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The launch of the DSi is fast approaching, and GAME has announced it will be opening stores from midnight in celebration. Selected GAME outlets will open at 11:30 PM for customers who have already pre-ordered the console, which the retailer confirmed is considerably higher than the number that ordered DS …
Read More »Rock Band and Star Trek join forces
Harmonix-owning MTV Games and movie studio paramount Pictures have announced a deal that will see EA’s music game join the Star Trek party ahead of the release of the new movie on May 8th. Players can from today register for a 15-day sweepstake to win 500 free downloads from the …
Read More »Games industry mourns Frank Herman
All corners of the games industry are uniting this week in fond memory of Frank Herman, who died on Monday. MCV is reporting his passing today, following the funeral yesterday, to ensure that the many friends of Frank in the UK, Europe, US and Japan get an opportunity to pay …
Read More »DSi trumps DS Light pre-orders
High Street giant GAME has revealed that DSi pre-orders are more than doubled that achieved by DS Lite. The firm has cited the success of its trade-in offer, which allows customers to buy a DSi for half price if they trade in another machine. And the company has confirmed reports …
Read More »Develop Awards return this July
The Develop Awards will this year take place on July 15th, returning to the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton. Now in their seventh year, the Develop Awards recognise the innovations and successes of studios in the UK and Europe. Key winners last year came from all over the industry, including …
Read More »‘The gap between game and film tech is rapidly closing’
Ex-Pixar man on the convergence of creating for console and celluloid
Read More »Perlman: OnLive critics are ignorant
With seemingly the entire games industry lining up to pour doubt over the lofty claims and aspirations of freshly revealed streaming games service OnLive, the company’s founder Steve Perlman has spoken out in defence of the company. We have nine of the largest game publishers in world signed up,” Perlman …
Read More »Now Sony voices OnLive scepticism
Sony has become the second platform holder to voice its doubts about the ambitious proposals outlined by streaming games service OnLive. Yesterday, Nintendo’s American boss Reggie Fils-Aime questioned where OnLive would source the kind of killer-games that has seen Nintendo perform so strongly in recent times. Now SCEA’s director of …
Read More »Nordic Game 2009 conference program revealed
Capcom, Sony, Suda 51, Dice and Media Molecule scheduled for Swedish industry event
Read More »DS: The story so far
The Game Boy has seen off competition from the likes of Sega, Nokia, Neo Geo and Atari, and has made Tetris and Pokmon household names. Today, Nintendo may have dropped the Game Boy name, but its DS still holds the same principles and has managed to revolutionise the sector yet …
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