If you own a decent PC, nabbing a copy of 2007’s ridiculously awesome spatial-thought stimulator Portal is a piece of cake, but home console owners aren’t so lucky. The Nintendo Wii crowd already had their turn to be disappointed, but today we learned Microsoft rejected a potential Xbox Live Arcade version of Portal as well.
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Game|Life is reporting that the previously Japan-only Minna no Nintendo Channel will finally be coming to U.S. shores, and is set to launch May 12th — the same day Nintendo’s miniature digital-delivery platform WiiWare will also arrive. Sporting a Nintendo game release calendar and user-submitted game reviews, the channel also turns the Wii into a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Thanks to the official PlayStation Blog, we just got wind that perspective-puzzler Echochrome will have a demo available tomorrow on the PlayStation Network. The same demo released March 6th in Japan, it contains the tutorial and three levels. The full game is slated for U.S. release in early May, at a price of $10.
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
All is not well in Paradise. The “Bogart” update that arrived on Xbox 360 five days early appears to actually have been two weeks too early, and while PS3 owners can experience the laundry list of fixes in a mere 14 hours, Criterion is recalling the 360 Bogart patch until May 2nd, by which time [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 18, 2008
The counter may still be ticking down the days and hours until Sony’s Paradise gains its orchard, but Microsoft fans can begin celebrating with vehicular carnage right now — according to the official Criterion blog, Burnout Paradise’s Bogart update just hit Xbox Live.
Continue reading...Friday, April 18, 2008
Earlier this week, parts of the web were shocked to hear ESRB president Patricia Vance decree that downloadable content must not “go out of bounds” by introducing new elements that might change the game’s maturity rating. Whether an attack on developers’ free speech or merely a money sink for publishers forced to pull and relabel [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Yesterday, GameCyte attended a particularly eye-opening presentation at the 2008 MI6 conference. You may never have heard of a company called Electronic Entertainment Design And Research (EEDAR), but they’re certainly interested in you.
Continue reading...Friday, March 28, 2008
We were right, Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations are indeed going to be monetized; but not in the way we initially expected. Instead, Yahoo! Games has unveiled a new digital music distribution model built right into GTA IV.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Today marks the launch of Nintendo’s new WiiWare game download service in Japan — and while I’ve neither the imported Wii nor the balls required to brave hundreds of thousands of fearless Final Fantasy fanboys scrambling to get their hands on My Life As A King, Game|Life has been kind enough to perform that service [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 14, 2008
Criterion’s creative director Alex Ward has been dropping lots of Burnout Paradise goodies this month, and if you clever newshounds have already heard that the sprawling Paradise is getting even larger thanks to a brand new series of islands, and that this archipelago will be totally free, then try this on for size:
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Monday, April 28, 2008
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