Anyone who’s ever lived in a block of flats with dodgy water pressure will know well the disappointment of having to make do with a tepid dribble from the shower head before work. It’s a problem Disney Mobile’s developers have clearly suffered with as well, as evidenced by iOS puzzler Where’s My Water? Though being Disney employees, their solution inevitably involves jaunty music, bright colours and anthropomorphised animals.
Starbreeze's upcoming shooter reboot of Bullfrog's classic Syndicate has been refused classification in Australia due to the game's violent content.
The Australian classification board's report states that the game contains content “unsuitable for a minor to see or play” and “violence that is high in impact”. The ability to harm civilians is also cited.
Sony's new handheld's figures from its two days on sale in Japan don't quite beat 3DS' launch, but represent half of its rumoured 700,000 initial shipment.
According to Famitsu's reporting of Enterbrain's Japanese sales figures for December 17 and 18, PlayStation Vita sold 321,407 units, compared to 3DS' 371,326 on its launch (February 26 and 27), and PSP's first day sales of 166,074 on December 12, 2004.
Our February issue, which is on sale January 17, includes reviews of Soul Calibur V, Resident Evil Revelations, Infinity Blade II and Dear Esther, featuring in-depth Post Script articles on each.
Our January issue, which is on sale now, features an extensive hands-on preview with Square Enix's new game, of which this interview forms part.
Our January issue, which is on sale now, features an extensive hands-on preview with Square Enix's new game, of which this interview forms part.
Square Enix has confirmed that no personal user data was taken in the recent attack on the Square Enix Members site.
The publisher took Members - a community site for North American and Japanese users - offline last week after it spotted that its system security had been breached, and later warned that the data of up to 1.8 million customers may have been compromised.
Minecraft developer Mojang has launched Cobalt, a side-scrolling action game developed by fellow Swedish studio Oxeye.
Cobalt launched on Friday as planned, costing €9.95, but is currently only available on Windows. The Mac and Linux versions will follow when the game enters beta.
Getting our hands on a Vita handset – free from the ungainly wires of a devkit and now with silver trim and a shine worthy of a car showroom – we’re hit by the realisation that Sony’s next-generation promise is now a reality. Beyond the hardware itself, delving into the first wave of titles clarifies how each unique feature of the device is being put to use. Each game harnesses the specific Vita functionality that best serves its purposes.
Retailer HMV has admitted that ongoing market turmoil and its continued poor performance could force it out of business after another miserable set of financial results saw its losses grow 62 per cent.
Sales in the 26 weeks to October 29 fell 17.6 per cent to £364.9 million, with the firm hit with a loss after tax of £50.1 million, up from £30.9 million this time last year.
In America, the Supreme Court ruled in June this year that videogames are protected under the First Amendment’s principle of free speech. In Britain, the News Of The World has been closed after further revelations of phone hacking. It is surely time to take advantage of this double newsfruit to produce an updated version of the celebrated Atari 2600 porn game Beat ’Em And Eat ’Em.
PlayStation Vita launched in Japan on Saturday, with Sony's Kaz Hirai and Andrew House handing over the first system sold at a special event in Tokyo.
Hirai, executive deputy president of Sony, and House, recently promoted to president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, were at the flagship Tsutaya store in Shibuya, posing for photographs with the first customer to lay hands on a Vita at 7am on Saturday.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim tops the UK all-formats chart, with Bethesda's sprawling RPG breaking Activision and EA's eight-year dominance of the Christmas number one.
Microsoft has apparently failed to respond to concerns raised by beta testers who spotted a drop in the quality of video playback after installing the Xbox 360 Metro dashboard update.
Users told Eurogamer that videos played from the new dash run at limited range RGB levels, with colours washed out and blacks appearing grey, with Digital Foundry tests confirming the issue.
Our January issue, which is on sale December 20, features an extensive hands-on preview with Remedy's new game, of which this interview forms part, and includes a design showcase of concept artwork.
Our January issue, which is on sale now, features an extensive hands-on preview with Remedy's new game, of which this interview forms part, and includes a design showcase of concept artwork.
A Quebec appeals court has struck down an injunction which sought to prohibit THQ from hiring Ubisoft talent.
The dispute between the publishers arose after former Assassin’s Creed creative director Patrice Désilets joined the then newly-formed THQ Montreal studio, and allegedly helped lure key creative talent from his former employer to his new one, despite being bound by a non-compete clause not to recruit any Ubisoft staff during the 12 months following his departure.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 holds the top spot on the latest Nordic software chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
In another quite week for new releases, Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 jump two spots, to second and third respectively, while The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure round off the top five.
Elsewhere, Super Mario 3D Land drops out of the top ten to make way for Just Dance 3, which moves up six places to number seven.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 holds the top spot on the latest Nordic software chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
In another quite week for new releases, Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 jump two spots, to second and third respectively, while The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure round off the top five.
Elsewhere, Super Mario 3D Land drops out of the top ten to make way for Just Dance 3, which moves up six places to number seven.
The new issue of Edge is out next week, here are the full details on what you can expect to find inside.
Channel 4 has named Colin Macdonald as its first-ever games commissioning editor as the UK broadcaster seeks to strengthen its link to the videogame industry.
Macdonald's career in the game industry stretches back 20 years, during which time he has served as a producer on the Grand Theft Auto series at DMA Design, and was studio manager at Realtime Worlds for almost nine years, overseeing development of the likes of Crackdown.
Angry Birds developer Rovio is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2013.
Chief marketing officer Peter Vesterbacka told Finnish newspaper Tekniikka & Talous that the move would be the first step on Rovio's path to become as big as Disney, which is currently valued at over $65 billion.
Bethesda Softworks has shipped more than 10 million copies of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to retailers since its launch on November 11.
It's been an interesting couple of months for Gareth Edmonson. Last month he quit his position as managing director of Ubisoft Reflections, the studio founded by his brother Martin in 1984, after 13 years with the company. Shortly afterwards came the news that he had been appointed CEO of Thumbstar Games, a Liverpool-based mobile game publisher.
Facebook gaming king Zynga has, as expected, raised a billion dollars (£644.7 million) on the stock market through its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) - but it has resulted in the company being valued at barely a third of the figure that was originally expected.