whether to uphold a California law on the matter.
The case pits California Gov. Ar... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Microsoft Readies $500 Million Kinect Advertising Blitz | If there’s one thing I learned from my Kinect experience at E3, it’s that Microsoft is willing to spend obscene amounts of money to promote this thing. Even if it’s on a three-hour boondoggle more to do with a satyric bacchanal than a motio... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Uh Oh: September Wii Sales Down 45% From Last Year | Sales for the Wii last month totaled just 245,000, just over half of the 462,000 sold in September of 2009. Could it be that Nintendo’s juggernaut has finally lost its steam?
Sales were blamed on “gamer fatigue,” whatever that is, and a lac... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Kinect Manual Scans Show A Few Tidbits | There’s a little bluster going on regarding this scanned manual for the Kinect, mainly over the fact that you need to be six feet from the sensor, or eight feet if there are two players. While that may indeed disqualify some setups from usi... |
| Oct 1, 2010 | The Making Of A Homebrew Retro Game Cartridge | 1up has an interesting article right now about how dedicated homebrew guys put together, test, and actually manufacture modern-retro cartridge games like Retro City Rampage. Sure, you could just emulate, or get a flash cartridge, but let’s ... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | PSP2 Is Real, According To Mortal Kombat Developer – Finish Him! | While Sony has been rather coy about the existence of a PSP2 (trying not to kill the PSP Go any futher I guess), Mortal Kombat developer Sean Himmerick just spilled the beans.
In a recent interview, Mr. Himmerick said that they have a PSP2 ... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Halo Reaches Best Day 1 Sales Of 2010 | Microsoft’s Phil Spencer revealed that Halo: Reach made over $200 million in Day 1 sales. This tops any other title so far this year, and also any other movie or “entertainment experience”. 1up reports that Halo: Reach also broke the total ... |
| Sep 10, 2010 | id Mobile Job Posting Hints At Future Android Development | John Carmack sent chills down the backs of everyone watching his QuakeCon 2010 keynote address. All it took was a simple graphical demo of a RAGE port running on an iPhone at 60 fps. But during that same keynote, he joked with the audience ... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | August Sales Figures Show PS3 Gaining, Xbox 360 Outselling The Wii | When the NPD Group released their August figures, there was a little summer surprise for Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Turns out that while Wii sales have slowed down a bit, the overall volume hasn’t really changed that much. That translat... |
| Sep 7, 2010 | Amazon Dropping Shipping Prices On New Games | With the competition between brick and mortar and online stores, instant gratification is key. No one wants to wait when all their friends are playing the latest game, and Amazon knows that. In order to be competitive, 1Up reports that Amaz... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Yes! A True Sequel To Bangai-O Coming To XBLA | One of the best games from the Dreamcast is finally getting a proper sequel: Bangai-O! Those who played it remember it fondly; a version for Nintendo DS was released, but (despite being pretty good) it didn’t really have the same savor as t... |
| Aug 26, 2010 | Microsoft Keynoting Tokyo Game Show – Could It Have Something Big? | E3 is over, Gamescom is over, and now we’re looking at the Tokyo Game Show as the next obvious bullet point on the list of “times to announce cool games stuff.” Microsoft seems to be taking advantage, and will be doing one of the big keynot... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | It Turns Out The Shapes On Playstation Buttons Aren't Arbitrary After All | This is pretty interesting. I’ve always thought that the shapes on the Playstation controllers were chosen just to be distinctive, and so they didn’t have to use a numbered or lettered face button scheme like Nintendo’s. As it turns out, th... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Redspotgames plans for new games on the Sega Dreamcast | European game publisher Redspotgames may be the Sega Dreamcast’s final champion. After releasing several titles on the now-defunct console over the past few years, the company apparently has plans to bring even more games to the Dreamcast, ... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Google’s Chrome Web Store likely coming in October, focusing on games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Back in May, we reported that Google was working on an app store for web applications, dubbed the Chrome Web Store. Now we have further... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Google’s Chrome Web Store likely coming in October, focusing on games | Back in May, we reported that Google was working on an app store for web applications, dubbed the Chrome Web Store. Now we have further details on the project.
Google spoke to gaming press at the Game Developers Conference Europe, where it ... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | Chrome Web Store Slated For October Launch, Google Taking A Mere 5% Cut Of Revenue | Google’s app store for the web is almost ready for business.
