Quarrel, the multiplayer word game released on Xbox Live Arcade this week, falls foul of a curious, Microsoft-imposed word filter that forbids players from playing seemingly inoffensive words.
Shortly after the game's XBLA release on Wednesday, reports appeared on forums from players who had seen perfectly valid words turned down during competitive play on Xbox Live, including 'balls', 'train', and 'shaft'.
Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy and upcoming Wii RPG The Last Story, will speak at the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts' London headquarters next month, Nintendo has announced.
Ludum Dare ran another of its mini events a few days ago, and the theme designers had to work to was 'Fear'. Coming so soon after 'Alone' in the main competition, it’s another rather broad topic, and it’s inspired some interesting results. One of my favourite entries is a game by Grobitbox. It’s simply called RUN.
Ubisoft has confirmed that Michel Ancel platformer Rayman Origins will be released for PC on March 30.
Even better news for PC owners: the digital download will only require a single activation, while the retail version will not feature Ubisoft's dreaded DRM at all.
Our February issue, which is on sale now, includes an in-depth Post Script article on the steep challenge of making Resident Evil's trademark scares and tension work on a handheld console.
Nintendo has revealed that Wii U controllers will support Near Field Communication (NFC), which enables wireless communication between devices in close proximity to each other.
Nintendo will release a side-scrolling Super Mario Bros game for 3DS in its next fiscal year.
The news was revealed by company president Satoru Iwata, and means the game will be on shelves between April 1 and March 31, 2013.
During an investor briefing, Iwata said: "We are planning to release a totally new side-scrolling Super Mario in 2D as a key title for the Nintendo 3DS in the next fiscal year."
Nintendo will make a profit on sales of 3DS hardware in the first six months of the next fiscal year.
Nintendo has officially announced Nintendo Network, an online service for 3DS and Wii U with support for downloads of DLC and full games, and a personal account system.
THQ has laid off an unspecified number of staff as its recently revised business strategy starts coming into effect.
While the company wouldn’t comment on the number of staff cut, it did confirm that internal development studios THQ San Diego, Relic, Volition, Vigil and THQ Montreal were unaffected.
Gearbox's long-in-development Aliens: Colonial Marines has again been delayed, with publisher Sega confirming the firstperson shooter will miss its most recently targeted spring launch window.
The PS3, Xbox 360 and PC game’s official website now carries an autumn 2012 launch window. Asked for comment on the title’s status, Sega confirmed the delay without specifying release plans.
Gearbox's long-in-development Aliens: Colonial Marines has again been delayed, with publisher Sega confirming the firstperson shooter will miss its most recently targeted spring launch window.
The PS3, Xbox 360 and PC game’s official website now carries an autumn 2012 launch window. Asked for comment on the title’s status, Sega confirmed the delay without specifying release plans.
Big Huge Games, developer of Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, has admitted that the biggest threat to its fantasy RPG's chance of success is that people are still playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Rumours of Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor have been swirling for some time now, but reports overnight claimed that the company's new console will feature "some sort of anti-used game system." Kotaku's source didn't go into detail on how such a system might work - single-use codes, perhaps, or linking games to a single Xbox Live account,
There’s a lot of work involved in standing around doing nothing. Responsibility, too. People fixate upon the more flamboyant elements of character animation: facial performance capture, martial arts, military tactics, bicycle kicks, slam dunks… but it’s the little things that often stand out.
Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono has said that the Wii U announced and shown off at last year's E3 was far from the finished article, and that the final version of Nintendo's Wii successor has "many unique possibilities."
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Over 600 staff worldwide are working on the recently announced Resident Evil 6, Capcom has confirmed.
The figure was revealed by executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, in a video introduction to the game's announcement trailer posted on Capcom-Unity.
World of Love organiser David Hayward is staging a new game design event called Bit of Alright next month.
Taking place in the Battersea Arts Centre in London on February 3, the event includes speakers and sessions from Introversion's Mark Morris and Chris Delay; Hide&Seek's Holly Gramazio; Ricky Haggett and Nat Marco from Honeyslug, and Gratuitous Space Battles designer Cliff Harris who will be offering advice on how to get out of bed and finish an indie title.
AMD and Nvidia have both blamed a worldwide shortage of hard disk drives for a decline in sales of their graphics processors.
Liang Qi, biologist, mineralogist, expert cave diver and celebrated spokesperson of the Global Space Initiative, twisted his torso and wriggled downward through the tiny opening. Grabbing the rope, he slid the final metres to the floor below, the impact producing hazy spheres of microscopic particulate matter. His headlamp scanned the tunnel ahead. Yet another lava tube, immense, the curved walls meeting overhead and submerging into blackness.
Despite 3DS having apparently turned a corner, Nintendo's financial situation has worsened and it is now forecasting an annual deficit of ¥65 billion (£535 million).
The revised forecast, released alongside its financial results for the nine months ending December 31, is up from the ¥20 billion loss the company said it was expecting back in October.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor will use Blu-ray discs and feature "some sort of anti-used game system," according to reports.
Sources have claimed that Microsoft will follow Sony's lead by using Blu-ray, which can store up to 50GB of a data on a single disc. No detail was given on how Microsoft intends to combat the pre-owned market.
THQ has announced plans to revise its business strategy by exiting the kids’ licensed games market and focusing its resources on core franchises and digital initiatives.
The company will “be a more streamlined organisation focused only on our strongest franchises”, according to CEO Brian Farrell, with its five internal studios continuing work on UFC Undisputed 3, Darksiders II, Company Of Heroes, Insane, Saints Row, Warhammer 40,000, and a new title from Patrice Désilets and his team.
Mario Kart 7 is once again the Japanese all-formats number one, reclaiming top spot from Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Masou Kishin II.
In a slow week for sales - Mario Kart 7's sales actually fell by a third - the highest new entry is Sega's 3DS title Rhythm Thief & The Emperor's Treasure, which is due in the west next month. D3 Publisher achieves that rarest of feats - a top ten slot for an Xbox 360 game - with Onechanbara Z Kagura at number five.