Midway announced this morning that Unreal Tournament III will see a Nov 19th release date on the PC. They have an exclusivity deal with Sony giving them a few months on their console before Epic is able to release a 360 version.
The original Xbox derives it’s name from the software it used under the […]
Posted by Erick - October 31st, 2007 - 6 Comments
Bungie frightens me. They know this. For Haloween, they are messing with matchmaking for 27 hours, and they’ve scared up some new games.
The Playlist of the Living Dead should be available from 10/31/07 8am until 11/01/07 11am(GMT). The Ranked multiplayer “playlist” will feature 3 infection gametypes on custom forge maps built by the guys at […]
Posted by Erick - October 31st, 2007 - No Comments
Dundee-based Realtime Worlds won two BAFTA’s for ‘Action and Adventure’
and ‘Use of Audio’ at the gaming industry BAFTAs in London on Tuesday 23rd
October, making it the most successful European studio at the ceremony.
The company received no less than five nominations for the British Academy Video
Games Awards, for its critically-acclaimed title Crackdown, which was released
in February […]
Posted by Bleem - October 24th, 2007 - No Comments
Why not?
My non-gamer evil twin called this morning with a little extra ca$h in hand, asking about console prices, pros/cons that sort of thing. He knew what kind of fanbias he was in for but listened anyways, and managed to piss me off in the process.
Bro doesn’t have a computer, and really has little use […]
Posted by Erick - October 23rd, 2007 - 6 Comments
This past month has been a busy one for Microsoft Games Studios. EA bought Bioware/Pandemic, Activision scooped Bizarre Creations, FASA closed it’s doors and Bungie went independent. Internal Studios now consist of Rare, Lionhead, Ensemble, and newly acquired Wingnut headed by film director Peter Jackson.
I imagine Microsoft has publishing rights on Halo, but what about […]
Posted by Erick - October 16th, 2007 - 13 Comments
For me, there have only really ever been two proper Xbox 360 packages - The original ‘Premium’ and it’s younger brother the ‘Elite’. Microsoft have since the launch of the 360 in 2005 carried the ‘Core’ version, and this festive season will see the release a further variation in the form of the ‘Arcade’ pack.
I […]
Posted by Bleem - October 13th, 2007 - 3 Comments
Today Microsoft put out a press release announcing that the demo of PGR4 had hit live. Obviously this is pretty good news for fans of PGR, allowing them a first view of what, based on the previous instalment, had been looking like a pretty guaranteed buy.
Now putting aside the fact that many of the first […]
Posted by Mr-J - October 10th, 2007 - 2 Comments
Analysis provided by Screendigest (http://www.screendigest.com/) has predicted the Nintendo Wii will be the overall winner in Q4, with the Xbox 360 running second and the PS3 trailing in behind. The predictions are based on the number of upcoming releases along with currently expected releases during the period.
The Wii has 86 titles inbound with 47 en […]
Posted by Mr-J - October 9th, 2007 - No Comments