Latest Articles (Page 2965)

Sign-ups for the Hellgate: London beta test have begun. Just get yourself over to the official site in one piece to pop your name down.

Activision has stayed tight-lipped over rumours that a GUN sequel is in development - it pretty much just sat there blowing cigar smoke at us in the dingy poker-purposed back room in the saloon.

Codemasters has issued a statement responding to the tragic death this weekend of Colin McRae, expert adviser to and inspiration for the famous rally game series that bore his name. We are reprinting that statement here in full.

You're probably quite excited about Halo 3. You might even have a themed lunch box or a pack of stickers. Or perhaps you made your own merchandise. We won't inquire. It is the last game in the trilogy, after all, so the whole plot potato will finally be baked up for good. It also looks pretty fancy in general, with its four-player co-operative treats and trademark mulitplayer polish. Excitement city, then, and we're the mayor.

Q Entertainment has said its mysterious PS3 project will be a port of PC title Angel Love Online.

SEGA Japan has finally whisked the velvety blanket off its line-up for Tokyo Game Show 2007.

SEGA has released a demo of SEGA Rally for Xbox 360 owners, weighing in at 691.82MB and available everywhere except Japan.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that a Wii Sports sequel isn't the inevitability you might imagine.

Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski says BioShock is "hands down" his game of the year, and that the game's big plot twist is his "top moment in gaming history, bar none".

Has it really been 15 years since Sonic the Hedgehog 2 first hit screens? Yes, buy a calendar. Then look how far games have come. 3D graphics! Free-roaming environments! Intense online multiplayer battles for up to 32 racists at a time!

John Woo's Stranglehold will be out on PC this Friday, 21st September, and Midway's released a demo to celebrate.

On the heels of NPD data showing 403,600 consoles sold in August, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime promises an "unprecedented" Wii supply in North America for the holiday season, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Intel is to acquire videogame and movie software specialist Havok, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

It was, as Lennon and McCartney so presciently trilled, twenty years ago today. OK, they were talking about Sergeant Pepper teaching the band to play, not the release of Super Mario Bros, but the point still stands. Even though, yes, Super Mario Bros was actually released twenty three years ago today. And, admittedly, by "today" I actually mean "the Thursday just gone".

Rally driver Colin McRae - known to millions of gamers as the face of the Colin McRae Rally game series that he helped create - died along with his young son in a helicopter crash on Saturday.

There are some things you just have to be confident about. Situations where you have to choose one or the other, or be forever painted as a wishy-washy fence-sitter. The Beatles or Rolling Stones? Spectrum or Commodore? Salad cream or mayonnaise? These things are important. Here's another for the list: Street Fighter or Fatal Fury?

Should I ever wake up sporting a pair of breasts and feminine swagger, one of the first things I intend to do is sign up for a Wimmin In Games conference and present my thesis entitled Arranging Inventories: Modern Materialism In Post-Warcraft Virtual Spaces.

SouthPeak has moaned and groaned that Monster Madness: EX will be available on PS3 next year.

Activision has flown a new demo for Spider-Man: Friend or Foe into the Xbox Live web.

Stranglehold was never going to be a run of the mill shoot 'em up - this is extreme gun porn, with two hundred money shots before the first level is through.

Those of you tuning up for the 28th September release of Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights can now try out the multiplayer in a new Live demo.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 will launch for PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PS2 and mobile on 26th October.

Nintendo has told us a three week “Hanabi Festival”, has just begun on Virtual Console. Which means, excitingly, lots of Japanese and American titles will be playable in Europe for the very first time.

Developer Irem has puffed out its chest and confirmed that Steambot Chronicles is in development for PS3.

One of the best things about the new generation of consoles is the free and easy availability of demos - the very definition of try before you buy, right there at your fingertips on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store.

Tri-Crescendo's sought-after role-playing game Eternal Sonata has finally been confirmed for PS3.

You have to feel a little sorry for fans of the Super Nintendo's Secret of Mana, a videogame that constantly makes the All Time Top 100 lists for its seminal offline multiplayer adventuring experience. Almost every sequel and spin-off since its release in 1993 has been an abject disappointment, critically panned (or at least met with muted praise, which, in many videogame publications amounts to much the same thing) and shunned by players. Not only that but fans have had to put up with also almost every review of these sorry sequels opening in much the same way: reminiscing about the good old days.

Sitting on a plane yesterday flying to a SECRET LOCATION to engage in SECRET REVIEWING, I found myself reading Richard Dawkins' popular book about how God doesn't exist and how we should all get over it.

Valve has publicly launched Steam's community features after a brief beta test, meaning that when you next log on your kit will be updated.

Bizarre Creations has detailed the 57-song soundtrack for Project Gotham Racing 4, due out exclusively on 360 from 12th October.