Andy Burt’s on the scene at Namco Bandai’s San Francisco showcase today and so far, this is the only thing he can tell us that isn’t under embargo. Don’t miss the Dark Souls trailer here.
IGN estimates that Facebook games CityVille and FarmVille make more than multi-release console franchises like Madden 11 and Halo: Reach.
The data comes from a combination of a 2010 NPD report that claims 10 percent of Facebook gamers pay real money and a microtransaction company’s estimate that the average player spending real money spends $55.
With [...]
If you ever played the original Crysis at anything above the minimum settings, you either work for Crytek or you’re Bill Gates, because let’s face it, as awesome as that game was, it required more computing horsepower than the NASA space program. Thankfully, Crytek learned their lesson and have been driving down the overhead ever [...]
It was supposed to go live today but the Killzone 3 Multiplayer Open Beta’s been pushed back till tomorrow around 10:00 AM PST. But really, what’s one day? And in Sony’s press release announcing the slight delay they also revealed that they’re giving away a ton of Killzone 3 Limited Helghast Editions to beta participants, [...]
Okay, so the actual Yakuza isn’t trying to openly recruit people (though it’s sort of funny to picture the Japanese mob sitting out on the street with a giant booth and pamphlets titled “So you wanna be a gangster?”). But you can join the fictional Yakuza on February 16th when the demo for the upcoming [...]
The GamePros received a press release for Hotels.com today (we get a lot of random press releases for a lot of random things), but it caught our eye because it involved the classic Konami Code. A lot of sites (including our own–hint hint) began incorporating the code into their websites to unlock interesting randomness and [...]
At a press event earlier today, Namco Bandai announced two major US releases for the next two years. Dark Souls–the successor to Demon’s Souls–will be coming to PS3 & 360 in 2011 while Armored Core V is due next year.
One of the most unlikely successes of this console generation has to be the From Software-developed [...]
A British citizen swiped 400 billion poker chips from Zynga Poker and sold them for £430 ($695)/a billion. Yeah… you should probably do some time for that.
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It’s been a few years since the last core release in the Jagged Alliance series of strategy tiles, and publisher Kalypso Media is looking to revitalize the mercenary-manned franchise with Jagged Alliance: Back in Action — a re-imagining of the second series installment that was previously known as Jagged Alliance 2: Reloaded.
According to the publisher’s [...]
The European PlayStation Blog just posted an incredibly cool article that chronicles the process of getting PlayStation classics digitized and available on the PlayStation Network. The article notes the legal and technical difficulties in porting over specific titles, and also subtly announces PSX platformer Tomba’s impending European PSN release. What PSX games are you dying [...]
