Archive for September, 2009
Nearly 80 per cent of developers expect business to improve over the next six months, the latest business opinion survey from TIGA has revealed. Answering on the subject of business prospects, 76 per cent said they expect their business will get either a little or a lot better in the six month period, while the [...]
The Tokyo Game Show this year attracted visitor numbers of 185,030, show organiser CESA has confirmed, a figure that’s five per cent down on last year. The 2008 event was attended by 194,288 and the 2007 one by 193,040, reports Andriasang, meaning this year’s attendance slightly tailed off. However, visitors to the show’s second public [...]
Halo 3: ODST has debuted at number one in the UK chart exactly two years after Halo 3 achieved the same feat. The title, released on September 22, saw enough demand that 64 per cent of its week one sell-through was achieved in the first 24 hours. Its sales make it the twelfth biggest single [...]
A LEGO game lacking the franchise affiliations of Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman could have ended up feeling generic. Instead, Jumpgate developer NetDevil has delivered a massively multiplayer world where you get to bash ninjas, astronauts, pirates and medieval knights, all while platforming through castles and spaceships. …
Square’s last MMORPG was Final Fantasy XI. Its major problem was a lack of accessibility. Because if you didn’t have a large group of friends, all with PCs that could play it or PS2s with special PS2 hard drives, the fun was severely limited. But that’s all changed in XIV, a timed PS3 exclusive. We [...]
We put it to you, dear readers, that a lot of people remember the first Tropico game fondly. We also put it to you that of those people, only a minority actually gave it any significant degree of time. Let’s forget about the second game – where the setting was changed from a fictional Caribbean [...]
A tactical action-adventure game, Enslaved centers on the relationship between the two main characters and challenges players to employ a mix of combat, strategy and environment traversal.
In this age of DLC and $2.00 costume unlocks, this upcoming Street Fighter IV update is fittingly old school, as it comes packaged as a whole new game with new features and characters included.
Majesco Entertainment has released the first screenshots for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Based on the highly anticipated theatrical release of the same name that opens Christmas Day, the game features The Chipmunks and their girl-group rivals The Chipettes as they rock the house in pulse-pounding concert locations around the world. Singing and dancing [...]
THQ have confirmed that the UK release of the forthcoming Up videogame adaptation will arrive on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable and PC/Mac later this week, on Friday, October 2nd 2009.
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