Codemasters' long running Colin McRae rally series will be making its next-gen debut as Colin McRae: Dirt, landing on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2007.
Dirt is the UK developer's most diverse McRae game yet with off-road racing, desert challenges, hill climbs and Rallycross events, while the vehicle line-up includes Dakar-style trucks, super-powered 4x4s and
Wednesday 19 July 2006
If you want to see just how powerful the next-gen consoles are then just check out the shine on the balls of World Snooker Championship 2007 which will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 (and PS2) this September - we've never seen snooker balls so smooth and round!
The 2007 edition of the Blade Interactive snooker sim will have 104 of the world's best snooker players all realistically recreated for you to play as and against. It will also have a comprehensive pool
Last week at EA's press event, Valve captain Gabe Newell announced an enigmatic, first-person physics puzzler called Portal. You are gifted with a handheld tool that combines Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun with the power to shoot "portals" in any surface. You'll be tasked with finding routes across seemingly impassable obstacles and obtaining unreachable items with this new toy.
Yesterday, a low-res version of the Portal training video/teaser we saw at the event was leaked via You Tube
Last week, in his signature ho-hum fashion, Gabe Newell (boss of renegade independent developer Valve) dropped the biggest bomb of publisher Electronic Arts' entire press event: the return of Team Fortress 2 for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PS3. First announced over five years ago, TF2 has been missing-in-action ever since.
Newell shared a teaser trailer that marked the return of the seminal class-based team shooter. It showed that Valve has completely scrapped the gritty, realistic look of
Horror writer and Hellraiser director Clive Barker is returning to videogames to craft a next-gen shooter called Jericho. No wait, Clive Barker's Jericho.
Barker is working on the plot and concept art for the game, which is set in North Africa. Barker described the intriguing concept behind the game to The Hollywood Reporter:
"Somewhere in northern Africa, there is a walled city, which is not just a walled city but walls within walls within walls. It's like Russian dolls, spaces within each
Wednesday 19 July 2006
Sony's plans to create a next-gen EyeToy are obviously taking shape as the company has recently filed a patent for new motion capturing technology with the United State patent office.
The patent, number 2006-178948, is described on the US patent site as being a "prop input device and method for mapping an object from a two-dimensional camera image to a three-dimensional space for controlling action in a game program". This suggests that the new EyeToy will be able to
Wednesday 19 July 2006
Sega has revealed a trailer of its forthcoming next gen beat-'em-up Virtua Fighter 5, which will be released for PlayStation 3 next spring.
The trailer initially focuses on the new additions to the fighting roster - the monkey kung fu expert Eileen and the Rey Mysterio look-a-like El Blaze, but then shows glimpses of all the returning characters.
Of course you'd expect impressive visuals from a PS3 game but it really is worth seeing Virtua Fighter 5 in full flow and
Wednesday 19 July 2006
Microsoft has taken a pop at Sony's Blu-ray Discs, saying that the gaming giant's choice of media format for PlayStation 3 could be "unreliable".
Sony is having difficulties manufacturing Blu-ray Discs as the recording layer is very close to the surface of the disc and is only protected by a very thin coating, according to Microsoft tech bod Amir Majidimehr. This is compared to Microsoft's HD-DVD, which has two layers of protective plastic to make it far more robust and
If you were wondering just how developer Neversoft was able to make the animation in upcoming Tony Hawk game, Project 8, look so authentic, this new video should give you all the answers.
The footage sees pro-skater Steve Williams donning the ping pong-balled suit and shoes to be motion captured. The footage shows Williams performing a series of relatively simple tricks and then shows how they have been recreated in the
Five new videos of Virtua Fighter 5's arcade version hit today, and we've got 'em all for your viewing pleasure.
The new videos feature full, unedited matches between Kage the ninja, Aikido chick Aoi, drunken master Shun and Shaolin monk Lei-Fei - who, with the possible exception of Shun, aren't nearly as fun to watch as the new characters, Mexican wrestler El Blaze and monkey-style kung-fu artist
