Monthly Archives: January 2011
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 06:19 GMT
Former Pandora COO takes up OnLive role
Cloud-based gaming-on-demand service OnLive has hired a new chief operating officer in the person of Etienne Handman, formerly of similarly structured music network, Pandora.
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Posted in: OnLive, PC
Tags: Etienne Handman, pandora
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 06:15 GMT
SEGA staffer interview outs new sports title
A mysterious new sports game has been outed by an interview with SEGA Studios Australia producer Kim Sellentin.
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Posted in: Australia, DS, Fitness, Mini-games, Nintendo, Sega, Sports, Wii
Tags: Kim Sellentin, mocap, SEGA Studios Australia, Sports
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 06:09 GMT
Enslaved art director tackles DmC
Ninja Theory’s Alessandro Tain is set to reprise his art director role on the reboot of the Devil May Cry series, transitioning from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West’s colourful post-apocalypse to DmC’s shabby metropolises.
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Posted in: Action, Capcom, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: art, devil may cry, DMC, ninja theory
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 06:07 GMT
Game Dev Story studio releases Waiwai! The Game Dealer
Everyone’s favourite indie mobile studio, Kairosoft, has followed up last year’s smash hit Game Dev Story with a new sim: Waiwai! The Game Dealer.
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Posted in: Simulation, iPhone, indie
Tags: Game Dealer, Game Dev Story, Game Dev Story 2, Kairosoft
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 00:46 GMT
Kinect used to play World of Warcraft
Kinect’s accessibility is perfect for lucrative casual crowd, which makes the efforts of University of Southern Carolina researchers to make it work with World of Warcraft a thing to delight the wallets of industry business types everywhere.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Kinect, MMO, PC, RPG
Tags: world of warcraft, wow
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 00:18 GMT
APB Reloaded spurs overhaul of GamersFirst network
Realtime Worlds’ unhappy gangster MMO All Points Bulletin is on its way back with a new moniker and a bit of spit and polish courtesy of the newly-founded Reloaded Productions. The latest update from the developer suggests the team have their hands full and more, starting with a whole new client but running flat into an overhaul of the entire GamersFirst network.
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Posted in: Action, MMO, PC
Tags: All Points Bulletin, apb, K2, realtime worlds, Reloaded Productions
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 23:43 GMT
Gamers poll more than $2 million for Child’s Play’s coffers in 2010
Penny Arcade-founded charity Child’s Play has smashed previous high scores by raising an astounding $2,294,317 in 2010, all of which will end up helping sick kids and their families cope with the stress and discomfort of hospitalisation. More »
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Posted in: Charity
Tags: Child's Play, penny arcade
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 23:08 GMT
20 million Black Ops players log 600 million multiplayer hours
Call of Duty: Black Ops has hit another whopping milestone, as Activision announce that the cold-war shooter’s 20 million-strong player base has logged a staggering 600 million hours online. More »
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: call of duty, Call of Duty: Black Ops, treyarch
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 23:15 GMT
Midway’s canned Hero turns up on ex-staffer’s site
The ghosts of what might have been are rattling their chains at Midway. A single piece of concept art for the ill-fated Hero has surfaced, revealing a lone protagonist amidst a devastated metropolis.
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 22:23 GMT
Castle Crashers hits 2 million players
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: 2 million, castle crashers, The Behemoth
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 07:15 GMT
Morrowind 2011 mod finished, 4Gb hosting solution required [Update]
A chap called Warwon’s made a Morrowind mod that makes the ageing RPG look as though it wasn’t made in 2002. Unfortunately, he’s got no way of releasing it.
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Posted in: Bethesda, PC, RPG
Tags: morrowind 2011, the elder scolls: Morrowind, Warwon
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 21:52 GMT
New Tomb Raider reboot art shows a darker adventure
Tomb Raider fans have found much to revel in or deride as Crystal Dynamics’ second reboot of the elderly Tomb Raider franchise gets under away, with the latest batch of screenshots, renders and concept art likely to prove equally fruitful for fanboys and critics alike.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PC, PS3, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: Crystal Dynamics, tomb raider
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 21:42 GMT
3DS video shows augmented reality, Mii creation
Following on from a Chinese factory worker robbing a 3DS from a production line and posting a movie and shots online, Weekly ASCII magazine in Japan popped up footage of a demo showing off the system’s the system’s augmented reality capabilities using AR cards and Mii creation. Fancy.
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 21:20 GMT
LA Noire’s latest shots are face-tastic
Rockstar’s released yet more screens of LA Noire, showing plenty of faces, people looking at things and more faces.
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 20:57 GMT
Stacking gameplay movies signify flat-faced doll-based win
Gamespot’s posted up four direct-feed movies of Doublefine’s Stacking, the downloadable, Matryoshka-based adventure which is about as sure to be an instant classic as the sun is to come up tomorrow.
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Posted in: Puzzler
Tags: doublefine, stacking
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 22:18 GMT
Final Fantasy Type-0 domains registered
Square’s registered two domains related to Final Fantasy Type-0, following the registering of a trademark and logo related to the same name at the end of December.
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Posted in: Hot, Japan, RPG, Rumour
Tags: Final Fantasy Type-0, Final Fantasy Type0
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 19:32 GMT
Kinect creator announces hands-free PC controller for living rooms
PrimeSense, the privately-held Israeli firm that licensed Kinect’s core tech to Microsoft, has confirmed ahead of this week’s CES that it’s teamed with Asus to create a similar device for PC.
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Posted in: CES 2011, Hot, PC
Tags: asus, primesense, Wavi Xtion
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 18:47 GMT
Latest Steam survey shows gradual XP decline
Valve’s released its December Steam survey figures, showing drops in the popularity of the 32-bit version of Windows XP.
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Posted in: PC, Valve
Tags: steam, steam survey, windows xp
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 18:11 GMT
RUSE PC played with Kinect, future mere moments away
Evoluce, a German multi-touch display manufacturer, has used a Kinect hack to play the PC version RUSE with nothing more than gestures. Does it work? Yes, it does.
Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | 17:55 GMT
Bethesda demakes Fallout 3 as 8-bit JRPG
Bethesda’s released “an 8-bit version of the Capital Wasteland” in Japanese. You can even play it, should you feel the need.
Mass Effect 3: Special Forces Trailer shows the multiplayer in action