Posts By Shubhankar Parijat

Japan sales charts: 3DS tumbles, PSP tops

Japan sales charts: 3DS tumbles, PSP tops

The Japanese sales charts are in, and prior to 3DS' massive price cut, it has fallen to the 5th position, with only around 4,000 units sold. The PSP has claimed the top spot again, with 35,619 unit... Read More

The Old Republic will sell 3 million in 1st year, says Analyst

The Old Republic will sell 3 million in 1st year, says Analyst

Cowen & Company analyst Doug Cowen, who earlier predicted that BioWare's upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic will sell 1.5 million in its first year, now says it will sell twice that amoun... Read More

Sonic 4: Episode 2 info coming “soon”

Sonic 4: Episode 2 info coming “soon”

Sega West CEO Mike Hayes said while talking to VG247 that info about Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 will be arriving "very soon." He couldn't say how soon, but he's asked players to “look out fo... Read More

Top 10 Side Scrolling Platformers of All Time

Top 10 Side Scrolling Platformers of All Time

There was a time back in the 16-bit days when side scrolling platformers used to be all the rage. After the stupendous success that the Mario games had seen, everybody wanted a piece of the pie for th... Read More

Nintendo confirms US release dates for Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land and Pokemon Rumble Blast

Nintendo confirms US release dates for Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land and Pokemon Rumble Blast

Reportedly, Nintendo of America has confirmed (says MTV Multiplayer) that Super Mario 3D Land will be hitting the 3DS on November 13, while Mario Kart 7 will release on December 4. Pokemon Rumble... Read More

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations MP beta kicking off September 3; timed exclusive for PS3

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations MP beta kicking off September 3; timed exclusive for PS3

A multiplayer beta for Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be kicking off starting early September, but only for PS3 owner for the time being. And then too, only those who hold PS ... Read More

Assassin’s Creed Universe trailer is freaking awesome

Assassin’s Creed Universe trailer is freaking awesome

[HTML1] Ubisoft has released a new video titled 'Assassin's Creed Universe' that takes a look at the entire franchise, spanning from games to books to short animated movies to comics. The video show... Read More

Retailers Target drop 3DS price a day early

Retailers Target drop 3DS price a day early

Just like Walmart, Amazon and GameStop (in UK), retailer Target has dropped the price of the 3DS today, as opposed to tomorrow, which is the official date of its price cut, says a report on Joystiq... Read More

Batman: Arkham City gets 15 BBFC rating; features 2 hours 45 minutes of cutscenes

Batman: Arkham City gets 15 BBFC rating; features 2 hours 45 minutes of cutscenes

The BBFC has rated Batman: Arkham City, due for release in October, and has given it a rating of 15+, citing strong violence. The game features 165 minutes of cutscenes, that is 2 hours 45 minutes ... Read More

Portal 2 “Exile Vilify” Music Video Contest Winners Announced

Portal 2 “Exile Vilify” Music Video Contest Winners Announced

Valve has announced the winners for their music video contest based on "Exile Vilify", the Portal 2 song penned by The National. The contest, which ran for over a month, had the players of the ga... Read More

Paradox Interactive gamescom booth details

Paradox Interactive gamescom booth details

Paradox Interactive has announced details for its press conference at Gamescom in Cologne in the coming days. They will be reveaing the first details on “Project Postman”, their new multiplayer ... Read More

No point in next gen consoles- Epic president Mike Capps

No point in next gen consoles- Epic president Mike Capps

Epic Games president Mike Capps said, while talking to IndustryGamers that next generation consoles are no longer needed, since the console market has already reached a technical benchmark, wherea... Read More

Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower will see American releases ‘if there are business opportunities’- Reggie Fils-Aime

Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower will see American releases ‘if there are business opportunities’- Reggie Fils-Aime

Some time ago, Nintendo announced that they will not be releasing their three major upcoming games for the Wii- Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower- in North America. TH\hey said there was... Read More

Battlefield 3 pre-orders more than 2000% higher than Battlefield 2

Battlefield 3 pre-orders more than 2000% higher than Battlefield 2

Amazon UK announced this morning that Battlefield 3's pre-order are 2000 per cent more than those for Battlefield 2 back when it was released, releasing statistics for other games such as FIFA 12 an... Read More

Future Dragon Age II DLCs to tackle core problems of the game

Future Dragon Age II DLCs to tackle core problems of the game

BioWare says the future DLCs for Dragon Age II will address the core problems in the main game, as they attempted to do in the recently released Legacy DLC. “We have some more DLC plans, that act... Read More

“Flame Red” 3DS releasing in September

“Flame Red” 3DS releasing in September

Nintendo has announced that a red coloured 3DS, called "Flame Red", will be releasin on September 9, the same day as Star Fox 64 3D's release date. Though the game and the new colour release on the ... Read More

Top 10 Amazing Representations of Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

Top 10 Amazing Representations of Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

[drop-cap]T[/drop-cap]he post-apocalyptic setting is something that has been done and redone time and again in the gaming industry, and so many times has it been done with unimaginable splendour that ... Read More

European release for Persona 2: Innocent Sin PSP confirmed

European release for Persona 2: Innocent Sin PSP confirmed

Persona 2: Innocent Sin, which was slated for release on the PSP only in Japan, has now been confirmed to be getting a European release as well, coming later this year in form of a Collector's Editi... Read More

Xbox 360 to lead NPD numbers for July- Analysts

Xbox 360 to lead NPD numbers for July- Analysts

Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter and fellow analyst firm EEDAR believe the Xbox 360 will be the top selling piece of gaming hardware in the US for the month of July, just as it has been for the past... Read More

MW3 DS devs explain lack of 3DS support

MW3 DS devs explain lack of 3DS support

Activision recently revealed that n-Space will be developing a DS version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. We were baffled that it was a DS version, not a 3DS version that Activision announced. n... Read More