The latest OPM review scores are in Uncharted (9), NFS: Pro Street (6) Assasins Creed (8), Kayne and Lynch (5), MoH: Airborne (6), Guitar Hero 3 (9), Simpsons Game (7), Silent Hill: Origins (8), Tony Hawk\’s: Proving Ground (7), SWAT: Target Liberty (4), Sims 2 Castaway (6) and Lego Star Wars: CS (7).
According to reports, Sony has recently announced that combined sales of the 80GB and 40GB PS3 SKU\’s have increased by a massive 192 percent across the top 10 major retailers in North America and have more than doubled overall.
Sony has released a press release which incdicates that a new Warhawk expansion pack is due in December. The expansion will include a brand new map, a new aircraft with the operation being set at night to add feelings of higher tension.
Not even a month has passed since PES 2008 was released in the UK and already retailers have slashed the price of the title by as much as 50%. GameStation is offering the title on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms at a price of just
A while ago Ubisoft announced that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 among Haze and Splinter Cell Conviction would be subject to an adjusted release date. While browsing the official Ubisoft website, the Rainbow Six Vegas 2 page only has links for the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the title with no PS3 tab in sight…
Feast your eyes on the following new White Knight scans for the Playstation 3 platform…
Two new pieces of homebrew have been released recently for the PSP. First up we have Cwcheat v0.1.9 rev I from Weltall and secondly a new build of iRshell which resolves a couple of critical bugs. Check out the releases here and here respectively.
THQ has created just six of the following beautifully crafted limited edition PSP Slim\’s featuring the Warhammer 40k logo. One out of the six will definitely be given away to a UK resident in a contest which is running at thq-games.com/uk.
Share prices have generally fallen across the board as the markets continue to suffer from the US subprime mortgage fallout. However MS is the only company to buck the trend and see its price rise by 2.6%. Nintendo\’s share price fell 4.8%, while Konami, Midway Sony and Ubisoft were the least affected falling by less than 3% each. Publisher SCi\’s share prices fell 25% despite an increase in sales. The drop comes amid concerns over price points and a lack of new information over a potential takeover.
Forget all the talk, viral marketing and strange commercials, for Poland the way to a gamers heart is full front nudity! Lads mag CKM recently got one of their models to play around with Halo 3, the Xbox 360 and of course the official peripherals. The pictures below are HOT stuff, so if you are at work DO NOT CLICK to enlarge the picture set!
Jeff Minter, the creator of cult indie games including Llamatron and Revenge of the Mutant Camels, has written on his blog that he feels disheartened by the fact that Frogger outsold his latest title on Xbox Live.
Minter, who recently finished development on Space Giraffe, an action arcade game, which was released onto the digital distribution platform Xbox Live on August 22, is not a happy man.
In a post earlier in the week, made in the wee hours of the morning, Minter posted, “Not seeing a lot of reason to continue even trying to make games, at this point, when a remake of Frogger, one of the worst games in the history of old arcade games, can outsell Space Giraffe that we put so much love and effort into, by more than ten to one, in one week.”
He continued, “OK, we get the message. All you want on that channel is remakes of old, shite arcade games and crap you vaguely remember playing on your Amiga. We’ll shut up trying to do anything new then. Sorry for even trying.”
However, in a post made yesterday, the Llama-loving developer appeared to have calmed down a little bit, and said, “Thanks to all those who gave me a bit of encouragement at a low moment. Rest assured I’m not giving up; I’m just getting on with it quietly.”
Minter added that he was halfway through his next games project, but that he would no longer be using his blog to talk about games development–no doubt after his rant was posted widely over the Internet. He said, “So no more dev stuff here, from now on this will just be about sheep and plushies and other such non-work-related stuff.”
Michigan band The Romantics, most famous for tunes What I Like About You, and Talking In Your Sleep has filed a federal lawsuit against Activision.
The group, which is still together and performing its hits today, was formed on Valentine’s Day, 1977–hence the name The Romantics–and is objecting to its likeness and an “imitation” of one of its songs being used in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.
The lawsuit reads, “The imitation of the plaintiffs on the defendant’s video game is virtually indistinguishable from the authentic version.”
The legal paperwork alleges that permission was not sought to create a soundalike of the band’s most famous song, and that many fans believe that the Guitar Hero version is the real deal. The Romantics are claiming unspecified damages.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the band’s attorney has said that copyright is not the issue, since Activision secured permission for a cover version through the proper channels. Attorney William Horton said, “It’s a very good imitation, and that’s our objection. Even the guys in the band said, ‘Wow, that’s not us, but it sure sounds like us.’” He added, “The sales of this game are huge. We’re all for good commerce. We just want to share in it.”
If the case is successful, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s could get pulled from store shelves.
Macworld.com - Sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 have been given a boost in North America since it cut the price of the console and introduced a cheaper version at the beginning of November.
PC World - Sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console have been given a boost in North America since it cut the price of the console and introduced a cheaper version at the beginning of November.
AP - The nation’s shoppers