With next week’s release of Madden NFL 08, the Great Game Avalanche of 2007 will officially begin. Even with the delay of Grand Theft Auto IV until 2008, dozens of top-quality titles are on this year’s release slate, including Halo 3, Heavenly Sword, Super Mario Galaxy, Crysis, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4, Burnout Paradise, […]

deadmantyping writes “Ars Technica reports on a survey of 6,260 responses which indicates that only 40 percent of PS3 owners knew that their console included Bluray. Apparently a large portion of gamers aren’t aware of the non-gaming capabilities of their systems. Ars speculates that this might help explain Nintendo’s apparent dominance in the console market […]

One of the highlights of Sony’s press conference at the E3 Media and Business Summit was the unveiling of JapanStudio’s echochrome, a unique PlayStation 3 and PlayStation portable puzzle game with an Escher-esque bent. While that game still doesn’t have a release date, today interested gamers can check out another of the developer’s other PS3 […]

The troubled development of Too Human was partially chronicled last month in a Silicon Knights lawsuit against Epic Games over a licensing agreement to use the latest Unreal Engine in the game. Silicon Knights claimed that Epic breached its contract and failed to deliver a workable version of the engine on time, forcing the developer […]

SET writes “MSNBC has an interesting writeup on the shakeups in the gaming industry following Take-Two’s announcement that Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed. The article examines the problems this creates for Microsoft and Sony, both of whom were expecting GTA IV to help boost Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 sales this coming holiday […]