Ubisoft fights the Recession: AC2 staff 450 strong!

Ubisoft are clearly not short of a buck or two, what with them multiplying the not-inconsiderate original Assassin’s Creed team by a factor of 3 – that’s 450 people!

Maybe they’re taking Rocksteady Studio’s concept a step further and assigning  guys to work on not just Ezio’s cape but his hood, demeanour and fancy trousers too? Or maybe they’re just assuming that throwing obscene amounts of manpower at the game will solve the problems the first game suffered from (mainly repetition & hackneyed plot)!

Still, I’m happy, since I felt Assassin’s Creed was a brilliant game – not perfect mind … Read More…

Modern Warfare 2 Footage

Guns!!! Explosions!!!  Snowmobiles!!! SWIMMING!!!

17 seconds of Modern Warfare 2 teasering after the cut!… Read More…

*THI4F* confirmed… (urgh)

Not content with having its existence being one of the worst kept secrets since, well, Otto Frederick Rohwedder tried to hide his Automated Edible Dough Dividing Machine from the masses (sorry), Thief 4 has been confirmed, with the ever sensible marketing gurus giving it a horrible name – Thi4f…  I mean, what the FUCK is that all about?

Hopefully it’s one of those things that will be swiftly undone once the hype-machine makes way for common sense – the website is, after all, simply http://www.thief4.com …  Check that out, where you can ‘Join the Discussion’ (most of which will probably … Read More…

Yes, *more* Duke 4 Ever Stuff!

First the screenshots, now a mashed up trailer of real ingame footage…  Methinks someone is really hoping that the game will get picked up…

It’s after the cut because its got naughty bits in that we couldn’t censor with pics of Barry…… Read More…

Gore-licious: Prototype Introduction

Violence, gore, shape-shifting, flying, wall-running, explosions, zombies, ‘splodes…  It’s the Prototype intro movie…

Find it after the cut!… Read More…

When the NDA goes away… : Real Duke 4Ever Screens & Assets

Human beings are very predictable and no sooner does the fabled Non-Disclosure Agreement evaporate under the weight of a company collapsing, do blog posts, opinions and assets leak onto the internet.

Hence, following the death of 3D Realms , several instances of game assets for Duke Nukem Forever have appeared across the net, most of which are collected below (sourced from Joystiq & 3D Realms). … Read More…

All Outta Gum: 3D Realms Closes down

What started as rumours, tweets and conjecture was pretty much officially confirmed yesterday at 9:44PM ET in a post on their forums by employee Joe Siegler:

It’s not a marketing thing. It’s true. I have nothing further to say at this time.

Ergo, until we hear more, its official – 3D Realms is dead, gone, outta time and, well, money!  The word is that when the moolah dried up, Take-Two refused to finance further development (which had been running on internal finances for a while) instead preferring to just retain publishing rights.

The newly reformed Apogee Software is apparantly unaffected, … Read More…

Sony poach (PAL) Ghostbusters – Bad Times

Mere weeks from release, Sony has decided that the imminent Blu-Ray release of the original Ghostbusters films didn’t have enough of a marketing push, therefore they have thrown a hefty chunk of cash towards the as ever terminally-strapped-for-cash Atari.

The result = Platform exclusivity for the PS3 & PS2 (with the PSP coming along later) for the foreseeable future .

What this means for the Xbox 360, PC, Wii or DS releases at the moment is unknown, although rumours state that Atari will be publishing them later (presumably using the bung from Sony as finance, assuming they haven’t died off … Read More…