Archive for January, 2009
On Xbox Live today: Interpol
From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play TikGames’ Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Interpol will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s US$10 / €9.60 / £6.80 / CAN$12.40 / AU$13.20). As an elite Interpol agent, it is your mission hunt down the…
Richard Garriott working on new online medieval fantasy game
According to the mouth of the beast, Richard “Lord British” Garriot is looking to start work on another MMO, this time a medieval fantasy one after the commercial failure that was Tabula Rasa (which was a sci-fi game). BBC News ran a feature where they talked to various developers about 2008 and what’s to come…
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop zombie concert
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is the Wii version of 2006′s Xbox 360 killing-zombie-fest that does what Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition did for Resident Evil 4 to Dead Rising. It will allow you to use the Wii Remote and Nunchuck to take down those zombies with the game’s various weapons. Additionally there will…
Free Radical Design, makers of TimeSplitters and Haze, for sale either whole or piece by piece
You may recall that Free Radical Design shut down due to the commercial failure of the PS3 exclusive Haze and the bad economy which forced the company to close its doors and put into question whether TimeSplitters 4, which was being worked on, will ever see the light of day. Well now it may, because…
Hasbro Family Game Night channel coming to Xbox Live Arcade along with slew of board games
Hasbro has announced that Xbox Live will be graced with a “Hasbro Family Game Night” Channel this Spring. The general manager of EA Hasbro, Chip Lange, says that the family game night channel will allow family members who are hankering for some board game action to easily find a selection of Xbox Live Arcade board…
Gears of War 2 title update planned for this month
A title update for Gears of War 2 has been revealed by Epic Vice President Mark Rein on the companies official forums and is due for release this month. The title update will improve a number of various aspects regarding Gears of War 2 including adding Achievements to downloadable content, fixing bugs and addressing exploits….
Xbox 360 reaches 28 million units sold worldwide. 17 million users on Xbox Live
Microsoft has announced that their flagship console, the Xbox 360, has achieved sales of 28 million units worldwide. To put the Xbox 360 sales numbers in comparison to Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3, the PS3 will need to sell around 8 million more console units to catch up to the Xbox 360 while Microsoft…
Jagged Alliance 3 release date now falls in Q1 2010
Jagged Alliance 3 has been been in development at Akella and F3 Games since December 2006, as of October 2008 the turn-based tactics PC game was delayed from late 2008 to a Q1 2010 release date. While it’s a nice preview, the game won’t look exactly like the trailer below, since this delay is because…
No PS3 price cuts before summer 2009
If you were holding off on buying a PlayStation 3 until it drops in price then you may want to let out that breath of air before you pass out. David Reeves of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has stated that Sony isn’t planning a price cut for quite a while, maybe not even this year….
PS3s used to discover world wide web security flaw
An international team of security researches used a “farm” of 200 PlayStation 3′s to discover a flaw in an algorithm that is used to authenticate certificates for “secure” web-sites. The PS3 was used due to its powerful cell processor which is particularly good at performing cryptographic functions. To quote from 1-Up: “The researchers used the…
Lord of the Rings Conquest system requirements of your PC specs
The Lord of the Rings Conquest is scheduled for release on the Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3 and DS on January 15th with an international release on January 9th, which is also the day that Xbox 360 gamers will have access to a 1.25GB multiplayer demo of the game. The game will also be hitting…
Wii Sports becomes best-selling video game of all time
Wii Sports may have just become the best-selling video game of all time, topping the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES which previously held the title. VGChartz is reporting that Wii Sports has sold over 40.24 million copies in 110 weeks to surpass the original Super Mario Bros. and make it the game that’s…
The top 20 played and downloaded Xbox Live Arcade games of 2008
Microsoft has revealed a few interesting top 20 lists for Xbox Live in 2008 including the Top 20 Downloaded Live titles and the Top 20 Xbox Live Supported Games. They even revealed a top 20 list for Xbox 1 titles that were still played in 2008. The list isn’t that surprising but it does point…













