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'Lost Planet: Extreme Condition' (X360) Nabs Best Xbox 360 Game Award At GC 2006

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 4:54 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Capcom today announced that its epic sci-fi action shooter exclusive for the X360, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, has again received top honors when it was recently awarded Best Xbox 360 Game at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention.

'Infinite Undiscovery' (X360) Revealed

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 4:39 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Last year tri-Ace revealed it was working on an untitled RPG for the Xbox 360, and today finally the first, scant, details emerge in the latest Famitsu issue. After its latest Valkyrie Profile for Square Enix, tri-Ace is getting its feet wet with a fantasy based RPG titled Infinite Undiscovery, which will use the developers typical real time combat system.

'God Hand' (PS2) - 7 New Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:56 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

In God Hand you play as a drifter bestowed with supernatural-like abilities who must confront the fate and responsibilities inherent with this newfound power. Hand-to-hand combat is at its best when gamers unleash the power of the God Hand to deliver righteous punishment onto worthy enemies.

'World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade' - 5 New Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:37 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more.

'Scarface: The World Is Yours' (ALL) Writer Weary About Games Industry

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:25 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Earlier this month Vivendi finally pinned down a release date for Scarface: The World Is Yours, currently set for Oct. 3, 2006. Hollywood writer David McKenna ("Blow," "American History X") wrote the script for Radical's movie adaptation, but has mixed feelings about Hollywood's dipping into the archives for games.

'Paraworld' - 5 New Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:07 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Paraworld combines a setting never seen before with personalized unit management, bringing new life to the real-time strategy genre. Modern elements blend with primeval conditions in a long forgotten, incredibly beautiful prehistoric world. Creatures long extinct come to life once more, a constant danger to anyone living in the area.

iTunes 7 Now Offers Casual Games for Download

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Apple's latest version of its online music and video store, iTunes 7 offers more TV series, music and now also movies for download, but our main point of interest is the fact that it now also allows you to download casual games to play on your 5th generation iPods, including EAs Tetris, Mahjong and Mini Golf, Pac-Man from Namco and PopCap Games' Bejeweled, Zuma, for $4.99 each.

'Final Fantasy XII' (PS2) Cosplay Contest

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:35 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Join Square Enix in a special event preceding DigitalLife featuring its newest game, Final Fantasy XII! Square Enix are calling all Cosplayers to join them at Times Square for this event on Oct. 11, 2006! Now's your chance to come out and show the world! While all Final Fantasy cosplayers are welcome, those in FF XII costumes are likely to get something special!

'Lair' (PS3) - 2 New Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:26 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

While details on Factor 5's upcoming dragonslaying title Lair are very limited, at least some new screens give us something to tide us over until TGS where the PS3 exclusive title is surely to be officially unveiled with additional details .. Until then ...

'Scramble' Now Available On Xbox Live Arcade

by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:04 a.m. PDT | Filed under News

Konami's classic arcade side-scrolling, space shooter Scramble launches on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 1:00 AM Pacific. Scramble your fighter and take on the enemy base in the next generation version of this popular game, complete with optimized sound and a choice of play in original mode or with new, enhanced visual detail.

'Gothic III' Goes Gold

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 6:06 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

JoWooD Productions continues its successful cooperation with the German developer Piranha Bytes by publishing one of the most spectacular titles of the coming year: Gothic III, the third part of the legendary RPG saga. Piranha Bytes Announced that Gothic 3 has been shipped to Sony Austria for replicationm meaning that after more than three and a half years of time development has been finished.

'Silent Heroes' Gets Delayed - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 4:11 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Paradox Interactive announced today that its Soldiers: Heroes of World War II addon Silent Heroes, in which you take control of a special operations force during World War II, has been delayed. No new release date has been set yet ...

'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey' - v1.03 French Patch Available NOW

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 4:02 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an action-packed thriller set in a large and varied game world mixing gritty reality with imaginative fantasy, featuring 3 worlds, 3 distinctly different playable characters, wrapped in a mature, exhilarating, and innovative storyline. Funcom has released a v1.03 patch for the French edition, fixing driver issues with NVidia Geforce 7xxx cards (thanks Patches).

'Battlefield 2142' - 9 New Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:49 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Fight an all-out war for survival in the year 2142. In Battlefield 2142, players choose to fight for one of two military superpowers - the European Union or the newly formed Pan Asian Coalition -in an epic battle for survival.

'Destroy All Humans! 2' (ALL) Gets '60s Soundtrack

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:48 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Garry Schyman has created a new, original score for THQ's Destroy All Humans! 2. Set in the 1960s Schyman’s musical influences include John Barry's scores for the '60s James Bond films as well as early Jerry Goldsmith and TV scores such as “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and “The Twilight Zone.”

Various Game Trailers #882

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:31 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

  • Gothic III - Trailer #6
  • Joint Task Force - Launch Trailer & Walkthrough
  • Need For Speed Carbon [ALL] - Emmanuelle Trailer


  • We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

'Paradise City' - 5 New Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:28 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

In Paradise City, developer Sirius Games, formerly known as Media Mobsters, the player takes on the role of a young ambitious gangster with the single goal of becoming the most successful and influential criminal in the entire city.

'Stranger' - Demo Patch Available NOW

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:24 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Stranger is an RTS game, with RPG elements, set in a world, split in two parts, surface and a subterranean one, which are in a tenuous balance. This patch fixes Athlon 64 X2 problem. The patch doesn't affect players' profiles and saved games.

'Word of Chaos' - 29 New Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:12 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Word of Chaos is an adventure/rpg that will take its players to the vast fantasy world of Worluk. The epic tale follows the adventures of Skandar Graun, a half-orc who has to revenge the mirder of his parents, and retrieve the legendary artifact called ‘The Word of Chaos” from the Order-worshipping Peltar.

Multi Task With The Multi Reader 360

by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:09 p.m. PDT | Filed under News

Technologies announced that it has shipped the Multi Reader 360 for the Xbox 360, enhancing the capabilities of the Xbox 360 by giving gamers an easy way to listen to music, view photos and participate in group gaming sessions with one affordable device.