2004 August

Elixir Studios has recently released a demo version of their new game, Evil Genius. The game places you in the role of an evil mastermind, developing your evil lair, complete with evil traps and evil minions, allowing you to launch a host of evil schemes. All in all, that’s quite a lot of evil.
The gameplay […]

With Fable’s release less than 2 weeks away, I thought it would be good to get a fresh perspective on Fable. From someone who wasn’t necessarily a fanboy (at least until now).
This review over at Bytesector is fantastic. Full of content, full of insight into what makes the game great and completely honest. From someone […]

I was very interested by the news that there’s another Harvest Moon game coming out for PS2 (thanks again, Gamespot). For those timewasters who call themselves gamers but have no idea what I’m talking about, Harvest Moon (called Bokujou Monogatari (Farm Story) in Japan) is a series of Japanese pseudo-RPGs in which you play a […]

Games have long been regarded as a less sophisticated form of entertainment and as such have always had difficulty in gaining significant academic study, or support. A recent article on GameSpot, however, details how this may all be changing, as more and more schools start to examine game theory as a truly valid academic […]

Ever wonder what happened to favorite, older games? Well, there may be a chance that it’s still out there but this time without the price tag. Liberated Games has recently opened shop, offering a resource for gamers to find old discontinued games that have been now opened to the public, for free. Some of the […]

In a move that is guaranteed to elicit many utterings of the term “sell out”, The Black Eyed Peas have re-recorded vocal tracks to nine songs from their upcoming album to be featured on the new Sims game The Urbz: Sims in the City. Simlish, for those of you who haven’t wasted hours of […]

After Valve head Gabe Newell posted on the HL2Fallout.com forums stating that their latest opus would be going gold on Monday, a lot of gamers started experiencing something akin to an amphetamine high until some spoilsport realised that the post was fake. Said gamers then came down fast and spent the rest of the evening […]

Unless you’ve been sticking to those old Atari and NES cartridges you’ve probably noticed the growing trend of advertisements in games. Whether you’re playing a racing game, using real world cars, or Splinter Cell, using Sam Fisher’s Ericsson cell phone, you’ve noticed those products just keep creeping into your gameplay.
According to MSNBC.com:
Several companies are […]

Rumours have been circulating for some time now that Acclaim might be facing a bankruptcy, but only now are we beginning to see evidence that may suggest such a thing. During the past week, shares for the company plummeted nearly half of their value, from eighteen cents per share, to ten cents per share. […]

A recent article on TeamXbox unveils some very exciting news about the upcoming addition to the Unreal universe: Unreal Championship 2. In an interesting move by both Midway and Epic, Unreal Championship 2 is combining the genres of first person shooters and fighting games by introducing a crossover between the universes of Unreal and Mortal […]

In a recent report from MCV, the future of Acclaim is looking bleak, at best. According to the report, Acclaim has closed two of their main offices, eliminating 130 jobs, in what appears to be the possible end of this game publishing giant. According to MCV’s report, an announcement to NASDAQ is expected sometime today. […]

A single copy of Halo 2 has made its way to Melbourne, Australia. A band called “Regurgitator” allegedly has the copy of the game. The band is planning on playing the game early next week while sealed in a bubble recording their new album, as bands will do from time to time.
The […]

After looking at the latest screen shots for WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw, many people have noticed that there will be online playing ability built into the game. That is right, this PlayStation 2 game will be the first wrestling game to feature head-to-head online play.

In a surprise move, at least for me, Midway has announced that it is reviving its popular Rush series.

Valve has announced that users of its STEAM service may now begin downloading the encrypted version of the files for Half-Life 2 for when the game finally becomes available.

Get ready to start your engines folks! Electronic Arts has announced that it will include a demo to Need for Speed 2 with the new Burnout 3 game. Both the Playstation 2 version and the Xbox version of the game will include the demo. On the flip side, GameBoy Advance and PC […]

Nintendo has released it’s up and coming Fall 2004 game release schedule. No GameBoy DS titles were mentioned, but there should be enough titles for GameCube and GameBoy Advance to keep most gamers occupied for the time being.

A story published today in ZDNet’s ExtremeTech site details serious delays in release of the handheld PSP game system in the U.S. Current reports have it pegged to “the first half of 2005″ or “June 2005″ (for actual sale of the units in this country).
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I’m sure that’s going to ruin the Christmas list of […]

Cyan Worlds’ most recent installment in the Myst series, Uru, was a most noble attempt in crossing the adventure game genre with massively multiplayer online gameplay. While not the first attempt to make a multiplayer adventure game (Zork: Grand Inquisitor already tried that) this was the first time in which the gameplay would involve […]

Gamespot reports that iFone, a company which apparently has something to do with the telecommunications industry, has bought up the rights to last decade’s exercise in frustration, Lemmings. For those who aren’t old enough to have those sort of cherishable memories, Lemmings was a game by British developer Psygnosis which involved helping an endless conga-line […]