Archive for October 23rd, 2007
October 23, 2007
Sierra Entertainment announced today that Empire Earth III has gone gold and will ship to retail for PCs on November 6. The publisher also noted that gamers who secure their copy of the civilization builder in advance will receive three special units available to preorderers only.
In an effort to improve user accessibility, Mad Doc is taking a significantly different approach with its latest epic-scale real-time strategy game. Whereas Empire Earth II provided RTS grognards with 15 different epochs and 14 different factions, Empire Earth simplifies the global-domination campaign to five historical periods and a trio of civilizations.
However, as Mad Doc creative director Jeff Brown notes in a recent interview with If Its Games, the developer doesn’t plan on altering the scope or depth of the game. Each of the three factions–Western, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern–will be entirely unique from one another, with different units and play styles for fueling conquest.
Empire Earth III is rated T for Teen and will retail for $49.99.
October 23, 2007
AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday began US sales of a scaled-down Xbox 360 model billed by some analysts as a doomed bid to unseat Nintendo’s Wii console as ruler of the casual video game market.
October 23, 2007
Divineo.fr has put up in its catalogue the Memor 32 - an advanced 32MB PS2 memory card which is designed to be used for game saves and complete with an integrated USB port. It\’s currently on sale for
October 23, 2007
An admin from a Polish PSP website dropped by the forums to let us know that one of their members is claiming to have made the JigKick battery from the PSP Slim battery. The process is reportedly complicated but very much readl. Read more here.
October 23, 2007
Just in time for the festive season, Microsoft today released a new Xbox 360 console that delivers games and content to everyone in the family for an estimated retail price of
October 23, 2007
Popular online portal for all things manly Askmen has ranked video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto as the 19th top man of 2007 (out of 49 places). Miyamoto has been behind the likes of Super Mario, Donkey Kong and Askmen state he has been an instrumental force in bringing gaming to a wider audience.
October 23, 2007
The Playstation Store now plays host to the new free Eyecreate software which allows you to make movies and do various things with the new Playstation Eye hardware. The file weighs in at under 10MB so it\’s worth a play at least.
October 23, 2007
IGN has published its review on the new Ratchet & Clank title for the PS3 and awarded it a mightily impressive score of 9.41/10 (which we think is the highest score in their PS3 section). They comment that it is a title which deserves to be in your gaming library without fail and it is better than any other the previous PS3 games including Warhawk and Resistance: Fall of Man.
October 23, 2007
Divineo.fr has put up in its catalogue the Memor 32 - an advanced 32MB PS2 memory card which is designed to be used for game saves and complete with an integrated USB port. It\’s currently on sale for
October 23, 2007
Just in time for the festive season, Microsoft today released a new Xbox 360 console that delivers games and content to everyone in the family for an estimated retail price of
October 23, 2007
According to internet reports, the soon to be released PS3 firmware v1.94 which will be bundled with Ratchet and Clank will add support for the Dual Shock 3 rumble enabled controller for use with the PS3. Via pressing the PS button on a PS3 controller, the DualShock\’s rumble can be toggled on and off from the controller setting menu while in game (obviously rumble can\’t be felt with the Sixaxis standard controller).
October 23, 2007
Divineo.fr has put up in its catalogue the Memor 32 - an advanced 32MB PS2 memory card which is designed to be used for game saves and complete with an integrated USB port. It\’s currently on sale for
October 23, 2007
Just in time for the festive season, Microsoft today released a new Xbox 360 console that delivers games and content to everyone in the family for an estimated retail price of
October 23, 2007
Team Infectus has released the first ever pictures of their-addon which allow you to downgrade/upgrade the kernel of the Xbox 360 which makes way for some interesting homebrew tinkering.
October 23, 2007
The work week is only two days old, but it has already seen more than a dozen game delays. Yesterday alone, Electronic Arts delayed Army of Two on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, while THQ pushed back both versions of Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon, the Wii and DS editions of de Blob, and the PS3 Frontlines: Fuel of War. That’s in addition to Capcom’s delays for Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law for the Wii, PS2, and PlayStation Portable.
The list of postponements has grown a bit longer today. In its half-year financial earnings report, Ubisoft announced that it has delayed four games into its next fiscal year, which begins in April of 2008. However, the publisher did not specify which projects have been pushed back, saying only that one of the games is from a franchise, and that three of them are new brands. An Ubisoft representative had not responded to If Its Games’s request for clarification as of press time.
The games in question may be unannounced, as Ubisoft reconfirmed release windows for much of its featured lineup, including Assassin’s Creed, Haze, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Beowulf, Tom Clancy’s End War, Far Cry 2, and Splinter Cell: Conviction. Ubisoft also added that an unannounced game in an existing franchise would also make it out before April.
As for the cause of the delays, Ubisoft said the postponements were made as a result of “positive trends” in the first half of the company’s fiscal year and a positive outlook for the holiday quarter. Sales for the first six months of the fiscal year totaled €261 million ($371.9 million), up more than 55 percent over the same period last year. The strong first-half performance will apparently cancel out the effect of the delays, as Ubisoft left its full-year financial projections unchanged.
Broken down by system, PS3 games accounted for more of Ubisoft’s first-half sales than any other platform, accounting for 21 percent of the publisher’s revenues. The DS was a close second, contributing 20 percent of Ubisoft’s sales for the six-month period, followed by the Xbox 360 (15 percent), PC (12 percent), and PSP and Wii (10 percent each).