Has The Last Guardian been cancelled?
In what might just shape up to be a huge Sony upset, it's being rumoured that The Last Guardian – made by Ico and Shadow of the Colossus developer Team Ico – has been cancelled.
In production for more than three long years, Team Ico's latest is expected to triumph the same kind of heart and scalability of its two previous efforts. It's the developers first project on current HD platforms.
Diablo III could be with us by January, Retailer reveals.
Though we're still waiting on confirmation from Blizzard, Diablo III – the dark-fantasy dungeon-crawler RPG first announced over three years ago and the follow-up to the multiple award-winning Diablo II – might well be on store shelves as early as late January, if a Play.com listing is to be believed.
USB Biofeedback Game Controller. Play games with your gun show
So you flex those fore-arms to impress the women, who always end up walking away (it's okay to admit, we've all been there). Well what if we could provide you some kind of use for them except for their power of ticket dispensary?
Well Advancer Technologies has your back, with the Biofeedback Game Controller, a plug-and-play option that used EMG (electromyography) sensors to monitor electrical currents that flow through your muscles with every impulse, and turn them into on-screen control (in this case, navigating Mario in Super Mario 3).
Square Enix confirms personal details of 1.8m compromised in recent hack
Japanese game publisher Square Enix has admitted the personal details of over 1.8m North American and Japanese user accounts have been compromised in a recent security breach, the extent of which was first detailed on Wednesday.
GTA III Storms Onto Mobile Devices, Lavished With Praise
Rockstar Games today released Grand Theft Auto's controversial 3D debut on the App Store and Android Marketplace in celebration of the game's ten-year anniversary.
Essentially defining the sandbox genre, GTA III reaped huge praise at launch, despite the subsequent controversy it provoked from mainstream news outlets and the general public. Here was a game in which players could car-jack ordinary members of the public, commit atrocious acts of violence and have unsolicited sex with prostitutes – far from the delights of other games from that year; Pikmin, Sonic Adventure 2, Ico.
Ideas for Metal Gear Solid 5 revealed by Kojima
Kojima has spoken in a rather detailed interview about the development story behind the recently re-announced project Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, and his ideas for the next major milestone in the stealth combat series.
"Metal Gear Solid 4 wrapped up in 2008, and the dev team took post-project time off right after that. But, of course, we were in a situation where we had to start planning for MGS5. So I started coming up with several ideas," he says, beginning this exploration behind-the-scenes of Kojima Productions.
Humble Indie Bundle 4 released in time for Christmas
Gamers are a tricky bunch to buy for around Christmas. Now, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Battlefield might be totally different properties to you and I, but try telling that to your nan. She has the unenviable task of picking out this year's must-have from a shelf full of has-been shooters and copy-cat clones. No wonder you end up with the wrong game under the tree. Oh, and when they do get it right, it's most probably for the wrong console. Try again next year.
Cheater banned from Modern Warfare 3 for 5000 days
So when Infinity Ward talked about the new banning system taking a firmer grasp on the likes of cheating and boosting, we never expected it to be this severe.
By this, we mean what is essentially made clear in the title, one player has been banned for 5000 days (what Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling calls a 'permaban') for the aforementioned cheating and boosting. To put this in a different context, this is 13.68 years.
Sony Unveils PlayStation Vita's UK Tour
Sony is set to bring playable PlayStation Vita demo units to UK cities ahead of the handheld's launch on February 22, the company has reported. Like Nintendo's 'Believe Your Eyes' 3DS tour before it, Sony is bringing 'Vita Rooms' to Glasgow, Birmingham and London throughout January and February 2012 – kicking off at 63 Deansgate in Manchester from Friday 13th to Wednesday 18th January.
Codemasters Reveals DiRT Showdown
Codemasters is developing a spin-off destruction-based racing game based on the DiRT series, as exclusively revealed by Gamespot today.
For many, and us included, DiRT started life as a welcome return for the Colin McRae rally games of generations past. It was a game that relied not on the rough-and-tumble of competitive racing (although there was a fair bit of it) and instead was focused on shaving tenths of seconds off rally stage splits and maintaining the careful concentration associated with listening to your co-pilot.
