Adam Philbin We don’t bother with every new game screenshot nowadays, but this is Street Fighter IV, so it deserves some of our attention. If you ask us, it looks pretty sexy, although hopefully the Manga style won’t look too naff. It shouldn’t look as funny as the Street Fighter: The Movie game though, which featured E. …
It’s official now, the PlayStation 3 will be getting DivX playback capabilities and full DivX certification. This came via an announcement from DivX, Inc. CEO Kevin Hell; “We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring DivX to PS3. Our technology will expand the multimedia functionality of PS3 by enabling users to enjoy …
This could pass for games related news we suppose. Transformers director Michael Bay has posted a rant about the HD-DVD Vs Blu-ray situation, saying “Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads”. It makes sense, and we kind of agree with him. Microsoft are …
In a bizarre but mesmerising piece of online marketing, Nuts magazine (probably with the involvement of Nintendo) have produced a series of Topless Wii videos – a dozen videos featuring topless Page 3 ladies playing Wii games, with the help of copious amounts of Baby Oil. As far as we could make out, the aim …
Some games catch you completely unawares, and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is one of those games. When I initially heard about it at some games show or another, I was ready to write it off as “some game that looks a bit like Tomb Raiderâ€. Developers Naughty Dog have been limited to Crash Bandicoot and Jak …
They’re an odd couple, Kane and Lynch. One’s a “flawed mercenaryâ€, though perhaps better described as a brutal killer, and the other’s a paranoid schizophrenic, although perhaps better described as a foul mouthed paranoid schizophrenic mass murderer. We get the impression Eidos were trying to stir up a bit of controversy with the game’s main …
There shouldn’t be anything too remarkable about another Ratchet & Clank game, but this is the furry Lombax’s first adventure on the PlayStation 3, and more notably, one of the best presented games “ever!â€. For once we can actually use that word with some confidence – this really is the closest gaming has come to …
If you’ve got an account with the US PlayStation Store (and there’s no reason why you can’t just sign up), then you might want to head over and download the new demo of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for the PS3. It’s really very, very good – a cross between Tomb Raider and The Getaway (but less …
Just as I was ready to write the PlayStation 3 off as a disaster of Dreamcast proportions, Sony release quite possibly the first game that’s ever come close to looking like a real CGI film (that doesn’t involve shooting people from a first person perspective) – and that game is Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools …
People have been speculating about it for long enough. Today, along with the UK public smoking ban, South Korea introduced VAT on money transactions in online games. Not a tax on virtual gold as such, but a tax on the payment of real money for virtual gold. It’s not that big a deal, though it …
This week’s big release is the oddly capitalised Colin McRae: DiRT, giving PC and 360 owners a reason to be cheerful. It looks bloody lovely, so if you like arcade-style muddy rally games, feel free to spend money on it. If you’re in the US it’s just called DiRT or something like that, whilst some …
There’s one big game release this week – Forza Motorsport 2 on the Xbox 360. We’re of two minds about this – on the one hand, it looks like a dull racing game that doesn’t seem much different to the old Xbox version. On the other hand, UK:R really like it, so it can’t be …
Ubisoft just held Ubidays 2007 – their replacement for the E3 show. If you weren’t a journalist invited expenses paid to Paris, it probably wasn’t much of an event, but at least Ubisoft showed the world a bunch of new game trailers. Among the games shown were two with the name Tom Clancy in them …
This is weird. In a frankly ludicrous move, Sony and BT have got together to offer the PSP as a phone package with VoIP capabilities. Do they not remember side talking? We’re not quite sure what the point is either – the implementation isn’t that useful. PSP users will only be able to make calls …
In an effort to make the PSP interesting again, and emulate the success of the PS3’s PlayStation Store, Sony have announced that they’ll be selling PSP games online directly through the PSP this autumn (in the US at least), with the PSP Store. It’s about time really – we were sure Japan had its own …