Posts By James Reith

DOOM 3 Source Code Will Be Free To Use After RAGE

DOOM 3 Source Code Will Be Free To Use After RAGE

Bedroom coders rejoice! The kind folks at id software will be releasing the source code for their acclaimed game DOOM3 following the release of their upcoming title RAGE. Design legend John Carmack co... Read More

No Promises, But Blizzard Are ‘Working Hard’ To Get You Diablo 3 Before The Year’s End

No Promises, But Blizzard Are ‘Working Hard’ To Get You Diablo 3 Before The Year’s End

Yeah, yeah, yeah you say. We've heard it all before. Activision's recent Blizzard earning release features the following disheartening disclaimer: "Since Blizzard Entertainment has not confirmed a lau... Read More

Modern Warfare 3 Coming To Wii

Modern Warfare 3 Coming To Wii

Bah, prepare to laugh in the face of those who call you Wii owners casual as Modern Warfare 3 will be heading its heavily armoured way to your little white console. Despite COD: Black Ops having pre... Read More

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Has Sold 25 Million Copies, Modern Warfare 2 Has Sold 22 Million

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Has Sold 25 Million Copies, Modern Warfare 2 Has Sold 22 Million

It's pretty much all in the catchy title: An earnings call today revealed that both COD Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 have shifted a lot of units. If you can't be bothered to re-read the title, here ... Read More

Soulcalibur V Director Explains The Critical Edge Combat System

Soulcalibur V Director Explains The Critical Edge Combat System

Soul Calibur Director Daishi Odashima likes to tweet. A lot. And his recent Twitter exploits reveal a little insight into the game's 'Critical Edge' system: “Critical Edge is a new attack system tha... Read More

Nobuo Uematsu – Final Fantasy Composer Gets Tribute App

Nobuo Uematsu – Final Fantasy Composer Gets Tribute App

If you really love famed game composer Nobuo Uematsu then you might want to get your hands on the Official Nobuo Uematsu app, based on the great music maker's official fan page, which lets you listen ... Read More

How The Names Of Starfox Came To Be

How The Names Of Starfox Came To Be

If there is ever a computer game category added to Trivial Pursuit, Nintendo's Iwata Asks will be a goldmine to the poor soul lumped with the question writing. In the latest addition to the series, th... Read More

Final Fantasy Tactics: War Of The Lions Finally Seeing iOS Release This Thursday

Final Fantasy Tactics: War Of The Lions Finally Seeing iOS Release This Thursday

[HTML1] Square have finally finished what seemed like the endless task of porting Final Fantasy Tactics: War Of The Lions to the iPhone. The game will see release this Thursday (August 4th) for eit... Read More

Ice T Debuts Gears Of War 3 Track Tonight On G4

Ice T Debuts Gears Of War 3 Track Tonight On G4

Ice T, rapper, actor and all round great guy, will be dropping some Gears inspired 'rhymes' tonight on G4's X-play programme at 6:30pm ET through his new track "Horde 2.0: Five Against All." Epic have... Read More

NES & GBA Games Coming To 3DS Through Nintendo’s Ambassador Program

NES & GBA Games Coming To 3DS Through Nintendo’s Ambassador Program

Nintendo had previously announced plans to re-release old NES and GBA titles on the Nintendo eShop. This will be happening by the end of the year, but not quite as expected. Nintendo have no plans t... Read More

Street Figther X Tekken: Franchise Creators Have Silly Show Down

Street Figther X Tekken: Franchise Creators Have Silly Show Down

[HTML1] In the vein of many popular, and very silly, Japanese endurance test game shows, Street Fighter chief Yoshinori Ono and Tekken franchise head Katsuhiro Harada  show their mettle in a match... Read More

Microsoft Sued Over Kinect

Microsoft Sued Over Kinect

Ohio's Impulse Technology are claiming that Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor infringes on seven of its patents, covering a "wide variety of games where the movement of a player is tracked in three dim... Read More

Games On Google Plus?

Games On Google Plus?

According to Tech Site AllThingsD, games will soon be coming to grandiose social networking site Google Plus. Google will apparently be taking less than a 30% cut on revenue derived from games on the ... Read More

Driver: San Fransisco Single Player Trailer

Driver: San Fransisco Single Player Trailer

[HTML1] Check out this solo play focused trailer for the upcoming Driver reboot. The game features a realisitc recreation of San Fransisco, though not too realisitic: "It's a realistic model of San... Read More

Silent Hill Composer Akira Yamaoka ‘Tag-Teaming With Suda 51’ On Game Development

Silent Hill Composer Akira Yamaoka ‘Tag-Teaming With Suda 51’ On Game Development

Akira Yamaoka, contender for best game composer ever, has revealed that it is not just music that he deals with at Suda 51's Grasshopper Manufacture studio: "At Grasshopper, I'm creating sound, but no... Read More

Catherine ‘Climb Or Die’ Launch Trailer

Catherine ‘Climb Or Die’ Launch Trailer

[HTML1] You've seen the unboxing, now check out some gameplay in the Catherine 'climb or die' trailer.Read More

Sony Experimenting With Virtual Reality

Sony Experimenting With Virtual Reality

In a recent interview with Develop, Sony London Studios chief Mick Hocking said, in reference to the head-mounted 3D display shown above: "We're working with a couple of games at Sony that are experim... Read More

Klonoa: Door To Phantomile Flapping Its Wing-Eared Way To PSN

Klonoa: Door To Phantomile Flapping Its Wing-Eared Way To PSN

The often overlooked PS1 side-scrolling platformer Klonoa: Door To Phantomile is making its well deserved way to the PSN, or so a recent ESRB rating for PS3 and PSP would have us believe. The game was... Read More

Sonic Creator Reveals Rejected Wii Game, Haunted Tower

Sonic Creator Reveals Rejected Wii Game, Haunted Tower

In the latest installment of Nintendo's Iwata asks, Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka was in attendance, representing his company Prope, and revealed a shelved project he had pitched Nintendo follo... Read More

Shadows Of The Damned & Child Of Eden Flop In US

Shadows Of The Damned & Child Of Eden Flop In US

Adding fuel to the contradictory bonfire that gamers cry for originality and then don't buy the titles that try for it, Shadows Of The Damned and Child Of Eden have, predictably, flopped sales-wise,... Read More