Capcom just announced that it’s porting over its Street Fighter IV fighting game to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Coming out in March, the game employs a touchscreen virtual d-pad to control the characters’ movements. I haven’t played this version of SF4 yet but I can only imagine how hard it’s going to be to pull off some of Street …
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Go Figure: Sobering Numbers For The PSP
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 came out today for the PSP: did anyone notice? There doesn’t seem to be too much buzz about this game, which is hardly surprising given the latest figures for Sony’s struggling portable game console. According to NPD, Sony sold 100,100 PSPs last month. That’s 1/4th the amount of Nintendo DSs …
Xbox On WP7: Is Microsoft Finally Ready To Get Serious About Mobile Gaming?
When Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 7 this morning, they showed that they were finally ready to bring something stronger than NERF guns to the increasingly contentious smartphone street fight. They also indicated a level of commitment to a business that’s been even more neglected: mobile gaming. Games will be one of the six primary …
Videogame Matchmaker: Ten Blind Dates For Valentine’s Day
Naming the best videogame romances has been done has been done to death, so we decided to put on our matchmaking hats and focus on the best cross-title hookups that haven’t happened yet (and barring any imaginative fanfic, never will).
1) Master Chief (Halo) & Samus (Metroid)
This couple would need to ditch their armor to …
Fattening Up on the New God of War III Trailer
I’ve watched the new God of War III trailer that Sony unveiled last night half a dozen times now. It’s downright impressive, and, according to the official PlayStation Blog, 100% comprised of actual gameplay (no pre-rendered CGI disclaimer required).
Near the end of the trailer, while watching Kratos mount the arm of a screen-filling …
Microsoft’s X10 Wrap-up: Dates For Halo Reach Beta, Alan Wake, and More
Microsoft’s X10 event is wrapping up in San Francisco. The most notable pieces of info coming out of the one-day Xbox 360 media presentation were street dates for some of the year’s AAA titles. A multiplayer beta for Halo: Reach comes your way on May 3rd followed closely by Alan Wake on May 18th.
Shortly before Capcom’s Dead Rising …
Tony Hawk Ride 2: Will You Jump On Board?
If you were surprised to hear Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith reveal yesterday during ATVI’s 4Q conference call that there’s going to be a sequel to Tony Hawk: Ride in 2010, you really shouldn’t have been. Yes, the game currently hovers in the low 40s on Metacritic for all three versions (we threw it a bone and said it …
Interesting Numbers from GameFly’s IPO Filing
GameFly, the Netflix-like videogame rental service, filed for an initial public offering this morning that could raise up to $50 million. According to the S-1 registration document filed with the SEC, the company:
- Had more than 334,000 subscribers at the end of Sept. ’09 (up 25% from the previous year)
- Sees around 8% of its
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Get In On The LEGO MMO Beta (Because You Know You Want To)
LEGO Group, the guardians of all things LEGO, has started accepting applications to beta test their upcoming massively multiplayer online game. LEGO Universe is going to be very kid-friendly, but watch this trailer and tell me you’re not the least bit curious to play this …
Go Figure: BioShock 2 Midnight Launch Edition
Over 70 Best Buy and 2,500 Gamestop stores opened their doors at midnight early this morning to give gamers the chance to be the first to buy BioShock 2 and, to a lesser extent, Dante’s Inferno.
(More on Techland: BioShock 2 Review: I Need A Nightlight to Sleep)
I was at Gamestop unit #3877 to soak in the atmosphere. The …
Don’t Call It Modern Warfare 3: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Announced
Ubisoft is heading back into the battlefield this holiday season with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It’s essentially a sequel to the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter games, which made modern warfare cool before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare did, and it’s about time. The first two GRAW games (the image above is from GRAW2) …
EA’s Future Release Calendar Portends Weak Holiday Lineup, Awesome 1Q 2011
Electronic Arts just wrapped up their fiscal 3Q 2010 earnings conference call. Quite a few games were mentioned during the call and within the accompanying press release, some that were previously announced through other channels and some that weren’t. Somewhat troubling for EA is that other than Crysis 2 and the new mixed martial arts …