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Remedy Defends Poor Alan Wake Sales

Remedy Defends Poor Alan Wake Sales

Alan Wake, which got a 9/10 here on GamingBolt.com, sold a paltry 145,000 units in the month of May in the U.S. The game, which was heavily publicised and said to be one of the premium games on the 36... Read More

Nintendo Doesn’t Care About Competition

Nintendo Doesn’t Care About Competition

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says he is "not conscious" of any competition, be it Apple, Microsoft, or their arch rivals, Sony. Concentrating on others would lead Nintendo into the "trap" of "shor... Read More

Halo: Reach Achievements Revealed (Well, some of them)

Halo: Reach Achievements Revealed (Well, some of them)

Bungie thinks Achievements are one of the aspects that make or break a game. And thus, "Airtight isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking about Achievement security", says Bungie. Five... Read More

Microsoft Testing a “Project S” title

Microsoft Testing a “Project S” title

Microsoft sent out a survey to alpha testers to enlist for a “groundbreaking,” game, that is a  “giant, revolutionary step for PC strategy games”. This game is code-named "Project S", and ... Read More

Don’t Hold Your Breath For an Assassin’s Creed Game in 2011

Don’t Hold Your Breath For an Assassin’s Creed Game in 2011

For those of you who were worried that Ubisoft might adopt the 'Call of Duty' route with its popular stealth series Assassin's Creed, you can rest assured: Ubisoft has confirmed that the series won't ... Read More

New Browser For The Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace

New Browser For The Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace

There will be a new browser for the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace, it was recently revealed by Major Nelson on his blog. 'Next week we'll be launching another way to browse... Read More

EA Confirms Dragon Age 2

EA Confirms Dragon Age 2

Although we knew it was coming (heck, even the name of the original Dragon Age game hinted at as much), it's good to get an official confirmation straight from the horse's mouth. Yep, Electronic Ar... Read More

People look silly while playing with Kinect

People look silly while playing with Kinect

[drop-cap]M[/drop-cap]icrosoft’s Kinect surely does look promising. But judging by the screens, people will look stupid while playing Kinect. As you can see from the images below people are lit... Read More

Mafia 2 More Alan Wake Than GTA

Mafia 2 More Alan Wake Than GTA

The original Mafia was publisher 2K's alternate take on their own runaway hit GTA series, and its sequel has been long in the coming. For those who were hoping for more of the same, however, this game... Read More

Microsoft Thinks Activision Doesn’t Support PC Gaming

Microsoft Thinks Activision Doesn’t Support PC Gaming

Kotick went on record recently, talking about Activision being platform agnostic, and friendly to all forms of gaming, including, yes, PC gaming. Apprently, he's rubbed Microsoft off the wrong way. ... Read More

Fable III to be demo’ed at Brighton Develop Conference

Fable III to be demo’ed at Brighton Develop Conference

Peter Molyneux has confirmed that he will be demonstrating Fable III next week at the Brighton Develop Conference. There he will be showing off the PC and the Xbox 360 versions of the game. Molyneux w... Read More

Kinect box art revealed

Kinect box art revealed

We have got our hands on something which appears to be the boxed branding for Kinect. There will be two types of branding, one will consist of only the motion sensing camera and the other one will in... Read More

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond To May NPD

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond To May NPD

The May NPD figures were just unveiled today, and they firmly reaffirmed Nintendo's vicegrip upon the market. With their hardware taking the Top 2 spots, and four of the Top 10 games being Nintendo ga... Read More

Holy Crap, Call of Duty: Black Ops To Get NINE Exclusive Peripherals

Holy Crap, Call of Duty: Black Ops To Get NINE Exclusive Peripherals

Looks like Activision's penchant for milking their properties rubs off on all their partners as well. Mad Catz, the company that currently designs liscenced peripherals for Activison's games, has appa... Read More

Bioshock 2 DLC Due Next Month

Bioshock 2 DLC Due Next Month

2K has just announced that the first batch of single player DLC for Bioshock 2 is due next month, set to release on all three platforms on the 3rd of August. The official product description explai... Read More

LucasArts Talks About Ending of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2

LucasArts Talks About Ending of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2

Looks like LucasArts is really upping the hype meter to their 2008 blockbuster, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. As per a statement released by LucasArts, "The Force Unleashed 2 has a "bold" ending tha... Read More

No Wait, Project Milo is a Full Game After All

No Wait, Project Milo is a Full Game After All

... damn it. Make up your friggin minds, Microsoft. Contrary to Greenberg's earlier statements to the effect that Project Milo was just a tech demo to demonstrate the coolness of Natal (or Kinect),... Read More

WTF Moment of the Day: 3DS Saint’s Row Connects and Interacts with Xbox 360 Version of Saint’s Row 3

WTF Moment of the Day: 3DS Saint’s Row Connects and Interacts with Xbox 360 Version of Saint’s Row 3

This is a little hard to swallow, but it's coming straight from the horse's mouth. The horse being developers and publishers THQ in this case. Apparently, Saint's Row Drive By, the 3DS instalment o... Read More

Project Milo Won’t Be Released After All

Project Milo Won’t Be Released After All

Remember that awesome Milo and Kate demo Microsoft unveiled at last year's E3 to demonstrate just what their motion control accessory (then titled Natal) was about? Yeah, well, apparently, it's nothi... Read More

Capcom Believes Kinect Is The Right Thing To Do For Microsoft

Capcom Believes Kinect Is The Right Thing To Do For Microsoft

Whereas it doesn't seem to have gone down too well with core gamers, particularly after the casual gamer oriented showing at E3 earlier this year, Capcom believes that Microsoft's motion sensing Kinec... Read More