Features (Page 391)

Concept art. Meh. Concept demos... Now that sounds infinitely more exciting. Just prior to leaving Starbreeze, we had a quick chat about Riddick's bonus content.

Continuing our discussion with members of the Riddick development team, we turn to the game itself - why they chose the first-person view and varied gameplay styles, the difficulty in crafting the technology, and their thoughts on the critical response.

Film licences. Phew - let's not even get into that! Actually, how about we do? We're talking to members of the Chronicles of Riddick team at Starbreeze, who have just created one of the most critically acclaimed film licences since GoldenEye. But how?

Lack of new releases leaves the coast clear for the boy wizard.

We chat to Julien Bares, producer of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, about the process of bringing the game to PS2.

(This week's new PAL and key US releases.) F-Zero on the GBA is about the height of it, but the US gets Riddick and Full Spectrum Warrior. Import-ant games.

Prisoner Of Azkaban makes it five number ones for EA already this year...

With the game's development saga drawing to a close, we talk to Nevrax CEO and creative director David Cohen Corval about why you should care about The Saga of Ryzom, specifics of how you'll play it, and how much you're likely to pay for the privilege.

(Friday's comprehensive PAL and key NTSC release list.) Disgaea! GT4 Prologue! Hyper Street Fighter II! Syberia 2! Thief: Deadly Shadows! Spare exclamation marks available on request!

Top three titles remain static as UEFA, Pokemon and Hitman retain their places.

We chat to Black Monday game director Naresh Hirani and writer/narrative producer Katie Ellwood about the changing face of London, BT vans, motorbikes, and how the game will evolve following its E3 showing.

(All this Friday's new releases.) Singstar versus Rallisport Challenge 2, Way of the Samurai and Riding Spirits sequels, and a whole lot of strategy. As they say in LA: are you PUMPED?

EA hits the back of the net for its fourth number one of the year as footy fever draws closer...

Just because the whole industry has sodded off to E3 doesn't mean there aren't stacks of great games out this Friday. Because there are. There's even one that'll be fun to play outside in this glorious sunshine...

Doug Lombardi on expansion packs, the Half Life movie, what PC you'll need to run it, and even when it's out! (Also available in movie form.)

It's a quiet week in Europe, what with E3 creeping over the horizon, but there's still Transformers and Euro 2004 (FIFA in dis-guise!) to get excited about. And plenty more over the water in Statesville.

Chronicles of Riddick producer Lars Johansson talks up the developer's Pitch Black prequel.

With Atari's Transformers due out May 7th, we caught up with the game's director/executive producer Andrew Carter from Melbourne House, and found out what it took to make one of the prettiest PS2 games we've seen...

(Thanks for that Antonio.) Agent 47 keeps Fight Night off the No.1 spot...

This week's new releases include Hitman: Contracts, Project Zero 2, Fight Night 2004 and the US release of Onimusha 3. The drought is over, right?

Lowest selling No.1 since summer 2002 secures top slot for Codies.

Unreal II Xbox. No, seriously. And TOCA Race Driver 2. (To receive regular release date info, please become games journalists and do our jobs for us.)

Heroes keeps Rugby off the top, with Sam Fisher still lurking in the shadows.

Climax's Matt Cooper on running backwards less, screaming kamikaze troops and more in Serious Sam: The Next Encounter, due out this Friday on PS2 and Cube.

A transcript of a recent Q&A session with eight of the key figures involved in Take-Two/Square-Enix's forthcoming PS2 action RPG title.