In 2002, the European Commission fined Nintendo and several other distributors a total of €149.5 million (USD$233.6) for planning together to artificially raise the price of both their hardware and software sales.
Mash-ups. Neither the fighting game genre nor comic books are strangers to the cross pollinating of two intellectual properties. Since first watching “The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones,” my fascination with mash-ups has been unquenchable. However, among those franchises that attempt the delicate cross breeding, very few are a success. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is one of those few. Read more… »
Ack: the drama! Today, Eidos Interactive and Warner Brothers Interactive have just informed Gamer Limit that Arkham Asylum will be released at the end of the summer, and not “holiday 2009″, as was once thought. Hit the jump for the brief press release.
Square Enix has just launched a new teaser site, touching off a spate of excited speculation on the identity of the game at which it hints; though by no means unanimous, the growing consensus points toward a new Front Mission.
The 25th Anniversary Tour for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is making its rounds throughout the United States, and along with it comes a demonstration for a remake that could be for the most popular TMNT game ever. We’ve got one screenshot, and what platforms it will likely be seeing.
In early April, Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata said that “the Wii is in the most unhealthy condition since it hit the Japanese market”. By looking at figures from Gama Sutra this is clearly the case. For the second month in a row, the PS3 has outsold the Wii in Japan.
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We just announced the release dates for the PC versions of Street Fighter IV, Bionic Commando, and Resident Evil 5. Each of these versions is going to have exclusive features and instead of making you guys search around for them yourself…we have them listed right here!
Hit the jump to check out the new features. Read more… »
Good news for all the PC Gamers! It’s been a bit of a rumour mill regarding the promised releases but…
Capcom have just announced that Resident Evil 5, Street IV and Bionic Commando will all be released in July. Hoorah!
After finally seeing Tim Schafer’s new action-adventure obtain a publisher, we were treated with screenshots galore and a release date. Now, prepare yourself for Brutal Legend’s official story trailer, courtesy of Gamertrailers. com. “For those of you about to rock…we salute you.”
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Prior editions of ”Read, Download, Play” have covered short and sweet iPhone game reviews. With the app store producing more and more quality apps, with big names behind them, we are now going to take a look at and up coming iPhone game being developed by a major studio.
UK developer Media Molecule, the company behind the fantastically well-realised world of LittleBigPlanet, are offering free Sackboy cuddly toys to any UK resident who’d like one. If you don’t know who Sackboy is by now, you have perhaps been living under a very large and possibly mean rock for the past six months, because he’s arguably the cutest, bounciest little fella to arrive in a video game since Mario.
My experience with Bionic Commando has been limited, but then again hasn’t everyone’s? The original game for the Nintendo Entertainment System was far too hard for a five-year-old to complete, so I never went far beyond renting the game once or twice then crying to my Dad who couldn’t beat it either. Thankfully the demo for the upcoming Bionic Commando is not the single player, and perhaps I’ll do a bit better when I pick up the game next month.
I took an hour to check out the new Demo for the X360, impressions after the jump.
