This is the fifth article in our series looking for the flaws in some of the greatest and most discussed games of all time. You can read our previous dissections by following these links:
An HD remake of Yu Suzuki's beloved Dreamcast game Shenmue is not only on the cards - it's finished, and has been for over a year.
Speaking to Gamerzines, an anonymous tipster with ties to publisher Sega confirmed that remakes of both the original, and the 2001 sequel which was also released for Xbox, were in the can.
"Shenmue HD is real [and has been] finished for well over a year," the source said. "As is Shenmue II HD."
It was inevitable, really: a platform game in which you play as the platforms. Next, Please!, a strange little Flash title from Vyacheslav Stepanov, takes the standard ‘overcome obstacles, get to the exit’ template, and drops in an intriguing twist – while your melancholy doe-eyed potato man can run and jump with the best of them, a tap of the space bar will turn him to stone, meaning you can use your past lives to fill out some fairly sparse environments.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says it is a "good thing" that the likes of EA are challenging Steam's dominance of digital PC game sales.
Speaking to Gamespy, Persson - who handed the Minecraft reins to Jens Bergensten in December - said he was wary of one platform controlling the entire market.
Here's our first look at Datura, Plastic Studios' PSN exclusive controlled solely with the Move peripheral that was announced at GDC last week.
Crytek insists its Homefront sequel will succeed despite the damage caused to the brand by the lukewarm response to the first game in the series.
Microsoft has moved to quash speculation that it plans to reveal new console hardware at E3 in June.
Abandoning its usual 'no comment on rumour or speculation' line, the platform holder issued a firmly worded statement to Bloomberg in which it said, “For us, 2012 is all about Xbox 360.”
Microsoft has moved to quash speculation that it plans to reveal new console hardware at E3 in June.
Abandoning its usual 'no comment on rumour or speculation' line, the platform holder issued a firmly worded statement to Bloomberg in which it said, “For us, 2012 is all about Xbox 360.”
Microsoft's Xbox 360 motion sensor Kinect is being used in a US department store to help female customers find the perfect pair of jeans.
A post on the Kinect For Windows blog reveals that Bloomingdale's in Century City, Los Angeles, debuted the Bodymetrics Pod earlier this week. Developed by London-based Bodymetrics, it uses eight Kinect sensors to produce a 3D map of a customer's body shapes and chooses a pair of jeans that both fits and flatters. The process takes less than five seconds.
BioWare insists it is listening to complaints about Mass Effect 3's ending, but has asked fans to wait for more people to finish the game before the studio makes any comment.
Bethesda will announce an MMOG set in the Elder Scrolls universe in May, according to reports.
Multiple sources have confirmed to Tom's Guide that the game, logically titled The Elder Scrolls Online, will be set in the Second Era, several hundred years before any other games in the series and a full millennium before the events of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It will have three playable factions, each represented by an animal: a lion, a dragon, and a bird of prey.
BioWare was working on a multiplayer FPS based on the Mass Effect series, but cancelled it, instead using it as the basis for Mass Effect 3's co-op mode.
The news comes from The Final Hours Of Mass Effect 3, a new iPad app produced by Gametrailers' Geoff Keighley looking at development of the final game in BioWare's sci-fi trilogy.
Retro gaming specialist Blaze has struck a deal with SNK Playmore to bring NeoGeo X, a handheld version of SNK's beloved console, to the west.
MCV reports that the device, first revealed by Japanese website Famicom Plaza in January, will be released in the UK during the second quarter of this year. However, it will be a limited run, and could cost as much as £500.
Yakuza: Dead Souls is a game that takes a well-established, five-game franchise that’s characterised, fundamentally, by realism – by seedy neon cityscapes, sleazy hostess bars, gritty violence, tattooed gangsters and overwrought drama full of honour and betrayal – and adds fundamentally, comprehensively, completely unrealistic zombies. So perhaps the most surprising thing about it is that there aren’t more surprises.
This article contains spoilers.
You’ve seen it all before, of course. A small rescue team is sent to assess a mining vessel that has gone dark while orbiting a planet, just after it sent out fragmented reports detailing the discovery of an artefact of unknown origin. Dead Space thrusts its reluctant hero Isaac Clarke into a wanton medley of sci-fi references and cliché, but much more than that, it’s a love letter to genre fans raised on hulking spaceships and the isolation of deep space.
Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming hack-and-slash title Lollipop Chainsaw has already been considered for a Hollywood adaptation, its writer has revealed.
Speaking to us at GDC last week, James Gunn told us that Warner Bros, which is to publish Suda 51's zombie-infested action title in the west, expressed interest in adapting the game for the big screen in the project's early days - and that a movie could happen should the game prove successful upon its release in June.
The long-awaited PC action-RPG Diablo III will be released on May 15, Blizzard Entertainment has announced.
The news means Diablo III will finally be in PC gamers' hands just under four years after it was first announced, in June 2008.
Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances, the PC and mobile strategy game pitched by publisher EA as "the first truly portable MMOG", is now in open beta.
Developed by German EA subsidiary Phenomic, whose most recent release was 2010 RTS Lords Of Ultima, Tiberium Alliances entered closed beta in December but is now open to all. To sign up, follow the source link below.
The House Of The Dead 4 will be released through the PlayStation Store on April 18, publisher Sega has confirmed.
In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Sega's digital campaign manager Mike Kebby confirms that the arcade conversion will cost £6.49/€7.99. PlayStation Plus users will be given a 30 per cent discount, valid until May 3.
Game Group has confirmed that it has been approached by a third party, believed to be retail salvage specialist OpCapita, about helping the UK's largest specialist videogame retailer avoid administration.
This is the fourth article in our series looking for the flaws in some of the greatest and most discussed games of all time. You can read our previous dissections by following these links:
The link at the bottom of this story will take you to Space Station Invaders, a game designed by an AI system called Angelina.
You love them, you play them, but after a while you just sort of… drift away. You look at their boxes guiltily and promise yourself you’ll finish them soon. Then you buy another and it becomes your new favourite. I’m talking about your games, of course, and the likelihood that you never finish most of them.
For your DVDs, books and albums, it’s different. When you get around to watching, reading or listening to them, you’ll probably finish them. So why not your games?
George "Geohot" Hotz, the man who posted the PlayStation 3 "root key" online and opened up Sony's console to piracy, has been arrested for possession of marijuana.
Above The Law reports that Hotz, 22, who also devised the iPhone jailbreak, was stopped by police at a checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas, on his way to give a talk at the SXSW festival in Austin.
Ailing UK retailer Game Group has reportedly lost the support of Microsoft and Activision.
The news comes from a leaked memo, passed to MCV, in which the retailer admits it will not be stocking Activision's Cabela Big Game Hunter 2012 or Zhu Zhu Babies, or Microsoft's Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure.