Since Home was unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in March 2007, the service has promised a combination of console gaming and online virtual world environments.  According to Ben Sidwell, artist and development team member on Home, the larger…

I saw Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers at E3, but it was just the Japanese version better known as Onechanbara R.  We couldn’t play it either, but I know what to expect: slashing zombies with motion control. I don’t think many…

  The unnamed futuristic city of Mirror's Edge is safe, clean and technologically sophisticated.  But if you send an email to your friend, it will be intercepted and read by the police before being passed on.  This is the situation…

    The Nyko booth at E3 was designed together with an exhibit company to create a lounge look and feel.  The use of low light, shag carpeting, and matching woolly couches created a casual atmosphere that the company has put…

Jenova Chen, Co-Founder of thatgamecompany, explained Flower was not in the usual emotional spectrum of video games. If all you care about is the gameplay, Flower is a tilt controlled game where you guide an airborne flower petal from one…

Believe it or not, but arcades are popular date spots in Japan. Couples try test their skill with UFO catchers and even play light gun games together. House of the Dead 4 Special took the concept a step further by measuring your…

  The original idea behind LittleBigPlanet, the largely user-generated platforming title from Media Molecule, was to give musicians a chance to jam with each other online over the Playstation Network.  As it turned out, using the Playstation 3 as a…

  Other E3 parties had free beer and free swag, but did they have an R&B cover of the password screen from Faxanadu?  Level Up! Level 2! took place the day before the Business Summit at the nearby California Institute…

  Visitors to the Eidos booth at E3 were treated to a walkthrough of the introductory stage of Tomb Raider: Underworld, the eigth installment in the series and the third developed by Crystal Dynamics. Lara starts off this installment with…

The partnership between Marvelous USA and XSEED was an unprecedented announcement that opened doors for domestic releases of RPGs like Avalon Code and creative games such as Little King's Story. However, Atlus is localizing Luminous Arc 2 and Natsume still has…

Capcom included a lucha libre wrestler in Street Fighter IV, but he doesn’t handle anything like Zangief. El Fuerte’s moves start with him charging forward by doing a quarter circle forward motion. Once he starts running you can select attacks…

Midway has no intention of making Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe as technical as Street Fighter IV. They threw out the ability to cycle through multiple fighting styles and removed the weapons introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance to make…