If we’re to believe Steam, then Battlefield: Vietnam will be released on December 18 of this year. Two weeks and counting! → Read More
A mighty impressive 2.5 million Kinects have been sold so far. An even mightier impressive 4.1 Sony Moves have been sold, but that’s been available since September. Translation? People, for whatever reason, are still enthralled with motion control. And here I thought people got their rocks off with Wii Bowling a few years back, but apparently not. → Read More
You should be able to find Gran Turismo 5 in your local store today. That makes today a good day. (It also doesn’t hurt that there’s Champions League today, too.) (Allow me to say the word “today” for the 500th time in four sentences.) Some reviews have popped up online, and I’m going to take 45 seconds to distill some of them for you. Not that it really matters: if you have a PS3… → Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages: THERE’S A STEAM SALE~! → Read More
So many video games have used the Unreal Engine over the years, including, of course, Unreal, as well as Epic Games’ other big series, Gears of War. Then there’s the BioShock games, Mass Effect. Even Namco’s new Enslaved: Odyssey to the West uses it. So, presenting a new trailer showing off just what Unreal Engine 3 can do. → Read More
Well this is potentially huge. A Nielsen survey says that more kids this holiday season are interested in iOS devices than traditional consoles. You know what this means: time to throw your PS3s and Xbox 360s into the village pyre. → Read More
What we have here is Razer‘s official Tron mouse. It certainly looks like Tron. → Read More
Yeah, Call of Duty: Black Ops may have sold a number of copies during its first few days of availability, but like any summer blockbuster it seems to have quickly fizzled out. It’s the video game equivalent of a popcorn flick: giant opening weekend followed by a pirouette off a cliff. → Read More
We are three weeks away from the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and Blizzard has let it be known that there will be several worldwide launch events that may be worth investigating. For those of you in the US, get thee to the Fry’s Electronics in Fountain Valley, Calif. where you can partake in the launch festivities. There’s going to be a dance contest! If East Side Dave McDonald… → Read More
I humbly ask that you watch this video. There’s a small problem: it’s split up into six parts, and is 30 minutes in length in total. But it’s great, so consider it an investment. → Read More
Kinect hasn’t even been out for more than a few days now, but word is that it’s selling out at retailers across this great land of ours. GameStop said yesterday that it’s having a heck of a time trying to keep Kinect in stock, with an executive vice-president saying that demand may well equal that of the Wii during that system’s launch. → Read More
Amazon has had a fairly big download-only indie video game store for a little while, but as of today has added several big name publishers to the service. “Big names?” Yes, the likes of EA, Sega, Ubisoft, and Atari. And, since today is the big launch day for the new publishers, Amazon’s running a little sale to help you start your collection. → Read More
Yeah, we know, Activision. Call of Duty: Black Ops made a lot of money. It should, being that’s it’s $60 a pop. But just because McDonalds has “billions and billions” served doesn’t mean I’m going to go out of my way to partake. → Read More
Giving your Thursday meaning, what we have here is new gameplay footage (again, we need a word to replace “footage”) from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. We need more shooters like this, and less shooters like that. → Read More
We’re, what, three weeks away from the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm? Yes… I have noticed the sun shining brighter, the air tasting sweeter of late. Right on cue, then, is the new the new MMO keyset for SteelSeires’ Shift keyboard. → Read More
Remember the Halo: Reach Honor the Code Mountain Dew promotion from a few months back? Of course you do. The prizes were, and still are, pretty neat, but word on the street is that now you can win something truly special. Yes, you’re looking at it right now: a fully working, life-sized Halo: Reach Mongoose ATV. → Read More
Man, October was a pretty bad month for video game sales, particularly those published by the big guns. Medal of Honor, EA’s modern day reboot of the series, sold a little more than 1 million copies. That’s nothing to be ashamed of, 1 million copies sold, but the expectation was for closer to 1.5 million copies sold. Perhaps people saw that the game was just OK: nothing stellar but nothing to… → Read More
