Latest Articles (Page 2059)

Jordan Mechner's treasured 1997 point-and-click adventure game The Last Express is being converted for iOS devices, Mechner himself has announced.

From Dust developer Eric Chahi's Amiga classic Another World is now available to download on Android devices.

The fan-made Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn project that's been 10 years in the making now has a release date: 22nd March 2012.

GAME has begun sending out letters to its customers notifying them of impending store closures.

It wouldn't be hard to write Blades of Time off as a botch of a video game. Its fantasy plot is entirely forgettable, its rousing and heroic score is mixed so weirdly that it often sounds like it's filtering in from an upstairs bedroom, and its voice acting is the kind of thing people lose Equity cards over. Its character models are dead-eyed and endlessly recycled, some of its central mechanics are implemented with staggering awkwardness, and several of the game's environments feature particle effects of such bizarre over-ambition that they reduce the frame-rate to single figures just when things are starting to get exciting.

You've got to feel a bit sorry for scientists. Not only are they harried and hassled by big business when they're trying to spread the truth but, one theoretical physicist aside, our real-life heroes are the nefarious antagonists of too many games to count. In League of Evil 2, there's one of them on every stage.

Four Avengers themed tables will release for Pinball FX2 and Marvel Pinball, Zen Studios has announced.

Angry Birds developer Rovio has announced a sponsorship deal with Finnish Formula 1 star Heikki Kovalainen, meaning he will now wear a special Angry Birds helmet during races.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 will synchronise your progress across Xbox 360 and Windows Phone versions of the game.

One of the reasons Crysis developer Crytek signed on for Homefront 2 with publisher THQ was because of how well known the franchise is.

Longevity is a rare commodity in the gaming business. A title comes out, it takes up a two-month residency on a store's chart rack or splash page - if it's lucky - and is then put out to pasture in the used section. To the casual consumer, it's often easy to forget a game ever existed within six months of its launch.

Minecraft maker Markus "Notch" Persson has given his blessing to EA's digital platform Origin.

EA has responded to a BBC Watchdog investigation into FIFA Ultimate Team 12 disconnections.

Ignition has teased a new El Shaddai project for release this year.

BioWare has promised to discuss the controversial Mass Effect 3 ending when more have finished the game.

Bethesda will unveil its heavily rumoured Elder Scrolls MMO in May, according to a new report.

While the FIFA series itself has long since shed its reputation as the glitzy but superficial alternative to proper football simulations, the same cannot be said for FIFA Street. As recently as 2008, when the main FIFA series was already well in the ascendancy, FIFA Street 3 was picking up lukewarm write-ups that faintly praised its "shallow, unpretentious fun" before giving it 6/10 for being, well, glitzy but superficial.

Monochrome indie platformer Closure arrives on the US PlayStation Network on 27th March, developer Eyebrow Interactive has announced.

Capcom has announced initial DLC plans for impending squad shooter spin-off Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

UPDATE: The reveal website is now up and running and adds that an Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate 2 is also in the works.

Microsoft has moved to manage expectations ahead of its E3 show in June and announced that it will definitely not unveil an Xbox 360 successor at the event - "or anytime soon".

BioWare was at one point planning a standalone competitive FPS called Mass Effect: Team Assault, the developer has revealed.

Bethesda has unveiled details of what to expect from the next major The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim update.

The delay in releasing new DLC for Battlefield 3 is due to the team needing to recharge its batteries following the grueling run-in to launching the main game, according to a member of the development team.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for Blaze has told Eurogamer that the £500 price tag suggested in MCV's story is incorrect.

Amid the excitement and anticipation generated by the recent New iPad announcement, it's all too easy to forget that Android tablets are already providing bleeding-edge quad core power to the masses. While Apple aficionados drool over the prospect of improved visuals and more immersive gaming possibilities, NVIDIA and Asus have been making good on such promises for most of 2012.

The missing in action PC version of Call of Duty Elite is still alive - and Activision has promised PC gamers it'll be worth the wait.

Elite "needs to be in" the next Call of Duty, Activision has said.

Ground-breaking MMO Second Life grabbed the zeitgeist in the mid '00s, winning both headlines and massive user numbers with its sprawling virtual world and booming in-game economy.

Update: Modern Warfare 3 Content Drops 4, 5 and 6 won't be released for premium Elite subscribers on PS3 on 12th April. Activision's Dan Amrich said the date was "a mistake", and the proper date is "TBD".