Tweet Stick a fork in Crispy Gamer — it’s done. Joystiq is reporting that the video game website has today laid off its entire editorial staff, at the behest of Crispy Gamer’s board of directors. No formal announcement has been made and Crispy Gamer’s website is still operational, but several of its full time staff [...]

Tweet When you’re in the middle of a frantic session of Super Monkey Ball, does it make you want to reach for a nice, ripe banana? When you’re shopping for bananas at your local supermarket, does it make you want to play a frantic banana-grabbing session of Super Monkey Ball? The game’s developer, Sega, and [...]

Tweet HanbitSoft has finally made good on their promise. They’ve acquired the rights to Hellgate: London in North America and Europe, and intend to start up service in both territories later this year. Two weeks from today, it will have been exactly one year since Namco Bandai shut down the servers, presumably for good, with [...]

Tweet Another day, another out-of-work game developer leaking assets from what they supposed was a canceled project. Today, it’s former GRIN sound designer Jonatan Crafoord — and the assets are none other than the first footage of their doomed Final Fantasy game, codename “Fortress.”

Tweet When Electronic Arts closed Pandemic Studios in November, the 200 employees they left in the wake weren’t particularly happy about the affair… but boy, has it been great for gamers eager to get their hands on leaked information about Mercs Inc, the unfinished game they left behind. Now, what appears to be the first [...]

Tweet Roku’s got it. Xbox 360′s got it. PlayStation 3 has it. And this spring, your Nintendo Wii will have it as well. According to numerous mainstream media sources including the San Francisco Chronicle, Nintendo and Netflix will announce a partnership tomorrow that brings the Netflix movie-streaming service to 26 million Nintendo Wii consoles across [...]

Tweet This is not the best deal you’ll find on Final Fantasy XIII. No, I’d venture to say that within weeks of release, you’ll find plenty of copies of FFXIII available at used games stores around the globe, after their owners have finished the reportedly linear-to-a-fault story and traded them in for the next big [...]

Tweet When the final U.S. box art for Heavy Rain arrived yesterday, not everyone was as pleased as I at the inclusion of its dripping wet protagonist. That got me to thinking: what else might change in the U.S. release? Might we see a repeat of Indigo Prophecy? Might stateside gamers have to live down [...]

Tweet In an anonymous and yet-to-be-confirmed report sweeping the web, an individual calling themselves the “Rockstar Spouse” posted an open letter Thursday that denounced the working conditions at Rockstar San Diego. Calling out management for pushing employees to the brink of depression with overtime while withholding overtime pay, the “Spouse” threatened legal action on behalf [...]

Tweet You know the old adage about how sex sells? That valuable marketing information has not been lost on developer Quantic Dream, who has seen fit to place a dripping wet female front and center on their final box art for Heavy Rain. I can’t say I approve, but that didn’t keep me from downloading [...]

Tweet Three years ago, an independent game designer decided that turning crayon scribbles into physics-based puzzling gameplay was a mighty fine idea. Two years ago, that idea won him the Independent Games Festival’s prestigious grand prize. And one year ago, he released the game for public consumption at a $20 price point. That brings us [...]

Tweet Retro-shmetmo, the biggest news for gamers out of Microsoft’s CES 2010 keynote was nothing more than a vague timeframe: Holiday 2010. That’s when Microsoft’s 3D webcam-cum-controller Project Natal will debut, according to company executive Robbie Bach. When it releases next holiday season, Natal promises to allow gamers to simply move their limbs to control [...]

Tweet Following a widely publicized leak earlier this evening, Microsoft tonight confirmed that they will launch “Game Room” — a new service featuring fully-functional virtual arcade machines — this Spring on both Xbox LIVE and their PC-based Games for Windows LIVE service. Developed by Krome Studios, the service will allow players to to create and [...]