Monthly Archives: November 2010
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 12:23 GMT
Vaan gets official Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy unveil
Square’s released the first character art and shots of Vaan in Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy.
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Posted in: PSP, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy, Vaan
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 11:01 GMT
World of Homefront dev diary talks “story of survival and adaptation”
THQ has released the first dev diary for Kaos Studios’ Homefront, showing a shooter that very well may be heading for greatness.
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 10:51 GMT
Hawk: Shred sells 3,000 in US launch week
Tony Hawk: Shred, the second Hawk game to use a board peripheral, has tanked at its US launch.
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 10:50 GMT
Square to announce EU 3rd Birthday date “soon” as Japan gets PSN release
Square Enix has told VG247 it will make an annnouncement on the European release date for The 3rd Birthday ”soon”.
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Posted in: Hot, PSP, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: The 3rd Birthday
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 11:23 GMT
Front Mission Evolved getting more DLC next week
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Posted in: Action, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: front mission evolved
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 10:36 GMT
Rumour – GT5 gets two day delay in Europe
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Posted in: Europe, France, Hot, PS3, Racing, Sony
Tags: gran turismo 5, Polyphony Digital
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 09:44 GMT
Kingdom Hearts 3DS links in with KH3, says Nomura
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Posted in: 3DS, Hot, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: kingdom hearts 3, Kingdom Hearts 3DS, Kingdom Hearts III, Tetsuya Nomura
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 09:41 GMT
Sony: Latin America will emerge as fourth global games “superpower”
Unique growth levels will see Latin America take its place as the fourth major games market in the world, alongside the US, UK and Japan, Sony has said in an interview.
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Posted in: Hot, Latin America, PS3, Sony
Tags: mark stanley
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 09:16 GMT
Gaikai enters open beta with 11,000 invites
David Perry’s confirmed that Cloud gaming service Gaikai has now entered open beta, with an initial round of 11,000 invites having been already sent out.
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 09:06 GMT
Zuckerberg credits games for Facebook’s quick growth
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has credited games for the social site’s swift rise to dominance.
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Posted in: Casual, PC
Tags: facebook, mark zuckerberg
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 08:46 GMT
EVE gambling site robbed of 125 billion ISK
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Posted in: CCP, MMO, PC, RPG
Tags: eve online, SOMER.Blink
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 07:58 GMT
Ubi shares drop 22% after FH loss announcement
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Posted in: Financials, Ubisoft
Tags: ubisoft first-half financials 09-10
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 09:08 GMT
Adafruit Industries details how to hack Kinect
Want to turn your Kinect into an open-sourced, 3D image-creating, multi-touch wunderkind? Follow these instructions, if you dare.
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | 17:24 GMT
NPD October 2010: Xbox and DS lead hardware, Fallout: New Vegas hits software jackpot
It has not – for obvious reasons – been an enjoyable 24 hours for the gaming industry. But hey, it’s not quite all doom and gloom, seeing as October swung in and finally saved software sales from their six-month downward tumble. Also, Microsoft’s looking pretty pleased with itself on both the software and hardware fronts. Everyone else, though? Not so much.
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 | 23:57 GMT
Acti confirms 88 job losses, closure of Budcat, as Lucasarts confirms cuts
Activision has confirmed that 88 staff have been dropped from company QA in California, and that Budcat has been completely closed.
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 | 23:32 GMT
Crytek: “You don’t make a 90 plus rated game with a 30 rated bush in the game”
Crysis 2′s executive producer Nathan Camarillo has said Crytek’s goal as a company is to ” ship high quality, high rated products” and in order to do so, you have to start with a number, like the once handed out by EA Partners boss David DeMartini.
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 | 23:04 GMT
Conduit 2 uses Headbanger headset instead of Wii Speak because Nintendo wanted it that way
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Posted in: Action, Sega, Shooter, Wii
Tags: high voltage, the conduit, the consuit 2
2K Marin staff working on second major project