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Konami has released a five-minute trailer for the freshly announced Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game, which had been previously announced under two separate guises in the form of MGS: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year. …
Read More »Positioning SimCity as an MMO would’ve justified always-online: EA
In a bid to justify the always-online design of SimCity, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has said that the game has always had an MMO feel to it, and that positioning it as an MMO would have made the always-online nature of the game easier for players to get behind. …
Read More »GDC 13: Nintendo supports HTML5 with web framework for Wii U
New development environment to support app creation using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS
Read More »GDC 13: Unreal Engine 3 powers up Ninja Gaiden Z
Keiji Inafune to work in collaboration with Team Ninja on upcoming title
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Hideo Kojima revealed at his GDC presentation earlier today that The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes are the same game – Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Kojima arrived at his GDC presentation with his face bandaged up, revealing what we already knew – that The Phantom Pain was …
Read More »The puzzle is solved – Kojima reveals Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Konami’s cryptic PR campaign has finally been unravelled. Although do we know if the dude with the face was CGI or what? Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has confirmed that both Ground Zeroes, which was announced in August last year, and video curiosity The Phantom Pain are both one and …
Read More »Visceral and Criterion vets form triple-A studio
New Australia developer working on $1 million project
Read More »GDC 13: New toy venture for AT and Virtual World Licensing
AT New Media Virtual World Licensing to offer consultancy services to gaming, social and virtual brands
Read More »Doctor Who arrives on PlayStation Home
Fans of the BBC’s sci-fi flagship Doctor Who can now download content for PlayStation Home (remember that?) based on the hugely popular show. PS3 owners can now dress up their avatars in the Eleventh Doctor’s iconic tweed jacket and bow tie (bow ties, as we know, are cool) and wield …
Read More »New GTA5 screenshots: Skydiving, high-speed pursuits, and a Gatlin gun
Rockstar Games has quietly released ten new screenshots for Grand Theft Auto 5, and while there’s no press release accompanying them, the images themselves speak volumes. While one image shows a pier at night with lightening striking down from the sky, another features an urban skyline at dusk, showing off …
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