Monthly Archives: January 2011

PlayStation Network’s Folding@Home service is undoubtedly cool, but a little browser-based puzzle game called EteRNA just blew it out – of – the – water. Not only is it an actual game instead of an application which bricks your console for upwards of an hour, it also offers you the genuine opportunity to make an important scientific breakthrough and change the world.

This shit is bananas.

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Rockstar’s confirmed that LA Noire’s release date will be “announced soon”.

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The British College of Osteopathic Medicine has reported an increase Wii-related injuries – which we’re pleased to shorten to ‘Wiinjuries’ – over the holiday season.

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Square Enix has thrown the cat among the fanboy pigeons by quietly registering the domain name “FinalFantasy13-2game.com” – cue rampaging delight, outraged horror and wild speculation.

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Spiff up your net code, balance your forces, and moderate your matches as you may, you can’t eliminate online gaming’s biggest problem: players.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3′s approach is both elegant and apt. It’s going to take all the rage quitters, and lock them away with each other until they learn better.

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World of Warcraft lead systems designer Greg Street has countered criticisms of Cataclysm’s difficulty with the vexingly simple argument that it’s not supposed to be easy.

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THQ’s shiny new Montreal studio, with its ex-Assassin’s Creed head Patrice Désilets, has scored three key staffers – all headhunted directly from Ubisoft.

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Cryptic is up to its eyeballs in work already, what with Neverwinter, Champions Online, and Star Trek Online all on the go at once, but the ambitious studio apparently has an additional, mystery-shrouded project up its sleeve. Tantalising.

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They might have closed two studios and decimated another, but nothing’s gonna keep UTV Ignition down. A press release has gleefully announced that yet another of the developer’s AWOL titles is back on track, with Reich plodding along in the snug confines of the firm’s Texas headquarters.

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Atari co-founder and Pong creator Al Alcorn has said today’s developers should stop reiterating tried and tested formulas and start focussing on innovation.

“If you’re trying to compete with what somebody else has already done it’s really, really risky to [try and] do better than that,” he said. “I think people are better off trying a new kind of game, and maybe they’ll get lucky.”

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It comes as no surprise to anybody with an eye for delightful design and the ability to do basic maths, but indie sweetheart Minecraft has topped the one million milestone.

Congratulations, Notch! Well done, tasteful gamers everywhere! Hooray for independents and innovation! And other suitable exclamations!

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THQ’s Danny Bilson has told Kotaku that Guillermo del Toro demanded at least one “dream feature” from development staff for his horror action-adventure trilogy Insane.

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If you’re a big fan of Namco Bandai’s Tales series, you’re probably already quite familiar with the import and fan translation scene – since only about half of the lauded RPGs ever make it outside Japan. In which case, the likelihood of a Japanese-only release won’t stop you checking out this DLC for Tales of Graces F and then nosebleed-ing so hard you pass out

Dressing up the Graces F team in classic Tales characters’ gear? It’s a dream come true!

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The job profile of  a freelance 3D artist has ignited fresh rumours about the existence of Mortal Kombat: HD Kollection.

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SCEE has said its is aware of a system-crashing bug plaguing PlayTV and it is working on the matter.

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Verizon has confirmed it will not only be offering its wireless customers the coveted iPhone, but a version of iPad as well.

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Harmonix has announced that more country music will be available for Rock Band on February 1 through the Rock Band Country Track Pack 2 disc.

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If you’re thinking of Bulletstorm as a big, dumb action game, well… you’re pretty much on the money, apparently. Still, the tagline “kill with skill” isn’t just a bit of marketing hyperbole; check out this latest trailer, in which three more of an astounding one hundred and thirty five skill shots are lovingly detailed.

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Resident Evil Mercenaries Vs is planned for release on iPhone in February, according to a hands-on preview by Touch Arcade.

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Visceral Games and EA released a new Dead Space 2 video today, featuring the screams of Billy Corgan as Isaac Clark loses his mind.

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