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By Jason Dobson Replacing political and social unrest with "go-anywhere" driving, Codemasters has partnered with French dev Asobo Studios to publish the company's open world-style racer, Fuel, for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC sometime next year. Asobo's track record isn't likely to relieve you of your s...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360We are all interested in the future. Indeed, as the great Criswell so astutely observed, "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives." And it wouldn't be much of a life if it wasn't sp...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessAccording to DFC intelligence figures cited by Dave Perry, Sony has lost more money on the PlayStation 3 hardware than it made on the PlayStation 2 during its five most popul...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports, Business

By Kevin Kelly According to Dave Perry, Sony has lost more money on the PlayStation 3 than it made during the five years of the PlayStation 2 when it was at its most popular... or in pure numbers speak it's lost $3 billion on the PS3, which is about ...

By Alexander Sliwinski Patrick Aiello, the producer for the upcoming film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (starring Kristin "Lana Lang" Kreuk!), believes Street Fighter IV will launch alongside the film. Aiello tells GameDaily that the "film and game release dates will coincide." According to IMDB, th...

Street Fighter movie producer confirms simultaneous launch with Street Fighter 4 in 2009 - Qj.net

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By Ross Miller Filed under: Features, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm With Sony shedding some new light on the sea of plastic instrument compatibility nonsense, we thought it was time to update our compatibility charts for the Guitar Hero and Rock Band series, as well as n...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, RPGs, Metareviews It's been almost ten years since we first saw Too Human at E3 1999, at that point reportedly a 4-disc action adventure for the original PlayStation. In that time, the game has jumped to GameCube and then to Xbox 360, re-...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure The new flesh-and-blood Lara? Pretty. Cool. But it's the texture-and-polygon one in Tomb Raider: Underworld - the proper, next-gen sequel to the series-reviving Tomb Raider: Legend - that we're really excited abo...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGs Famitsu has posted a correction on its website (via IGN) about an incorrect The Last Remnant release date that appeared in the latest Famitsu PS3 publication. The issue, dedicated to Square Enix's recent DKΣ3713 event, i...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm It's about time someone stepped in and took an active role in fixing this nonsense. SCEA Director of Publisher Relations Michael Shorrock has announced on PlayStation.Blog that Sony has reached an agreement with...

PS3 Music Peripheral Compatibility Update! - PLAYSTATION®3 General

PS3 Music Peripheral Compatibility Update - PlayStation.Blog

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By Justin McElroy We've been getting some mixed signals from BioWare in recent days about Dragon Age: Origins and its fate on consoles, going so far as to make us wonder if the console versions of the game will be wholly different from the one coming to PC. BioWare took some time out to clear up the confusion wit...

Dragon Age to Come to Consoles Following PC Release - DigitalBattle

Dragon Age Public Debut at Gen Con - DigitalBattle

By Justin McElroy Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

By Griffin McElroy You awaken this morning with a stabbing pain in your side, as you do nearly every morning. The straps on your ceiling-bed, while successful in keeping you tightly bound to your mattress, simply aren't comfortable. You undo the safety clasp and gently crash to the ground, taking special car...

By Griffin McElroy If the recent cavalcade of video previews for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was enough to whet your appetite for some midichlorian-infused carnage, then we've got great news: LucasArts recently confirmed that they will be following through with their promise to bring a demo for the ti...

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo hits PSN, Xbox Live this week - Qj.net

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo Coming This Thursday (8/21) - Gaming Bits

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By Griffin McElroy Fans of J.K. Rowling's uber-successful series of wizardly novels received some heartbreaking news Friday -- the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been delayed from its initial release date of November 21, 2008 to a distant July 17, 2009. Electronic Arts has yet...

By Griffin McElroy Australians love the rock music just as much as the inhabitants of any other country, but did you know that they've yet to receive Harmonix's rock star simulator, Rock Band? According to an unidentified retail tipster on IGN, Aussies may remain Rock Band-less indefinitely -- it seems re...

By Griffin McElroy We can only imagine how dejected you must feel right now, sitting at home with a tummy full of popcorn and a heart brimming with disappointment. Your friends and family inquire about the reason for your sorrows, until they notice the tear-soaked ticket stub for Star Wars: The Clone Wars lyi...

By Griffin McElroy A recent issue of Famitsu revealed a startling fact about the upcoming demo for Final Fantasy XIII -- the playable preview will apparently last longer than the film that it is packaged with, Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete. For those of you keeping score at home -- the original Adv...

Final Fantasy XIII Demo Will Last More than Two Hours [Final Fantasy Xiii] - Kotaku

Final Fantasy XIII demo to last over two hours - PS3News

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By Griffin McElroy As any respectable Don will tell you, serving as the CEO of a powerful crime syndicate is not an easy thing to do. You won't find any classes on racketeering at your local community college. Finding a reliable bulk supplier of fedoras and pinstripe suits is nigh-on impossible. Teaching your u...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving, Online click to nitro-size

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Online. home. With the next phase of PlayStation Home construction getting underway, we now have a clear picture of the region restrictions placed on the virtual world, at least those being implemented ...

