Posts By Pramath

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond to June NPD Data

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond to June NPD Data

NPD revealed sales figures for software and hardware for the month of June earlier today, and the results were dramatically predictable. As expected, the DS took home the honours of being at the top s... Read More

Schafer: I Need To Keep My Mouth Shut

Schafer: I Need To Keep My Mouth Shut

Remember Double Fine's Tim Schafer's outburst about Activision's Bobby Kotick yesterday? The one where he described him as a prick? Yeah, that one. Well, apparently it was an 'accident.' Speaking t... Read More

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

There are games that achieve the status they deserve only years after they have been released. One such game was Okami, Capcom's classic title for the PS2 and the Wii, which had a subdued launch, matc... Read More

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Quite a few of us were pleasantly surprised when Nintendo took the wraps off the title it hopes will spearhead the 3DS launch: Kid Icarus: Uprising. Essentially, this represented the revival of a fran... Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

Series director Eiji Aonuma told the Official Nintendo Magazine that his team was aiming for an early 2011 release date with the next title in the Zelda series, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.... Read More

WTF Moment of the Day: Next iPad to Match Xbox 360 in Graphical Power, Thinks Developer

WTF Moment of the Day: Next iPad to Match Xbox 360 in Graphical Power, Thinks Developer

What is it with developers thinking handhelds are gonna be on par with the HD consoles any time soon? First, we had rumours pegging the 3DS' power to be at the same level as the Xbox 360 and the PS3's... Read More

Rare Looking At Goldeneye for Kinect?

Rare Looking At Goldeneye for Kinect?

Fans of the original Goldeneye 007 title for the N64 got a pleasant surprise this E3, when Nintendo announced that Activision would be releasing a remake of the beloved classic exclusively for the Wii... Read More

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

JRPG lovers might have been worried that the slew of exclusive tradition RPG's the Wii is getting over in Japan might not make it to the US, what with the games pandering to such a niche audience and ... Read More

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

The Nintendo DS might have experience some mind boggling software sales, but perhaps those numbers could have been better if the system wasn't probably the system most rife with piracy in history. Wit... Read More

Ubisoft Thinks Assassin’s Creed Will Be As Big As GTA

Ubisoft Thinks Assassin’s Creed Will Be As Big As GTA

This kind of sounds like a case of Ubisoft getting a bit too ahead of themselves. Whereas there can be little doubt that both the Assassin's Creed games have been extremely well received, and are amon... Read More

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Cartridges have shown themselves to be surprisingly resilient, having been around since the days of Atari, and still in heavy use in mdern handhelds such as the Nintendo DS. This, despite many analyst... Read More

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

The 3DS, while possibly the most accomplished piece of 3D kits yet, has ts own challenges to surmount. Most notable, marketting a system centred around 3D gaming, when most TV screens at home are 2D, ... Read More

Sony: Move Has Been Priced To Maximise Profit

Sony: Move Has Been Priced To Maximise Profit

Apparently, Sony is still trying to recover from the heavy losses that its gaming department was posting until just about a week ago. That, according to Sony reps, would justify the PS Move's high lau... Read More

Square Enix: Dragon Quest IX is Not a JRPG

Square Enix: Dragon Quest IX is Not a JRPG

Looks like Square Enix is keen to avoid the stigma Dragon Quest has of being a traditional JRPG series, as their latest comments certainly seem to imply. Apparently, the latest Dragon Quest title has ... Read More

Ubisoft: There Will Be a 3DTV in Every Home in 3 Years

Ubisoft: There Will Be a 3DTV in Every Home in 3 Years

Apparently, Ubisoft is willing to share the wealth some of its exclusives have been making recently. Otherwise, I just cannot for the life of me fathom why they would make a prediction as insane as th... Read More

Metroid: Other M Gets UK Release Date

Metroid: Other M Gets UK Release Date

Metroid: Other M has got a release date for UK, and the rest of Europe nailed down. Nintendo's latest entry in the Metroid franchise, being co developed by Team Ninja, is due out on the Continent this... Read More

Sony: Core Gamers Are Our Number One Priority

Sony: Core Gamers Are Our Number One Priority

Sony has reiterated its commitment to the hardcore gamer. Amidst fears that the introduction of the Playstation Move motion control accessory, due later this year, might mark the 'casualisation of Son... Read More

Dragon Age 2 Confirmed, Gets On The Coverpage of Game Informer

Dragon Age 2 Confirmed, Gets On The Coverpage of Game Informer

Remember our earlier report today on Dragon Age 2? Well, now it's been confrimed, and unveiled in grand style: Dragon Age 2 has been given an inFamous 2 like unveiling, with it appearing on the cover ... Read More

Microsoft Clears The Air About Kinect, Confirms It CAN Be Played While Sitting Down

Microsoft Clears The Air About Kinect, Confirms It CAN Be Played While Sitting Down

For all those of you who hate Kinect, you have reason to hate it a little less now. No, there still hasn't been an announcement of a Kinect exclusive hardcore game yet. What I'm talking about is Micro... Read More

Sony Speaks Out on Insomniac Going Multiplatform

Sony Speaks Out on Insomniac Going Multiplatform

Insomniac Games is doubtless one of Sony's premier game development studios, having crafted such fine games as Ratchet and Clank and Resistance, all exclusively for the Playstation family. However, wi... Read More