The second half of GameIndustry.biz’s interview with Codemasters’ Rod Cousens has gone up (the first had discussed the success of F1 2010, and he shines light on the dark practice of retailers selling pre-owned video games. You’ll recall that publishers are pretty fed up with the likes of GameStop for buying used games for pennies on the dollar, then selling those games onto people for pure… → Read More
A funny thing happened at the weekend. One of the Steam deals was for Risen, an RPG that came out in 2009. I hear it’s pretty good, actually. Well, at least the PC version was OK. Anyhow, the game was on sale for $14.95 (50 percent off its regular price, in other words), and so many people bought the game that its publisher, Deep Silver, ran out of activation keys! Yes: Steam sold more games… → Read More
Sebastian Vettel is your new Formula One champion. Who saw that coming? Conventional wisdom last weekend said that Red Bull made a mistake by not issuing so-called “team orders,” telling Vettel to make way for his Australian teammate, Mark Webber, in his quest to win the F1 driver’s championship. As it turned out, lady luck was on Vettel’s side (that, or Ferrari forgot that Vettel was also… → Read More
Activision: a company! A company with presentations, presentations that contain slides. One recent slide, seen here, suggests that Bungie’s “New Title”—you’ll recall that Bungie inked a deal with Activision some months ago—will come out not only for the usual consoles, but also for the PC. How about that? → Read More
Microsoft has sold many Xbox 360 consoles, but apparently only 60 percent of them are used for gaming. The remaining 40 percent of consoles are used for other, just-as-fun things, like watching Netflix and tweeting <opie & Anthony's Bobo sweet nothings. Mhmm. So said a Microsoft exec at a digital entertainment conference. → Read More
As a caller on Ron & Fez reminded us a little while ago, Call of Duty: Black Ops (also known as BLOPS) had the biggest entertainment launch in history, taking in some $360 million in first-day sales. But as we all know, that’s a reasonably misleading statement. How do you compare “entertainment launches” across different entertainment, um, sectors? Let’s take movies. If one person buys… → Read More
Edge had an big article about LA Noire several months back. It’s sort of a detective/spy game that takes place in 1940s Los Angeles. Think LA Confidential. → Read More
In its first two days of availability Microsoft sold 475,000 Kinect units. Well, according to VG Chartz’s data, and I’m not exactly sure VG Chartz is 100 percent bulletproof. The top-selling stand-alone game (Kinect Aventures was bundled with the Xbox 360 Kinect bundle) is Kinect Sports. After that it’s Dance Central. → Read More
Who saw this coming? Certainly not me, but it looks like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (henceforth referred to as Stalker, if only for convenience’s sake) will be getting a television show. The trailer follows. → Read More
Nintendo‘s Satoru Iwata has hinted that it’s not just the usual video game companies interested in the 3DS. Hollywood, still trying to figure out how to replicate the success of Avatar everywhere else, apparently sees the 3DS as gaining traction with consumers more quickly than 3DTVs will. If Hollywood could attach itself to the 3DS, it could try to ride the coattails of Nintendo’s success. → Read More
Call of Duty: Black Ops launched to great fanfare yesterday, but, at least on the PC side of things, it hasn’t exactly been a flawless launch. Users are filling up message boards from here to somewhere else with complaints of all shapes and sizes, from stuttering frame rates to unplayably laggy multi-player sessions. And keep in mind that the game is based on the 11-year-old id Tech 3 (Quake 3)… → Read More
The Guardian says that Call of Duty: Black Ops has “easily the most cogent and well-constructed story we’ve seen from the Call of Duty franchise in a number of years.” Could it be, gasp, that the single-player mode is actually worth a damn this time around? → Read More
John Carmack told us, a few months ago, just how capable the iPhone is when it comes to gaming. Now we have Epic Games, the Manchester United to id Software’s Liverpool,showing us a trailer of its new iPhone game, Infinity Blade. → Read More
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