Monthly Archives: January 2010
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 11:01 GMT
Wii Play is best-selling game of all time in US
NPD’s confirmed that Wii Play is the biggest-selling game of all time in the US, with Guitar Hero III and GTA: San Andreas coming second and third respectively.
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Posted in: Platform holders
Tags: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, guitar hero III, Wii Play
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 10:28 GMT
Decision to delay BioShock 2 was “impressive,” says dev boss
The call to push BioShock 2 back from November 2009 to February 2010 for quality reasons was one that cost 2K “millions of dollars” and was all the more “impressive” for it, Kent Hudson, 2K Marin senior systems designer, has said in an interview.
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 10:13 GMT
FFXIII composer leaves Square Enix
According to a report from SE Music Online (via FF-XIII.net), Final Fantasy XIII composer Masashi Hamauzu has left Square Enix.
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Posted in: PS3, RPG, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: final fantasy XIII, Masashi Hamauzu
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 09:56 GMT
Amazon.fr shows Heavy Rain bundle
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Sony
Tags: heavy rain, quantic dream
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 10:08 GMT
BioShock 2′s twist: “You won’t see it coming”
BioShock 2′s plot twists are going to knock you for six, if 2K Marin’s Kent Hudson’s to be believed. Would you kindly hit the link?
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 09:18 GMT
Mass Effect trilogy will end this gen, says Hudson
Casey Hudson, project director of the Mass Effect series, has confirmed that the game’s trilogy will end in this generation of consoles.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, RPG, Xbox 360
Tags: bioware, Casey Hudson, mass effect, mass effect 2, mass effect 3
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 09:02 GMT
Levine’s new game to be shown this year
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Posted in: 2K, Action, Development, Hot, Take-Two
Tags: irrational games, ken levine
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 08:52 GMT
MGS: Peace Walker gets limited edition PSP bundles
Konami is to release two limited edition PSP bundles for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker in Japan, this week’s Famitsu has confirmed.
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Posted in: Action, Konami, PSP, PSPgo
Tags: kojima productions, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 08:05 GMT
GameStop Italy details FFXIII Collector’s Edition
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Posted in: Hot, PS3, RPG, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: final fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII Collector's Edition
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 07:29 GMT
Rumour: European GoW III box-art revealed
According to this, citing “French sources,” SCEE’s finalised God of War III’s European box-art.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Sony
Tags: god of war III, Sony Santa Monica
Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | 06:21 GMT
PS3 Motion Controler delayed to “fall 2010″
Hardly the greatest shock in the world, but Sony’s just confirmed by press release that its PS3 Motion Controller – tipped yesterday to be called Arc - won’t ship until this autumn.
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 23:53 GMT
Peter Jackson says he’s currently enjoying MW2 more than films
Peter Jackson has revealed that he’s currently enjoying playing Modern Warfare 2 more than movies at the moment.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Ubisoft
Tags: peter jackson, The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn, The Hobbit, tintin
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 23:13 GMT
Patch removing region lock for Fatal Frame IV surfaces
Some crafty folks have issued a homebrew English translation patch for Fatal Frame IV, and removes the region lock.
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Posted in: Horror, Hot, Koei, Nintendo, Tecmo, Wii
Tags: fatal frame 4, Fatal Frame IV, fatal frame IV: mask of the lunar eclipse
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 22:56 GMT
Famitsu tops: Most read gaming magazine in Japan
The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association has released numbers for videogame magazines from its Magazine Data 2010 book.
Covering data for the period between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009, Famitsu was the clear winner with 500,000 readers picking up the weekly mag.
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 22:24 GMT
BioShock 2 pre-purchase on Steam nets you the original game for free
Valve has announced that Bioshock 2′s coming to Steam, and it’s now up for pre-purchase on the site.
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 21:52 GMT
Koch cements publishing rights for US version of Risen on 360
Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, announced today that it has cemented the North American publishing rights for the Xbox 360 version of Risen.
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Posted in: Koch, PC, RPG, Xbox 360
Tags: deep silver, Piranha Bytes, Risen
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 21:09 GMT
Australia: Atkinson may change his stance should gamers start behaving
South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has said that despite the possibility of an 18+ rating becoming a reality thanks to a recent discussion paper, he does not plan on changing his stance on the matter anytime soon.
At least, not until gamers start to “behave in a civil fashion”.
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Posted in: Australia, Politics
Tags: Michael Atkinson, south australian attorney general michael atkinson
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 20:24 GMT
Blizzard’s never “pressured” to release a game before it’s finished
Blizzard CEO Paul Sams has said that rushing products to retail to meet financial milestones can undermine a development team’s work.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Development, Hot, PC, Strategy
Tags: paul sams, starcraft II
Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | 19:46 GMT
AoC: Rise of the Godslayer shots and video reveal the Khitan
Funcom has released some screens and a video for Rise of the Godslayer, the first expansion for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
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Posted in: MMO, PC
Tags: age of conan, age of conan: rise of the godslayer, funcom, rise of the godslayer
Reckoning contains online pass locking House of Valor questline