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Video game publisher SEGA and the development team at its AM2 studio have offered some more information on the upcoming second revision for Virtua Fighter 5, telling players that one of their main aims is to make the player feel what the virtual characters are feeling during the battle.
Daichi Katagiri, who is the g... |
13 February 2012
04:18 GMT |
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The fact that the arcade fighting scene is in decline is of no concern to those working on the upcoming Street Fighter x Tekken title as they see online play as a worthy successor for competitive minded gamers.
Speaking to GiantBomb Yoshinori Ono, the producer working on the Street Fighter series, stated, “One... |
1 February 2012
02:24 GMT |
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Video game publisher SNK Playmore has announced that it has now launched two old and beloved video games on the PlayStation Portable via the Minis initiative from Sony, with players now able to download and play both Bermuda Triangle and Gold Medalist. Bermuda Triangle allows gamers to pilot a big ZIG aircraft and u... |
25 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Super Crossfire is a title made by Radian Games that was recently a part of the Indie Royale New Year Bundle, alongside other impressive independent games. Promising to innovate on the traditional arcade shooter genre by allowing your ship to teleport from the bottom of the screen to the top, and vice-versa, t... |
20 January 2012
08:25 GMT |
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In a rather cheeky move, Klei Entertainment has presented a special character skin that will be a part of its upcoming Shank 2 side-scrolling brawler, which depicts a hobo with a shotgun, a clever reference to last year’s movie that starred Rutger Hauer.The original Shank impressed through its sharp visual styl... |
18 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has announced that it plans to re-launch two of its biggest games ever, House of the Dead 3 and 4, exclusively on the PlayStation Network service from Sony in the coming months.Both titles have been updated with support for High Definition graphics and allow the gamer to use the Move motion ... |
6 January 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Developer Jim VanDeventer has released iMAME, an app that lets you enjoy old arcade titles on your iOS device. It ships with a few old arcade games, like Circus, Crash, and Robot Bowl.Described as “an application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers a... |
22 December 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Konstantinos Prouskas and InterAction Studios have just releases a new game from the Chicken Invaders series, called Chicken Invaders 4: Ultimate Omelette Christmas Edition. It happens every year and this time is no different! A new Chicken Invaders game is upon us and these holidays we'll be playing yet another... |
14 December 2011
05:40 GMT |
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The developers at EA Sports who are working on the arcade oriented NFL Blitz said that they were not willing to include late hits in the game because they felt that it would send the wrong message about player safety and health.Dave Ross, who is the project leader working on NFL Blitz, told Games Radar that, “W... |
21 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that the old Marketplace initiative will now be known as the Blizzard Arcade and will allow creative players who know their way around game editors to make money by selling fellow players their new content.The announcement was made at Blizzcon and the developers are saying ... |
24 October 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that its EA Tiburon studio is now working on a new download only title in the NFL Blitz series, which will be released during the month of January 2012.The new game is set to arrive on the Xbox Live Arcade service from Microsoft and the PlayStation Network from Sony ... |
20 October 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Complementing Atari’s Greatest Hits iPad app, the people at Discovery Bay Games have launched the the Atari Arcade, a gaming accessory designed specifically for the retro gamer who just so happens to also own an iPad.The Atari Arcade is powered by Duo from Discovery Bay Games. It joins a growing line of "app-ba... |
3 October 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Xbox Live Arcade has been criticized by a number of smaller developers because of how difficult it can be to get a game included but the executive in charge of selecting the content that gamers get from XBLA has said that the process assures a high quality for the released titles.Chris Charla, who is the portfolio di... |
14 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Sports division has been doing extremely well in the last few years, thanks to the FIFA soccer and Madden NFL football simulators, so the company isn't ruling out the possibility of seeing new, more arcade-like titles appear that focus on the two disciplines.EA Sports is once again looking ... |
16 June 2011
14:21 GMT |
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505 Games, as the publisher, and Kung Fu Factory, as the developer, have announced that the official launch date for the upcoming Supremacy MMA fighting game is now set for September 23, with the game prepared for launch on the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony.
This Mixed... |
23 May 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Capcom has announced that it had a very good fiscal year, managing to grow both revenue and profit when compared to the same period, with Monster Hunter Portable 3rd being the best-performing title of the interval.
For the fiscal year that ended on March 31 Capcom says that it has managed to g... |
9 May 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The folks at designboom are present at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas with an iPad accessory that will blow competition out of the water. The iCade, as it’s called, is an arcade cabinet with joystick and buttons for iPad gamers.
