So now that you've got your shiny new copy of Capcom's "Street Fighter IV," unboxed it and discovered how infuriatingly useless the default Xbox 360 controller is for throwing a decent Dragon Punch, it might occur to you to pick up one of the lovely new Mad Catz FightSticks -- or FightPads -- that have [...]
Continue reading...13. February 2009
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Judging by an NPD report yesterday, the U.S. video game industry is relatively healthy. We're still growing, up 13% from last January to $1.33 billion dollars for the month. While the lion's share of those dollars are still flowing into Nintendo's coffers, the Xbox 360 still ekes out a very reasonable existence, and Sony's consoles combined [...]
Continue reading...12. February 2009
Pop quiz: What's the only thing the Sony PlayStation 3 has going for it that competitors can't copy? That's right: the Blu-ray disc, Sony's triumphant HD video distribution platform. Problem is, though Blu-ray has proven to be an adequate solution for transporting HD movies, its 50GB of capacity doesn't lend much to games that are designed [...]
Continue reading...15. January 2009
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Slow and steady wins the race, but it also helps if Santa is on your side. Though projections have long placed "Grand Theft Auto IV" as the game to beat -- between PS3 and Xbox 360, it sold approximately 5.18 million copies in the United States this year -- it seems that Nintendo's "Wii Play" [...]
Continue reading...3. January 2009
Today, I have finally seen the first 40 minutes of Far Cry 2 on PC. Or, to be more precise, I've seen the first two minutes of the game about twenty times in a row. That's because over two months after the game's release, I've finally figured out how to dispell The Jackal's Curse -- [...]
Continue reading...31. December 2008
Here at GameCyte, we don't typically post Top Ten lists. Why? With few exceptions, the vast majority of such articles are meaningless filler, only serving to provoke fanboys and flamers and generally denigrating the reputation of the website which hosts them. However, as long as the firm continues to make them public, one of those [...]
Continue reading...31. December 2008
Over four years ago, back when fanboys were still dreaming about the "Xbox 2" and "Nintendo Revolution," WarDevil wowed with stunning trailers and screenshots supposedly demonstrating the power of next-gen. IGN's Hilary Goldstein proclaimed it "one of the most anticipated games of 2005." Rest assured, you didn't miss WarDevil in 2005 -- or since. Every so [...]
Continue reading...29. December 2008
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In July of 2007 -- back when Nintendo's cash cow the Wii had only sold six million consoles worldwide -- executives at Japan's Fuji TV and TBS television networks told The Times of London that their viewers were already abandoning primetime television in favor of the new game console. Whether or not Japanese television is still [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2008
When the world at large believes your product is vaporware, your company has never made a cent and your former chairman has been indicted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for promulgating a pump and dump scheme, it's going to be difficult to convince them that you're on the level. Especially when your company pays its [...]
Continue reading...16. December 2008
There's hardly a hardcore gamer alive who hasn't heard of the Red Ring of Death (RRoD), and its potential to inexplicably turn an Xbox 360 game console into a $300 doorstop. But though a multi-year investigation by journalist Dean Takahashi strongly suggests that the RRoD is the result of botched design decisions at Microsoft HQ [...]
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18. February 2009
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