Online Game News
SOCOM avoiding Confrontation 'til Oct. 14
Third-person shooter series' PS3 debut pushed back one month after quality concerns force developer Slant Six to "re-evaluate schedule."
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Posted Jul 4, 2008 12:07 pm PT
After months of uncertainty, those awaiting word of the release of SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Confrontation got a firm answer in March. That's when Sony Computer Entertainment America announced that the popular third-person shooter series' PlayStation 3 debut would ship on September 16. The game looked set to lead a charge of first-party action games from Sony, followed by Resistance 2 around the holidays and Killzone 2 the following winter.Read More
Second Viva Pinata bash starts Sept. 2
Microsoft confirms North American street date for Rare's Xbox 360-exclusive party favor breeding sim; UK gamers to receive title Sept. 5.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Jul 3, 2008 4:00 pm
From the first day Microsoft unveiled Viva Pinata as a Rare-developed Xbox 360 game and a Saturday morning cartoon, it made its intentions to expand the brand undeniably clear. Since then, Microsoft has ported the original to the PC, produced a spin-off in Viva Pinata Party Animals, and is following that up with a THQ-published DS port, Viva Pinata Pocket Party.Read More
Cooking Mama opens World Kitchen
Majesco returns to kitchen with 3D rendition of culinary minigame compilation for Nintendo's Wii this holiday.
July 1 2008
By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
What cooking essence is to Emeril, Cooking Mama is to Majesco. Putting the bam in the game maker's first-quarter financial results, the Cooking Mama franchise helped push the game maker to a $2.7 million profit, up from a $900,000 net loss for the same period a year ago.Read More
Resident Evil could re-infect theaters
July 1 2008
Sidebar games spot News
Few games have successfully survived the transition to the big screen, but Paul W.S. Anderson's track record with such projects has been as good as anyone's. After directing the surprise hit Mortal Kombat, Anderson went on to produce and write a threesome of pictures based on Capcom's Resident Evil series of games, the first of which he also directed.Read More
Supreme Ruler 2020 in Stores in Europe Today
Paradox Interactive and BattleGoat Studios announce the availability of their geo-political sim at European retail
yahoo News.com
June 26 2008
Paradox Interactive would like to remind the budding leaders of the world, that - Supreme Ruler 2020 - from Battlegoat Studios is in stores across Europe from today.Read More
SimBin Celebrates Its Five Year Anniversary by Giving Away Andy Priaulx Crown Plaza Race Way
A free add-on is available now for RACE 07 owners.
by yahoo News.com
June 26 2008
Free for owners of RACE 07, this add-on features a brand new island track and new cars from triple World Champion Andy Priaulx in his BMW 320si from WTCC and Fabrizio Giovanardi in his Vauxhall Vectra VXR from the BTCC. Read More
New Exteel Developer Diary
June 20, 2008
NCsoft has released a new dev paper for their upcoming mech-based MMO, Exteel. The dev paper can be read in its entirety below. Additionally, they have also released a new crop of screenshots. Exteel is scheduled to release later this year.Read More
Political Machine 2008 Gets Rolling
Posted by Shaon
June 17th, 2008
Stardock Corporation’s Political Machine 2008 has officially hit the campaign trail. If you haven’t had enough of candidates slamming each other on TV in their fervor to get to the White house this fall, you can run your own campaign.Read More
Online-game murals rise in Cebu
By Dexter R. Matilla
Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 16,2008 10:30 PM
MANILA, Philippines - A recent study shows that playing video games can induce creativity while another says that gamers are actually more sociable,as opposed to the usual notion that they just spend the whole day at home on their couches slacking and snacking on junk food.Read More
A parents' guide to online role-playing games
By LISA STOWE
FamilyFun magazine
When my 11-year-old twins, Katie and Megan, asked to check out something called "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games," I realized that my years of playing Space Invaders no longer counted as expertise. Read More