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Nintendo: We Still Have A Lot of Work to do Before Games Are Socially Acceptable

Nintendo: We Still Have A Lot of Work to do Before Games Are Socially Acceptable

Nintendo obviously has a vested interest in ensuring that games gain increasing social acceptance. The firm, which is more than a hundred years old, now focusses exclusively on video games, which ther... Read More

James Bond Blood Stone Team Unconcerned by Head to Head with Goldeneye 007

James Bond Blood Stone Team Unconcerned by Head to Head with Goldeneye 007

With James Bond Blood Stone all set for a November release, there are many who have pointed out that Activision is spamming the market with their first person shooters that month. Two of those are Bon... Read More

Fable III Kinect prototypes unsatisfactory, says Molyneux

Fable III Kinect prototypes unsatisfactory, says Molyneux

Peter (Bald) Molyneux says he wasn't very satisfied with early Fable III Kinect prototypes, so it got delayed for Microsoft's upcoming motion sensing camera. Molyneux says the original Fable III Ki... Read More

Homefront ‘won’t beat Call of Duty,’ says THQ

Homefront ‘won’t beat Call of Duty,’ says THQ

Jon Rooke, THQ's head of marketting, says their upcoming First Person Shooter, Homefront, will not be able to defeat Call of Duty and replace it as the genre's definitive title. He says trying to m... Read More

Engineers Turn Robot Arm into F1 Ferrari Simulator

Engineers Turn Robot Arm into F1 Ferrari Simulator

Engineers are one hell of a breed. They can literally turn anything in to well...anything. The engineers at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany have turned a robotic... Read More

4oD Coming to the PS3?

4oD Coming to the PS3?

Channel 4, developers and managers of the video on demand service 4oD , are in talks with Sony to bring over said service to the PlayStation 3. With the success of BBC's iPlayer on the PS3, other b... Read More

Konami Profits Boost 245%

Konami Profits Boost 245%

Konami, Japanese publishers of the world-famous franchises Metal Gear and Castlevania, have reported a profit of 245% in Q1 of  their foscal year, as compared to the same period of last year, confirm... Read More

Warren Spector: Epic Mickey on the PS3 and the 360 ‘could happen’

Warren Spector: Epic Mickey on the PS3 and the 360 ‘could happen’

When asked if Epic Mickey, upcoming Disney Interactive video game exclusively for the Wii, would ever come over to the 360 and the PS3, Warren Spector, Lead Designer, in an interview with Atomicgamer ... 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

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

Supermassive Games unveils Big Match Striker community features

Supermassive Games unveils Big Match Striker community features

Supermassive Games™ today announces the fourth in a series of entertaining video trailers for  Big Match Striker. This latest video illustrates the social and community aspects of the free-to-pla... 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

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

PSP Go gets a blasting from Team 17

PSP Go gets a blasting from Team 17

The developers behind the Worms franchise have given their opinion on why the PSP Go has faced such poor sales since release. They claim that the digital-only-distribution has little to do with... Read More

Pachter predicts online subscription COD fees

Pachter predicts online subscription COD fees

US analyst Michael Pachter has had his say on why he believes Call of Duty Black Ops should feature its own separate paid-for features. It's his strongest and most detailed argument yet. “... Read More

Starcraft II rushes to top UK charts

Starcraft II rushes to top UK charts

Starcraft II has made it to the top of the UK charts. Pushing Toy Story 3 down into second place, Starcraft II has become the first PC game of the year to make it top the top spot. The seque... Read More

Halo Reach is finished

Halo Reach is finished

Bungie have put the finishing touches to Halo Reach, and claim that it is ready to be shipped to stores within the next few weeks. On their blog, the developing team stated that, "Assuming thin... Read More