Monthly Archives: January 2011

The US PlayStation Store has thrown off its holiday fugue and resumed business as normal with a sizeable weekly update. While it may be short on actual games, if you’ve been holding out for cheap DLC this may make your day.

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Retailer listings spotted by GoNintendo suggest the 3DS will vary in colour according to region.

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Sony has broken its “looking into it” silence in spectacular fashion, by suing Geohot, fail0verflow, and multiple other individual hackers for the recent smashing of the PlayStation 3′s security.

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After causing an epidemic of heart complaints with some startling digital revenue figures, EA boss John Riccitiello has applied the cardiac paddles by soothingly agreeing that physical media will be around for quite some time yet.

But just because you have a really truly disc you can hold in your hands doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods, yet; the CEO believes games are “services”, not “products”.

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Blizzard have made Starcraft II’s v1.2 patch live, unleashing an enormous number of bug fixes, improving the map editor, and most excitingly, introducing a Master League for the truly elite. Worr.

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Destructoid has found yet another trailer for Fight Night Champion this time detailing a spiffy new stamina system called Anaerobic Regional Fatigue. No more hammering one button for you.

See the full video through the break.

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An assault on Tol Barad is one of the toughest challenges in World of Warcraft – so tough, in fact, that Blizzard have caved to vocal criticisms and agreed to rebalance the whole shebang.

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If Sony follow the precedent set by Microsoft, we can expect pirated PlayStation 3 games to bring down the ban hammer, locking users out of the PlayStation Network. Fringe dwellers beware: Sony may well already know what you’ve been up to.

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Atlus has an uncanny ability to churn out the kind of Japanese weirdness we love to find incomprehensible, or to spot a shady-looking import just dying to go phenomenal.

When these canny fellows think they’ve found a gap in the overcrowded MMORPG market, we want to know what they’ve got hold of, and thanks to Pandora Saga’s open beta, we can.

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Activision has announced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is getting ten new downloadable tracks via the January Mega Pack which includes: Nine Inch Nails, A Day To Remember, Hawthorne Heights, The Used and more.

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The US arm of Southpeak Interactive has won back the rights to publish Nobilis’s My Baby games, a series of terrifyingly popular baby simulations. That’s one down, but at least two more court battles in progress for the litigation-plagued publisher.

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Wadjet Eye Games has announced that its indie title Gemini Rue is to be released for PC on February 24.

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The latest issue of Play has asked game developers from around the world to list, in their opinion, the most influential games released on a PlayStation system.

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Atari and Cryptic announced today that the free-to-play update of Champions Online will become available worldwide on January 25.

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Microsoft has no plans to release a handled gaming platform. It has said this so many times in the past, we’d spend an entire day adding links to the quotes.

However, if you really want a Microsoft game console to take with you on-the-go, consider the Windows Phone 7 as the closest thing you’ll get to it.

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While it was announced at gamescom last year, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has been furnished with virtually no information. That’s all apparently changed today.

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To coincide with the release of its new Ninjago product line, the LEGO Group, Warner Brothers, and Traveller’s Tales has announced a DS game called LEGO Battles: Ninjago.

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Nintendo has announced its line-up of content on the Nintendo Channel this week, and if you’re still playing around with Super Mario Galaxy 2 or just getting into Donkey Kong Country Returns, you’re in luck.

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Remedy has released a trailer showing off the iPhone and iPad version of the gun and car game Death Rally.

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Michel Guillemot, founder and CEO of Gameloft and brother of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, has criticized Electronic Arts over its $0.99 holiday App sale, claiming such markdowns threaten the market and pose a threat to smaller companies.

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