It’s no secret that (via GI.biz) Funcom is disappointed with the sales their new MMO The Secret World has drawn in. Only 200,000 copies since the game debuted at the end of June. They recently opened up the world to everyone for a weekend in hopes that people would come back, but it doesn’t seem like it paid […]
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Fresh off of the near demise of OnLive, Square-Enix has launched their new browser-based, pseudo free Streaming Service CoreOnline. Pseudo because you have the option to play the games for free but you will have to watch some ads before you can play. Roughly every minute of time you spend watching an ad you will […]
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Sony has increased the number of games on their most recently released platform, the PS Vita, by 9, or by 81, depending on how you count. With the release of the most recent firmware patch for the Vita, version 1.8, Sony has released an official statement (via the Playstation Blog) detailing the new (old) feature and listing out […]
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Angry Birds has become one of the biggest bite sized/casual games in history, due in part to the minimal entry fee of somewhere between $0 and $1, not to mention continuous updates the game and additions to levels. So, naturally, Activation is putting this on a disc, as Angry Birds Trilogy, for PS3 and Xbox 360 and selling it […]
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The weekend is upon us and that means oodles of time for gaming. Yeah I said oodles. So what’s on tap for this weekend? I’ll tell you! First up is once pronounced dead by Activision when it was titled True Crime: Hong Kong, but then brought back to life, like the phoenix rising, by the powers of Square-Enix […]
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Nintendo Power is closing its doors after 24 years, and even though Nintendo themselves have not been publishing the magazine for the last 5 years, they licensed it out to Future Publishing back in September 2007, this still comes as sad news. Not surprising news, but sad. After GamePro fell last year it seemed like only a […]
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It is a sad day for games, indeed. Sony has closed Studio Liverpool, developers of the futuristic racing series Wipeout, after purchasing them 19 years ago (via gamesindustry.biz). The studio, originally named Psygnosis, has been around for almost 30 years. If you’re not familiar with the Wipeout series it’s very similar is style and feel to F-Zero, hover cars racing […]
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It was some kind of crazy dream when you first heard about the service OnLive. People had been talking about “the cloud” for years but only a few attempted to venture into that unknown, and even fewer survived. The problem with most of the services before is that they’re basic level of virtualization made it […]
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That title SORT of works. If you have a DS, 3DS, DSlite, DSxL, or whatever other flavor of duel screen hand held Nintendo has put out over the years, and you haven’t played the incredible Action RPG/Fashion Sim The World Ends with You yet… well you should really get on that. Developed by one of […]
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We’re baaaaaacccckk. After a week off for moving and stuff we are ready to go, full throttle and stuff like that. Or whatever, I don’t know! This may be our last Skype cast because Alex and I are close enough to record in the same room now! Stupid weather! Join Alex and myself as we discuss some […]
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