By Jason Dobson Developer Black Box's nitro button must be worn down to a nub. The studio announced today that its upcoming Need for Speed sequel, Undercover, will ship this November, pulling up to the starting line well before the 2009 release previously mentioned by EA CEO John Riccitiello.

EA reveals Need for Speed Undercover release date, cover babe - Qj.net

Need for Speed Undercover Arrives November 18, Stars 'Box Office Sensation' Maggie Q - Shacknews

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By Randy Nelson click to Don-size Casting players as a soldier of the Corleone Family, the original The Godfather from EA took the open-world formula of GTA and introduced some unique fist-fighting and intimidation mechanics fitting of its namesake. It reviewed well enough, but its creator decided th...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business After everyone saw gains last month (with one devlish exception), July's NPD figures revealed North American hardware unit sales declined across all compani...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, ActionEA has just announced a publishing agreement with eccentric No More Heroes developer, Grasshopper Manufacture. The deal concerns an "all-new action horror game" produced by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mi...

The Reason Suda and Mikami Joined with EA - Kombo.com

EA to publish new Goichi Suda horror title - PSU.com

Grasshopper, Q Entertainment Sign With EA For New Horror Game - Kotaku

By Justin McElroy EA's got an impressive stable of original games due in the near future, and it has just added another one to the list: The company announced it's signed a deal with Epic to publish a new intellectual property from the latter's People Can Fly studio, the same folks that brought you Painkille...

EA Signs Publishing Deal with Grasshopper, Epic Games - PS3News

EA Signs Publishing Deal With Grasshopper, Epic Games - eXophase.com, the Gamer's Phase

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By Alexander Sliwinski Triumph Studios' excellent (but flawed) Overlord will receive a sequel on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, along with new versions for the Wii and DS, all scheduled for 2009. IGN reports Overlord II will have smarter minions who can ride mounts, use war machines and sail ships. The scope of the game worl...

Overlord 2 Announced; Also Coming to Wii and DS - DigitalBattle

Minion management: three new Overlord titles to arrive in 2009 - Qj.net

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By Randy Nelson Click to enlarge blow up So many things in life are just that much better when enjoyed with a friend. Ice skating, canoeing, inline skating ... grappling a helicopter to escape the blast of a nuclear bunker buster strike you've just called in. That last scenario - and more! - is exactly what we exp...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Retro, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action We're hoping you'll just watch the video and not really bother with any of the padding we've surrounded it with. But in case you're wondering, we think Mega Man 9's intro sets the tone for the blue bomber's ret...

By Alexander Sliwinski ShackNews ran a piece today, pretty much reiterating our details from a couple weeks back, about the status of various Rock Band 2 release dates. Many retailers are still listing the release date for the standalone disc and individual instruments for Rock Band 2 on Xbox 360 as Sept. 14. All ot...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Arcade, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Metareviews

By Ludwig Kietzmann A recent study conducted by Nielsen Games has uncovered an unsavory and alarming new link in the video game industry's ever-tightening chain around our nation's youth. It was found that 17% of respondents in the survey who had purchased a copy of the popular role-model pummeling game, "G...

By Christopher Grant It's the first question everyone has when confronted with an MMO targeted for both PCs and consoles: "Will console and PC players be on the same servers?" Lucky for us, the MMO nerds at Cryptic expected your (frankly) predictable inquiry and met it with the following response, helpfully...

By Ludwig Kietzmann If there's one thing you'll see a lot during your stroll through Mega Man 9's trap-laden, pit-filled and exceedingly deadly memory lane, it's the poor little robot boy exploding into a booming bloom of pulsating energy. Unfortunately, there appears to be no achievement for dying one bil...

By Jason Dobson Eidos has made Batman: Arkham Asylum all official, confirming the earlier revealed Rocksteady Studios-developed trip to Gotham City. Calling the game a "haunting, action detective game," Eidos notes that it and Warner Bros. will publish the action adventure title globally for the Xbo...

By Ross Miller Culture & Community Print me: New Madden NFL 09 cover (except Xbox, Wii, and DS ...) The '$10,000' Madden PSP Entertainment Pack Olympic gold medalist trained with Wii Thumbs up to hilarious new Metal Gear commercialPermalink | Email this | Comments

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports The biggest question we hear every single year with the Madden franchise (and in fact, most EA Sports titles) is, "How is this game any different than last year's?...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action

By Kevin Kelly The Rose Bowl was Madden-ified yesterday to make way for the 20th anniversary of Madden games, as well as the new Madden NFL 09 game that went on sale at midnight last night... or 9 PM Pacific if you were lucky enough to be in the stadium in Pasadena. The upper deck was wrapped in gigantic Madden sai...

By Randy Nelson According to a PlayStation Blog update by Warhawk director Dylan Jobe, completing these scenarios will unlock Trophies - a whole slew of which are also being added in the update. Along with these will be custom soundtrack support (which ...