The iCade boasts authentic, full-sized controls for a genuine experience... |
7 January 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has officially confirmed that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 home console versions of its upcoming NBA Jam will be launched on November 17 in a disk based package with the same 50 dollars price tag which is attached to the Nintendo Wii version of the same game.The game will offer High Defini... |
22 October 2010
05:17 GMT |
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An analysis from Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment, LLC has shown that the month of August has been a record breaking one for the Xbox Live Arcade service from Microsoft, with estimates revenues reaching 17.5 million dollars, which is 6 percent higher than the record breaking August of 2009.Part of the go... |
22 September 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Users have reported that the newly released Halo: Reach from Bungie and Microsoft is not playable in the campaign cooperative mode when using a 4 GB version of the Xbox 360 Arcade model with the console maker and video games publisher saying that it is working on a fix for the issue but not offering a timeline for it... |
16 September 2010
06:16 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision has announced that on November 9 players who are interested in gaming while on the move will be able to pick up a Nintendo DS version of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, the first person shooter which is also coming to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and t... |
29 July 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A retail listing on the German language site of Internet giant Amazon has unveiled the existence of the 4 GB hard drive version of the Xbox 360 Arcade System Bundle. This is the first time a retailer has offered information on a new gaming console from Microsoft that bears the Arcade name after the manufacturer unvei... |
15 July 2010
05:11 GMT |
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It seems that in the fall, Microsoft is getting ready to put a cheaper version of the new Xbox 360, which some have called the “Slim,” while also allowing those who are interested in the Kinect motion tracking peripheral to get it as part of a bundle with the fresh home console. This all comes courtesy of... |
22 June 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 is in development at the Bucharest studio of the French publisher and that the flight game is set to be launch in the fall of this year on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Nintendo Wii and the PC. The initial announcement does not of... |
7 May 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Game Room from Microsoft Game Studios could be the cure for a severe case of classic Arcade melancholia. In fact, this is precisely the purpose of the new Game for Windows title, to revive retro arcade games, while preserving the old-school feeling of titles such as Centipede, Asteroids Deluxe, and Super Cobra. Of co... |
29 March 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Aksys Games, as the publisher, has announced that it will be releasing a PlayStation Portable version of its fighting title BlazBlue at some point during March.The team at Ark System Works, that worked on the game originally released on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, is saying that ev... |
19 January 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has confirmed the fact that NBA Ham has been picked up as a franchise and will be published exclusively for the Nintendo Wii home gaming console. The publisher has even brought on the creator of the series Mark Turmell in the position of senior creative director at the EA Tiburon studio. EA Sports is ... |
13 January 2010
13:51 GMT |
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EA Sports is one of the divisions on which Electronic Arts relies to bring in a big chunk of revenue, with franchises like Madden NFL and FIFA selling millions and millions of copies year after year. But the division has a tough time introducing new franchises, mainly because there are only so many sports that are in... |
5 January 2010
08:50 GMT |
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We haven't heard a lot about Sony's ModNation Racers, but we do know that the game will be part of the "Play, Create, Share" general heading, so it will mainly focus on track editors and creation tools and let players put any weird design they have in their head down not on paper, but in the game. That'... |
29 December 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Arcade racing may be what the market has been looking for, especially since Need for Speed: Underground came out and made racing a casual, popular genre, but rally games have their undeniable spot in the racing franchise, as small as it may be. So, while fans don't have a lot of games to ease their addictions, i... |
18 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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First believed to be a simple dowloadable content, Super Street Fighter IV proved to the world that it would be a stand-alone title and still get everyone just as excited about it, if not even more so. The consoles will get their hands on it next year, but whether or not the game will make it to the arcades is still ... |
23 October 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Electronic Arts seems to be pleased with the performance of Madden NFL 10, after initial reports that it was disappointed with sales, and has decided to announce a new spin off based on the same game engine, called Madden NFL Arcade, which is set to be released via the Xbox Live Marketplace and via the PlayStation Ne... |
16 October 2009
03:48 GMT |
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A new game for Nintendo's Wii has been announced today by interactive entertainment publisher Mastiff. To add to their popular series of outdoor action games the studio is currently working on the Remington Great American Bird Hunt, which will be an arcade shooter that will allow players to hunt down and shoot p... |
13 October 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Everybody who played games back in the day has to remember Road Rash. The day pretty much means the beginning of the last decade if anybody has any doubts. Road Rash was the embodiment of violence – pure, unprejudiced, brutal and gory violence – and the first iteration was released in 1991. The game was a... |
