Posts By James Reith

Tokyo Game Show Is Hoped To Go Ahead, Cancellation Still A Possibility

Tokyo Game Show Is Hoped To Go Ahead, Cancellation Still A Possibility

The Tokyo Game Show, perhaps the only video game expo bigger than E3, was on shaky ground for this year following the horrifying tsunami which struck Japan. Speaking to Kotaku Japan, TGS organisers ex... Read More

Grasshopper Announce iPhone Title To Aid Japanese Tsunami Relief

Grasshopper Announce iPhone Title To Aid Japanese Tsunami Relief

Grasshopper Manufacture, the team behind Killer 7, No More Heroes and Flower, Sun and Rain have announced a new iPhone game and all of its proceeds will be going to the Japanese Red Cross. At pres... Read More

Nintendo On 3DS Headache Complaints

Nintendo On 3DS Headache Complaints

Nintendo have responded, in an official statement, to complaints about the 3DS causing users to experience headaches: "As with anything that requires focus, from reading to staring at a computer scre... Read More

Space Marine Developer: Gears of War Comparison ‘Doesn’t Keep Us Up At Night’

Space Marine Developer: Gears of War Comparison ‘Doesn’t Keep Us Up At Night’

In a recent interview with CVG Raphiel Van Lierop, game director of Warhammer 40K: Space Marine, said that "we're very aware that we've stepped into the most competitive genre there is with our game.... Read More

Square Enix Celebrate Release Of Final Fantasy III On iOS With A Sale

Square Enix Celebrate Release Of Final Fantasy III On iOS With A Sale

[HTML1] Square Enix have slashed the prices of many titles as a celebration for the release of Final Fantasy III on iOS. The titles will be on sale till March 31st. Here is the list of games on sal... Read More

Dungeon Siege 3; New Trailer

Dungeon Siege 3; New Trailer

[HTML1] Obsidian have released a new trailer for Dungeon Siege 3 which introduces a new character called Katrina:"The daughter of a Legion commander and a Lescanzi witch, her mother's people are n... Read More

Halo Soundtrack Composer Would ‘Love To Score Movie’

Halo Soundtrack Composer Would ‘Love To Score Movie’

Composer Marty O'Donnell, famous for his work on the Halo franchise, said in an interview with Industry Gamers: "I would love to score the Halo movie. No doubt about it. I think that would be great... Read More

Geohot: Sony are ‘fearmongerers’ [sic]

Geohot: Sony are ‘fearmongerers’ [sic]

Stewart Kellar, attorney for now famous hacker George 'Geohot' Hotz, claims that Sony's previous reports about Hotz's convenient trip to South America being a ploy to avoid handing over incriminating ... Read More

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Confirmed

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Confirmed

The long rumored Resident Evil team-based shooter 'Operation Raccoon City' has finally been confirmed by the Official Xbox Magazine US. The game will allow up to four players to take the role of US... Read More

THQ Narrow Warhammer 40K: Space Marine’s Release Date

THQ Narrow Warhammer 40K: Space Marine’s Release Date

THQ's upcoming Warhammer 40K action shooter has been given a touch more clarity, as far as a release date goes: The game has been narrowed from the vague 'Summer' to the slightly more specific 'August... Read More

Animation For ‘Catherine’ Will Be Lip-Synced For English Localisation

Animation For ‘Catherine’ Will Be Lip-Synced For English Localisation

Anyone worried about dodgy dubbing in the NA release of Atlus' erotic/nightmare/puzzle game 'Catherine' can rest a little easier knowing that, according to Michell Ruff who is providing the English la... Read More

PS3 Hacker ‘Geohot’ Flees To South America

PS3 Hacker ‘Geohot’ Flees To South America

The bizarre story of George 'geohot' Hotz, the hacker who Sony are suing for making the PS3's security key public, has taken an even stranger twist. According to a court document filed by Sony, after ... Read More

New Resident Evil HD Compilation

New Resident Evil HD Compilation

The latest issue of Famitsu has reported a PS3/Xbox 360 title called 'Resident Evil Revival Selection' which, according to IGN, will be a compilation of Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica Directors Cut... Read More

EA Manager: $60 Games Are Exploitative

EA Manager: $60 Games Are Exploitative

Ben Cousins, EA's Easy Studios General Manager, said in a recent interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun: “I can’t think of anything more exploitative than gating all of your content behind having to ... Read More

Final Fantasy III Released On iOS Tomorrow

Final Fantasy III Released On iOS Tomorrow

[HTML1] The iOS port of Final Fantasy III is seeing the light of day on the 24th of March, which is either today or tomorrow depending on where you live and when you read this. In fact you could re... Read More

Bioware Warn Of ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Beta Scams

Bioware Warn Of ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Beta Scams

In a new post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, community manager Alison Berryman warned of scammers claiming to be selling beta-keys for the upcoming Bioware title: "It has come to our att... Read More

Final Fantasy XI And XIV Service Will Resume On March 25th

Final Fantasy XI And XIV Service Will Resume On March 25th

Fans of either of the Final Fantasy MMOs will be pleased to hear that Square Enix's online servers will be up and running again on the 25th of March, 4pm PDT. The service was temporarily shut down f... Read More

343 Industries: New Halo Games Will Be ‘Scrutinised Differently’ Without Bungie

343 Industries: New Halo Games Will Be ‘Scrutinised Differently’ Without Bungie

According to the director of Microsoft's 343 Industries, Frank O'Connor, new titles in the Halo franchise will be "scrutinised differently" by fans now that Bungie are no longer involved in thei... Read More

New Story Trailer For Ratchet And Clank: All 4 One

New Story Trailer For Ratchet And Clank: All 4 One

[HTML1] Check out the comic and cinematic new trailer for Insomniac games' upcoming co-op title 'Ratchet And Clank: All 4 One'.Read More

Eric Chahi: “The less it costs, the better it is”

Eric Chahi: “The less it costs, the better it is”

Eric Chahi, designer of 'Another World' and the upcoming 'From Dust', in a recent interview with CVG was discussing the comments Cliff Bleszinski made at GDC about modern day developers having either ... Read More