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Bungie aiming to raise the bar visually with Halo Reach

Bungie aiming to raise the bar visually with Halo Reach

Giving an interview to Eurogamer, Marcus Lehto, Creative Director behind Halo Reach admits that Halo 3 wasn't a huge leap visually compared to the competition but they are now trying hard to fix t... Read More

Shattered Horizon Gets Free Weekend on Steam 19th–-21st February

Shattered Horizon Gets Free Weekend on Steam 19th–-21st February

Futuremark Games Studio today announced that Shattered Horizon™, their PC exclusive multiplayer first-person shooter, will be free to play and 50 percent off to buy on Steam this weekend. Shattered H... Read More

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands shipping with PoP: Classic

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands shipping with PoP: Classic

No matter what version of The Forgotten Sands you are planning on picking up, you will get your hands on PoP: Classic, an XBLA and PSN game released in 2007. Classic is a remake of the 1989 ori... Read More

Time for another Wii price drop say analysts

Time for another Wii price drop say analysts

Last year, when market analysts asked for a price drop, the Wii did indeed drop to $200. Now it's happening again. Mike Hickey, and analyst from Janco Partners has stated that unless the price is d... Read More

Molyneux speaks out against lack of UK tax breaks for industry

Molyneux speaks out against lack of UK tax breaks for industry

Peter Molyneux has spoken out against the UK government's refusal to grant tax breaks to the video game industry. “I’ve been saying this for years; it is just crazy that the British government do... Read More

Final Fantasy Versus XIII may not be shown at E3

Final Fantasy Versus XIII may not be shown at E3

Due to changes in the games development, Final Fantasy Versus XIII may not be shown at E3 this year. Play style, character movement and the world map are all looking to change up a bit, and may not... Read More

Metro 2033 shipping with Nvidia 3D support, new screenshots

Metro 2033 shipping with Nvidia 3D support, new screenshots

THQ has announced that the upcoming game Metro 2033 will be shipping with out-of-the-box 3D vision support for PC upon release next month. The game will also support DirectX 11. THQ has promised th... Read More

MAG and Bayonetta new entries in Top 20

MAG and Bayonetta new entries in Top 20

MAG and Bayonetta have made it into the top 20 selling games for the month of January, according to NPD. Darksiders and Army of Two: The 40th Day also made it into the Top 20. Noticably absent were... Read More

Final Fantasy developers hit back at criticism

Final Fantasy developers hit back at criticism

The senior development team behind Final Fantasy XIII have hit back at western critical reviews. We try not to listen to the critics too much. Most of the criticisms have come because the first half ... Read More

Microsoft working on ‘large franchise’ to go with Natal

Microsoft working on ‘large franchise’ to go with Natal

Using the buzzwords 'combat' and 'strategy', a Senior Level Designer at Microsoft has announced that the big M is working on a 'large franchise' to work with Natal. It is so far unknown as to w... Read More

Yoshinori Kitase comments about FFVII remake

Yoshinori Kitase comments about FFVII remake

In a video interview with GameTrailers.com, Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase said that he would be interested in Final Fantasy VII remake. He said: “I’m really interested to ... Read More

Beautiful Katamari on Xbox Live

Beautiful Katamari on Xbox Live

A very short news from us, here at GamingBolt. Beautiful Katamari is the latest addition to Xbox Live's Games on Demand library. The game is now available for download for £19.99. Considering the qua... Read More

Kazunori Yamauchi criticizes other racing games

Kazunori Yamauchi criticizes other racing games

Kazunori Yamauchi, the man behind the famed Gran Turismo franchise has claimed that the quality of racing game since Gran Turismo 4 is going down. Speaking to eurogamer.dk, Yamauchi said: " In fa... Read More

New FPS from Black Creator

New FPS from Black Creator

In a news post by CVG, Codemasters have confirmed that one of the masterminds behind Criterion's Black is currently working with them to develop a new first person shooter game. The developer named ... Read More

‘Care package’ patch released for Modern Warfare 2

‘Care package’ patch released for Modern Warfare 2

According to a new post by CVG, the 'care package' for Modern Warfare 2 has now gone live. The most important exploit that this patch fixes is the unlimited care package drops that players can call in... Read More

Jaffe: Digital distribution is “really big deal”

Jaffe: Digital distribution is “really big deal”

The founder of gaming studio Eat Sleep and Play, David Jaffe has said that the real innovations in video games do not come from motion sensing or cameras but from digital distribution. Speaking to UK ... Read More

‘Not planning’ Final Fantasy XIII DLC

‘Not planning’ Final Fantasy XIII DLC

Producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama have said that there is no plan for DLC in Square's latest. “Regarding the DLC content, we feel that the final product is 100% enjoyableâ€... Read More

360 ‘very good environment’ for Alan Wake- Remedy

360 ‘very good environment’ for Alan Wake- Remedy

In an interview with BlendGames, Remedy has said that the 360 is a much better environment for Alan Wake than the PC. “Our roots are very much in the PC development but focusing on one platform... Read More

Natals life span will be about 5 years

Natals life span will be about 5 years

According to Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's new Project Natal should have a life span of about 5 years - “The richness of the technology is going to really enable experiences that nev... Read More

More Crysis 2 details revealed

More Crysis 2 details revealed

After German magazine PCGames has revealed the first few details on the hotly anticipated Crysis 2, Edge has come up with more details on the game. Speaking to to Edge, Crytek president Cevat Yerli sa... Read More