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Huge surprise: Silent Hill 2 movie sounds pretty sketchy

The Silent Hill movie tends to pop up on occasion when discussions about good videogame movies happen. The only problem with that is, when compared to everything else in the medium, even the best...
Yakuza designer would 'never want to make' a GTA game

Sega's Yakuza series has often been likened to Grand Theft Auto, since both games involve gangland dirty work in the big city. Despite the similarities between the two games, however, franchise d...
Activision yanking Kurt Cobain Guitar Hero 5 footage

Looks like the legal shenanigans between fish-faced Courtney Love and fish-hearted Activision are not over yet. The latest development in the battle for Kurt Cobain's soul has seen Activision yan...
Geon Cube is more super and Pac-Man than Super Pac-Man

Have you heard of Geon Cube? Yeah, I didn't think so; I hadn't either until I got this press release. That lack of press alone probably spells doom for this game. No matter how great it turns out...
Secrets abound in NES Punch Out!!, here's one

I played the original Punch-Out!! on the NES until my fingers bled. This was mostly because I sucked at it, but I was determined to beat it. I did, once, during a weekend night of glory that I ha...
Guards bring PSP into nuclear warhead recycling facility

Brilliant. Three Tennessee security guards have recently been busted for bringing game devices, including a PSP, into a nuclear warhead recycling facility. Due to the obviously sensitive nature o...
Peripherally Speaking: Nyko's Perfect Shot

Three things you should know about me before reading this: I hate doing stuff I don't feel like doing (some call it laziness, I call it "strong willed"), I'm a sucker for free stuff, an...
D3 trademarks Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond

D3 Publisher has trademarked the name Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond, revealing what may be the title of the next chapter of the Matt Hazard series. Although nothing is specified beyond the n...
Noby Noby Boy multiplayer teaser is kangaroo

Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi has allegedly posted teaser footage of the PSN game's upcoming multiplayer mode. I say "allegedly" because, really, the footage could be of anythin...
Fable II Pub Games cheaters are going to get screwed.

You know that old chestnut about how game glitches are actually "features" in disguise? It seems that sometimes they actually are.Yesterday, IGN posted their impressions of the first th...
Games of the week for 12/30/07: Screw Call of Duty 4 on Veteran edition

Seriously, who was the crackhead who decided that Veteran mode was even remotely fun to play? It's not even worth completing the levels for 40 gamerpoints a pop. In fact, I'd rather cut out my ow...
Videogame conventions II: Hand-me-down

I am the Hero of Legend.Long have been my travails in a vast and mysterious world, an environment largely hostile to me. When I departed the tiny, peaceable village where I spent the whole of my ...
IGN modifies Assassin's Creed review after Destructoid's report (update)

Yesterday I posted a report that IGN had critically slammed the PS3 version of Assassin's Creed, claiming the framerate issues were so bad, they affected the gameplay and that the former Sony exc...
BioShock is NEVER coming to PS3, never ever ever: 2K crushes the dream

A fresh rumor has been flying around that BioShock would be heading to the PlayStation 3 in 2008, no doubt sparking off fanboy flamewars up and down the Internet. Well, 2K Games has decided to sq...
Force your filthy children off the Xbox 360 with technology

The Xbox 360 fall update is on its way, and it's doubtless that millions of Internet Matlocks are already complaining about the hidden evils that Microsoft will smuggle onto connected consoles ev...
What Cooking Mama should have been? Hell's Kitchen game announced

With the popularity of Cooking Mama, it was only a matter of time before somebody came up with the "grand" idea of giving the most entertaining chef on television his own game to punish...
Hands-on with Dynasty Warriors 6: Was fighting through cosplayers worth it?

As promised, I attended the London Expo today with one thing on my mind -- Koei. My head full of giddy delights (and a lingering flu virus), I hopped onto the Docklands Light Railway and shook my...
Hold your Hadoukens: Street Fighter IV is more than a year away

I had to laugh when I saw the announcement of Street Fighter IV, thinking that this 'fourth' game was more like the millionth (without hyperbole). I do admit it's refreshing to see a Street Fight...
Another original IP on the Wii bites the dust: Pollen Sonata cancelled

With Project H.A.M.M.E.R already cancelled and games like Disaster: Day of Crisis and Sadness going very quiet, the future for original franchises on the Wii looks pretty damn bleak. It's a trage...
Television is morally superior to videogames ... says a television station boss

If you want to truly define the term 'biased,' perhaps you might want to take a look at ITV executive Michael Grade, who has made the ridiculous claim that television is morally superior to video...
Phishers target Xbox Live members in the US and UK

Some Xbox Live users are being targeted by phishers according to posts on the Xbox forums. The sneaky criminals, posing as Xbox Support, are sending out a scam email in attempts to access the use...
Don't Cry: Devil May Cry 4 to be a bit kinder, says producer

Kinder? Maybe, but don't expect the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game to be any easier than the controller-crushing Devil May Cry 3. Producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi tells Eurogamer in a recent interview...
Banning videogames = social utopia? David Cameron believes so

David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party and Gordon Brown's biggest challenger for the position of Prime Minister today detailed worrying plans for a rather sinister sounding "...
This is getting conSKUsing: Best Buy lists Core System with HDMI

Can somebody, somewhere please admit that releasing multiple console SKUs is a set up for disaster? Haven't we learned by now that confusing customers and/or insulting their intelligence by offer...
PETA's game of the year candidate: Super Chick Sisters

If you felt that your game library lacked the whiny melodrama that only PETA can provide, you can fear no longer, for Super Chick Sisters has you covered. The premise is an absolute winner -- you...
Lucky little tosspot gets BioShock a week before release date

A little bit of fun from the NeoGaf forums. A user posted a picture of his newly purchased Xbox 360 elite with a copy of Madden 08 and ... is that ... BioShock? Yes, apparently he wandered into a...




 
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