Nintendo is to unveil a host of new 3DS games at its pre-Tokyo Game Show event next week, according to reports.
Japanese blog Hachimaki, translated by Gematsu, claims that a side-scrolling game starring Yoshi, developed by Kirby's Epic Yarn studio Good-Feel, is on the way. A fifth Ace Attorney game featuring Miles Edgeworth will also be announced.
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has revealed that Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise is bound for 3DS, along with a peripheral that adds a second circle pad and set of shoulder buttons to the system.
Microsoft, Sony, Sega and The Creative Assembly have all denied knowledge of the existence of Slavery: The Game.
Remember the orchestral renditions of classic Zelda themes that accompanied Shigeru Miyamoto's appearance at Nintendo's E3 conference this year? Well, the tour he promised is now on, and we have five pairs of tickets to the London leg of the concert to give away.
Browser game company Bigpoint has harshly criticised the approach traditional publishers are taking as they make their first forays into free-to-play and explore alternative means of monetising their users.
In an interview, chief games officer Philip Reisberger tells us that the likes of EA, Valve and Ubisoft are wrong to focus on selling virtual goods that enable customisation, rather than a competitive advantage. Bigpoint, he argues, better understands monetisation by virtue of it never having been in the console business.
Like a rare lemur, great teamplay in a shooter is a shy and elusive thing. Fortunately for us, Redditor Jegschemesch has shot, skinned, stuffed and categorised it in an excellent breakdown of its many facets.
Conceived in 2005, Dead Island finally makes its shambling way to shop shelves, invigorated by a promotional boost but carrying some telltale traits picked up during its six-year gestation. What began as a straight survival FPS – a wide-eyed go-anywhere, wield-anything premise – arrives looking a bit peaky. We spy Borderlands-shaped toothmarks on its loot-focused weapon customisation and fourplayer online co-op.
Ninja Theory, developer of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved and the upcoming Devil May Cry reboot DmC, has said that the day when the videogame industry goes all in on digital "can't come soon enough," and warned: "the big retail model is creaking."