Frogster Interactive announced a deal with Bitmap Brothers to release remakes of its classic retro-titles to PC in 2007. The deal includes cult-classic Amiga games like: Speedball 2 and Chaos Engine, which will be release for PC in 2007 with development assistance from The Bitmap Brothers. The futuristic sports game, Speedball 2 was originally released…

A block-shifting/line-building puzzler challenging gamers to connect as many lines together as possible by moving set blocks with line parts on top. The basic Gunpey gameplay has square pieces, each containing a diagonal line, rising from the bottom of the screen toward the top. You move the pieces up and down, attempting to form a…

Doom from Activision and Sensible World of Soccer from Codemasters were the new games announced for Xbox Live Arcade at the X06 keynote yesterday. But as the X06 event opened up to the press a showreel showed off lots more new Arcade games were coming to the Xbox 360! Newly announced Arcade games are: Assault…

Last week at Sony’s Ken Kutaragi’s TGS 2006 keynote speech revealed that the PS3 would be backwards compatible with 16-bit games on the MegaDrive/Genesis, much like the Nintendo Wii. Oddly enough SEGA Japan has issued a short statement clarifying that such claims are not correct at this point, that the option is merely being considered,…

Eidos announced Crossfire, a new FPS title by Pivotal Games. Players become operatives in the CIA’s Special Activities Division – a paramilitary group used when American politicians want to keep their hands clean. Members of the Division carry no identification, and are completely disavowed if caught or killed. Like EA’s Army of Two, Crossfire’s gameplay…

The following content is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Update: The latest X06 additions are bolded. Demos: FEAR, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Sonic the Hedgehog. Arcade: Doom. Trailers: Call Of Duty 3, Banjo Kazooie, Marvel Ultimate Online, Viva Pinata, Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Bioshock,…

At X06 today Microsoft Game Studios announced Halo Wars, an all-new real-time strategy game based on the legendary Halo universe and built exclusively for Xbox 360 by Ensemble Studios, the creators of the Age of Empires series. Halo Wars places the player in command of human UNSC armies as they deploy for mankind’s first deadly…

At X06 Ubisoft today confirmed that “Assassin’s Creed” the eagerly anticipated action title set in medieval times, is also coming to Xbox 360 day and date with the game’s release on PC and PS3. “Assassin’s Creed” is a next-generation action-adventure/stealth title from the highly talented and critically acclaimed team that brought gamers “Prince of Persia:…

Microsoft today thrilled attendees at its annual X06 event in Barcelona, Spain, by inviting everyone to experience the next generation now on the Xbox 360 system. The announcements and hands-on gameplay experiences highlight how the world’s greatest game creators are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in high definition and online storytelling. Highlights of…

SEGA today reached an agreement with New Line Cinema and Scholastic Media to create videogame content based on the films from award-winning author Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. With over 10 million books sold worldwide, the His Dark Materials trilogy is comprised of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The…

Those cheeky folks making Sam & Max episodic content (#1 out of 6 so far) announced “Production on Sam & Max Episode 1 halted… because it’s done!” The premiere episode is “Culture Shock,” and begins as Sam and Max discover that a group of former child stars have become involved in nefarious deeds. Only the…

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Ubisoft released a new Splinter Cell: Double Agent trailer titled “Choose”. The movie shows the struggle Sam Fisher (you) will be in. During the course of the game you’ll be infiltrating a vicious terrorist group to destroy it from within. Face the dilemmas of life as a double agent as you infiltrate a terrorist organization…