Red Steel Sequel Arriving 2008?

About a month ago Ubisoft’s office in Paris released a wanted ad, apparently in search of a game designer for the “continuation of the Red Steel project,” Red Steel 2.
It’s been reported that the sword system for the next Red Steel will be completely reworked. Hopefully they will also consider many critics’ complaints of the [...]

17 Wii’s Sold Every Second In Stock

The end of this year marks Amazon.com’s thirteenth holiday season, which has been confirmed to be the the company’s most successful yet. According to a recent news release, every time the Nintendo Wii was in stock they sold 17 per second. This made the Wii a best-selling videogame item this year, along with the games [...]

Japanese Developers Behind The Times?

Akira Yamaoka was recently interviewed about his experience working with the Silent Hill franchise. He was asked what it was like working with an American team for Silent Hill 5, the series’ latest installment. This is what he said,
“It’s completely different working with an American team. There are of course advantages and disadvantages, [...]

Ninja Reflex detailed, Screenshots

Electronic Arts has announced more details for it’s party game title called Ninja Reflex. As it turns out, EA will be working with Nunchuck Games to co-publish Ninja Reflex, which is currently being developed by Sanzaru Games Inc.
The gameplay revolves around minigames that test your ability to react, developing your “ninja reflex.” The game also [...]

Kynapse Wii Supportable

Kynapse is an AI pathfinding engine, used for managing large numbers of non-player characters. Today, Middleware developer Kynogon announced that this tool now supports the Wii.
Kynogon CEO Pierre Pontevia stated,
“Wii is a remarkable success and we are proud to offer Kynapse to Wii game developers. The unique capabilities of Wii allow developers to produce creative [...]

Prince of Persia movie being filmed next June

Since 2004 rumors had been circulating that Jerry Bruckheimer had obtained the rights to the Prince of Persia franchise, and there was to be a movie trilogy, based on Ubisoft’s series. These rumors were soon found to be true, and ever since then the world has been watching, waiting with bated breathe for some clue, [...]

Guitar Hero IV and Call of Duty 5 announced

Perhaps you’ve heard of the $19 billion deal joining Blizzard and Activision. In any case, many gamers are skeptic, and wonder just how this will affect the future of both companies, and their games.
Well, if you are one of those gamers, rest assured; all games currently in development by Activision and Blizzard will continue as [...]

Harvest Moon creator wishes to make a game like Spore

In a recent Gamasutra interview with Yasahiro Wada, creator of Harvest Moon, the desire was expressed to create a game quite like Spore. His words were,
“Eventually, I’d like to make something like Spore, where you create something, and from there, new stuff is going to be created again and again and again. In a micro [...]

“Tomb Raider Underworld” trademarked by Eidos

According to Trademork, Eidos Interactive filed an application on a trademark for the phrase “Tomb Raider Underworld” last week. The trademark covers both discs and digital distribution. What are we to draw from this? “Underworld” could be the title for the anticipated Tomb Raider: Legend sequel, currently being developed by the studio Crystal Dynamics.
The rumor [...]