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Pachter: Natal will cost $50

Pachter: Natal will cost $50

Michael Pachter has given his best estimate- Natal will sell for $50. [HTML1] Pachter has said that he would be very surprised if the three-lense camera sold for more than $79, but his guess is ... Read More

Remedy explains decision to make Alan Wake 360 exclusive

Remedy explains decision to make Alan Wake 360 exclusive

Remedy have given a full explanation as to why the PC version of Alan Wake was canned in favour of 360 exclusivity. Speaking to VG247, Remedy's Oskari Häkkinen said, "Saying that Alan Wake is best... Read More

Just Cause 2 will not support Windows XP

Just Cause 2 will not support Windows XP

The system requirements for Just Cause 2 have just come in, and it looks like trusty old Windows XP won't run it. Here are the full system requirements; Minimum: - Operating System: Micro... Read More

StarCraft II Multiplayer Beta Available Now

StarCraft II Multiplayer Beta Available Now

The StarCraft II multiplayer Beta is officially available now.  But it is a private beta, so only invited players will be able to play the game. You can download the client directly from FileShac... Read More

Crysis 2 faced ‘creative constraints’

Crysis 2 faced ‘creative constraints’

Nathan Camarillo, Crytek's executive producer, admits that Crysis 2 is a more focused gameplay experience thanks to the challenges put in front of the developer by consoles. Answering to the qu... Read More

Jaffe’s next game ‘somewhere between God of War and Calling All Cars’

Jaffe’s next game ‘somewhere between God of War and Calling All Cars’

DICE's David Jaffe has said that the developer's next project is a game based 'somewhere between God of War and Calling All Cars'. The company's next project was expected to be a HD makeover of... Read More

Bungie aiming to raise the bar visually with Halo Reach

Bungie aiming to raise the bar visually with Halo Reach

Giving an interview to Eurogamer, Marcus Lehto, Creative Director behind Halo Reach admits that Halo 3 wasn't a huge leap visually compared to the competition but they are now trying hard to fix t... Read More

Time for another Wii price drop say analysts

Time for another Wii price drop say analysts

Last year, when market analysts asked for a price drop, the Wii did indeed drop to $200. Now it's happening again. Mike Hickey, and analyst from Janco Partners has stated that unless the price is d... Read More

Molyneux speaks out against lack of UK tax breaks for industry

Molyneux speaks out against lack of UK tax breaks for industry

Peter Molyneux has spoken out against the UK government's refusal to grant tax breaks to the video game industry. “I’ve been saying this for years; it is just crazy that the British government do... Read More

Metro 2033 shipping with Nvidia 3D support, new screenshots

Metro 2033 shipping with Nvidia 3D support, new screenshots

THQ has announced that the upcoming game Metro 2033 will be shipping with out-of-the-box 3D vision support for PC upon release next month. The game will also support DirectX 11. THQ has promised th... Read More

Final Fantasy developers hit back at criticism

Final Fantasy developers hit back at criticism

The senior development team behind Final Fantasy XIII have hit back at western critical reviews. We try not to listen to the critics too much. Most of the criticisms have come because the first half ... Read More

Microsoft working on ‘large franchise’ to go with Natal

Microsoft working on ‘large franchise’ to go with Natal

Using the buzzwords 'combat' and 'strategy', a Senior Level Designer at Microsoft has announced that the big M is working on a 'large franchise' to work with Natal. It is so far unknown as to w... Read More

Natals life span will be about 5 years

Natals life span will be about 5 years

According to Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's new Project Natal should have a life span of about 5 years - “The richness of the technology is going to really enable experiences that nev... Read More

PS3 retail shortage coming soon

PS3 retail shortage coming soon

Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications at SCEA has said that there could be a shortage of PS3's in the coming months. Seybold explained that a recent rise in the number of... Read More

Existing PS3 games to recieve motion updates

Existing PS3 games to recieve motion updates

Some existing PS3 franchises are to recieve updates allowing motion control to be integrated. Flower, Resident Evil 5: Alternate Edition and Pain are games that are confirmed to be recieving an upd... Read More

X10: No plans for 250GB 360 HDD aside from bundles- Greenberg

X10: No plans for 250GB 360 HDD aside from bundles- Greenberg

Speaking yesterday at X10, Product Manager of Xbox Live and Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg said that the bigger hard drive will be limited exclusively to bundles. We did it with the Modern Warfare bundle... Read More

Fable III ‘all about power’

Fable III ‘all about power’

In an interview with Gamespot, Peter Molyneux has said that Fable III is 'all about power man'. Molyneux said, “I think we realised is that when you come to something like Fable, you want to surp... Read More

Trials HD dev sells 1.5 million units

Trials HD dev sells 1.5 million units

RedLynx are claiming to have sold 1.5 million copies of the game throughout 2009, the Finnish company will soon be “bringing 8-10 new games to market” later this year. After having released on... Read More

Activision confirms new Tony Hawk, DJ Hero and others for 2010

Activision confirms new Tony Hawk, DJ Hero and others for 2010

Activision today confirmed their plan to release various sequels in 2010 including Tony Hawk Ride and DJ hero follow-ups. “In calendar year 2010, we expect our net earnings and operating marg... Read More

Blur multiplayer beta scheduled for March

Blur multiplayer beta scheduled for March

Activision CEO Michael Griffith today said that Bizzare's brand new racing game "Blur" will be getting a multiplayer beta in March. No specific platform was mentioned neither were any other detail... Read More