Posts By James Reith

R.I.P Moebius – Comic Book Artist & Subtle Video Game Influence

R.I.P Moebius – Comic Book Artist & Subtle Video Game Influence

Comics are a big deal in France, sometime referred to there as 'the 9th art', and in French comics Moebius is about as big a deal as you can get. Sadly, Moebius (a.k.a Jean Giraud) passed away this we... Read More

Cancelled Batman Game ‘Gotham By Gaslight’ Footage

Cancelled Batman Game ‘Gotham By Gaslight’ Footage

Day 1 Studios, them fellas behind F.E.A.R & Fracture, had been working on a Batman game: Batman By Gaslight, based on the comic of the same name. The game would position the caped crusader in a st... Read More

COD Black Ops 2 Listing Spotted On Amazon France

COD Black Ops 2 Listing Spotted On Amazon France

...and no one is too surprised. Yes, it seems quite likely that there will be a second Black Ops in the all encompassing Call Of Duty family. A listing appeared briefly on Amazon.fr and, thankfully, a... Read More

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 Heading To PSN Europe

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 Heading To PSN Europe

In a blogpost today Ghostlight have revealed that they will be publishing the two Digital Devil Saga games from the Megami Tensei metaseries on the European Playstation store. No specific dates were p... Read More

Mass Effect 3 Weather Balloon Publicity Stunt…

Mass Effect 3 Weather Balloon Publicity Stunt…

You read right ladies and gentlemen: 'Weather Balloon.' EA will be sending six copies of Mass Effect 3 up into stratosphere via some weather balloons. Paris, London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco an... Read More

Phoenix Wright Movie US Premiere At AM2 Convention This June

Phoenix Wright Movie US Premiere At AM2 Convention This June

[HTML1] It's out in Japan already, there have been talks about about a widespread release, and now Phoenix Wright will be showing in the US! It's not exactly widespread, but it's a step in the righ... Read More

Watch Mass Effect 3 Demo Playthrough

Watch Mass Effect 3 Demo Playthrough

Can't wait till you can play it yourself? Really? Well, for the digital voyeur out there, you can new enjoy someone else playing the, soon to be released, Mass Effect 3 demo, courtesy of IGN. You can... Read More

LA Noire Sequel A Possibility, Say Rockstar

LA Noire Sequel A Possibility, Say Rockstar

Does the closing of Team Bondi mean the end of LA Noire? 'Not necessarily,' say Rockstar (essentially). In a recent Q&A post on the company website, Rockstar responded to Dezpoztomuz eloquently ph... Read More

Dead Or Alive 2 Was Released Unfinished Says Tomonobu Itagaki

Dead Or Alive 2 Was Released Unfinished Says Tomonobu Itagaki

Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki revealed today, speaking at the annual DICE summit, that Tecmo (now Tecmo Koei) released Dead or Alive 2 in an incomplete state on the PS2 witho... Read More

Double Fine Kickstater Passes $1 Million In 24 Hours

Double Fine Kickstater Passes $1 Million In 24 Hours

Tim Schafer's Double Fine has received over $1 Million in funding in just 24 hours. That must be a record! The project was to help fund an adventure title in the vein of those that made Schafer's name... Read More

Minecraft Creator May Make Psychonauts 2 A Reality

Minecraft Creator May Make Psychonauts 2 A Reality

Industry legend Tim Schafer (whose credits include the 1st Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango) has been bandying about the idea of a second Psychonauts for quite some time now. Alas,... Read More

Bioware To Correct Mistake Ridden Mass Effect Novel

Bioware To Correct Mistake Ridden Mass Effect Novel

'Deception' is perhaps all to appropriate a title... Mass Effect: Deception went on sale a week ago and has met an onslaught of criticism regarding some glaring canonical errors. A fan made document h... Read More

Fundraiser Target Met For Unreleased Resident Evil Gameboy Remake

Fundraiser Target Met For Unreleased Resident Evil Gameboy Remake

Go Resident Evil fans! News arrived a few days ago of two Gameboy Colour carts featuring different versions of an aborted remake of the first Resident Evil. The build of said cart would be made avai... Read More

Persona 4 Fighter Opening

Persona 4 Fighter Opening

Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena (what a mouthfull) is an upcoming Persona fighter developed by Arc System Works, the folks behind BlazBlue. Check out the opening sequence from the game above... Read More

KISS Angry Birds A Possibility

KISS Angry Birds A Possibility

Whilst waiting to die, so they can be buried in their KISS coffin, there are many ways a KISS fan can occupy themselves. They could idle their way through a KISS comic, drink a refreshing glass of KIS... Read More

Resident Evil ‘Revelaitons’ Misprint Will Make Its Way To Stores

Resident Evil ‘Revelaitons’ Misprint Will Make Its Way To Stores

We all make mistakes, just most don't get printed on this scale. In the US, review copies of the game have been dispatched with a spelling mistake on the spine. Capcom have also confirmed that they wi... Read More

Max Payne 3 Release Dates

Max Payne 3 Release Dates

Game Release dates may be less reliable than the weather report but, following recent delays, some more specific release info might be of some comfort. Max Payne 3 will supposedly hit the Xbox 360 and... Read More

Lollipop Chainsaw Pre-Order Bonuses Include ‘Ash From Evil Dead’ Costume

Lollipop Chainsaw Pre-Order Bonuses Include ‘Ash From Evil Dead’ Costume

[HTML1] Suda51 tips his hat to the classic Evil Dead horror films with an 'Ash' costume which can be yours (in game) if you pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw from Gamestop. Order from Best Buy and you ge... Read More

Game Gear Classics Coming To 3DS?

Game Gear Classics Coming To 3DS?

Imagine being able to play Game Gear games without needing also those spare batteries... (nostalgic sigh) The long awaited arrival of the fabled Game Gear titles on 3DS may finally have arrived. Game ... Read More

Zynga Respond To Plagiarism Claims, Accusers Respond To Zynga

Zynga Respond To Plagiarism Claims, Accusers Respond To Zynga

A little while back Nimblebit, the developers of Tiny Tower, released a sarcastic 'good luck' message to Zynga, noting the similarity between their game and Zynga's recent Dream Heights. Well, in a r... Read More