Spike TV VGA Awards 2011: The Round Up
Geographically close to one of the gaming industry's iconic public stages – E3's LA Convention Center – the Spike TV VGA Awards has been building quite the name for itself over the past few years. Once just another 'me-too' award show (albeit one with more T & A and ill-conceived humour than your average affair), the annual show, shown live on Spike TV, is now one of the most hyped events in the industry's calendar. What with a host of exclusive worldwide reveals (Mass Effect 3, Batman: Arkham City), Spike TV has built the VGA's into quite the spectacle – a show that celebrates games, gamers and gaming with a menagerie of celebrity guests, worldwide reveals, exclusive debut trailers and, of course, the awards themselves. This year might have struggled to break free from its immature roots, for many, including Jason Schreier, still a worrying trend, but that didn't mean we weren't treated to some truly spectacular glimpses at upcoming titles. So, without further adieu, here are our picks of the very best moments of the Spike TV VGA Awards 2011...
Play Xbox 360 and PS3 games on Google Chrome
Google has successfully realised its ambitions to develop a complex browser technology that allows 'heavy duty' apps – such as Xbox 360 and PS3 games – to be run in-browser on Google Chrome.
All possible through Google's Native Client, which Google professes makes porting to Chrome relatively simple, Supergiant Games earlier today released its charming indie hit, Bastion, onto the Chrome Web Store.
OnLive comes to Tablets and Smartphones
Brazenly fending off the competition (Gaikai & the recently-unveiled Approxy), OnLive has today made its cloud gaming service available on a range of smartphones and tablets – making triple-A gaming on the go a truer possibility.
Official Xbox Live app available on iOS
Microsoft has released an official Xbox Live app, titled My Xbox Live, for Apple's iPhone and iPad. That felt rather strange to put in a headline.
As Major Nelson announced in his blog, the app pretty closely resembles what features you see on the Windows Phone 7 variant, just without the deep integration with mobile games that WP7 possesses.
All about 8-bit Metal
So someone over a couple years ago took to the tablature program Guitar Pro and inputted their song of choice at the time, and created a MIDI playback via SCXX. Immediately, one is transported back to the likes of the Sega Master System, Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System with a listen to merely one of these.
And henceforth, the 8-bit versions of metal songs were born in 2009: the absolute fascination being how some would suit so eloquently as soundtracks to video games, in some situations bettering the originals in an abstract sense. The combination of the raw buzzsaw sound of the chiptune with the melodical intricacies of the songs makes for a remeniscent experience. Basically, you'd never think metal would work in this sense; but it makes for a rather unique form of paying homage. Take a look at some of our favourites.
Music video celebrates iPhone Games with Real-life versions
Have you ever wondered what iPhone Games looked like in real life? Neither did we; but Hey Geronimo have answered peoples' aforementioned wonderment with their music video titled 'Why don't we do something?'
We see the likes of Fruit Ninja, Plants vs Zombies, Cut The rope (cutest rendition), Flight Control and the classic Angry Birds. Unsurprisingly, it went viral pretty rapidly, and reminds us everso of Le Internet Medley. It seems that pop culture is changing...into birds killing pigs and death wishes against fruit. Take a look below.
Obsidian Developing South Park RPG, More Details Revealed
A game based on Trey Parker and Matt Stone's crude adult animated show South Park was no surprise – after all, we've previously seen the IP on consoles – but what we weren't expecting was the same project to be an ambitious, turn-based RPG from veteran role-playing developer Obsidian Entertainment (Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II, Fallout: New Vegas).
Game Of Thrones RPG Set For European Release
Focus Home Interactive today confirmed that it has signed a deal with Cyanide Studios for exclusive European publishing rights to the ambitious Game of Thrones RPG for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Treyarch busy recruiting for next Call Of Duty. To be set in Space?
Just weeks since Modern Warfare 3 became the biggest-selling game of 2011, talk about the next in the Call Of Duty series is already heating up. Call of Duty: World At War and Black Ops developer Treyarch is stepping up development for what will be the ninth title in the franchise. Various job listings have been spotted on the studio's official website, citing applicants should be, amongst other things, “an expert on recent first-person shooters”.