3DS Launch Dates
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010Nintendo recently held a press conference on the launch of its 3DS handheld, giving release dates for all major regions. The glasses-less 3D system will be available in Japan on February 26th, 2011, and in Europe and the States sometime in March. The suggested retail price for the 3DS, at least in Japan, will be [...]
3 CommentsSchafer and Gilbert Team Back Up for New IP
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010The last time Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer shared significant credits on the same title, it was 1991′s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge. Almost twenty years later, the industry vets have teamed up again for a brand new title. Breaking the news to Kotaku, Ron Gilbert was brought onto Schafer’s Double Fine staff for a [...]
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010The spin-off creatures from Rayman, known as the Rabbids, will be making another leap in the near future: into television. A job posting at Aardman Animation, the makers of Wallace and Gromit, is looking to hire a person capable of creating a “live action/CGI” mixed television show based on the insane rabbity-things. Ubisoft and Aardman [...]
Comments OffActivision-Blizzard Joins STEM
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010We recently reported on the government’s new educational game initiative, the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) challenge to both development studios and individuals. On the industry side, a connected collaborative effort, Change the Education, has begun and already gained some major supporters. Activision Blizzard announced its involvement and support for the initiative, joining companies from [...]
Comments OffUbisoft Canned Modern Day Prince of Persia
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Coming out of a feature by Computers and Video Games, former art director for developer/publisher Ubisoft has claimed that the studio had begun production on, and later canned, a modern day version of its popular Prince of Persia franchise. Jacques-Belletete, now working on Deus Ex: Human Revolution, has also stated that he had worked on [...]
Comments OffPSP2 Gearing Up For ‘Significant’ Launch Lineup
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010The 99%-confirmed PSP2 has been in the news a lot since a NetherRealm employee divulged its existence. But it appears that the studio behind Mortal Kombat isn’t the only one to have had a look at the upcoming handheld. According to multiple sources within many different developers, the system has been making the studio rounds [...]
1 CommentEA, Activision Duke it Out via Press Statements
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Harkening back to the days of Nintendon’t and Genesisn’t, the respective heads and representatives of the two biggest publishers in the industry have begun what appears to be a press statement duel. Beginning with some statements from the soundbite-favorite Bobby Kotick of Activision, Electronic Arts has fired back to what it believes to be some [...]
1 CommentElder-Speek Issue 67: reResurrected!
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Double zombies all the way, woaw oooh oh my god! Its a double zombie! ooohh my god! waaahahahoohaahoha, what does it mean?!
Comments OffZombies Confirmed for Call of Duty: Black Ops
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010After teasing their audience for months and months, Treyarch has finally confirmed that the highly popular “Nazi Zombies” mode from Call of Duty: World at War will return in Call of Duty: Black Ops. In the past, Treyarch refused to confirm whether this gametype, or a similar survival mode, would be included. The feature was [...]
Comments OffElder-Geek Interviews: Ben Bradley
Monday, September 27th, 2010Elder-Geek Interviews is back, this time with indie-dev Benjamin Bradley, creator of Substream.
Comments OffElectronic Arts Compensating APB Customers
Monday, September 27th, 2010When Realtime Worlds shut down the All Points Bulletin server last week after a measly 2 months and 17 days of active service, many users were outraged over the fact that they were unable to recover the funds they had invested in the game. Now, EA is offering compensation to users who purchased the game via [...]
1 CommentAssassin’s Creed Multiplayer Beta Goes Live
Monday, September 27th, 2010Despite having been delayed for several days, the multiplayer beta for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has gone live on Playstation Network today. The beta is currently only available to subscribers to the Playstation Plus service, but will be available to all users some time next week. The multiplayer beta contains two different game modes, “Alliance” and [...]
Comments OffChris Nolan Looking into Inception Game
Monday, September 27th, 2010“Inception”, the biggest summer blockbuster of 2010 (grossing over $700 million worldwide) has placed one universal idea into the minds of its audiences: this would make a great video game. Christopher Nolan, the film’s director, doesn’t think the notion is that far from probability, and hasn’t stopped looking into the possibility of developing one. Variety [...]
1 CommentRumor: Playstation Getting in Bed with Android?
Monday, September 27th, 2010The latest in possible hardware revolutions revealed through a job posting, Sony’s London Studio is looking for an employee with very specific experience. While potential Senior Server Engineer with “mobile development” are highly desired, the listing originally cited Android mobile phone OS work as a major plus. The posting was changed shortly after the story [...]
1 CommentCapcom Confirms Level-5 Collaboration
Monday, September 27th, 2010Capcom’s Global Head of Production, Keiji Inafune, recently confirmed a collaboration with the famed developers at Level-5 (Dark Cloud, Professor Layton franchise) to Diamond Online, a Japanese business website. More specifically, the studio head was eager to discuss work with Akihiro Hino, the brain behind Layton. No details of the actual collaborative project were given.
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