Rockstar’s been on a roll with the Grand Theft Auto franchise lately, what with the PSP version of Chinatown Wars coming and the upcoming release of Gay Tony DLC for the Xbox 360 version of GTA 4. Todd Mitchell, analyst for Kaufman Bros. Equity Research has some predictions for the series, and they are [...]

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Some fine adventure games have been churned out by Telltale for the last couple of years. The team responsible for Sam & Max, Wallace & Gromit and Strong Bad has been highly successful with their hits on PC; heck, their games are also released on Xbox Live and WiiWare. So, why [...]

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Developer TopWare, now owned by Zuxxez, has announced a sequel to their Oblivion-esque action-RPG Two Worlds.
The sequel, humorously dubbed Two Worlds II, is being developed for PC, Mac and “next-gen consoles” for release this winter. Apparently the game has been in development for two years and will make “quantum leaps” in [...]

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Tecmo Koei, one of the bigger developer/publishers in Japan, is, like many other publishers, asking Sony to cut the price on the PS3 console, in order to boost the install base (and thereby widening the market for the publishers). Tecmo Koei CEO Kenji Matsubara recently said in an interview:
“Whenever I discuss this with Sony reps [...]

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If you’ve been shaking your fists at Activision for not providing you with enough punk songs in Guitar Hero: World Tour, you’re in luck. It was recently announced that a pack called the Epitaph Punk-O-Rama Track Pack has been added to both Xbox Live and the Playstation Network.
Below is what you will get for 440 [...]

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It wasn’t too long ago that we discovered that DJ Hero would be priced around $120 for the US and even higher for the UK which had a lot of gamers asking Activision ‘what gives?’.
Well, when asked the same question by Eurogamer, they responded with “We believe that DJ Hero will provide tremendous value [...]

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Sure, God of War III won’t be making its way onto the Xbox 360 but who cares? Dante’s Inferno is!
Honestly though, if the above video is anything to go by, Dante’s Inferno is looking to give God of War III a run for its money. Said video contains never before seen gameplay from Dante’s Inferno [...]

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Tekken and Street Fighter could arguably be considered two of the most successful fighting game franchises of all time so it would make sense for the two developing companies to hate eachother, right? Wrong, Tekken’s series director Katsuhiro Harada recently told VideoGamer the exact opposite:
“I’ve been a fan of Street Fighter in general, and I [...]

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Sure, the Playstation Motion Control that made its debut at E3 ‘09 was cool, but what if you didn’t have to use that funny looking controller? What if you could pick up any object and have it mapped directly into the game?
Sony is looking to do just that if a recent patent filing is anything [...]

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Square Enix has always been known to holds its own in court, especially on the grounds of software piracy. Unfortunately for a french retailer by the name of la société SAKURA, has come into their targets.
According to Kotaku, the French retailer has a retail store in Paris along with an online presence that sells all sorts [...]

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EA is really making a killing this year in the field of sports games with Fight Night Round 4, NHL 10, NBA Live 10 and of course, FIFA 10.
What you see above is said game’s debut trailer showcasing its beautiful visuals along with intuitive gameplay. Will this game be one of the coolest soccer games [...]

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Naughty Dog is looking to really further the Playstation 3’s development, recently announcing that they will make the entire source code for Uncharted available to all of Sony’s first-party developers.
Evan Wells, co-president of Naughty Dog, said the following:
“We’re very fortunate to have a great group of first party developers within Sony that we’re able to [...]

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It’s been a fighting game tradition to leave a characters as unlockables for some time now. However, according to Katsuhiro Harada, Tekken’s series director, this tradition is “outdated”.
He explained his reasong by saying that unlockables first came to be back in the arcade days when developers wanted to get people to play for longer thus [...]

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Not too long ago buzz began circulating the internet that suggested Midway’s San Deigo studios were in the final stages of being purchased by Warner Bros. Unfortunately for them, they have recently released a statement that Warner Bros. will not be picking them up.
And, to make things worse, they said that they have just 60 [...]

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Formally owned by Atari, Dragon Ball has returned to it’s original publisher, Namco Bandai. This is unfortunate for Atari especially considering their current financial situation.
Bandai says that they will have exclusive rights to the Dragon Ball license 5 years beginning in January 2010. Additionally, they will publish the upcoming titles, Dragon Ball: Revenge of King [...]

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