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Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection ‘Interlude’ Is Fifteen Hours Long

Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection ‘Interlude’ Is Fifteen Hours Long

A PSP remake of Final Fantasy IV bundled with the Wii-Ware exclusive Final Fantasy: The After Years is scheduled for April. However, what has mostly been piquing the interest of Final Fantasy fans... Read More

GAME stores to trial pre-owned pre-orders

GAME stores to trial pre-owned pre-orders

UK game's retailer GAME are trialling a new service that will let customers place pre-orders for pre-owned games. It sounds more confusing than it actually is; honest. The idea is that you can pl... Read More

3DS meets pre-order targets for UK

3DS meets pre-order targets for UK

Nintendo UK sales director, Andy Yates, has revealed that Nintendo's upcoming 3D handheld is fast approaching 100,000 pre-orders in the UK. "We're very encouraged that it's going to be a big lau... Read More

Next Bungie game to be an MMO

Next Bungie game to be an MMO

Bungie confirmed at GDC earlier today that their next game will be a massively multiplayer online title. Bungie lead network engineer, David Aldrige, announced the news whilst discussing netcode... Read More

Another World Being Ported To iPhone And iPad

Another World Being Ported To iPhone And iPad

Eric Chahi's sci-fi adventure classic 'Another World', also known as 'Out Of This World' in the US, is coming to iOS. Developer DotEmu and publisher BulkyPix will be handling the port and seem to ha... Read More

Super Mario 3DS Announced

Super Mario 3DS Announced

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced at GDC 2011 that a new Super Mario game is in the works for the 3DS. According to an official press release "the game is being developed by the same Nint... Read More

Catherine To Be Released In US

Catherine To Be Released In US

Despite an Atlus PR rep claiming the exact opposite only a few days ago, it now seems that the controversial puzzler "Catherine" will be hitting US shores around July. The news, as well as a prospec... Read More

Sony to promote PS Move homebrew

Sony to promote PS Move homebrew

Sony have laid down the gauntlet for homebrew developers to take advantage of their motion control hardware. They are set to release an app through the PSN called Move.me that will grant open access... Read More

New details on Arkham City

New details on Arkham City

Rocksteady have dropped a few new details for their upcoming sequel to the wildly awesome Batman: Arkham Asylum. The game is set to take place eighteen months after the first game, and you get to... Read More

Minecraft for iOS to be handled by another dev

Minecraft for iOS to be handled by another dev

Mojang’s Markus “Notch” Persson, the guy behind Minecraft, has confirmed that the iOS version of the game will be handled by another developer. He has also implied that the project will take... Read More

Black Ops now the best selling PS3 game ever

Black Ops now the best selling PS3 game ever

Activision have just announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops is now officially the biggest selling title on PS3. The publisher cited data from NPD, ChartTrack and GfK to back their claim, but haven... Read More

GDC ’11 – Epic Shows Off Unreal 3 Engine For The Future

GDC ’11 – Epic Shows Off Unreal 3 Engine For The Future

We didn't get a chance to see Epic show off their latest on the Unreal Engine 3.971 at GDC this year, which definitely cannot produce anything a console can up hold currently.  The good news is t... Read More

GDC ’11 – Beyond Good & Evil Launch Trailer

GDC ’11 – Beyond Good & Evil Launch Trailer

Here is the latest trailer for Beyond Good & Evil HD.  It was shown at GDC 2011 to celebrate it's launch on the Xbox Live Arcade today.  Read our review of the game here.  It will be released... Read More

InFamous 2 to feature a mission creator

InFamous 2 to feature a mission creator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OmgW4g0Zw Those who were concerned about the potential lifespan of InFamous 2 have had their prayers answered. It has been announced that the game will contain a mis... Read More

No new engine for Modern Warfare 3

No new engine for Modern Warfare 3

Since Call of Duty 2 was released back in 2005, all CoD games have run on the Infinity Ward engine and this trend looks set to continue in the next Call of Duty title. Infinity Ward creative stra... Read More

Namco boss unconvinced by 3DS and NGP

Namco boss unconvinced by 3DS and NGP

Namco boss, Neil Young (not the singer mind,) has expressed his deep concern and lack of faith in the upcoming handhelds from Sony and Nintendo. When comparing handheld consoles to the gaming exp... Read More

GT5 to get in-race game saves

GT5 to get in-race game saves

Kazunori Yamauchi from Polyphony digital confirmed via Twitter earlier today that “game saves during endurance races” are currently “under development” for Gran Turismo 5. The full tweet tra... Read More

Nintendo have yet to decide on a Wii 2

Nintendo have yet to decide on a Wii 2

Nintendo boss, Satoru Iwata, has said the company will not make a decision about a successor to the Wii until developers run out of inventive ideas for the original. "It's just four years since [... Read More

Hudson announces two forthcoming 3DS titles

Hudson announces two forthcoming 3DS titles

Publisher Hudson have announced two new games that will see a future release on the 3DS. Designed by Konami, Sports Island 3D allows players to compete in ten different sporting events including ... Read More

BIT.TRIP.FLUX released for WiiWare

BIT.TRIP.FLUX released for WiiWare

Aksys Games have released the final chapter of their BIT.TRIP series on WiiWare today for the small sum of 800 Wii points. The game will be CommanderVideo’s final adventure and will feature clas... Read More