12 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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PlayStation Home did pretty well for itself so it would be only natural that the competition got interested in the topic. Microsoft's new project sprung a leak and a survey regarding a new virtual Avatar arcade ended up in the hands of the masses. The idea will be set up for theXbox 360 and it will be very simil... |
8 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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For some time, we've been playing games that have no place in modernity here, at Softpedia. This is the direct result of getting access to the SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, which contains such old-time gems like Streets of Rage and Golden Axe. But the game in the pack that has (re)captivated me the most h... |
26 September 2009
10:21 GMT |
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Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll is the ninth member of the Super Monkey Ball family, if you include the original arcade game. The title will be developed for the Wii and will be the second in the series for this particular Nintendo platform. Step & Roll promises to return to the roots of the arcade and GameCube origina... |
25 September 2009
14:31 GMT |
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DICE, the Electronic Arts studio in charge of the various incarnations of the Battlefield franchise, is saying that it plans to offer a trial version of Battlefield 1943, the multiplayer shooter that will be released during summer on the Xbox Live Arcade service and on the PlayStation Network.DICE is stating that the... |
23 June 2009
15:11 GMT |
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It appears that the Xbox 360 Arcade consoles that are being shipped around the world at the moment are different in at least one respect from those that were shipped just a few months ago. A group of modders keeping a close look at the hardware under the hood of the videogame console are saying that the new version o... |
18 June 2009
05:14 GMT |
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SEGA has announced its financial results for the previous year, with its poor results said to be caused by the overall problems of the world economy, the constant decrease in demand for arcade games and the weak Japanese market, where videogame requests has leveled off.The company says that it has a net loss of 239.2... |
18 May 2009
12:41 GMT |
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The Strong National Museum of Play, which is located in Rochester, New York, has announced that it is planning to create a new exhibit called Videotopia, set to be opened on May 30 and which will remain at Strong until November 1 before going on tour. The main aim of Videotopia is to offer visitors a chance to witnes... |
14 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Hollywood and the gaming industry have developed a very strong relationship, as more and more movies are getting a video game adaptation and vice versa, hoping to generate further profit for the companies involved.Robots is such a property, which has received a video game treatment in order to coincide with the theat... |
28 April 2009
14:02 GMT |
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The gaming industry really started with arcade games, like Frogger or Mario, but one of the most iconic series of titles developed for the big old arcade cabinets was Pac Man. The circular-shaped character that ran through a series of mazes in order to eat up all of the points and to run away at the same time from gh... |
28 April 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Braid is one of last year's most popular arcade titles, as it gained a lot of fans when it was released during Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion for the Xbox 360. Its intricate story and solid platforming made it a must buy for any gamer. The man behind the game, independent developer Jonathan Blow, a... |
30 March 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Gaming today consists not only of high-quality fully fledged titles, but also of small arcade games that provide a different type of experience, one that you can enjoy as soon as you download the small file from either the Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Store or the WiiWare Channel. But among those, only the Xbox... |
11 March 2009
03:24 GMT |
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The video game industry has had its fair share of iconic characters and franchises over the years. We've seen Mario, Link, or Master Chief capture the hearts and minds of players across the years, but no character has sparked such a big fan movement as Pac-Man. The small yellow ball figure with an insatiable ap... |
9 March 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Innovation plays a big part in the creation of games these days, as a lot of people have gotten bored of the same old tried-and-true method of creating titles, filled with stereotypes for every game genre. That's why the phenomenon of independently developed titles has become so big, with small games such as Wor... |
19 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry has seen a lot of trends come and go but there is one that has really caught on, downloadable arcade games. With titles being up for download at any hour of the day, via the Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, or the WiiWare services, people are really interested in them.Last year, Microsof... |
12 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Among gamers a lot of franchises have gained an iconic status, Rockstar's famous sandbox open world action adventure franchise Grand Theft Auto included. The series really drove the whole game industry forward and delivered great experiences in all of its iterations, coupled with top-notch, movie-like stories. ... |
6 February 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Last year was a truly great one for independently-made games, as we've seen a lot of very interesting titles emerge. Among those, only two really shined and offered countless hours of fun to gamers around the world – World of Goo and the hit arcade platformer Braid. Braid was launched exclusively to the X... |
13 January 2009
02:17 GMT |
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