Latest Articles (Page 2556)

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer that Splinter Cell: Conviction was delayed to add "a bit more polish", and not because Q1 2010 is unconventionally bursting with big-name releases.

SouthPeak's bringing PS3 exclusive 3D Dot Game Heroes to Europe in May.

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has won the Golden Tomato award for being the worst-rated film of 2009.

Rising Star's revealed a European date of 12th February for PSP game Half-Minute Hero.

Valve's unveiled the Team Fortress 2 Contribution Site, where members of the community can make and share weapons and hats and items for use in game.

Warner Bros. has signed an agreement to produce a new series of games based on classic kids' TV show Sesame Street.

The final bit of business revealed by Ubisoft's financial report is that new instalments in two of its best-selling franchises are on the way.

Activision's record-breaking Modern Warfare 2 has crashed past the $1bn mark after only two months on sale.

Square Enix's Motomu Toriyama has said that work on the "overseas version" of Final Fantasy XIII is "finally completed" and apologised for "the long wait".

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said the company is planning to make Sony and Microsoft's consoles the priority in 2010.

Ubisoft ambitious survival game I Am Alive won't be released until sometime in or after April 2011.

Delayed Dragon Age DLC Return to Ostagar has appeared briefly on Xbox Live before being pulled by developer BioWare.

Nintendo has announced that the DSi XL will launch in Europe on 5th March and will be available in wine red and dark brown colour schemes.

Despite serving downloadable content since 1995 with the Satellaview, Nintendo still hasn't got a handle on how to best present and promote games that don't come in boxes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the curious scrubland of DSiWare, the company's digital distribution platform for the latest iteration of its ubiquitous handheld.

Previously on Coming Attractions: yesterday we discussed some of 2010's highlights in fighting, puzzle and arcade games, and on Monday we toured the gallery of shooters and racing games due in this first year of a new decade. (Yes it is. Don't start.) Today: all things grind.

The public beta for Microsoft's easy-peasy game-making tool Kodu has been released on PC.

Capcom's "bitching" (and subsequent back-track) about poor sales of Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles was ill-aimed, WiiWare developer Bloober Team has told Eurogamer.

Modern Warfare 2 has unsurprisingly finished as the UK's best-selling game of 2009, according to Chart-Track data.

Yesterday we walked you through what will likely be some of 2010's biggest games - in several senses - in our roundup of shooters and racing games. Today we bring you a scattershot selection of games from genres that might not command the same public profile they used to, but could still quite easily suck up as much of your 2010 as anything else: fighting games, puzzle games and old-school (or, for that matter, new-school) arcade games.

Update: Nintendo's told Eurogamer that no release date has been confirmed for Other M in Europe and the uK.

Sony has confirmed what retailers suspected: that MAG will be released in the UK on 29th January.

The Lips karaoke series grows again on 26th February when Microsoft releases a new instalment called Lips: Party Classics.

A new report suggests enough content has been cut from Final Fantasy XIII to make an entirely new game.

Nintendo has denied that the next iteration of the DS will feature a motion sensor and more graphical power.

The European Star Trek Online beta has officially begun.

Microsoft's Robbie Bach has revealed that "something like 70 or 80 per cent of the publishers in the world" are making games for Natal.

Update: In related news, Sony Europe has said that the delay is "only applicable for the Japanese market".

Sony Europe has said that Gran Turismo 5's latest delay is "only applicable for the Japanese market", although the platform holder also declined to estimate when the game will be released.

Nintendo has filed an application to trademark the name Wii Relax in the US.

Namco Bandai is releasing a Tekken 6 patch on 18th January to enable online co-op during the Scenario Campaign.