Have you ever thought your nightlong gaming sessions were hardcore? As the sun rose in the morning, after a full night of gaming, did you consider yourself one of gaming’s elite? Most likely you did not play as long as Chirantan Patnaik, who just broke the Guinness World record for continuous play troughs on Grand [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Gamer Sets Grand Theft Auto IV World Record
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Landlubbers Beware! Pirates Invade Home
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009‘Xi’, the world’s first console-based Alternate Reality Game became one of PlayStation Home’s most popular areas, recently passing the 5 million visit mark. The developers of the game, nDreams, recently revealed that they “have a number of additional projects in PlayStation Home”. Now nDreams has announced their next space for Home – a Pirate themed apartment
Darksiders Definitely Not Delayed
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009YOUR LAST DAYS BEGIN AS THQ ANNOUNCES JANUARY 8, 2010 LAUNCH DATE FOR DARKSIDERS ON XBOX 360® AND PLAYSTATION®3 THQ Inc. today announced the highly anticipated action adventure title Darksiders, from internal studio Vigil Games, is scheduled to launch in the UK on January 8th, 2010 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system [...]
Assassin’s Creed: Lineage Short Films to Debut on YouTube
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009UBISOFT® ANNOUNCES NEW DETAILS OF ASSASSIN’S CREED: LINEAGE SHORT MOVIES Ubisoft® today announced the first of the three episodes from the new Assassin’s Creed: Lineage short movies will debut on YouTube. Beginning on October 27, 2009, YouTube will have the first episode of the short movies on its homepage in eight countries throughout the world [...]
Pirates Plundering Chances of More Pixeljunk’s on PSP
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Piracy has been one of the major issues since the PSP hit store shelves in 2005 and it’s now affecting one of the highest selling PSN games to date, PixelJunk Monsters.
Rumored PS Store Content for 10/22/09
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Want a preview of what could hit the PlayStation Store? Look no further…
Versagen: German Anti-Game Protest Falls Flat
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009The German government hasn’t had the greatest of relationship’s with computer games, even going so far as to raid Cryteck’s German operations with over one hundred flak-jacketed riot police and recently trying to pass a bill that could ban violent video games from being produced in the country, a move that could forcebeleaguered developer Cryteck to leave Germany. However the German population doesn’t seem to mirror it’s leader’s views, with over 60,000 people petitioning against the ban and with Germany overtaking the UK to be Europe’s biggest game market.
Assassin’s Creed Goes Hollywood
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Ubisoft has made numerous rumblings about how they would love to merge games and films, even commenting on how they would like to bring their intellectual properties to the big screen without the need of a middle man, such as Disney for their Prince of Persia movie. In July last year, Ubisoft acquired Hybride Technologies, creators of visual effects for such movies as 300 and Sin City. Ubisoft aimed to use their combined efforts to develop visual technology and tools to optimize the creation of both video games and visual effects as well as placing the initial stepping stones for their eventual move into film. After the announcement of Assassin’s Creed 2, Ubisoft revealed that Hybride would be working on a series of live action shorts for the game. Now the first of these has been released.
EA Declares Digital Distribution as the Future
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Since the ancient beginnings of the gaming industry, games have been purchased in physical (disc or cartridge) form. Most consumers have become accustomed to the process of purchasing a hard copy of a game and placing it into the gaming hardware. However, digital distribution exploded onto the scene only a few years ago, and since [...]
The Battle for Fallout Rights Ensues
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009In all started in 2004, when Bethesda first acquired the Fallout rights, many fans of the series turned away. Time grew, and Fallout 3 was eventually released to the masses on October 23rd, 2008. However, the series original creator Interplay, and Bethesda are not so friendly. Bethesda recently filed a lawsuit against Interplay, for the [...]
Steambot and Bluepoint Blast into the PS3 Exodyssey Factor
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Steambot Studios is a relatively new digital visual development company with one trademark in mind: “We Design Universes”. Starting with the release of an art book last year, dubbed Exodyssey, the development studio is looking to expand its visions into a full-blown virtual universe on the PlayStation 3. In conjunction with Bluepoint Games (developer of [...]
Drake Charting Course to PlayStation Home
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009With the release of Uncharted 2 and the hype surrounding it, it was only a matter of time before we saw it invade PlayStation Home and it looks like it might be soon.
Former Naughty Dog Files a New Trademark
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Bob Rafei joined Naughty Dog during early 1995, and worked for 13 years as an art director, character animator, and concept artist for the company. He helped with all of Naughty Dog’s franchises, Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter, and Uncharted. Recently, Rafei left Naughty Dog to open his own company, titled Big Red Button Entertainment. [...]
Get PSN Game When You Buy a PSPgo
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Since the launch of the PSPgo, Sony’s latest version of the PSP has received plenty of bad press, mainly due to it’s price tag. Because of this bad press and high price tag, many consumers have been turned away from the tiny new, digital download only PSP. To help encourage potential buyers who may be [...]
Kojima Promises Zone of The Enders 3
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Fans of the series have been clamoring for more Zone of the Enders ever since the 2nd game released back in 2003. Hideo Kojima hears the cried from devout fans and is wanting to deliver on that request.
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