Archive for January, 2008
Review: Wipeout Pulse for PSP
Wipeout Pulse is Sony’s latest lighter-than-air racing effort on the PlayStation Portable. The game is still about two weeks away from its official release moment, but some near-finished review cipher showed up at my doorstep a few days ago. Read on to find out whether you should get in the an…
Adding realistic weather to war games
Developers continue to squeeze more and more out of PCs, Xbox 360s, and PS3s. Games like Crysis and Call of Duty 4 look to prepare every detail look as life-like as possible. And on the Wii, although the graphics aren’t always top-notch, there are real weather effects; at least, you can set ga…
Valve offers developers help with free Steamworks suite
Valve has that week decided to release a free set of tools to help developers get their games published both at retail and through digital distribution. The tools suite is called Steamworks and has already been used to aid the distribution of Half-Life 2 and The Orange Box.
The tools in the package …
WoW Boosts Vivendi Games Sales To $1.5 Billion
January 31, 2008 6:00 AMVivendi recently reported its year 2007 revenues, revealing that the company’s games divsion raked in $1.5 billion in sales. The figure is driven by the continued success of Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft MMO, which recently reached the 10 million subscriber mark….
Exploring Aquaria’s Watery Realm
January 31, 2008 6:00 AMGamingHeaven has posted a new review of the Windows version of Aquaria. Created by Bit Blot, the side-scrolling underwater action adventure game chases the adventures of Naija as she embarks on a quest to reveal the history of the the underwater land of Aquaria. GamingHeaven …
Fairy Treasure Reviewed
January 31, 2008 6:00 AMMacworld’s Game Room has posted a new review of Red Marble Games’ Fairy Treasure. The Breakout-style game takes players on an adventure against an evil, greedy troll that has stolen great treasure from the Kingdom of Trollandia and has carefully guarded it in his cave ever si…
Apple Games Features Tomb Raider Anniversary
January 31, 2008 6:00 AMApple Games recently posted a new feature exposition examining Tomb Raider Anniversary. The action adventure title revisits the territory of the original game using today’s technology to give players a new experience. The spread includes a description of the gameplay as well …
Review: Burnout Paradise for Xbox 360
Burnout Paradise is the latest hot action car game for the Xbox 360. The game features some of the sexiest vehicles and locations in all of gaming. So, to paraphrase the Guns ‘N’ Roses title track of that game, should we let the game take us down to Paradise City or should we just stay h…
Ex-Naughty Dogs create Steel Penny Games
Back in May 2006, Jason Hughes, previously of Naughty Dog, set about creating his own studio in Austin, Texas. In May 2007, that studio became an incorporated entity, and now it has been named Steel Penny Games.
The newly named studio announced its acceptance as a Nintendo’s WiiWare developer …
Marvel/EA games deal ended
Marvel and EA, two of the biggest names in comics and videogames, have decided to end a deal that saw EA creating multiple games based on Marvel intellectual property.
The deal was originally done back in 2004, but since next has only seen one game released, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imprefects. A…