Gaming portal 1Up.com has detailed a presentation given by Google developer advocates Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff at GDC Europe that contains new details about the Chrome We... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | Google's 'App Store For The Web' Is A Mirror Image Of Apple's App Store | Google’s Chrome Web Store is launching this October, giving users the ability to purchase premium web applications (and developers an easy way to sell their wares). And, in an apparent attempt to make sure that users are as comfortable as p... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | I Am Angry At 2K For Hijacking X-COM | A recent interview with the developers of the upcoming X-COM reboot confirmed what every true X-COM fan always feared: that the game existed before they decided to make it X-COM, and 2K seems to have laid on the license as an extra layer. T... |
| Aug 11, 2010 | Doctor Says: No Eye Damage From 3D… Except Maybe Kids | When I wrote our little guide to 3D technology, I included a section on its “dangers.” I decided that about 4 or 5 was about the earliest that should be exposed to 3D content, citing the fact that your visual system is still very much under... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | DLC Is Here To Stay: 20 Million Call Of Duty Map Packs Sold | If anyone wants to know where to find me, I’ll be in my cave, banging two rocks together. That seems to be the only place for me, since I can’t seem to wrap my head around DLC as a good thing — yet millions have decided to shell out, just r... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Playstation logo licenced for clothing, “lifestyle” products | Hey you. Yeah, you Sony fanboi. You know who I’m talking to; you’re the guy that watching blogs for articles about the PS3, and defending everything Sony does with a rabid mindless worship that borders on fanaticism. You’ll be able to show ... |
| Jul 16, 2010 | Activision has sunk $100 million into StarCraft II | One hundred million dollars. That’s quite a lot of money. If you factor in advertising, you’re looking at what is perhaps the most expensive game ever made. It’s not a chump bet, though: the insane popularity of StarCraft means that they ca... |
| Jul 15, 2010 | Xbox 360 sales jump after redesign | Apparently changing the look of the Xbox 360 was the thing to do for Microsoft; they saw a huge jump in sales or the month of June, surpassing even the Wii by about 30,000 units.
June’s sales figures were released today, and while the Xbox ... |
| Jul 15, 2010 | The path of Kid Icarus: Uprising | One of the first games scheduled to come out for the Nintendo 3DS, is Kid Icarus:Uprising. It’s an interesting story about how the game was developed, given that the president of Nintendo personally asked game designer Masahiro Sakurai to c... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | "Major" update to Xbox Live Arcade next week | Get ready for Xbox Live Arcade to become a bit more useful. Microsoft’s Major Nelson announced today that there is a significant update to Xbox Live Arcade, including a new recommendation engine and visual browser system.
Major Nelson indic... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | Microsoft taking a loss on Kinect? | Inside sources close to the matter have said that the build costs of Kinect are near $150. When you add up all the time to write the software and the costs of the hardware, it gets expensive. This has many people at Microsoft concerned.
Usu... |
| Jun 22, 2010 | Wow: Original Pac-Man sketches shown by creator – like pencil on graph paper sketches | This is a true artifact of gaming history. The notebook of Toru Iwatani, creator of Pac-Man, complete with sketched-out pixel art, prototype mazes, and ghost movements. My god! Remember when you could sketch out an entire game on a page of ... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Square Enix considering adding Move support to Final Fantasy XIV | When the Move comes out this September, it’ll be the games that drive rather people actually buy the peripheral or not. Square Enix is already looking toward that future, and plans to add support for titles like Heavy Rain, SOCOM IV and Fin... |
| Jun 9, 2010 | Microsoft expands Games on Demand service to non-Live titles | The number of games on Microsoft’s Games on Demand service has, historically, been rather less than on Steam and even (paradoxically) less ambitious digital delivery services like Direct2Drive and GamersGate. It’s the Games for Windows Live... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Full-body exoskeleton game controller to be shown at E3 | From the Falcon to the NeuroSky to all these new motion controllers, the world seems to be in a big hurry to replace traditional control methods. I don’t blame ’em: we’ve been using the same tools for far too long, but… really, an entire ex... |
| May 20, 2010 | StarCraft II to be censored for South Korean release | When I read this headline, I thought there must have been some mistake. I mean, as we all know, StarCraft is the life-blood of South Korea. How can Blizzard release a gimped version of the game over there? 1up calls it “heavily edited,” and... |
| May 17, 2010 | New Nintendo motherboard hits FCC with a wide top screen | We all wanted to believe that cool swivel-screen render was Nintendo’s new 3D-capable handheld (not in fact called the 3DS), but of course that was kind of ridiculous. Chances are Nintendo is going to stick with what they know, and |
