In the old days, a programmer's job was done the moment those CD presses started rolling. Once the last zero or one was dropped into place, the poor mole-eyed nerd was allowed all the things that had been denied him (or her) for the previous six months - such as daylight, human contact and soap. But no more. These days the reeking geeks have to stay in for another six months after the game hits the shelves to add all manner of patches, mods and multiplayer gubbins. But while the spectacled
Ding Chaves, legendary leader of the Rainbow Six and the only onomatopoeically named person we can think of (apart from Bing Crosby) is back. OK, so his game doesn't have a proper name yet but it does have a movie and lots of secret shots. Referred to as "the next Rainbow Six instalment" by publishers Ubi Soft, this fourth segment in the series promises to push the game into darker territory with a story based on personal vengeance as well as stealth-based team-play.You'll be able to pick up
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posted November 26, 2004
Did you know they were making a movie about Batman's origins, revealing the reason he likes to dress up in rubber and beat people up at midnight? Surely Tim Burton's first effort covered all that in as much detail as an audience will ever need, but such trifling matters have never concerned Hollywood.And it doesn't seem to concern Electronic Arts that Batman has the unenviable record of being the worst videogame character of the last seven years, or at least starring in the most consistently
Official ELSPA Entertainment Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 20
November1 (2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)2 (NE) Need For Speed: Underground 2(PS2, Xbox, PC, Gamecube)3 (NE) Half-Life 2(PC)4 (2) Halo 2(Xbox)5 (3) WWE Smackdown vs Raw (PS2)6 (4) FIFA 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GBA, Gamecube, PC)7 (6) The Getaway: Black Monday (PS2)8 (7) Pro Evolution Soccer 4(PS2)9 (10) The Urbz: Sims In The City (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA)10 (5) Football Manager 2005 (PC)11 (14) The
With the cellophane still lying in a crumpled heap where you tore it off with your teeth and Halo 2 only a week out of Bungie's womb, the myth-making developer has already announced the game's first patch. The auto update contains a small piece of software that should help people with high definition TVs see the whole game, speed up the time taken to find friends and foes in Matchmaking and introduces an extra map. But it isn't a new level, oh no. Known as Foundation, this small map is taken
John Constantine - blond, chain-smoking Sting-resembling Liverpudlian paranormal investigator of comics fame - is hitting the silver screen and he's mutated into Keanu Reeves. Sacrilege? Well, better Keanu than Sting.And even if he's become American and dark-haired, Constantine's still one hell of a cool character. He can see demons masquerading as humans and kill them with special weapons like a Holy Shotgun - a nailgun that fires nails from crucifixion victims - as well as taking short cuts
After NFL Street and NBA Street, it was only a matter of time before FIFA Street came along. (What next: SSX Street? Medal Of Honor Street?) But if you've got a good idea then why not run with it? (And boot it between the posts before wheeling away with your shirt over your head.)So to follow the announcement last month of the latest in a very long line of FIFAs, EA have decided to release four highly polished shots of the game from a unnamed console version. At the moment, the gameplay details
Halo 2 hit the shops Stateside yesterday (9 November) and Microsoft were quick to confirm that their killer-app also killed at the tills.With 1.5 million copies already pre-ordered before the doors of the stores even opened, no one was surprised to see shelves emptying at astonishing speed. Corporate vice-president of Microsoft's games division Peter Moore certainly wasn't shocked, especially since he didn't even wait to check the till receipt before "calling a $100 million day on Halo". From
Official ELSPA Entertainment Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 6 November1 (1) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)2 (2) FIFA 2005 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC)3 (NE) Football Manager 2005 (PC)4 (3) Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (PS2)5 (6) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC)6 (5) Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2, Xbox)7 (4) Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC, GBA)8 (10) Shark Tale (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC, GBA)9 (9) The Sims 2 (PC)10 (11) Sonic Heroes (PS2,
Official ELSPA Entertainment Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 30 October1 (NE) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)2 (1) FIFA 2005 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC)3 (2) Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (PS2)4 (3) Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC, GBA)5 (6) Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2, Xbox)6 (RE) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC)7 (7) LMA Manager 2005 (PS2, Xbox, PC)8 (4) Star Wars: Battlefront (PS2, Xbox, PC)9 (5) The Sims 2 (PC)10 (8) Shark Tale (PS2,