By Griffin McElroy We're big fans of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Not because we're avid followers of swimming, or weightlifting, or badminton -- but because we like to believe that we live in a world where one country can achieve dominance over all the others by simply having more graceful and elegant gym...

By Justin McElroy Airbourne - "Too Much Too young..."At the Drive-in - "One Armed Scissor"Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Weapon of Choice"Bob Seger - "Hollywood Nights"Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel the pain"Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger" Anything jump out at you specifically? Yep, Bob S...

By Ross Miller Chrono Trigger not bound for Europe this year Ben Heck looks under the 60GB Xbox 360's hood Fable 2 lands Oct 21 in US, Oct 24 in Europe Atari and Interplay settle D&D licensing drama PlayStation Home beta accepting applications LAN Party Massacre: yep, it's another video game movie

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports, Business With Brett Favre booked for a one-way ticket out of retirement and into New York (as a Jet!), Madden NFL 09 will look decidedly vintage when it r...

By Christopher Grant Best of Show Fallout 3(Bethesda Softworks for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) Best Original Game Mirror's Edge(DICE/Electronic Arts for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) Best Console Game LittleBigPlanet(Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3) Best PC Game Spore(...

Best of E3 2008 Game Critics Awards Winners - Gaming Bits

Japanese Creators Take Home Fewest E3 Awards In 11 Years - MTV Multiplayer

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By Griffin McElroy We've grown quite content to simply sit on our fat surpluses and crank out Japanese hardware sales charts to the enraptured masses week after week -- however, the all-important figures you see at the bottom of every entry seem to always get lost in a maelstrom of eloquent prose. We thought l...

By Ludwig Kietzmann The deafening din of a million, argumentative keystrokes. Silenced. The endless wave of hyperbolic, hyperactive hype. Held back. The battle of technology, software and back-of-the-box bullet points. Over. At last, the console wars can draw to a close, the vision of its victor burning brigh...

By Griffin McElroy During the first few days of last week, Santa Monica, Calif. played host to a bevy of video game journalists, slaveringly searching for scoops to present to you, our dearest readers. Thousands of reporters representing hundreds of publications, both online and tangible, were in attenda...

By Majed Athab Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure, Interviews, E3 We've been wondering what everyone's favorite Sega mascot, Sonic, has been up to lately. Since Sega's Gamers Day in May, the company has been pretty quiet regarding Sonic U...

By Griffin McElroy Here's an amusing anecdote -- while all my fellow co-workers will be soaking up the sun and the overwhelming PR spin at E3 2008 during the next few days, I'll be the only 'Stiqer not in attendance. It's nobody's fault but my own, really -- due to an incident last year involving me, Jamie Kenned...

By Ross Miller Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 Part of this year's Into the Pixel collection is a sketch from "Half Life EP3" (wonder what that could be), coming to Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3. We're not exactly surprised to learn there's concept art for Episode 3, but it's still...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 A multi-instrument Guitar Hero World Tour means only one thing: more plastic controllers strewn about our living room. So goes the life of the virtual rocker. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from t...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 The biggest event of this past week was Capcom's Captivate event, where they showed off a handful of games from the surprisingly good Neopets Adventures to the expectedly-good Bionic Commando....

By Alexander Sliwinski For those with the time and ambition, the PlayStation Blog has posted a how-to guide on making themes for the PS3 XMB. Written by Noel Silvia, a graphic artist on the PSN team, the guide explains everything that users need. ...

By Christopher Grant Though forum rumors indicate that Metal Gear Solid 4 is racking up an impressive average review score from European outlets, the only "on the record" review (read: tracked in Metacritic or Game Rankings) thus far belongs to PlayStation Official Magazine UK which awarded Kojima's opus...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action, Adventure. PlayStation 3 firmware update 2.35 is now available. According to the US PlayStation Blog, v2.35 is "a relatively minor update to improve stability of some PS3 titles. ...

Patch: PS3 Firmware Update 2.42 Now Available! - PS3News

Patch: PLAYSTATION 3 Firmware 2.41 Update Now Available - Gaming Bits

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By Alexander Sliwinski Zero Punctuation takes on Grand Theft Auto IV this week, but if you're one of the five people who didn't buy the game and are hoping for some ZP hate-fest on par with the Super Smash Bros. Brawl review ... then you have another thing coming. Yahtzee doesn't exactly suck GTA IV's "thumb" -- like he do...

By Alexander Sliwinski Carjack a vehicle and call your favorite escort, it's time for the GTA IV reviews to start flowing in. The embargo on non "exclusive reviews" is over and media outlets are chiming in with initially glowing reviews. Here are some of the first we've seen and we'll add some more after the break. Ga...

By Griffin McElroy Is it too early to say that we're beginning to see a pattern develop here? We know that a mere handful of reviews for Rockstar's latest opus have been published, but should the current trend continue, Grand Theft Auto IV could be the subject of more perfect scores than 1976 Olympic gymnast N...

By Christopher Grant Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 It should come as no surprise that the very first review for Grand Theft Auto IV comes to us from a British magazine - the May issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK to be precise. Not only do magazines have a longer lead time but British ones are p...