EyeToy Kinetic is an innovative new physical exercise gaming title that Sony produced in association with Nike Motionworks, the professional sports research lab. It has been designed to help the player improve their fitness and health using a variety of exercise games, whatever that person’s fitness level is. EyeToy Kinetic allows players to improve not…

Spong reports that Alien Hominid is coming out in the UK tomorrow. I don’t think there is a US release date, but you can import it from the UK online store Gameplay. The game started out as an original, downloadable single-level Flash game, which has now been downloaded over 13 million times, all in 2D…

Gamespot reports that the creator of Halo, Bungie Studios, is looking to hire PC developers for an unnamed project. To quote: “Taken in and of themselves, the listings are merely interesting. However, the wording of the graphics programmer job description has many positively convinced that Bungie is porting Halo 2 to the PC, in-house. ‘This…

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The fired Sony artist, Josh Robinson, made the following comments on his website: “Now in my opinion it doesn’t matter how good the PS3 is. If the Xbox 360 is better, then it doesn’t really matter how the cell processors work or how good they say it is. Realistically one of them will be better…

Eyes around The Beehive widen and brows furrow in incredulity. I’m suddenly instructed to tell everyone at the table what I’ve just said to one half. I clear my throat. “The worldwide high score for Geometry Wars is 12.8 million.” Nobody says anything. Everyone just thinks about it. “Terrifying,” says someone, eventually. “Mine’s 2.1 million,…

Nintendojo were lucky enough to score an interview with Lance Barr, the case designer for the American versions of the NES and Super NES. Over 20 years later, Lance still works at Nintendo’s offices in Redmond, Washington. While Lance is much less visible than other members of the Nintendo team, his designs are an integral…

Magic Eye is a series of books that feature “autostereograms” which allow people to see 3D images by focusing on 2D patterns. Also called “SIRDS” or “single image random dot stereo” images. One enterprising gamer has applied the algorithm for SIRDS to Quake II, creating a Quake II mod called AbSIRD. Once you get your…

GameStop has begun to take pre-orders of PS3 games, with all 32 titles currently listed priced at $59.99 and stamped with a Pre-Release ETA of 10/1/06. No word yet on console pre-orders. Joystick reports: Among the titles offered are a few familiar to 360 owners, including Condemned: Criminal Origins and Peter Jackson’s King Kong, but…

Activision’s Gun, developed by Neversoft, the maker’s of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series, is a western-themed action game meant to show the harshness and brutality of Old Western life. Thus the game features many violent battles with American Indians throughout the game, never skimping on the blood and the gore, you can even scalp…

Mega Man Maverick Hunter X is a remake of the original Mega Man X title that first appeared on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game builds upon the original, adding newly rendered 3D character models, totally new environments and gameplay features that raise the bar for side-scrolling platformers. Mega Man Maverick Hunter X also…

UPDATE: It has just been confirmed that not only will Resident Evil 4 be coming to PC’s, but so are the PS2 hits Onimusha 3: Demon Siege and Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening (Special Edition). What’s most interesting is that Ubi-Soft, will be doing publishing duties for the PC versions of Capcom’s hits. While…

The TV series Stargate is set to become the longest running US sci-fi TV series of all time (which to me is amazing. I’ve never watched the show but I did see the original movie and remember thinking “A Stargate TV show?! Bah, it’ll never last!” . . . suffice it to say, I’ve been…

3D Realms’ George Broussard has recently provided an update on the progress of the first-person shooter everyone calls Duke Nukem Taking Forever. In an interview with 1up he said Duke Nukem Forever will be out “when pigs fly”, Broussard quickly slipped into more sensible mode and revealed that things are “definitely going well now” for…

As gamers we’re used to seeing videogame commercials on TV, but here’s something different. It’s not gaming related (credit card), but still fun as heck. Go retro as Roddick plays Pong!