The Wii has a lot to answer for. Apart from trouncing its rivals on the sales front and spawning tales today of Microsoft creating Mii-like avatars for the Xbox 360, there’s mounting speculation that Sony is planning to launch a Wiimote-styled controller for the PS3. The E3 show is just around the corner so the [...]
A note inside Midway’s press release for the European ship date of Unreal Tournament III on 360 has revealed what we can expect to see from the exclusive Gears of War 2 video included on the disc. In addition to the actual UTIII game, the disc will feature an exclusive video preview of Gears of [...]
Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi has divulged the first plot details for the next Africa-set survival horror instalment. Speaking to Game Videos, Takeuchi revealed that after choosing to focus the fifth game’s story on the origins of the Progenitor Virus, he had “no choice but to set it in Africa”. “The main reason that we [...]
A recently-released trailer for THQ’s Saint’s Row 2 has been criticised as being “unusually pompous” for its digs at Grand Theft Auto IV. Industry analyst Mike Hickey commented on the trailer, which makes fun of GTA’s in-game social activities like bowling, watching TV and going to a cabaret club. “The trailer directly attacks Grand Theft Auto IV in [...]
AMD claims that it can now achieve Xbox 360 quality graphics on a handheld system. Engadget reports that the company “has announced it has achieved Open GL ES 2.0 mobilegraphics technology compliance with hardware that cranks out the same AMDUnified Shader Architecture as the Microsoft gaming console.” AMD takes on Tegra The new AMD graphics [...]
