Highly anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV has gone on sale worldwide with analysts expecting it to smash sales records.
Many shops in the UK and the United States opened their doors at midnight.
The game is tipped to break the opening week sales figures of Microsoft’s Halo 3, and pull in up to $400m (£201m). Continue reading ‘GTA game ‘to break sales records’
Many people have been waiting to see this and I will let you know that we got it and don’t care about what anyone eles has to say about it .You can see in this “Video” the upcoming GTA goodness of the intro in this well needed game coming very soon to you.
Emotiv Systems introduces a sensor-laden headset that interprets gamers’ intentions, emotions and facial expressions
No matter how hard you try, your mind can’t bend a spoon or channel the powers of a Jedi knight. Thanks to a new headset under development by neuroengineering company Emotiv Systems, however, you may soon be able to do this and more via the magic of video games.
After their official blog let slip last Thursday, Nokia have officially announced the launch of the N-Gage mobile gaming service, making over thirty games available to owners of Nokia N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 and N95 8GB handsets. In addition, the N-Gage Arena community will allow gamers to meet friends, find others to play multiplayer games, discuss topics on the message boards and via live chat, and participate in tournaments and hosted events.
Brash has recruited Lair developer Factor 5 for a game based on a movie IP. The project is currently top secret with plans for a big reveal at E3 2008. Factor 5 co-founder and president Julian Eggebrecht is highly optimistic about the project despite film-games having earned a bad reputation “because the filmmaker is a game fan who is really excited about how we want to expand on the story of the film, we’ve been given a lot of latitude.” Brash already has a Saw video game franchise in the works, and has just signed a deal with Folklore dev, Game Republic for another undisclosed movie game project
Twentieth Century Fox has announced that Mila Kunis will be starring with Mark Wahlberg in the Hollywood adaptation of Max Payne. Kunis is slated to play an assassin working with Payne to avenge her sister’s death. We can assume the role is Mona Sax, but you never know what will happen to your favorite characters once they’ve gone through the Hollywood grind mill.
Kunis is best known for her role in “That 70’s Show” and more recently as the voice of “Meg Griffin” for the “Family Guy.”
You might think that Microsoft’s lawyers are moving quickly to rob every penny from the individual responsible for creating the Master Chief character model in Unreal Tournament 3, but you’d be wrong. As it turns out, what serves as an homage to the Halo series is being treated just as that – not as an act of copyright infringement.
A Microsoft attorney that goes by the alias “DonkeyXote” writes on his Windows Live blog:
Many people are talking about the Master Chief mod for Unreal Tournament 3, that allows you to play in the character of the Master Chief on the PS3. Many people are surprised Microsoft is “allowing” this.Actually it’s nothing more than the Game Content Usage Rules in action. When these were developed, people all thought they were focused on machinima. The truth is that while they do address machinima they also allow for a lot of other things. Mods like this are one of them. The developers aren’t selling the mod, they’re not monetizing Microsoft’s IP, they’re just creating something to share their love of the Master Chief on a new platform. It’s a great thing for us and a great thing for the gaming community. And much though I love my friends at Epic, Unreal Tournament isn’t Halo. This will also remind people of just how great the Halo games are and remind them that if they’re done with the user-created faux-Halo experience, the real Halo is available only on the Xbox 360. And no one is taking characters from PlayStation games (do they even have any games?) and putting them on our platform…
Aside from the annoyingly anti-Sony, Halo-is-the-best-thing-ever sentiment that he has, I’m glad to see Microsoft isn’t seeking to put a stop to this. One has t wonder what Microsoft would do if Halo levels were replicated in UT3, which seems like more of a “when” rather than an “if.” Writing that, I feel as if I’m about to be barraged with links to different Halo-inspired UT3 maps.
