As soon as the words “movie tie in game”, are uttered, it’s safe to assume eye-rolling will commence. Marvel says that’s not the case anymore with their brand, using the recent success of X-Men Origins: Wolverine as a stepping stone. To drive this point home, currently the Xbox 360 version is sitting at a cool 75% rating on Metacritic, and Gamer Limit’s own Paul Clark gave it an 85%.

Executive Vice President of Global Digital Media Group has stated that  “we are not doing crappy movie-based games anymore. You can quote me on that.” Read more… »

In countries that don’t have significant gaming industries (read: any country outside the United States and Japan), most budding developers rely on the growing support of the mainstream gamer to help flood existing behemoths with cash, thus fueling the need for regional game studios to pluck the best and brightest of the local graduates.

In recent years, some of the largest game houses in the world, such as Ubisoft, THQ, EA, Sony, and Microsoft have branched out past the traditional strongholds and established unique presences in many other countries – including the UK, Australia, Canada, India and even China.

What entices a company to start a studio in a particular place, and not others? Does local government play a role?

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Peter Molyneux took the stage today at Microsoft’s Gamescom Press Conference to announce Lionhead’s newest addition to the Fable series with Fable III. The third chapter, once more set in the world of Albion, is expected to hit retailers late in 2010.  Looking for more details? They’re just a click away after the jump!

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Sony’s upcoming PSP title Invizimals made a huge splash at this year’s E3, most notably for its shady, behind-closed-doors screening. But, since then, those who witnessed the unique concept upon which the game is built have been buzzing about it ever since.

Now Sony, along with Invizimals developer Novarama, have released a hilarious trailer including actual gameplay footage, and a storyline more at home in a Spy Kids film.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer… if you dare.

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Yes, you read correctly, it’s not a typo. If you are an Australian gamer and have a taste for real-time strategy games, then it’s time to gather those five-cent pieces and head on down to EB Games.

Sega’s Universe at War: Earth Assault, a multi-award winning title, is being offered for the ridiculous price of $2. Surely such a great deal can’t go unnoticed, especially for a PC game that has not even been out for two years.

Hit the jump to find out how you can snap up this bargain.

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EA Redwood Shores, or now more known as Visceral Games, decided to tell the world today that their sophomore console outing Dante’s Inferno has a tangible release date. The hack’n'slash action game, obviously inspired by titles such as Devil May Cry and God of War, will be arriving to your nearest stores February 9 in North America and February 12 in Europe.

Head inside to see what Visceral Games had to say at GamesCom. Read more… »

A delicious stream of information has been unveiled for the PS3′s hotly anticipated racing simulation Gran Turismo 5, after it has previous remained silent. Taken from the official website, it has been revealed that the final game will include 1000 vehicles and 170 premium models (presumably DLC?).

Along with that most requested of features; vehicle deformation and possibly even rollover physics.

Considering that Polyphony utterly strive for painstaking perfection, to the point that the game has taken over 5 years to roll out since GT4, this will hopefully imply that it will boast the most advanced and realistic collisions to grace a video game to date. It’s time to get excited.

There is just one glaring and somewhat important omission from this announcement however, and that is a solid release date. Still, there is always the Tokyo Game Show…

You can view a translation of the announcement, courtesy of GT Planet, after the break.

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To try and pimp our forums, each week for the next couple of months, we will be giving away a game to a person with the most posts for the week.

Each week at a random time on Tuesday (most likely late, Pacific time), the person with the highest post count for the previous seven days will be selected as the winner.

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One of the most intriguing announcements today for anyone interested in PSP is the introduction of the PSP minis range. With a size limit of 100MB these downloadable games will be focused on delivering a concentrated dose of gaming.

Read on for details of what minis will be available at the launch of the service. I promise there will be zombies, so you gotta read it now.

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Another piece of news from Sony‘s Gamescom presser that is bound to please comic book fans.

Literally hundreds of Marvel comics will be available for download on PSPs, coinciding at the same time as the launch of the PSP reader software. Click on to find out when you can read Spiderman on the subway or the Punisher on the plane.

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Following the announcement of the PS3 Bulimic, Amazon UK have just updated their page with a price of £249.99, which you can preorder now.

Whilst Sony relegated the announcement with a release date of “the first week in September,” Amazon have the new console listed with a more precise September 4th date.

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We’re all so taken back by the earth shattering surprise that was the PS3 Slim, aren’t we? Well, now we can finally relish some offiical screenshots of Sony’s new baby – feast your eyes on the real, authentic PS3 Slim.

Will you be buying it when it is released come this September? Read more… »