Gaming Excellence reports: Aksys Games has shipped Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles, an interactive digital novel, exclusively for Nintendo DS. Jake Hunter takes players into the intriguing world of criminal investigation and tests their wits with high tension scenarios.
Worthplaying writes: "Track and Field is the name of a series of Olympic themed video games developed by Konami for several platforms since 1983. The first title called "Track & Field" or "Hyper Olympics" outside the United States was released in 1983 as an arcade game. The simple gameplay which was based on dynamically successive button presses (now known as button bashing) has set the rules for sequels and similar games ever since. Track & Field was later released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985 and became one of the most popular NES games of its time.
Original Atari founder Nolan Bushnell says he's "thrilled" to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film about his life.
The news of DiCaprio's signing came earlier this week, when it was revealed that Paramount Pictures had picked up the project.
"I'm very, very thrilled and honored that would be the case," Bushnell told MTV Multiplayer.
"There's been a lot of books [about Atari]," he said. "Some correct, some ...
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Konami outline the gameplay features and release date of the upcoming DS game, New International Track and Field.
Take-Two is planning to take greater steps into the world of networked gaming in a bid to grow its business.
Speaking at the Piper Jaffray conference in New York, chairman Strauss Zelnick told investors that the idea is to "turn packaged goods partially into a subscription business," reports Kotaku.
The company is experimenting with ways to incorporate microtransactions into its business, he said.
"If we can get a good ...
» Read MoreLucasArts has reaffirmed the company's commitment to its internal studio and has denied rumours that will cease development after The Force Unleashed.
"We're committed to our internal studio," Lucas rep Margaret Grohne told Joystiq. "We're working on the next Indiana Jones game internally."
Grohne refused to comment on whether this would include future efforts, but did say that the company planned on outsourcing projects to other ...
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MCV: Disney has announced two new High School Musical games for console, due for release around Christmas.
This is one of the developer's of the highly anticipated DS game Moon's blog post. It contains a nice little prologue story for their upcoming title. In case you didn't know Moon is a FPS/Survival Horror game that takes place on an outpost on the moon where astronauts have discovered a unopened Alien door on the surface of the planet. The developers claim it to play very much like System Shock 2 one of the best games of all time. (we'll see)
With the turnout that came about for people grabbing the Darkrai download for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl from Toys R Us, it should come as good news to many Pokemon fans that another downloadable Pokemon is coming.
James Scalpello, wireless director of THQ, has claimed that girls don't play as many videogames as guys because they have different lifestyle requirements.
"When girls play console games, they have to have gone through a whole other list of things they could have done before sitting down with them," he told CasualGaming.biz.
"Guys get home, have dinner, and play a computer game. It's much higher up the list of priorities. To ...
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