EA has released a trailer and fresh details about its Superman Returns game, which will accompany the summer release of the Warner Bros. film. The trailer has Superman battling the evil Metallo in the streets of Metropolis, which will comprise 80 virtual squares miles of bustling fictional city, including over 1,000 buildings. The Man of Steel will be able to explore all of this freely as he protects the city's people from natural and not-so-natural disasters. If it looks a little too gorgeous ...
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16 Mar 2006

A Link to the Revolution

GC News | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Immortal game developer and franchise-machine, Shigeru Miyamoto, recently sat down with Nintendo of Europe and finally confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will make use of the motion-controlled Revolution controller. This means that instead of quietly enjoying the game on your couch, you can opt to take the Swing 'n' Scream approach and flail the wand about as if it were your own little Master ...
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2 Mar 2006

Got skills?

GC News | FIFA Street 2

If you think you've got more flik-flaks than Ronaldinho, or can out-spin Zidane, Electronic Arts wants to see you in action. Head over to www.fifastreet2.com and hit Show Your Skillz and you could find yourself starring in a future FIFA Street game. There's already a bundle of uploaded clips, and some of them are so tricksy they made our eye-spheres spin in their sockets. Get practising, chuck your video on the site and get in the ...
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27 Feb 2006

FIFA Street 2: First details, shots and movie

GC News | FIFA Street 2

With FIFA 06 currently sitting pretty atop this week's all-format chart, EA has announced that a follow-up to the series' urban spin-off, FIFA Street, is in the works and will be in shops next spring. FIFA Street 2 promises to be bigger and better, flashier and fancier than the original, boasting new tricks, skills and ball-blazing gamebreakers. International locations - ranging from London's grimy Westway through to bright beachside pitches in Brazil - will feature and there will be a roster ...
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27 Feb 2006

Smile! It's time for Chibi-Robo screens

GC News | Chibi-Robo

Here's a helping of screens from Chibi-Robo, Nintendo's charming robot adventure for Gamecube. It's been available in Japan for several months already, but now it's on its way to the US and we've got the shots for you to coo over. Unlike the stars of most Japanese games centred on robots, Chibi is tiny. At three inches tall, he makes up for his lack of ability to swat airplanes and stomp buildings by helping out a depressed family; cleaning their home, listening to their problems and making ...
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27 Feb 2006

Splinter Cell Double Agent first footage

GC News | Splinter Cell Double Agent

Ubisoft has today released the very first footage and confirmed the name of Sam Fisher's next adventure: Splinter Cell Double Agent. As you already know Sam is doing stir for killing his daughter but this revealing trailer hints that his time in Cell Block H might all be a front for infiltrating a terrorist cell. And while we are exploring the duality of Sam, the man himself will have choices to make thanks to a branching storyline and multiple endings that will rely on morality as much as ...
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25 Feb 2006

Is it a bird? Is it a blue smudge?

GC News | Superman Returns

Electronic Arts has unveiled a single supershot of Superman Returns, the superhero action game based on the Man of Steel's return to the big screen. The film Superman Returns is being directed by Bryan Singer, who did a superb job of bringing the X-Men to the big screen. The story sees Superman returning from self-imposed exile to find that Lois Lane, the love of his life, has moved on, while old foe Lex Luthor is up to his old Metropolis-threatening tricks. EA Tiburon - responsible for the ...
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25 Feb 2006

Midway still Rampaging

GC News | Rampage Total Destruction

Midway is once again raiding its arcade heritage; this time to bring back the skyscraper-bashing Rampage to PS2 and GameCube in the form of Rampage: Total Destruction. While the original game featured just three monsters - George the Ape, Lizzie the Dinosaur and Ralph the Wolf - Total Destruction has a total of 30 creatures to unlock, including new leviathans Gilman the Blowfish and Marco the Shark. For the uninitiated, the premise of Rampage isn't particularly sophisticated or complex, but ...
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17 Feb 2006

It's a Super Monkey Adventure!

GC News | Super Monkey Ball Adventure

We've got brand new images of Sega's latest Monkey Ball game, Super Monkey Ball Adventure, which releases everyone's favorite encapsulated apes into the wild this summer. A tale of eloping chimps, feuding kingdoms and the joy-sucking naysayers, Super Monkey Ball Adventure rolls the entire Monkey Ball gang - that's Aiai, Meemee, Gongon and Baby - into new platforming territory. Solving quests, undertaking traditional 'puzzle tray' challenges and helping a bunch of new friends, the simian ...
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17 Feb 2006

Lego Star Wars returns

GC News | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

LucasArts has announced Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, transforming A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi into fantastically charming episodes of Lego platforming action. This time around players can drive vehicles, ride creatures like the Tauntaun, and unlock more than 50 characters to use in Free Play; over 50 more can be unlocked by using an old save game from the original Lego Star Wars.You can even mix and match the different body parts of your characters to ...
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