PlayStation Homeless According to sources, advertisers are abandoning PlayStation Home.  “The product has disappointed both users and advertisers,” says Brand Week. “In fact, Red Bull remains one of the few non-endemic advertisers to carve out space in the world.” What’s PlayStation Home? It’s this “free” virtual world thing on the PlayStation 3 where you can [...]

After nearly a decade of waiting, fans of the Aliens versus Predator games were beginning to wonder if they’d ever get another acid-spraying, head-biting, marine-disemboweling fright fest. Sure, we’ve had the movies to turn to in the meantime, but let’s face it, those atrocities were more like a kick in the pants than a decent [...]

Normally, I’m not one for free-to-play browser-based games as I find they tend to fall somewhat short of what I look for in a game. But they’re obviously taking off, and I don’t think it will be long at all before they tie in somehow with mainstream commercial games. This will probably happen round about [...]

The Nintendo Media Summit in San Francisco, California, United States of America, has just finished. Lots of stuff happened, all Nintendo stuff, obviously. We’ve got you covered, right here. Super Mario Galaxy 2 Release (North America): May 23, 2010 Mario returns, he’ll jump on stuff, run around planets , and Bowser may be involved. The short-and-sweet [...]

People tend to roll their eyes at the idea of making design documents for small-scale game projects. Fair enough: screwing around for a few hours to make a generic platformer doesn’t require the care, precision and co-ordination of, say, an Army of Two co-op snipe — it tends to be a more casual exercise with [...]

This is not the first, and it probably won’t be the last time a website puts together their own Top Ten list of the scariest videogames of all time. But let’s face it, we love Top Tens, especially to see where our favourite games rank in the eyes of those we trust to tell us [...]

A recent post over at Slashdot, reporting on something said by Scott Harris over at Moviefone, posits on the the often baffling trend of Hollywood movie ticket and DVD sales. Sometimes things just don’t pan out — for no good reason. The Chronicles of Riddick movie, for instance, didn’t perform all that well, truth be [...]

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, who released their Stargate-themed online third-person shooter a few weeks ago and are working on a Stargate-themed MMO, have just filed for Chapter 11 (bankruptcy protection). This puts their new shooter and upcoming MMO in a dangerous position, and there is a good chance the MMO will never see the light of [...]

2010 is officially in full swing, but that’s not enough to stop us from giving you a massive feature filled to the brim with awesome things that you need to be excited for. We get behind the scenes and hands-on with the Command and Conquer 4 multiplayer beta and Heavy Rain. Our reviews section is [...]

I have to admit, a lot of new tech that I read or hear about, or see, is enough to get me pretty excited. My internal hype engine is tuned only to technology and games these days — the newest Lamborghini only gets a yawn from me; it’s far too much like the Batmobile. But [...]

Fear not, nerd brethren! According to a recent study* – while women say they want tall, dark and handsome, what they really want is slightly hairy and kinda geeky. The skinny straight from DailyMail: Most women claim to be attracted to tall, dark and handsome men, but a new study has revealed that facial stubble [...]

I often wonder what it must be like to work for a games studio, creating the sequel to a game that was highly acclaimed and won its fair share of Game of the Year Awards. Sure, you might surprise gamers and reviewers the first time round, but next time everyone will be watching closely. Well, [...]

The master of turn-based onion-layered diplomatic strategy returns. Civilization V sports a new hexagonal tile map, a new combat system, more diplomatic options and a large community hub for sharing content and civilization-dueling. Developed by Firaxis (who’ve been doing all of Sid’s good works since 1997 when he left Microprose), Civilization V has a completely [...]

OK, if there’s ever any news on Street Fighter, you can be sure that I’ll report on it. In this case, I’m particularly excited because three more characters have been revealed for the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV – the mandatory upgrade to long-awaited 2D versus fighter. Now, we’ve already had a bunch of new [...]

Over at the C&VG, a blog post from Capcom was recently quoted to say that the decision makers over at Capcom are toying with the idea of making Street Fighter IV on the PSP. According to Capcom project manager Natsuki Shiozawa, she and many of her colleagues believe that it is the perfect game for [...]

A report over at g-news reveals some shocking statements by Peter Molyneux at Microsoft’s X10 convention. Among other changes to the upcoming Fable game will be the complete axing of the RPG elements. Yep, you heard that right – no more health bar and, more shockingly, no more experience bar. That’s right, Peter Molyneux thinks [...]

Over the years, I’ve often expressed my deep and profound respect for the casual gaming industry: a branch of game development that is so often vilified because it supposedly appeals to stupid and unappreciative gamers. Aside from numerous write-ups in places like Dev.Mag, I also tend to explain my stance when chatting to friends and [...]

From boom to bust in a few short years: the rhythm game genre. Thanks to overzealous publishers who pushed too much product and super-saturated the market, the genre is no longer the cash-cow it once was and publishers are starting to cut and run. In the case of Activision and their Guitar Hero franchise, they’ve simply fired [...]

A recent article over at Nintendo Everything reveals some surprising facts about Nintendo’s marketing around the world. Now, we know that some hardware developers are pretty pushy with their marketing and brand-building, but Nintendo takes the cake – and you’ll see why if you read up here. Game shows, cunningly-placed ads, themed areas in kids’ [...]