Posts By Pramath

Five Reasons Why Metroid: Other M Could Be The Best Game of the Year

Five Reasons Why Metroid: Other M Could Be The Best Game of the Year

The story of Metroid: Other M has been one of sheer cynicism and initial sceptisicm, followed by gradually growing cautious optimism, until now, finally, as the release of the game is less than a mont... Read More

Conduit Developer Gets Hit By Layoffs

Conduit Developer Gets Hit By Layoffs

High Voltage Software, developer of last year's Wii exclusive shooter The Conduit, as well as the upcoming The Grinder and Conduit 2, has been hit by a spate of layoffs, it has been confirmed. Spea... Read More

Nintendo: We Are Developing Wii’s Successor and We’re Not Going To Tell You About It Because We Like to Surprise People

Nintendo: We Are Developing Wii’s Successor and We’re Not Going To Tell You About It Because We Like to Surprise People

Nintendo head honcho Saturo Iwata has gone on record to state in an investor's meeting recently that the company is currently developing the successor to its bestselling Wii console. Of course, he has... Read More

Rare: We Want To End Wii Sports’ Dominance

Rare: We Want To End Wii Sports’ Dominance

Talk about the progeny turning its back on the progenitor. Rare, Nintendo's premiere in house developer at one time and now Microsoft's not so premiere developer, has stated that it has no qualms ... Read More

Sony: Kinect is ‘Limited’; Ubisoft: Kinect is the ‘Future’

Sony: Kinect is ‘Limited’; Ubisoft: Kinect is the ‘Future’

Hey, I always wanted to do that. Two contradictory quotes in the headline FTW! Anyway, in what should come as a surprise to no one, Sony have apparently stated that Microsoft's upcoming controller-... Read More

Nintendo Considering Parental Locks for 3DS

Nintendo Considering Parental Locks for 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is possibly the next big thing in gaming. The handheld, which is the successor to the 130 million selling Nintendo DS line of handhelds, features the ability to display 3D graphics wi... Read More

Naught Dog: PS Move Will Not Necessarily Be In Uncharted 3

Naught Dog: PS Move Will Not Necessarily Be In Uncharted 3

So if you were hoping that Sony would incorporate Move into every first party game henceforth (yeah, right), then you should just stop- at least one Sony developer, Naughty Dog, has confirmed that the... Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Not Feature A Flying Link

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Not Feature A Flying Link

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the next instalment in the bestselling and trend-setting Zelda series, is a bit of an enigma. It's existence wasn't even officially confirmed until very recently, a... Read More

Pokemon Black/White Will Feature Only New Pokemon

Pokemon Black/White Will Feature Only New Pokemon

The more I hear about Pokemon Black and White, the more my enthusiasm for the games is dampened. The fifth instalment in the bestselling RPG series is all set for a Japan release next month, with an i... Read More

Medal of Honor Gets New Trailer Set To New Linkin Park Single The Catalyst

Medal of Honor Gets New Trailer Set To New Linkin Park Single The Catalyst

In association with Linkin Park, EA Games have released a new trailer for their upcoming FPS set in war torn Afghanisthan, Medal of Honor. The new trailer comprises of some never before seen footage o... Read More

Itagaki: Devil’s Third Is The ‘Best Game Ever’

Itagaki: Devil’s Third Is The ‘Best Game Ever’

Oh Peter Molyneux, looks like you have made your mark on the gaming industry after all. Other developers are now taking a leaf out of your book, and hyping their games as the greatest ever. Specifi... Read More

Sony Cannot Confirm UK Release of God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Sony Cannot Confirm UK Release of God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Rejoiced at the earlier announcement today of the 2nd November release date for God of War: Ghost of Sparta? Don't be. Or at least, not if you live in the UK. SCEE has stated that they cannot confi... Read More

Fable III Delayed on PC

Fable III Delayed on PC

Well, looks like Fable III will be an exclusive after all. Or a timed exclusive, at any rate. I jest. Microsoft has confirmed that the third instalment in the popular Lionhead developed RPG seri... Read More

Move Will Outsell Kinect In the UK, Claims Survey

Move Will Outsell Kinect In the UK, Claims Survey

Microsoft have left no stone unturned in their attempt to hype their upcoming motion sensing peripheral, Kinect. They have, of course, also been aided by retailers, who claim that Kinect will be amass... Read More

Namco Badai: Demon’s Souls Selling Very Well

Namco Badai: Demon’s Souls Selling Very Well

UK really got a raw deal as far as last year's breakthrough PS3 exclusive RPG, Demon's Souls, was concerned. Whereas North America got its hands on the title courtsey of Atlus, Europe was glanced over... Read More

Kinect doesn’t tax the Xbox 360 all that much; uses ‘less than 1%’ of the 360’s Processor

Kinect doesn’t tax the Xbox 360 all that much; uses ‘less than 1%’ of the 360’s Processor

The initial reveal of Kinect's launch lineup certainly wasn't very impressive. While the games themselves were all but party games and minigames compilations, all very clearly Wii titles knock offs, t... Read More

Confirmed: Microsoft Will Be Selling 250GB HDDs Seperately

Confirmed: Microsoft Will Be Selling 250GB HDDs Seperately

You get no prizes for having guessed this. Predictably, Microsoft will be selling 250 GB hard drives seperately for its new Xbox 360 Slim models at retail. An ad for the 4GB 'arcade' version of the s... Read More

RUMOUR: 3DS Tag Mode is Called CrossPass

RUMOUR: 3DS Tag Mode is Called CrossPass

Well, this is certainly interesting. CVG reports that the always on, Wi fi enabled Tag Mode in the Nintendo 3DS may be called CrossPass. At least, if a recent spree of trademark registrations by N... Read More

PS3 Firmware 3.41 Causing Hard Drive Issues

PS3 Firmware 3.41 Causing Hard Drive Issues

This may be yet another case of a console firmware upgrade doing more harm than good. After reports of loads of bricked consoles following firmware upgrades for all three systems earlier this generati... Read More

Tiesto announced for DJ Hero 2

Tiesto announced for DJ Hero 2

Activision has announced the inclusion of the world's most popular electronic music DJ, Tiesto, in its upcoming sequel to last year's retail bomb, DJ Hero 2. Tiesto will be providing interesting re... Read More