Sumthing Else Musicworks Releases Soundtracks for MadWorld, Banjo Kazooie

Sumthing Else Musicworks, in their continued partnership with developer/publisher Capcom, have recently released two new soundtrack sets based on the studio’s popular IP. Banjo Kazzoie made it’s way to store shelves a couple days ago, with MadWorld following suit today. Both of the multi-disc releases feature the official soundtrack of their respective title, composed and [...]

EA Aiming To Release More IPs

In an interview with Gamasutra.com, EA officer Frank Gibeau has stated that despite the disappointing sales of their new IP’s last year, the company is aiming to release around 9 IPs over the next three years. EA’s most important IPs last year were Dead Space and Mirrors Edge, neither of which managed to break far [...]

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Stuffed into the aisle-side of the rather tight-knit Ignition Entertainment booth were a couple of kiosks holding one of the more artistic looking games for the Nintendo Wii platform. Muramasa: The Demon Blade is the second game from the makers of Odin Sphere to carry a 2-D side-scrolling aesthetic and hand-painted look to both [...]

Monkey Island Creator to Keynote PAX 2009

Organizers for the PAX gaming festival recently announced the participation of Monkey Island series creator Ron Gilbert as this year’s keynote speaker, setting off the event that will be taking place September 4th to 6th at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The Computer Game Hall of Famer will bring his two decades of [...]

Warner Brothers Sole Interest in Midway Buy-Out

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What Midway Games was hoping would start a high-price bidding war between companies turned out to be their only shot at purchase when Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment’s late-May bid of $33 Million turned out to be the studio’s only offer. Rumors and reports abound about many developers and publishers waffling on [...]

“BlazBlue” PS3 to Offer Remote Play

Playstation owners have even more reason to anticipate the forth-coming frentic fighter BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, as it was recently announced that the PS3 version of the game will ship with Remote Play functionality, meaning those owning a PSP in addition to Sony’s home console can log onto the internet from anywhere in their region, log [...]

Interview: Joseph Olin

This interview has been edited for length and content, with intent to condense, while not rephrasing, points made within it.
Joseph Olin is a man you immediately want to impress. As the acting President of the Academy of the Interactive Arts and Sciences, he presides over the biggest organization gunning for the artistic expansion [...]

Video Games and the Female Audience

Daniel Floyd has been very generous and is allowing us to run his content on our site. Thanks Daniel! Without further ado, here is the sixth episode in his video lecture series.

Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures

Flashing back to my young pre-teenage years in the glory days of 1990s, I first encountered the clay characters of Wallace and his trusty, sidekick dog, Gromit in the movie Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave. After watching the first three movies, including A Grand Day Out and The Wrong Trousers, I [...]

Battlefield: Heroes Entering Open Beta

Free-to-play online FPS Battlefield: Heroes has been made available to the entire public today. The browser-based shooter, which is somewhat similar to Quake Live, has already been in closed beta for quite some time now. Initially scheduled for a release during the summer of 2008, the game has been faced with multiple setbacks and delays. Similar [...]

Patapon

By Rachel Phillips
Since Patapon 2 just came out, I thought I’d play Patapon 1 to prepare. Patapon won the 2008 best PSP game award from several outlets, and justly so. Seriously, who would have thought that black little eyeballs equipped to the teeth with axes, spears, bows, arrows, and oddly, tubas would be so much [...]

EA Wants You to Be a “Pepper”

Electronic Arts and Dr. Pepper today announced a multi-million dollar marketing deal that will bring Dr. Pepper registered content to gamers and….drinkers…alike through the EA game library. In obtaining and entering codes common on over 500 million Dr. Pepper products, gamers can get access to exclusive content on a wide breadth of EA games, the [...]

Square Enix Sued For Supposed Customer Deception

Square Enix, developer and published of the MMO Final Fantasy XI has been brought to court last Tuesday in a class-action filed with a Californian court. The case focuses on supposed “deceptive advertising, unfair and undisclosed business practices, and concealment” by Square Enix of America with regard to the monthly fees for their popular MMO.
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Mythic and Bioware Merge

EA recently made head-way into a proposed merger of famed-RPG developer Bioware and massively multiplayer online games studio Mythic Entertainment into one major, RPG/MMO development company. The yet unnamed studio will be headed by Bioware general manager and co-founder Ray Muzyka, with Bioware’s other co-founder Greg Zeschuk will take on the role of Group Creative [...]

ZeniMax Media Nabs id Software

Parent company of Bethesda Softworks, Zenimax Media has just announced its acquistion  of develop id Software, famous for its classic FPS franchises like DOOM and Wolfenstein, with its most recent title being the upcoming PC title Rage. Bethseda Softworks will now publish the future titles of the company, those licenses not previously [...]