| May 15, 2010 | Wii Vitality Sensor announcement on Monday? | So Nintendo has announced a “special joint announcement” with the American Heart Association for Monday. What could it be? Well, let’s see here — which of Nintendo’s products directly measures your vital signs and seem to have been invented... |
| May 13, 2010 | Latest NPD numbers have DS soon becoming most-sold system of all time | The stats are in for the month of April, and NPD analysts have determined that not only was the DS the top-selling game console (big surprise), but it’s also approaching something of a milestone. Apparently, sometime in October or November,... |
| May 12, 2010 | Zero Punctuation on Nier – no, I hadn't heard of it either | http://cdn2.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf
It’s not often that a Square-Enix game comes out that nobody’s heard of. Even their painfully self-indulgent PSP strategy game featuring Final Fantasy c... |
| May 11, 2010 | The Nintendo 3DS won't be called the 3DS | This is strange. Apparently Nintendo has yet to announce the formal name of its upcoming portable 3D gaming device. That means the clever 3DS name we’ve come to know isn’t the real thing. But seriously, is there a name better than 3DS seein... |
| May 5, 2010 | Fifteen years ago today, the N64 was born | Since it’s Gadgets of Days Gone By week, I thought it would be appropriate to note that on May 5th, 1995, Nintendo announced the Nintendo 64 game console. If you were living on the planet Earth at the time, you knew that things had changed.... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Blizzard Sells $2 Million In Virtual Livestock In Four Hours | From Farmville to Second Life, there’s no question that if you’re able to create a virtual world in which people pay real money for virtual goods, then you’ve got a winner on your hands. For years now, virtual sweatshops have existed to far... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Nintendo blames piracy for 50% drop in EU sales | Sales of Nintendo’s DS games are dropping in Europe, and according to Nintendo there’s clear reason why: piracy. With the release of software like R4, it appears that more and more owners of the portable systems are turning to less then rep... |
| Apr 16, 2010 | Descent coming to WiiWare – prepare barf bags | Do you people remember how disorientating Descent was back when it first game out? I mean, we had Doom and Flight Simulator and all that, but spinning around in those little passages trying to laser a fool was a whole new thing. And a lot o... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Celestial Pegasus outsells iPad in DLC shocker | Funny story. Back when the Oblivion horse armor DLC hit, people couldn’t make enough fun of it. No in-game value, pure vanity, who’s got an extra $5 to spend on a game they already bought, and so on. And then Blizzard releases this magic sp... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | La Terreur: Major Nelson's Xbox Live account hacked | The headline is a French Revolution reference, for the record. That I have to explain these things greatly disappoints me.
Old news, but worth mentioning for a hot minute. You know that Major Nelson’s Xbox Live account was hacked at the wee... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | This gives Pac-Man a whole new twist | The maze he’s been running around in for 30 years must be the size of the solar system! And the dots — Asteroids? Another connection! And the ghosts — Space Ghosts! My god, it all makes sense!
[via 1up] |
| Mar 27, 2010 | PSA: DSiWare games don't transfer to the DSi XL | Remember that DSi XL that’s coming out next week? Well, I hope you didn’t spend a bunch of money in the DSiWare store with your regular size DSi. Yep, turns out that you can’t transfer games to your new hand-held. That really sucks.
Nintend... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | You know you want to play Resident Evil in 3D | Imagine punching the boulder in 3D!
Surely you’ve heard of Shinji Mikami, right? He’s basically “the Resident Evil guy,” and he’s got 3D on the brain. He told Famitsu, that famous Japanese video game magazine, that he wants to disband his c... |
| Mar 6, 2010 | The many varied opinions of Final Fantasy XIII: Was Square Enix trying to please too many people simultaneously? | Final Fantasy XIII comes out on Tuesday, but Square Enix‘s review embargo must have lifted yesterday, since pretty much ever Web site ever has published their review. Not us, of course. That’s fine. I’ll just buy the game and play it quietl... |
| Feb 18, 2010 | Ubisoft DRM Gets Worse And Worse: Kicks You Out Of Game If You Have A Flakey WiFi Connection | Last month, we wrote a bit about Ubisoft’s bizarre anti-consumer policy of using DRM on games that requires an internet connection to check in (even if you’re just playing locally). But, it gets worse. As a whole bunch of you sent in (but c... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | The retro game revival continues with Sonic 4: leaked screens and video | http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/22881388001?isVid=1&publisherID=22717159001
It wasn’t too long ago that I whined that these days, old-school de-makes of games are better than the new-school re-makes they’re meant to... |