The Call Of Juarez series has always been inclined to the dramatic, casting players as tortured souls with unwelcome destinies: brothers torn apart by petty jealousies against the backdrop of the American Civil War, or a preacher hunting down a wrongly accused American Indian. Call Of Juarez: The Cartel is about three law-enforcement officials putting aside the inter-departmental bullshit to get the job done.
505 Games' Zumba Fitness is once again the UK all-formats number one - the sixth successive week, and the ninth since its release last November that the workout title has occupied top spot.
The game's success shows no signs of slowing: indeed, according to UKIE, its sales rose five per cent last week, ensuring it saw off the challenge of the newly released Call Of Juarez: The Cartel.
Microsoft has admitted that the average price of Xbox Live Arcade games is on the rise, with more new games costing 1200 Microsoft Points (MSP) than ever before, but believes the increase is justified by a rise in quality of games available on the service.
Microsoft has admitted that the average price of Xbox Live Arcade games is on the rise, with more new games costing 1200 Microsoft Points (MSP) than ever before, but believes the increase is justified by a rise in quality of games available on the service.
During his talk, Why Great Games Don't Always Sell, at the Develop conference in Brighton yesterday, Gareth Wilson drew on his time as design manager of Bizarre Creations and his background in economics to give a fascinating assessment of why new IPs are struggling at retail.
In his keynote at this year's Develop conference, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios senior director Mick Hocking looked back at a year in which the third place became the third dimension as 3D games arrived on PlayStation 3. We caught up with him at the event to discuss what 3D really adds to games, the importance of tuning it properly and why virtual reality really will take off this time.
In his keynote at this year's Develop conference, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios senior director Mick Hocking looked back at a year in which the third place became the third dimension as 3D games arrived on PlayStation 3. We caught up with him at the event to discuss what 3D really adds to games, the importance of tuning it properly and why virtual reality really will take off this time.
2011 has been a pretty good year for fans of entropy, and for anyone with natural – or unnatural - gifts for reverse engineering. LA Noire’s already inverted GTA, putting you at the other end of a killing spree, and allowing players to pick through the human chaos of a crime scene, searching for that scarlet thread that connects the victim all the way back to the perpetrator.
With Insect Armageddon the EDF franchise heads west, relocating both its development and narrative. Vicious Cycle may be new to EDF’s world of giant bugs and big guns, but it’s no stranger to B-movie shooters, having delivered the clunky, silly Eat Lead: The Return Of Matt Hazard a couple of years ago.
With Insect Armageddon the EDF franchise heads west, relocating both its development and narrative. Vicious Cycle may be new to EDF’s world of giant bugs and big guns, but it’s no stranger to B-movie shooters, having delivered the clunky, silly Eat Lead: The Return Of Matt Hazard a couple of years ago.
Insurance firm Zurich American has asked a New York court to rule that it has no liability to cover defence costs in the mounting legal claims filed against Sony following April's PSN attack.
Reuters reports that the insurer has asked the court to declare that it does not have to pay legal costs related to claims "asserted in the class-action lawsuits, miscellaneous claims, or potential future actions institued by any state attorney general."