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Wada: I Have No Idea Where Final Fantasy Should Go From Here

Wada: I Have No Idea Where Final Fantasy Should Go From Here

Head honcho of Square Enix Yoichi Wada has admitted that he has no idea where the Final Fantasy series should go from here. Accepting that the latest instalment in the long running RPG saga, Final Fan... Read More

Kojima is Making An Adventure Game

Kojima is Making An Adventure Game

After a lot of subtle, and often downright tantalising, hints as to what his next proeject may be, Kojima has finally made a clean breast of it, reports Chiyomaru Shikura, boss of Japanese media compa... Read More

Peter Molyneux: The Xbox 360’s Best Is Yet To Come

Peter Molyneux: The Xbox 360’s Best Is Yet To Come

While many are citing the lack of quality upcoming Xbox 360 titles (there's practically nothing barring Gears 3 and Halo Reach that is exclusive only to Microsoft's console) and Microsost's E3 presser... Read More

UK Sales Charts: Crackdown 2 Still At Top

UK Sales Charts: Crackdown 2 Still At Top

It may not have had the best reception from the critics, but Crackdown 2, the sequel to Microsoft's surprise 2007 open world hit Crackdown, has the first spot firmly in its grip, as far as sales in th... Read More

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

Looks like redesigning and rebranding a console is all the rage these days. Certainly, it seems to fuel market demand. Sony did it last year with the laucnh of the PS3 Slim, which was accompanied by a... Read More

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

There have been recent reports, fuelled by Sakaguchi's own statements, that his upcoming Wii exclusive RPG, The Last Story, would be his last game. The RPG legend recently blogged about how he would b... Read More

No loading screens for Killzone 3

No loading screens for Killzone 3

Breaking new ground, Killzone 3 will completely bypass loading screens. It's amazing what technology can do these days- 10 years ago, we expected to have to wait a few minutes before launching ... Read More

Activision would ‘love to see’ GoldenEye on the 3DS

Activision would ‘love to see’ GoldenEye on the 3DS

GoldeneEye 007's executive producer says he'd love to see a GoldenEye 007 remake on the 3DS, but he says he has no plans for it right now. "Let's put it this way I think we would all love to think ... Read More

Control games with the power of your mind

Control games with the power of your mind

The recently unveiled Natal for the Xbox 360 will let gamers control what happens on-screen just by moving their body- but one company is going one step further, allowing you to control games simply w... Read More

Indie Developer Lashes Out At Epic, Says They Can Go ‘F**k Off’

Indie Developer Lashes Out At Epic, Says They Can Go ‘F**k Off’

Wow, looks like this is turning into a trend. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It makes for great entertainment. After Schafer went on record to call Activision head Bobby Kotick a dick and a pr... Read More

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

NPD June Figures

NPD June Figures

The NPD June figures are out, and my oh my, Xbox 360 is this month's largest selling home console, and is in second place overall, the DS being in the first. The Xbox 360 has sold 451,700 units in Jun... Read More

Aliens vs Predators Console Support Cancelled

Aliens vs Predators Console Support Cancelled

The AvP patches which were originally supposed to be releasing for the console versions of the game have been cancelled, Sega has announced. Players have been craving for a new Bughunt DLC for some ti... Read More

Home Has A Lot of Potential, Dev Says

Home Has A Lot of Potential, Dev Says

Patrick O'Luanaigh, CEO of nDreams- the guy who developed Xi, the alternate reality game in Home, the online life simulator exclusive to the Playstation 3- says Home has a lot of potential, and that F... 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

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

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

Kojima Wants Co-op on 3DS

Kojima Wants Co-op on 3DS

First of all, thanks a ton, CVG! Hideo Kojima has expressed his desire to see a co-op system for games on the upcoming Nintendo handheld, 3DS. Kojima's comment came as part of a round-robin reac... Read More

BioWare Working on a ‘Small Scale’ Title

BioWare Working on a ‘Small Scale’ Title

Developers of games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, BioWare, are working on a small scale MMO. "On a big basis, what's working in business?" BioWare co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk asked during his ke... Read More

New Xbox 360 Arcade?

New Xbox 360 Arcade?

Microsoft seems to be planning on launching a new model of the XBox 360 Arcade in Europe, according to the listings on Amazon.de. The listing say that a "4GB Xbox 360 Arcade System Bundle" is due f... Read More