April 25th, 2007
Activision has released some more information about the upcoming Transformer game for Nintendo DS. Your experience will depend on your choice of sides: Transformers: Autobots or Transformers: Decepticons?
As Autobots you can protect earth, as Decepticons, you destroy it. Mmm.. tough choice for some.
Here’s some of the key features from the game:
• Protect Or Destroy The […]
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April 19th, 2007
It’s official: the new Katamari title, Beautiful Katamari, is heading to the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Better graphics and katamari’s up to 7,000km in breadth are on the cards, according to director Jun Morikawi. We’re also told to anticipate razor-sharp gameplay, larger maps and even some innovative new controls (though this is presently being investigated by […]
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April 19th, 2007
Microsoft has performed a backward compatability upgrade for the Xbox 360 which includes about 40 or so Xbox titles now playable on the next gen console.
The free update is available via Xbox Live.
Tenku (Japan only)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Legend of Aang (EMEA/ANZ)
Breakdown
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty 3
Cars
Crash Bandicoot […]
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April 19th, 2007
I’m blinking sort of dumbly at the screen while reading about this, but here it goes.
Snoop Dogg was paid $150,000 in fees to appear at a UNICEF event, then almost pulled out at the last minute because there was no Xbox in his dressing room.
Despite receiving a reported $150,000 fee to appear, Snoop demanded his […]
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April 18th, 2007
Sega has recently signed with Marvel to add Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Thor to their list of video game-starring superheroes.
Iron Man will be hitting console, PC and handhelds in May, just in time for its feature film to hit theaters, while a game for Hulk is currently in development (this is not to […]
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April 18th, 2007
Sony may not be able to get gamers to buy the PS3 in droves, but folks from other walks of life have taken a real interest with the powerful Cell processor that provides the computational backbone to the next-gen system.
Initiatives like Folding@Home, which I posted about previously, are cropping up as more and more researchers […]
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April 18th, 2007
In an effort to boost recruitment numbers, the US Army has charged off in a new direction, looking to the frequenters of online wars as fertile fields for the picking. The armed forces branch will be sponsoring a channel at the Global Gaming League (GGL) site, a haven for multiplayer FPS players.
Looking to “bond […]
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April 17th, 2007
Ehhh…yeah.
It seems like Link and Zelda have the same kind of “kiss! kiss! kiss!” following that good old Mulder and Scully created in their nine seasons of X-Files. Rather than simply waiting for game developers to make it happen however, Facepunch Studios forum monkeys have managed to yoink the character meshes from The Legend […]
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April 17th, 2007
If ever you needed confirmation that Second Life was taking on a whole new look in the eyes of marketers, look no further then this “brand map” that shows the Second Life locations of some of reality’’s biggest hitters.
Marketing and branding company K Zero, through their blog written by Nic Mitham, had a dig through […]
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April 16th, 2007
Nintendo has added the following titles to the Wii Shop:
Punch Out!!® Featuring Mr. Dream (NES®, 1 player, 500 Wii Points): As young boxer Little Mac, players have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to battle the big guys of the World Video Boxing Association circuit. Take them on one by one, starting with skinny Glass Joe. Battle up […]
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