Latest Articles (Page 2888)

Epic Games VP Mark Rein has laughed off Cliff Bleszinski's recent claim that PC gaming is in "disarray", pointing out that PC gaming is Epic's "heritage".

When we booked our GDC interview slot with Mark Rein, Gears of War 2 was just an inevitability. By the time we sat down with him on the Thursday, Cliff Bleszinski had carved up the stage with a Lancer chainsaw bayonet and we knew it would be "more badass". With that in mind, we tried to prise some more details out of Mark and also talked about the new technology Tim Sweeney demonstrated for Unreal Engine 3 on 360, Unreal Tournament III's reception and Epic's future plans, and what exactly the PC Gaming Alliance - of which Epic is a member - is going to do for PC gamers.

Raph Koster believes Flash games are spearheading the next-generation of games more than consoles, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Halo 3 hasn't been top of the pops on Major Nelson's Xbox Live activity charts for a little while now, but Bungie plans to fight back.

Nintendo unleashed a Wii firmware update on our region while we slept.

Bound to be rubbish, right? Let's see. The Bourne Conspiracy is a bit of an anomaly in the world of movie-licensed titles. There's no movie of that name in existence, for a start - and although some of the game's sequences are taken from the first movie, The Bourne Identity, it's described as a companion piece to the existing series rather than a re-telling. There's also no sign of Matt Damon, or any of the movie's stars; Bourne himself is a re-imagined, brown-haired everyman with piercing eyes and a nasty line in lethal combat.

EA's upcoming science-fiction shooter Dead Space will be released in Europe and the US on 31st October for PS3 and 360, the publisher announced today, although there's no word on the PC version.

Codemasters has said it will be offering Overlord on PS3 this summer.

Nintendo has updated the website for the WiiWare title formerly known as Pokemon Farm.

HMV is offering 1000 Microsoft Points to anyone pre-ordering Lost Odyssey before its release on Friday.

Nintendo Europe has jumped on the head of suggestions that Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be out here in autumn.

Tonight at 8pm GMT a sweet new era in videogame media begins: Eurogamer is hosting One Life Left, Europe's only videogame radio show. You'll be able to listen live from 8pm on the One Life Left site with the stream hosted by Eurogamer's more-than-capable servers. And you'll be able to do that every Tuesday evening for the forseeable future.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has continued its Michael Johnson-like domination of the UK All Formats Chart.

Sony's opening up of its in-game advertising platform will spark a battle among Double Fusion, IGA and AdScape, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

A Sony spokesperson has told Eurogamer he believes that LittleBigPlanet is "potentially our biggest Blu-ray release of 2008".

Microsoft Game Studios has told Eurogamer that it has no plans to release GoldenEye on Xbox Live Arcade.

SEGA has said it will be bringing gorgeous PS3-exclusive Valkyria Chronicles to the West this autumn.

As part of the continuing drive to push through the proposed acquisition of Take-Two Interactive, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has expressed his admiration for the Rockstar senior management team, and held them up as a source of inspiration for Riccitiello's own restructuring of EA since June last year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Sony plans to unleash a MotorStorm sequel on us this Christmas, if you believe the BBC and its words.

Take-Two has labelled Electronic Arts' USD 2 billion buy-out offer as "inadequate" and "opportunistic", as EA attempts to take advantage of the struggling Grand Theft Auto publisher, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

We recently cast our rheumy gaze over the state of MotorStorm's downloads, but what of the other flagship games of the PlayStation 3's early life? Have they bravely grasped the angry cobra of downloadable content and wrestled it into a sack, or has it sunk its poisonous fangs into their quivering meaty rump, leaving them to thrash and foam in a bush? Let's find out...

It's official - the Wii has gone so "mainstream" it's now hanging out at Hollywood's biggest globally televised circle jerk.

According to Wired, American intelligence agencies are planning to profile online gaming behaviour, and move on to "automatically detecting suspicious behaviour and actions in the virtual world".

Developer Warashi has slipped word that Triggerheart Exelica will arrive on Live Arcade this Wednesday.

Phil Harrison will resign as president of SCE Worldwide Studios on 29th February 2008, Sony has just announced.

Microsoft has unveiled plans for the Official European Halo 3 Tournament, which will run from 18th to 30th March.

A sequel of some sort to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords will be released in 2008, says D3Publisher.

Microsoft has responded to the discontinuation of the HD-DVD format by predictably slinging its Xbox 360 add-on in the bin.

The new Indiana Jones action game has only just gone into production, according to a LucasArts source.

Take-Two has refused an offer by Electronic Arts to acquire the troubled publisher for $2 billion, GamesIndustry.biz reports.