We’re still a couple of months away from the end of fiscal 2012, but the first 9 months of the confusingly offset financial season have treated Konami extremely well: The company reports a 77.3 percent year-over-year increase in net income over fiscal 2011, earning profits of ¥17.05 billion ($224 million) for the period. Most of [...]
Valve has finally put together its schedule of events for 2012, announcing the big things happening in Team Fortress 2 in the coming months. Most notably, Valve says its final character video, Meet the Pyro, will air in 2012 and it will feature “lots of blood pretty much all the way through.” The TF2 team [...]
<!–How many times have you been in the middle of an intense Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies round when you’ve had to suddenly stop? Well, Activision has a solution in the latest update: save and load games mid-session. It’s just one of the additions in this free update, which also adds the ray gun, [...]
This weekend is Super Bowl XLVI, where the New York Giants and New England Patriots tee off for the most runs in a set. It is also the weekend for the greatest counter-programing tradition since the year one network televised Gypsy. Yes, we refer to Puppy Bowl VIII. Cute overload! What’s everyone playing? [WilleeCole via [...]
If you’re near Los Angeles on February 10, and you’re eager to celebrate the upcoming release of Rhythm Heaven Fever, you can party with other like-minded people at the iam8bit gallery. Nintendo, Giant Robot, and iam8bit are teaming up for a launch event, at which attendees will be able to play the game (with headphones, [...]
EA’s studio in Vancouver, home to EA Canada and Black Box, was hit with layoffs while the studio goes through a “transformation.” Apparently it’s a lot of transforming, since variants of “transform” show up a lot in the following statement about the transformational studio. “EA in Vancouver is transforming its studio to align with EA’s [...]
Sony may have been caught in the same handheld wavelengths as Nintendo in 2010. A patent uncovered by Games Beat shows Sony considering a handheld, touchscreen device that would function similarly to Nintendo’s Wii U. Titled the “Position-dependent gaming, 3-D controller, and handheld as a remote,” the device would track its own location as “input [...]
We know you’re used to coveting Mass Effect save files, so this should come as no surprise but you’ll probably want to hold onto your Mass Effect 3 saves. In an interview with GamerZines, associate producer Mike Gamble said it “wouldn’t be a bad idea” to keep them. Of course Gamble didn’t go into any [...]
Perhaps our recommendation of NCSoft’s Gem Keeper last year piqued your interest — but your interest didn’t reach a 99-cent level of piquedness. Luckily, thanks to a Free App a Day partnership, you can now download the iOS tower defense title for free! NCSoft’s iOS Gem Keeper goes free for now originally appeared on Joystiq [...]
Capcom made an embarrassing printing error on the spine of the Resident Evil: Revelations box sent to reviewers — one made more embarrassing by the “revelaiton” today that it’s still on the version of the art sent to retailers in advance of Tuesday’s release. Reader Zach shared this picture of the stock at the Prescott, [...]